公开(公告)号：US12289639B2

公开(公告)日：2025-04-29

申请号：US17596618

申请日：2020-06-12

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Binita Gupta ,  Qian Li ,  Jing Zhu ,  Sangeetha L Bangolae ,  Youn Hyoung Heo ,  Puneet Jain ,  Necati Canpolat ,  Carlos Cordeiro ,  Alexander Sirotkin

IPC: H04W28/06 ,  H04W28/086 ,  H04W84/12

Abstract: A next generation NodeB (gNB) implements a radio access network (RAN) convergence functionality for new radio (NR) and wireless local area network (WLAN) access, the gNB further implementing a split architecture comprising a central unit (CU) and a distributed unit (DU) for each of the NR access and WLAN access. The gNB receives a data packet for transmission to a user equipment (UE) implementing the RAN convergence functionality, the data packet comprising one of a control plane (CP) packet or a user plane (UP) packet. The gNB splits the data packet via a convergence layer residing on the NR CU or a convergence layer residing on the WLAN CU and transmits the split data packet over the NR access and the WLAN access.

公开(公告)号：US12250707B2

公开(公告)日：2025-03-11

申请号：US17414625

申请日：2019-12-17

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Sangeetha L Bangolae ,  Kyeongin Jeong ,  Youn Hyoung Heo ,  Ansab Ali

IPC: H04W76/27 ,  H04W4/40 ,  H04W24/08 ,  H04W28/02 ,  H04W72/542

Abstract: Some embodiments of this disclosure include apparatuses and methods for supporting resource selection modes and switching between a network scheduled operation mode and an autonomous resource selection mode for resource allocation for data transmission in a wireless communication system.

公开(公告)号：US12200472B2

公开(公告)日：2025-01-14

申请号：US17598661

申请日：2020-03-27

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Ansab Ali ,  Kyeongin Jeong ,  Sangeetha L Bangolae ,  Youn Hyoung Heo

IPC: H04W24/08 ,  H04W4/46

Abstract: Methods and systems are provided to indicate assistance information for radio access technologies to support interface selection for New Radio (NR) Vehicle-to-Everything (V2X) processes. An upper layer entity exchanges information with lower layer entity while the upper layer can continue to use the existing interface for V2X transmission until it is not able to use the current interface. The upper layer can be a V2X layer and the lower layer can be an Access Stratum (AS) layer. The upper layer can request availability information from the lower layer for other applicable interfaces. The upper layer then instructs the lower layer to provide assistance information for one or more applicable interface(s), depending on whether mapped to the ongoing service. In providing availability information, the lower layer can continuously measure criteria, such as channel conditions, to determine the availability of relevant interfaces and indicate the availability information to the upper layer.