公开(公告)号：US11979911B2

公开(公告)日：2024-05-07

申请号：US17442535

申请日：2020-10-16

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Oghenekome Oteri ,  Huaning Niu ,  Weidong Yang ,  Sigen Ye ,  Haitong Sun ,  Chunxuan Ye ,  Chunhai Yao ,  Hong He ,  Wei Zeng ,  Dawei Zhang

IPC: H04W74/08 ,  H04W8/04 ,  H04W74/0808 ,  H04W74/0833

CPC classification number: H04W74/0825 ,  H04W8/04 ,  H04W74/0808 ,  H04W74/0833 ,  H04W74/08

Abstract: Current 5G provisions for wireless communications do not allow for the differentiation of channel access by User Equipments (UEs) with different priorities. Approaches are described by which priority access for UEs in a controlled environment using frame based equipment (FBE), and in particular for different UEs or the same UE that has different configured grants. The approaches are particularly helpful for ultra-reliable low-latency communication (URLLC) UEs. In one approach, the UE performs a clear channel assessment (CCA) in an idle period before the fixed frame period (FFP), followed by a channel access priority test. In an alternative approach, the UE performs a channel access priority test before the UE performs a clear channel assessment (CCA) in an idle period before the fixed frame period (FFP). Other approaches include setting the fixed frame period length to different sizes for each UE, using a random number of skipped fixed frame periods, and the gNB configuring UEs with multiple semi-static channel access mode parameters.

公开(公告)号：US20240137939A1

公开(公告)日：2024-04-25

申请号：US18392983

申请日：2023-12-21

Applicant: Apple Inc.

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

IPC: H04W72/23 ,  H04L1/08 ,  H04L1/1812 ,  H04W72/0453 ,  H04W76/30

CPC classification number: H04W72/23 ,  H04L1/08 ,  H04L1/1812 ,  H04W72/0453 ,  H04W76/30

Abstract: A service device (e.g., a user equipment (UE), a new radio NR (gNB), or other network component) as a service provider/consumer can process or generate sidelink communications based on a downlink control information (DCI) for one or more sidelink configured grants that enables resource allocation for the sidelink communication. The device can determine whether to activate, release/deactivate, or request a retransmission for the one or more sidelink configured grants based on one or more fields of a DCI format 3_0 configuration of the DCI.

公开(公告)号：US11963185B2

公开(公告)日：2024-04-16

申请号：US17440456

申请日：2020-07-31

Applicant: Apple Inc.

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

IPC: H04W72/12 ,  H04L1/08 ,  H04L5/00 ,  H04W72/23

CPC classification number: H04W72/23 ,  H04L1/08 ,  H04L5/0053

Abstract: The present application relates to devices and components including apparatus, systems, and methods for search space grouping to facilitate repeated transmissions of a physical downlink control channel in wireless communication systems.

公开(公告)号：US11950259B2

公开(公告)日：2024-04-02

申请号：US17442588

申请日：2020-02-12

Applicant: Apple Inc.

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

IPC: H04H20/71 ,  H04W72/30

CPC classification number: H04W72/30

Abstract: To extend a physical broadcast channel (PBCH) in wireless communications, an extended physical broadcast channel (EPBCH) transmission is generated with one or more legacy PBCH blocks and one or more EPBCH blocks within an extension window. A size of the extension window is determined based at least in part on a PBCH repetition number and a number of the legacy PBCH blocks relative to a number of the EPBCH blocks. The EPBCH transmission is transmitted by a base station (BS) to one or more user equipment (UE).

公开(公告)号：US11950208B2

公开(公告)日：2024-04-02

申请号：US17267204

申请日：2020-02-12

Applicant: Apple Inc.

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

IPC: H04W72/02 ,  H04L1/08 ,  H04W72/0453 ,  H04W72/20

CPC classification number: H04W72/02 ,  H04L1/08 ,  H04W72/0453 ,  H04W72/20

Abstract: Systems, methods, and circuitries are provided for performing sidelink communication. An example method indicates a frequency resource reservation in sidelink control information (SCI). The method includes identifying a transport block (TB) for transmission to a UE; determining a total number of sub-channels (NSL) in a resource pool for sidelink communication, a number of sub-channels (Lsub) of the TB, a first starting sub-channel index x1 of a first retransmission of the TB, and a second starting sub-channel index x2 of a second retransmission of the TB. The method includes determining a frequency resource indication value (FRIV) based on NSL, LSUB, x1, and x2, wherein the FRIV represents a result of a predetermined function of Lsub, x1, and x2 that generates a unique value for possible combinations of Lsub, x1, and x2. The FRIV is encoded in SCI and the SCI is transmitted to the UE.

公开(公告)号：US11943803B2

公开(公告)日：2024-03-26

申请号：US17593816

申请日：2020-09-24

Applicant: Apple Inc.

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

IPC: H04W72/00 ,  H04W72/23 ,  H04W72/566

CPC classification number: H04W72/566 ,  H04W72/23

Abstract: A method for wireless communication includes: scheduling, by a wireless station, a first uplink (UL) transmission from a wireless device; determining, by the wireless station, a need for a higher priority uplink transmission that uses resources overlapping with the first UL transmission; determining, by the wireless station, a reference region, within which a UL cancellation indication (CI) is to be applied; determining, by the wireless station, a set of UL resources in the reference region for cancellation, wherein at least a subset of the UL resources in the reference region are interlaced; sending, via a downlink control channel, indication of the determined set of UL resources for cancellation (e.g., by indicating particular interlaces and/or particular Physical Resource Blocks within such interlaces that are to be canceled); and receiving, at the wireless station, the higher priority uplink transmission via at least a subset of the determined set of cancelled UL resources.

公开(公告)号：US20240090081A1

公开(公告)日：2024-03-14

申请号：US18507156

申请日：2023-11-13

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Haitong Sun ,  Dawei Zhang ,  Hong He ,  Jia Tang ,  Pengkai Zhao ,  Tianyan Pu ,  Wei Zeng ,  Wei Zhang ,  Yuchul Kim ,  Yushu Zhang

IPC: H04W88/06 ,  H04B7/06 ,  H04L5/00 ,  H04L25/02 ,  H04W52/24 ,  H04W56/00 ,  H04W72/21 ,  H04W76/11 ,  H04W76/27 ,  H04W80/02

CPC classification number: H04W88/06 ,  H04B7/0626 ,  H04B7/0695 ,  H04L5/0051 ,  H04L25/0226 ,  H04W52/242 ,  H04W56/001 ,  H04W72/21 ,  H04W76/11 ,  H04W76/27 ,  H04W80/02

Abstract: Apparatuses, systems, and methods for a user equipment device (UE) to perform methods for Fifth Generation New Radio (5G NR) frequency range two (FR2) based communications beam management. The UE may configure, via communications with a base station, serving the UE, a group ID for PUCCH resources within a group of PUCCHs, e.g., for FR2 based communications. The UE may receive, from the base station, an update to one or more PUCCH resources within the group of PUCCHs via a medium access control (MAC) control element (CE) that may include one of a resource ID indicating an update to a PUCCH resource or the group ID to update the group of PUCCH resources. The UE may update, based on the MAC-CE, the one or more PUCCH resources within the group of PUCCHs.

公开(公告)号：US11930519B2

公开(公告)日：2024-03-12

申请号：US17440652

申请日：2020-02-12

Applicant: Apple Inc.

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

IPC: H04W24/10 ,  H04L5/00 ,  H04W72/54

CPC classification number: H04W72/54 ,  H04L5/0048

Abstract: Measurement resources are often limited in 5G and 4G-LTE communications. As a result, SMTC and CSI-RS measurement windows will occasionally be assigned to the same resource elements of a signal frame. This results in a collision that must be resolved, since both measurements cannot be performed simultaneously. The collision can be resolved using restriction, where overlapping resource elements are assigned to either the SMTC or the CSI-RS measurements, or can be resolved using measurement sharing, where overlapping resource elements are divided among the two measurements according to a measurement sharing factor. Various factors, including priority or window periodicity may be taken into account by the measurement rules that dictate collision resolution.

公开(公告)号：US11930460B2

公开(公告)日：2024-03-12

申请号：US17593224

申请日：2021-01-15

Applicant: APPLE INC.

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

IPC: H04W56/00 ,  H04W24/10

CPC classification number: H04W56/001 ,  H04W24/10

Abstract: Provided is a method for a user equipment (UE), comprising performing, based on acquired information, in at least one of an idle mode and an inactive mode, at least one of an intra-frequency neighbor cell measurement and an inter-frequency neighbor cell measurement. The acquired information comprises at least one of a group of a periodicity of synchronization signal and physical broadcast channel block (SSB)-based measurement timing configuration (SMTC) and a periodicity of SMTC2-long periodicity (SMTC2-LP) and a physical cell identifier (PCI) list of SMTC2-LP.

公开(公告)号：US11929950B2

公开(公告)日：2024-03-12

申请号：US17441962

申请日：2020-08-05

Applicant: Apple Inc.

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

IPC: H04L5/00 ,  H04B7/01

CPC classification number: H04L5/0048 ,  H04B7/01 ,  H04L5/0035

Abstract: Methods and apparatuses are disclosed for calculating and compensating for Doppler shift in a high-speed environment. When in a high-speed environment, Doppler shifts on a transmitted radio frequency signal can become extremely large, which may make it difficult or even impossible for a receiving device to accurately decipher the signal. Therefore, embodiments of the present disclosure describe how tracking reference signals can be transmitted from multiple transmission/reception points, and processed by the UE. For example, the TRS transmitted from the TRP can be enhanced to allow for TRS information from two different TRPs. Additionally, or alternatively, a flag can be set within TRS information that identifies it as having originated from either a first TRP or a second TRP. Additionally, the UE can calculate Doppler shift information and report that information back to the base station in a report message, such as an SRS message. In this manner, the base station can precompensate for the Doppler shift.