公开(公告)号：US12267814B2

公开(公告)日：2025-04-01

申请号：US17422146

申请日：2020-01-10

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Jose Armando Oviedo ,  Yingyang Li ,  Salvatore Talarico ,  Yongjun Kwak

IPC: H04W72/04 ,  H04W16/14 ,  H04W72/0446 ,  H04W72/21 ,  H04W74/0808

Abstract: Systems, apparatuses, methods, and computer-readable media are provided for a wireless communication system in an unlicensed spectrum. A user equipment (UE) device of the wireless communication system includes a processor circuitry and radio front end circuitry. The processor circuitry is configured to acquire a channel occupancy time (COT) in the unlicensed spectrum, and determine a number of remaining consecutive subframes allocated for physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH) transmission to a base station. The processor circuitry is configured to generate uplink control information (UCI) to indicate a COT sharing boundary occurring at an end of the remaining consecutive subframes. The radio front end circuitry is coupled to the processor circuitry and configured to transmit the UCI in the PUSCH) transmission during one of the remaining consecutive subframes. The processor circuitry is also configured to monitor downlink transmissions from the base station following the COT sharing boundary.

公开(公告)号：US12177847B2

公开(公告)日：2024-12-24

申请号：US17414486

申请日：2020-01-09

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Lopamudra Kundu ,  Gang Xiong ,  Yongjun Kwak ,  Yingyang Li

IPC: H04W72/04 ,  H04B1/713 ,  H04L1/1812 ,  H04W72/21

Abstract: Systems, apparatuses, methods, and computer-readable media are provided for use in a wireless network for resource allocation during initial access. Some embodiments are directed to an apparatus including processor circuitry and radio front circuitry. The processor circuitry can be configured to determine, in accordance with a predetermined requirement, multiple physical resource blocks (PRBs) to be used for transmitting a physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) before a dedicated PUCCH resource configuration. The radio front end circuitry coupled with the processor circuitry can be configured to transmit the PUCCH using the determined PRBs and before the dedicated PUCCH resource configuration. The dedicated PUCCH resource configuration can include initial access before Radio Resource Control (RRC) connection setup.

公开(公告)号：US20230397252A1

公开(公告)日：2023-12-07

申请号：US18365112

申请日：2023-08-03

Applicant: Apple Inc.

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

IPC: H04W74/08 ,  H04W72/12

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：US11765772B2

公开(公告)日：2023-09-19

申请号：US17949983

申请日：2022-09-21

Applicant: Apple Inc.

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

IPC: H04W72/12 ,  H04W74/08

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：US20220183063A1

公开(公告)日：2022-06-09

申请号：US17438572

申请日：2020-03-13

Applicant: Apple Inc.

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

IPC: H04W74/08 ,  H04W74/00 ,  H04L1/18 ,  H04L5/00 ,  H04W76/28

Abstract: Systems, methods, and circuitries are provided for adjusting contention window size (CWS). An example method includes selecting a downlink (DL) burst transmitted by the gNB for use in determining the CWS and adjusting the CWS based on Hybrid Automatic Repeat Request (HARQ) feedback received with respect to the selected DL burst.

公开(公告)号：US20220174722A1

公开(公告)日：2022-06-02

申请号：US17442569

申请日：2020-07-01

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Salvatore Talarico ,  Gang Xiong ,  Yingyang Li ,  Yongjun Kwak ,  Jose Armando Oviedo

IPC: H04W72/14 ,  H04W72/12 ,  H04W72/04 ,  H04W74/08 ,  H04W74/00

Abstract: The present application relates to wireless devices, and more particularly to apparatus, systems, and methods for multiplexing configured Grant (CG) transmissions in New Radio (NR) systems operating on unlicensed spectrum. In some embodiments, uplink control information may be transmitted in one or more configured grant physical uplink shared channels mapped to a respective one or more mini-slots.

公开(公告)号：US20220085924A1

公开(公告)日：2022-03-17

申请号：US17415845

申请日：2020-03-20

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Salvatore Talarico ,  Gang Xiong ,  Yingyang Li ,  Carlos H. Aldana

IPC: H04L1/18 ,  H04W74/08

Abstract: Apparatuses, systems, and methods for performing contention window size updates for code block group based retransmission configurations in a wireless communication system. A code block group based wireless communication may be performed in unlicensed spectrum. A reference burst of the code block group based wireless communication may be identified. One or more of a number of acknowledgements or a number of negative acknowledgements associated with the reference burst may be identified. A contention window size adjustment may be determined based at least in part on one or more of the number of acknowledgements or the number of negative acknowledgements associated with the reference burst.

公开(公告)号：US12250693B2

公开(公告)日：2025-03-11

申请号：US17438261

申请日：2020-03-20

Applicant: APPLE INC.

Inventor： Salvatore Talarico ,  Yongjun Kwak ,  Jose Armando Oviedo ,  Yingyang Li

IPC: H04W72/23 ,  H04L1/1607 ,  H04L27/26 ,  H04W72/0446

Abstract: Some embodiments of this disclosure include systems, apparatuses, methods, and computer-readable media for use in a wireless network for time-domain resource allocation for configured grant transmissions in New Radio (NR) systems. For example, some embodiments are directed to an electronic device including radio front end circuitry and processor circuitry coupled to the radio front end circuitry. The processor circuitry can be configured to generate a radio resource control (RRC) signal including a bitmap for configuring time-domain resources for configured grant (CG) operation. The processor circuitry can be further configured to transmit, using the radio front end circuitry, the RRC signal to a user equipment (UE) to configure the time-domain resources. The bitmap comprises a plurality of resource units and wherein each resource unit in the plurality of resource units corresponds to a symbol, a slot, a subframe, or a radio frame.

公开(公告)号：US12200759B2

公开(公告)日：2025-01-14

申请号：US17442134

申请日：2020-03-27

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Yingyang Li ,  Salvatore Talarico ,  Yongjun Kwak ,  Jose Armando Oviedo ,  Hong He ,  Gang Xiong

IPC: H04W74/0808 ,  H04W16/14

Abstract: Systems, methods, and apparatuses disclosed herein can operate on an unlicensed spectrum. These systems, methods, and apparatuses can perform a first listen-before-talk (LBT) operation of a LBT protocol in a first slot from among multiple slots to determine whether the unlicensed spectrum is unoccupied. Thereafter, these systems, methods, and apparatuses can transmit an uplink (UL) transmission in other slots from among the plurality of slots in response to the unlicensed spectrum being unoccupied. Otherwise, these systems, methods, and apparatuses can perform a second LBT operation in a second slot from among the plurality of slots in response to the unlicensed spectrum being occupied.

公开(公告)号：US12127249B2

公开(公告)日：2024-10-22

申请号：US17420204

申请日：2020-01-08

Applicant: Apple Inc.

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

IPC: H04W74/08 ,  H04W74/0808

CPC classification number: H04W74/0808

Abstract: The present disclosure is directed to systems and methods for controlling a number of allowed downlink/uplink (DL/UL) switching points. For example, the method may include acquiring a shared channel occupancy time (COT) that includes one or more DL bursts and/or UL bursts. The method may also include utilizing one or more of the DL bursts or the UL bursts as a reference burst. The method may also include deriving a metric for controlling the number of DL/UL switching points in the shared COT based on the reference burst. The method may also include comparing the metric to a threshold value. The method may also include setting the number of DL/UL switching points in the shared COT based on the comparison of the metric to the threshold value.