公开(公告)号：US12120746B2

公开(公告)日：2024-10-15

申请号：US17441122

申请日：2020-06-19

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Carlos H. Aldana ,  Salvatore Talarico ,  Yongjun Kwak ,  Lopamudra Kundu

IPC: H04W74/0833 ,  H04W72/23 ,  H04W74/00

CPC classification number: H04W74/0833 ,  H04W72/23 ,  H04W74/004

Abstract: A user equipment (UE), or other network component can operate to configure channel occupancy time (COT) sharing in random access procedures involving the unlicensed spectrum. At least some of the messages for the procedures can share a COT by configuring one or more gaps or listen-before-talk (LBT) procedures based on the gap or whether the COT sharing is UE or gNB initiated. Some configurations can depend on a location in the random access procedure that COT sharing is acquired.

公开(公告)号：US12058737B2

公开(公告)日：2024-08-06

申请号：US17420090

申请日：2020-02-16

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Lopamudra Kundu ,  Bishwarup Mondal ,  Yongjun Kwak ,  Yingyang Li

IPC: H04W74/00 ,  H04L1/00 ,  H04L1/1607 ,  H04L27/26 ,  H04W74/0816

CPC classification number: H04W74/0816 ,  H04L1/0071 ,  H04L1/1614 ,  H04L27/26025

Abstract: Systems, apparatuses, methods, and computer-readable media are provided for an access point (AP) for a wireless communication system operating in a licensed and an unlicensed spectrum. The AP includes processor circuitry configured to determine a plurality of interleaved interlaces based on a bandwidth of a physical uplink channel and a subcarrier spacing (SCS). The processor circuitry is configured to identify a plurality of resource blocks (RBs) corresponding to a first interleaved interlace of the plurality of interleaved interlaces, which are based on a number of subcarrier per RB. The processor circuitry is configured to allocate the plurality of RBs corresponding to the first interleaved interlace among one or more user equipments (UEs), and generate an indication of the allocated plurality of RBs, the first interleaved interlace, and the one or more UEs to transmit to the one or more UEs via radio front end circuitry coupled to the processor circuitry.

公开(公告)号：US12047218B2

公开(公告)日：2024-07-23

申请号：US17435730

申请日：2020-03-27

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Bishwarup Mondal ,  Debdeep Chatterjee ,  Yongjun Kwak ,  Dae Won Lee ,  Avik Sengupta

IPC: H04L27/26 ,  H04L1/00 ,  H04W56/00

CPC classification number: H04L27/2675 ,  H04L1/0013 ,  H04W56/0015

Abstract: Systems, methods, and circuitries are provided for maximizing use of discovery reference (DRS) resources for remaining minimum system information (RMSI) allocation. An example method includes configuring Type 0 physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) CORESET monitoring to include monitoring in either a first slot or a first slot and a second slot; generating a synchronization signal block (SSB) encoding the configured PDCCH CORESET monitoring; and transmitting the SSB to a user equipment (UE) by way of a discovery reference signal (DRS).

公开(公告)号：US12041695B2

公开(公告)日：2024-07-16

申请号：US17894410

申请日：2022-08-24

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Debdeep Chatterjee ,  Gang Xiong ,  Hong He ,  Yongjun Kwak ,  Alexei Davydov ,  Hwan-Joon Kwon ,  Dae Won Lee

IPC: H04W88/06 ,  H04L5/00 ,  H04W24/08 ,  H04W72/0446 ,  H04W72/23 ,  H04W80/08

CPC classification number: H04W88/06 ,  H04L5/0092 ,  H04L5/0094 ,  H04W24/08 ,  H04W72/0446 ,  H04W72/23 ,  H04W80/08

Abstract: A user equipment (UE) may include one or more processors that are configured to cause UE capability information to be communicated to a radio access network (RAN) node, regarding a maximum number of blind decode attempts (BDAs) supported by the UE. The one or more processors are configured to determine, based on the maximum BDAs, shortened channel control elements (sCCEs) to be used, by the RAN node, to transmit shortened downlink control information (sDCI) via a shortened physical downlink control channel (sPDCCH) and obtain sDCI by monitoring the sPDCCH in accordance with the determined sCCEs.

公开(公告)号：US12035367B2

公开(公告)日：2024-07-09

申请号：US18365112

申请日：2023-08-03

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Carlos H. Aldana ,  Yongjun Kwak ,  Yingyang Li ,  Salvatore Talarico

IPC: H04W72/12 ,  H04W74/0808

CPC classification number: H04W74/0808 ,  H04W72/12

Abstract: Methods and apparatus are disclosed for a UE and its serving base station in 5G NR systems to signal channel scan or channel sensing to allow channel occupancy time (COT) sharing before transmissions. The COT sharing may be initiated by the base station or by the UE by asserting a CCA indication to enable channel sensing by a UE or base station, respectively. When the UE receives and decodes the asserted CCA indication during downlink transmission, the UE may perform channel sensing during a short interframe space (SIFS) between the downlink transmission and a scheduled uplink transmission. When the UE detects that the sensed RF energy across an intended transmission band is greater than an energy detect threshold, the UE may refrain from transmitting during the scheduled uplink transmission. Otherwise or when the CCA indication is de-asserted, the UE may transmit during the scheduled uplink transmission without performing channel sensing.

公开(公告)号：US11825525B2

公开(公告)日：2023-11-21

申请号：US17276080

申请日：2019-09-26

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Anthony Lee ,  Seau S. Lim ,  Yongjun Kwak ,  Youn Hyoung Heo

IPC: H04W74/08 ,  H04W76/19 ,  H04W72/0453 ,  H04W72/1263 ,  H04W74/00

CPC classification number: H04W74/0841 ,  H04W72/0453 ,  H04W72/1263 ,  H04W74/006 ,  H04W74/0866 ,  H04W76/19

Abstract: Embodiments of a User Equipment (UE), Next Generation Node-B (gNB) and methods of communication are generally described herein. The UE may receive, from a gNB, configuration information related to a 2-step random access (RA) procedure between the UE and the gNB in unlicensed spectrum. The 2-step RA procedure may include: an uplink MsgA message that includes, within a random access occasion (RO), a MsgA preamble and a MsgA payload; and a downlink MsgB message that includes, within another RO, a MsgB PDCCH and a MsgB payload. The configuration information may indicate: resources allocated for the MsgA preamble; and a mapping between the resources allocated for the MsgA preamble and the MsgA payload. The UE may determine the resources allocated for the MsgA payload based on the resources allocated for the MsgA preamble and the mapping.

公开(公告)号：US11637656B2

公开(公告)日：2023-04-25

申请号：US17197596

申请日：2021-03-10

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Debdeep Chatterjee ,  Hong He ,  Gang Xiong ,  Ajit Nimbalker ,  Dmitry Dikarev ,  Yongjun Kwak

IPC: H03M13/00 ,  H04L1/00 ,  H04W72/04 ,  H04L5/00

Abstract: Provided herein are method and apparatus for channel coding in the fifth Generation (5G) New Radio (NR) system. An embodiment provides an apparatus for a Next Generation NodeB (gNB), including circuitry, which is configured to: generate Downlink Control Information (DCI) payload for a NR-Physical Downlink Control Channel (NR-PDCCH); attach Cyclic Redundancy Check (CRC) to the DCI payload; mask the CRC with an Radio Network Temporary Identifier (RNTI) using a bitwise modulus 2 addition operation, wherein the number of bits for the RNTI is different from the number of bits for the CRC; and perform polar encoding for the DCI payload with the masked CRC.

公开(公告)号：US20230007636A1

公开(公告)日：2023-01-05

申请号：US17903457

申请日：2022-09-06

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Hong He ,  Debdeep Chatterjee ,  Gang Xiong ,  Hwan-Joon Kwon ,  Sergey Sosnin ,  Yongjun Kwak

IPC: H04W72/04 ,  H04L1/18 ,  H04W72/12 ,  H04L1/08

Abstract: Embodiments of a User Equipment (UE), Generation Node-B (gNB) and methods of communication are disclosed herein. The UE may receive a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) that schedules a physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH) in a slot, and on a component carrier (CC) of a plurality of CCs, The PDCCH may include a total downlink assignment index (DAI) and a counter DAI for hybrid automatic repeat request acknowledgement (HARQ-ACK) feedback of the PDSCH. The total DAI may indicate a total number of pairs of CCs and slots for the HARQ-ACK feedback. The UE may encode the HARQ-ACK feedback to include a bit that indicates whether the PDSCH is successfully decoded. A size of the HARQ-ACK feedback may be based on the total DAI, and a position of the bit may be based on the counter DAI.

公开(公告)号：US11489608B2

公开(公告)日：2022-11-01

申请号：US16490884

申请日：2018-03-02

Applicant: APPLE INC.

Inventor： Dae Won Lee ,  Gregory Morozov ,  Ansab Ali ,  Seunghee Han ,  Yongjun Kwak

IPC: H04J11/00 ,  H04J13/00 ,  H04L27/26

Abstract: Technology for a Next Generation NodeB (gNB) operable to encode a primary synchronization signal for transmission to a user equipment (UE) is disclosed. The gNB can identify a sequence d(n) for a primary synchronization signal. The sequence d(n) can be defined by: d(5 n)=1.2s(n), where s(n) is a maximum run length sequence (msequence) and s(n) is provided as s(n+7)=(s(n +4)+s(n)) mod 2, where 0.n.127. The gNB can generate the primary synchronization signal based on the sequence d(n). The gNB can encode the primary synchronization signal for transmission to the UE.

公开(公告)号：US11464002B2

公开(公告)日：2022-10-04

申请号：US16990629

申请日：2020-08-11

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Hong He ,  Debdeep Chatterjee ,  Gang Xiong ,  Hwan-Joon Kwon ,  Sergey Sosnin ,  Yongjun Kwak

IPC: H04W72/04 ,  H04W72/12 ,  H04L1/18 ,  H04L1/08

Abstract: Embodiments of a User Equipment (UE), Generation Node-B (gNB) and methods of communication are disclosed herein. The UE may receive a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) that schedules a physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH) in a slot, and on a component carrier (CC) of a plurality of CCs. The PDCCH may include a total downlink assignment index (DAI) and a counter DAI for hybrid automatic repeat request acknowledgement (HARQ-ACK) feedback of the PDSCH. The total DAI may indicate a total number of pairs of CCs and slots for the HARQ-ACK feedback. The UE may encode the HARQ-ACK feedback to include a bit that indicates whether the PDSCH is successfully decoded. A size of the HARQ-ACK feedback may be based on the total DAI, and a position of the bit may be based on the counter DAI.