公开(公告)号：US11751216B2

公开(公告)日：2023-09-05

申请号：US17826811

申请日：2022-05-27

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Yujian Zhang ,  Jeongho Jeon ,  Youn Hyoung Heo ,  Candy Yiu ,  Bharat Shrestha

IPC: H04L5/00 ,  H04W72/04 ,  H04W84/02 ,  H04W88/06 ,  H04W88/10 ,  H04W92/02 ,  H04W92/10 ,  H04W72/23 ,  H04W72/0453 ,  H04W72/232 ,  H04W72/231

CPC classification number: H04W72/23 ,  H04L5/001 ,  H04L5/0053 ,  H04L5/0078 ,  H04L5/0098 ,  H04W72/0453 ,  H04W72/231 ,  H04W72/232 ,  H04W84/02 ,  H04W88/06 ,  H04W88/10 ,  H04W92/02 ,  H04W92/10

Abstract: 5G methods and architectures to determine active SCells and their bandwidth parts (BWP) used in carrier aggregation (CA) are disclosed in which activating a BWP for an active SCell is performed initially according to a default value provided in initial radio resource control (RRC) messaging. After initialization, SCells and the SCell BWPs used by the user equipment (UE) are activated by RRC messaging, downlink control information (DCI) or dedicated medium access control (MAC) control elements (MAC CEs) with the initial BWP used for an activated SCell being a default value provided during initialization.

公开(公告)号：US20220201798A1

公开(公告)日：2022-06-23

申请号：US17587004

申请日：2022-01-28

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Bharat Shrestha ,  Yujian Zhang

IPC: H04W88/06 ,  H04W80/02 ,  H04W72/10 ,  H04W76/27 ,  H04W72/12 ,  H04W28/02 ,  H04W72/14 ,  H04L5/00

Abstract: Embodiments of a User Equipment (UE) and methods of communication are generally described herein. The UE may, if a regular buffer status report (BSR) is triggered and a logical channel scheduling request (SR) delay timer is not running, and if available uplink shared channel (UL-SCH) data resources do not meet one or more logical channel prioritization (LCP) mapping restrictions configured for a logical channel of uplink data: trigger a scheduling request to request UL-SCH data resources for a new transmission of uplink data. Currently pending SRs and BSRs may not be cancelled after assembly of a medium access control (MAC) protocol data unit (PDU), but may be cancelled at a later time when a MAC PDU including a BSR is transmitted.

公开(公告)号：US20220201744A1

公开(公告)日：2022-06-23

申请号：US17441907

申请日：2020-05-01

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Bharat Shrestha ,  Meghashree Dattatri Kedalagudde ,  Puneet Jain ,  Jaemin Han

IPC: H04W74/08 ,  H04W68/00 ,  H04W76/20 ,  H04W12/03

Abstract: This disclosure describes methods, systems, and devices for mobile terminated (MT) early data transmission (EDT). In one example, a method involves receiving, by a node of the RAN, an MT EDT indication and information indicative of downlink data for transmission to a user equipment (UE) served by the RAN. The method further involves based on the information indicative of the downlink data, determining to initiate MT EDT to transmit the downlink data to the UE. The method also involves generating a Radio Resource Control (RRC) paging message comprising: (i) the MT EDT indication, (ii) an indication of a contention free (CF) physical random access channel (PRACH) resource, and (iii) an indication of an EDT-radio network temporary identifier (EDT-RNTI). Further, the method involves transmitting the RRC paging message to the UE.

公开(公告)号：US20220159529A1

公开(公告)日：2022-05-19

申请号：US17440525

申请日：2019-05-02

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Jaemin Han ,  Alexander Sirotkin ,  Bharat Shrestha ,  Yi Guo

IPC: H04W36/00 ,  H04W36/08

Abstract: One or more methods for enhancing inter-node handover (HO) signaling for conditional HO (CHO). At least one of the methods include: providing a message that comprises indications of a plurality of potential target cell identifiers that are applicable to a CHO operation; and performing a CHO operation based on the message.

公开(公告)号：US11272574B2

公开(公告)日：2022-03-08

申请号：US16938291

申请日：2020-07-24

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Bharat Shrestha ,  Yujian Zhang

IPC: H04W88/06 ,  H04W80/02 ,  H04W72/10 ,  H04W76/27 ,  H04W72/12 ,  H04W28/02 ,  H04W72/14 ,  H04L5/00 ,  H04W72/04

Abstract: Embodiments of a User Equipment (UE) and methods of communication are generally described herein. The UE may, if a regular buffer status report (BSR) is triggered and a logical channel scheduling request (SR) delay timer is not running, and if available uplink shared channel (UL-SCH) data resources do not meet one or more logical channel prioritization (LCP) mapping restrictions configured for a logical channel of uplink data: trigger a scheduling request to request UL-SCH data resources for a new transmission of uplink data. Currently pending SRs and BSRs may not be cancelled after assembly of a medium access control (MAC) protocol data unit (PDU), but may be cancelled at a later time when a MAC PDU including a BSR is transmitted.

公开(公告)号：US20220070840A1

公开(公告)日：2022-03-03

申请号：US17470429

申请日：2021-09-09

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Qiaoyang Ye ,  Debdeep Chatterjee ,  Gang Xiong ,  Bharat Shrestha ,  Salvatore Talarico

IPC: H04W72/04 ,  H04W76/30 ,  H04L1/18

Abstract: Systems and methods of early termination of uplink data transmissions for a UE are described. The UE transmits capacity information that indicates that the UE supports use of an ETS. The ETS indicates successful reception by the eNB of the uplink data prior to an end of a scheduled transmission period to transmit repeated instances of the data. The UE receives a schedule for repeated transmissions of the data that is based on a coverage level of the UE, and then transmits sets of one or more repetitions. After the transmission, the UE monitors a predetermined resource whether the ETS is present or whether the ETS indicates an ACK. If the ETS indicates successful reception, the UE terminates transmission of the remaining repetitions of the data and enters a sleep mode or transmits other uplink data.

公开(公告)号：US20210410166A1

公开(公告)日：2021-12-30

申请号：US17288817

申请日：2019-10-24

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Bharat Shrestha ,  Seau Sian Lim ,  Marta Martinez Tarradell

IPC: H04W72/12 ,  H04L1/16 ,  H04L5/00 ,  H04W72/14

Abstract: A UE in idle mode may use a preconfigured uplink resource for transmission, retransmission, and/or HARQ. For example, the UE may store configuration data for a preconfigured uplink resource and an RNTI for idle mode communication. In idle mode, the UE generates an uplink transmission using the preconfigured uplink resource. After the uplink transmission, the UE starts a retransmission timer, and monitors PDCCH with the RNTI provided in the configuration data for HARQ ACK/NACK.

公开(公告)号：US20210345163A1

公开(公告)日：2021-11-04

申请号：US17285386

申请日：2019-10-16

Applicant: APPLE INC.

Inventor： Murali Narasimha ,  Bharat Shrestha

IPC: H04W28/02 ,  H04W72/12 ,  H04W72/14

Abstract: Technology for an Integrated Access and Backhaul (IAB) node in an IAB network is disclosed. The IAB node can decode, at a distributed unit (DU) of the IAB node, a first resource request received from one of a user equipment (UE) or a child IAB node, wherein the first resource request is associated with the UE. The IAB node can encode, at a mobile terminal (MT) of the IAB node, a second resource request for transmission to the parent IAB node or the IAB donor triggered by receipt of the first resource request, wherein the second resource request is transmitted prior to a receipt of a protocol data unit (PDU) at the DU of the IAB node.

公开(公告)号：US11129104B2

公开(公告)日：2021-09-21

申请号：US16638322

申请日：2018-08-13

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Bharat Shrestha ,  Maruti Gupta Hyde ,  Qiaoyang Ye ,  Timothy Cox

IPC: H04W52/02 ,  H04W4/70 ,  H04W76/11 ,  H04W8/08 ,  H04W8/24 ,  H04W68/00

Abstract: A telecommunication network may operate to enable a wake up signals (WUSs) within the telecommunication network. A mobility management entity (MME) may estimate a coverage enhancement (CE) level of a user equipment (UE), determine, based on the CE level, a number of repetitions for a wake up signal (WUS) for the UE, and cause a WUS for UE to be transmitted to a radio access network (RAN) node corresponding to the UE. The RAN node may inform the MME that the RAN node has disabled the WUS feature, and may cause system information to be broadcast to UEs in IDLE mode, indicating that the WUS feature of the RAN node has been disabled. A UE may determine a paging occasion (PO) determine a maximum WUS duration, minimum offset, and start location of the WUS.

公开(公告)号：US11122553B2

公开(公告)日：2021-09-14

申请号：US16496882

申请日：2018-03-20

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Qiaoyang Ye ,  Debdeep Chatterjee ,  Gang Xiong ,  Bharat Shrestha ,  Salvatore Talarico

IPC: H04W72/04 ,  H04W76/30 ,  H04L1/18

Abstract: Systems and methods of early termination of uplink data transmissions for a UE are described. The UE transmits capacity information that indicates that the UE supports use of an ETS. The ETS indicates successful reception by the eNB of the uplink data prior to an end of a scheduled transmission period to transmit repeated instances of the data. The UE receives a schedule for repeated transmissions of the data that is based on a coverage level of the UE, and then transmits sets of one or more repetitions. After the transmission, the UE monitors a predetermined resource whether the ETS is present or whether the ETS indicates an ACK. If the ETS indicates successful reception, the UE terminates transmission of the remaining repetitions of the data and enters a sleep mode or transmits other uplink data.