公开(公告)号：US20230163922A1

公开(公告)日：2023-05-25

申请号：US17442294

申请日：2020-08-07

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Yushu Zhang ,  Hong He ,  Dawei Zhang ,  Haitong Sun ,  Jie Cui ,  Manasa Raghavan ,  Wei Zeng ,  Yang Tang

IPC: H04L5/00 ,  H04L1/1812

CPC classification number: H04L5/0055 ,  H04L1/1812

Abstract: A user equipment (UE) device is disclosed. The UE device comprises a processor configured to perform operations comprising receiving a downlink control information (DCI) from a base station. In some embodiments, the DCI comprises an indication to trigger a Type-3 hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) acknowledgement (ACK) feedback signal. The operations further comprise generating the Type-3 HARQ ACK feedback signal, based on processing the DCI. In some embodiments, the Type-3 HARQ ACK feedback signal comprises one or more HARQ-ACK bits for semi-persistent scheduling (SPS) physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH) release(s). In some embodiments, each of the one or more HARQ-ACK bits for SPS PDSCH release(s) is adapted to include HARQ-ACK information for an SPS PDSCH release associated with the UE. Further, the operations comprise sending the Type-3 HARQ-ACK feedback signal to the base station.

公开(公告)号：US20230155765A1

公开(公告)日：2023-05-18

申请号：US17916898

申请日：2020-04-08

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Yushu Zhang ,  Chunhai Yao ,  Chunxuan Ye ,  Dawi Zhang ,  Haijing Hu ,  Haitong Sun ,  Hong He ,  Jie Cui ,  Oghenekome Oteri ,  Wei Zeng ,  Weldong Yang ,  Yakun Sun ,  Yang Tang ,  Yuchul Kim

IPC: H04L5/00

CPC classification number: H04L5/0048 ,  H04L5/0012

Abstract: Features for increasing sounding reference signal (SRS) resource capacity for wireless communications may include introducing a larger comb size with comb hopping, providing support to determine the slot offset and/or comb offset for aperiodic SRS based on downlink control information (DCI) alone or based on both DCI and radio resource control (RRC), applying RB level frequency hopping within an SRS resource across different symbols, and/or applying time domain orthogonal cover code (TD-OCC) to symbols within an SRS resource. The TD-OCC may be applied to SRS for codebook, non-codebook and antenna switching, and may also be applied simultaneously with comb hopping and/or RB level hopping in certain scenarios.

公开(公告)号：US20230155660A1

公开(公告)日：2023-05-18

申请号：US17916884

申请日：2020-04-08

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Yushu Zhang ,  Chunhai Yao ,  Chunxuan Ye ,  Dawei Zhang ,  Fangli Xu ,  Haijing Hu ,  Haitong Sun ,  Hong He ,  Jie Cui ,  Oghenekome Oteri ,  Wei Zeng ,  Weidong Yang ,  Yang Tang ,  Yuchul Kim ,  Yuqin Chen

IPC: H04B7/06

CPC classification number: H04B7/0695 ,  H04B7/0691

Abstract: Apparatuses, systems, and methods for user equipment device (UE) uplink antenna panel selection. The UE may determine, based on at least one condition, to perform a beam switch from a current beam being used for communications with a base station. The UE may transmit, to the base station, an indication of an antenna panel status that may include an indication of a latency associated with the beam switch. The UE may receive, from the base station, an indication to switch to a target beam and to perform the switch, based on the indication, to the target beam. The indication of the antenna panel status may include a beam switching latency level for each beam in a beam report, a beam switch request that may indicate the target beam, and/or a beam switch request that may indicate that an antenna panel switch is to be applied by the UE.

公开(公告)号：US20230133947A1

公开(公告)日：2023-05-04

申请号：US17912744

申请日：2020-04-08

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Chunhai Yao ,  Chunxuan Ye ,  Dawei Zhang ,  Fangli Xu ,  Haijing Hu ,  Haitong Sun ,  Hong He ,  Jie Cui ,  Oghenekome Oteri ,  Wei Zeng ,  Weidong Yang ,  Yang Tang ,  Yuchul Kim ,  Yuqin Chen ,  Yushu Zhang

IPC: H04W72/1273 ,  H04W72/512 ,  H04W72/232

Abstract: Embodiments are presented herein of apparatuses, systems, and methods for a user equipment device (UE) to perform URLLC scheme selection. The UE may connect to at least one base station. The UE may determine scheduling of a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) and a physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH) are within a threshold duration. Based on the PDCCH and the PDSCH being scheduled within the threshold duration, select one or more transmission control indicator (TCI) states for receiving the PDSCH irrespective of TCI state(s) indicated in the PDCCH. The UE may receive the PDSCH using the selected one or more TCI states.

公开(公告)号：US20230117977A1

公开(公告)日：2023-04-20

申请号：US17442481

申请日：2021-04-03

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Haitong Sun ,  Chunxuan Ye ,  Dawei Zhang ,  Hong He ,  Jie Cui ,  Seyed Ali Akbar Fakoorian ,  Sigen Ye ,  Wei Zeng ,  Yushu Zhang

IPC: H04W72/0453 ,  H04L5/00 ,  H04W72/231

Abstract: Provided is a method by a user equipment (UE), comprising: receiving one or more messages comprising sounding reference signal (SRS) configuration information from a based station (BS), the SRS configuration information comprises a partial frequency sounding indicator and additional information associated with the partial frequency sounding indicator, and determines SRS resource allocation; and sending a SRS to the BS in accordance with the SRS configuration information.

公开(公告)号：US20230058265A1

公开(公告)日：2023-02-23

申请号：US17598217

申请日：2020-05-14

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Chunhai Yao ,  Chunxuan Ye ,  Dawei Zhang ,  Fangli Xu ,  Haijing Hu ,  Haitong Sun ,  Hong He ,  Jie Cui ,  Oghenekome Oteri ,  Shu Guo ,  Wei Zeng ,  Yang Weidong ,  Yang Tang ,  Yuchul Kim ,  Yuqin Chen ,  Yushu Zhang

IPC: H04L5/00 ,  H04W72/04

Abstract: Methods to enhance the coverage of NR systems for coverage-limited wireless devices are disclosed. A serving base station may configure a coverage-limited UE with parameters for the UE to operate in a coverage enhancement mode through RRC signaling, DCI, or RAR grant. The UE may use the configuration parameters to determine whether to enter into the coverage enhancement mode when connecting and communicating with the serving base station. The configuration parameters may configure the UE to exploit both time diversity and frequency diversity to extend and enhance coverage when receiving the PDSCH and PDCCH channels, when transmitting the PUSCH and PUCCH channel, and when transmitting PUSCH Msg3 during random access. Advantageously, the base station may flexibly and dynamically configure the UE with coverage enhancement parameters to extend the coverage of the UE using time diversity and frequency diversity gains as the UE moves around.

公开(公告)号：US20230054292A1

公开(公告)日：2023-02-23

申请号：US17442464

申请日：2020-05-15

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Chunhai Yao ,  Hong He ,  Chunxuan Ye ,  Dawei Zhang ,  Haitong Sun ,  Jie Cui ,  Oghenekome Oteri ,  Sigen Ye ,  Wei Zeng ,  Weidong Yang ,  Yang Tang ,  Yushu Zhang

IPC: H04W72/04 ,  H04L5/00

Abstract: A user equipment (UE), or other network component can operate to configure different sets of resources including different sequence lengths for an uplink (UL) transmission via a UL channel. A first length or at least one of different second lengths can be selected to configure the UL transmission based on one or more conditions, which can include a coexisting radio access technology (RAT), a UE capability, an occupied channel bandwidth (OCB), the type of UL transmission or the like. The UL transmission can be based on at least one of: the first or the second sequence length such as for an initial access procedure based on the coexisting RAT and the OCB, for example.

公开(公告)号：US20220417990A1

公开(公告)日：2022-12-29

申请号：US17437784

申请日：2021-03-31

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Xiang Chen ,  Dawei Zhang ,  Huaning Niu ,  Jie Cui ,  Manasa Raghavan ,  Qiming Li ,  Yang Tang

IPC: H04W74/08

Abstract: An apparatus may receive a media access control (MAC) control element (CE) from a base station (BS) indicating a secondary cell (SCell) to be activated in an unlicensed band. The apparatus may initiate a timer with an end value in response to receiving the MAC CE and may further adjust a radio-frequency (RF) chain from a first state to a second state corresponding to the SCell to be activated. The apparatus may determine, based on measurements of one or more synchronization signal blocks (SSBs) transmitted from the BS indicating one or more listen before talk (LBT) failures corresponding to the SCell, one or more failed SSB transmissions corresponding to the SCell. Accordingly, the apparatus may readjust, in response to expiry of the timer, the RF chain from the second state to the first state and receive one or more additional SSBs in the first state.

公开(公告)号：US20220417960A1

公开(公告)日：2022-12-29

申请号：US17779408

申请日：2019-11-28

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Weidong Yang ,  Amir Farajidana ,  Chunhai Yao ,  Chunxuan Ye ,  Dawei Zhang ,  Haitong Sun ,  Hong He ,  Jie Cui ,  Oghenekome Oteri ,  Ruoheng Liu ,  Wei Zeng ,  Yang Tang ,  Yuchul Kim ,  Yushu Zhang

IPC: H04W72/12 ,  H04W24/08 ,  H04L1/08

Abstract: Apparatuses, systems, and methods to enhance system performance (e.g., UL throughput) without impinging on (e.g., tightening) processing timeline for UL-SCH data and/or CSI reporting. A base station may request for a UE to send a CSI report(s) during PDCCH monitoring. The base station may also request the UE to send UL-SCH data. At a first transmit opportunity, the UE may transmit first PUSCH (including UL-SCH data that may be multiplexed onto the first PUSCH). Additionally, at a second (later) transmit opportunity, the UE may transmit second PUSCH (including the CSI report(s) that may be multiplexed onto the second PUSCH). The second transmit opportunity may be identified as a transmit opportunity starting at least a specified number of symbols after a first symbol of the first repetition. The specified number of symbols may be dependent upon at least one of UE uplink processing time capabilities or SCS.

公开(公告)号：US20220408369A1

公开(公告)日：2022-12-22

申请号：US17894047

申请日：2022-08-23

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Jie Cui ,  Sharad Sambhwani ,  Yang Tang ,  Hong He ,  Dawei Zhang ,  Wei Zeng ,  Haitong Sun ,  Yuchul Kim ,  Yushu Zhang ,  Chunhai Yao ,  Chunxuan Ye ,  Weidong Yang ,  Zhibin Wu ,  Dirk Nickisch

IPC: H04W52/14 ,  H04B1/3827 ,  H04W52/36 ,  H04W52/24

Abstract: A wireless network may include a base station and user equipment (UE). The UE may transmit uplink (UL) signals to the base station using a dynamically adjustable maximum UL duty cycle. When the UE identifies that a user is in proximity to the UE, the UE may transmit an indicator to the base station. The indicator may identify that a radio-frequency exposure (RFE) event has occurred and/or a suggested maximum UL duty cycle that would allow the UE to satisfy limits on RFE. The base station may limit a UL grant to the UE so that the UE performs subsequent communications using the suggested maximum UL duty cycle or a different maximum UL duty cycle. Coordinating adjustment of UL duty cycle in this way may allow the UE to meet limits on RFE without requiring the UE to perform maximum transmit power level reductions.