公开(公告)号：US20250055627A1

公开(公告)日：2025-02-13

申请号：US18931725

申请日：2024-10-30

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Yushu ZHANG ,  Chunhai YAO ,  Chunxuan YE ,  Dawei ZHANG ,  Fangli XU ,  Haijing HU ,  Haitong SUN ,  Hong HE ,  Jie CUI ,  Oghenekome OTERI ,  Wei ZENG ,  Weidong YANG ,  Yang TANG ,  Yuchul KIM ,  Yuqin CHEN

IPC: H04L5/00 ,  H04L1/20

Abstract: User equipment (UE) operation in a single frequency network (SFN). The UE may receive one or more transmission configuration indication (TCI) states corresponding to one or more downlink resources, receive a demodulated reference signal (DMRS) wherein the DMRS is quasi co-located (QCLed) with one or more channel state information reference signal (CSI-RS) from multiple cells of a SFN and quasi co-location (QCL) information is included in the one or more TCI and determine a time and frequency offset corresponding to each of the multiple cells based on the CSI-RS.

公开(公告)号：US20250055547A1

公开(公告)日：2025-02-13

申请号：US18722308

申请日：2022-12-09

Applicant: APPLE INC.

Inventor： Hong HE ,  Chunxuan YE ,  Dawei ZHANG ,  Haitong SUN ,  Jie CUI ,  Oghenekome OTERI ,  Seyed Ali Akbar FAKOORIAN ,  Sigen YE ,  Wei ZENG ,  Weidong YANG

IPC: H04B7/06 ,  H04B7/155

Abstract: Systems and method are provided for determining access link direction beams for smart repeaters (SMRs). An SMR may be configured with a set of SMR transmission beam indicator (TBI) state (SMR-TBI State) configurations. The SMR-TBI State configurations in the set respectively comprise an SMR-TBI State identifier (ID), a cell index, and a reference signal associated with a beam for an access link between the SMR and a user equipment (UE). The SMR may receive, through a backhaul link from a base station, an indication of one or more active SMR-TBI States. For at least one of the one or more active SMR-TBI States, the SMR may forward a signal between the base station and the UE using the beam associated with the reference signal in a corresponding SMR-TBI State configuration.

公开(公告)号：US20240405954A1

公开(公告)日：2024-12-05

申请号：US18798019

申请日：2024-08-08

Applicant: APPLE INC.

Inventor： Yushu ZHANG ,  Dawei ZHANG ,  Haitong SUN ,  Wei ZENG

IPC: H04L5/00 ,  H04W72/044 ,  H04W72/20

Abstract: An exemplary unified framework that is disclose for identifying which communication beams are to be uplink and/or downlink communication beams. This exemplary unified framework can utilize one or more universal Transmission Configuration Indication (TCI) states to identify the one or more communication beams that are to be utilized for uplink and/or downlink communication. The one or more universal TCI states can be used identify the one or more communication beams. And the one or more universal TCI states can include applicability information to identify which control channels, such as the PDCCH and the PUCCH to provide some examples, data channels, such as the PDSCH and/or the PUSCH to provide some examples, and/or signals, such as the DMRS, the PTRS, the SRS, and/or the CSI-RS to provide some examples, are to utilize the communication beams identified by the one or more universal TCI states.

公开(公告)号：US20240397520A1

公开(公告)日：2024-11-28

申请号：US18794933

申请日：2024-08-05

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Fangli XU ,  Sethuraman GURUMOORTHY ,  Huaning NIU ,  Yushu ZHANG ,  Chunhai YAO ,  Wei ZENG ,  Haitong SUN ,  Weidong YANG ,  Dawei ZHANG ,  Sigen YE

IPC: H04W72/23 ,  H04L1/00 ,  H04L5/00 ,  H04W72/044 ,  H04W72/0446

Abstract: An approach to reduce the signaling overhead for tracking reference signal (TRS) configuration signaling to idle and inactive user equipments (UEs) operating in a wireless communication system. Conventional signaling approaches require more bits that can be conveyed in the maximum system information block (SIB) message size. One proposed approach optimizes the signaling by removing unnecessary or redundant information, using a single TRS configuration to replace multiple configurations, size reduction in some fields, and the sharing of some fields across different TRS configurations. Another proposed approach uses an SIB message to carry the TRS configurations for a particular beam or subset of beams. These two proposed approaches may be combined to provide further optimization possibilities.

公开(公告)号：US20240380462A1

公开(公告)日：2024-11-14

申请号：US18656874

申请日：2024-05-07

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Haitong SUN ,  Dawei ZHANG ,  Shengshan CUI ,  Wei ZENG ,  Chunxuan YE ,  Hong HE ,  Oghenekome OTERI

IPC: H04B7/06 ,  H04L5/00 ,  H04W24/08

Abstract: Some aspects of this disclosure relate to apparatuses and methods for supporting channel state information (CSI) report configuration for measuring time-domain channel properties (TDCP) of a channel between a user equipment (UE) and a base station. The UE can receive a CSI report configuration from the base station to configure a CSI report, where the CSI report configuration includes an indicator related to a number of tracking reference signal (TRS) resource sets for measuring TDCP of the channel. A TRS resource set can include at least two symbols in a slot for CSI reference signals (CSI-RS), and the slot is repeated to form multiple slots having a periodicity. The UE can further configure the number of TRS resource sets based on a CSI resource setting associated with the CSI report configuration, monitor the configured number of TRS resource sets to perform CSI report measurements.

公开(公告)号：US20240337719A1

公开(公告)日：2024-10-10

申请号：US18748687

申请日：2024-06-20

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Jie CUI ,  Yang TANG ,  Dawei ZHANG ,  Zhibin WU ,  Yuchul KIM ,  Hong HE ,  Yushu ZHANG ,  Haitong SUN

IPC: G01S5/00 ,  G01S5/02 ,  H04L5/00 ,  H04L27/26 ,  H04W24/10

CPC classification number: G01S5/0036 ,  G01S5/0284 ,  H04L5/0051 ,  H04L27/26025 ,  H04W24/10

Abstract: A method, UE and integrated circuit for reporting RSTD values to a network. A user equipment (UE) is configured to establish a connection to a network, the network comprising a first cell and a second cell. The UE receives a positioning reference signal from each of the first and second cells, determines a frequency band for each of the positioning reference signals, determines reference signal time difference (RSTD) values from measured time offsets between the positioning reference signals from the first and second cells, determines RSTD reporting values based on at least the RSTD values and the determined frequency bands and transmits an indication of the RSTD reporting values to the network.

公开(公告)号：US20240323963A1

公开(公告)日：2024-09-26

申请号：US17755591

申请日：2021-05-10

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Seyed Ali Akbar FAKOORIAN ,  Chunhai YAO ,  Chunxuan YE ,  Dawei ZHANG ,  Haitong SUN ,  Hong HE ,  Wei ZENG

IPC: H04W72/21 ,  H04B1/713 ,  H04L1/18 ,  H04W72/231

CPC classification number: H04W72/21 ,  H04B1/713 ,  H04W72/231 ,  H04L1/18

Abstract: A user equipment (UE) is configured to determine a repetition factor for physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) transmissions. The UE receives a first physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) repetition factor indication, wherein the first PUCCH repetition factor indication is a radio resource control (RRC)-based indication, receives a second PUCCH repetition factor indication, wherein the second PUCCH repetition factor is dynamically indicated via a downlink control information (DCI) transmission and determines a number of PUCCH repetitions based on at least one of the first and second PUCCH repetition factor indications.

公开(公告)号：US20240284446A1

公开(公告)日：2024-08-22

申请号：US18441142

申请日：2024-02-14

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Weidong YANG ,  Dawei ZHANG ,  Wei ZENG ,  Chunxuan YE ,  Hong HE ,  Haitong SUN ,  Huaning NIU

IPC: H04W72/1268 ,  H04L1/1812 ,  H04L5/14 ,  H04W72/0446 ,  H04W72/21 ,  H04W72/232

CPC classification number: H04W72/1268 ,  H04L1/1812 ,  H04L5/1469 ,  H04W72/0446 ,  H04W72/21 ,  H04W72/232

Abstract: Disclosed herein are system, method, and computer program product embodiments for enhancement in configured grant transmission. An embodiment operates by receiving a configured grant (CG) configuration message configuring a plurality of CG physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH) transmission occasions (TOs) within a CG period. Next, the embodiment receives an information element indicating a time division duplexing (TDD) uplink-downlink (UL-DL) slot configuration. The embodiment then determines whether a particular CG PUSCH TO of the plurality of CG PUSCH TOs overlaps with a DL slot indicated by the TDD UL-DL slot configuration. Finally, in response to a determination that the particular CG PUSCH TO overlaps with the DL slot, the embodiment skips utilizing the particular CG PUSCH TO.

公开(公告)号：US20240284218A1

公开(公告)日：2024-08-22

申请号：US18654124

申请日：2024-05-03

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Weidong YANG ,  Amir FARAJIDANA ,  Chunhai YAO ,  Chunxuan YE ,  Dawei ZHANG ,  Haitong SUN ,  Hong HE ,  Jie CUI ,  Keith W. SAINTS ,  Linbo LI ,  Oghenekome OTERI ,  Sigen YE ,  Wei ZENG ,  Wei ZHANG ,  Yang TANG ,  Yushu ZHANG

IPC: H04W24/08 ,  H04L1/00 ,  H04W72/0446 ,  H04W72/23

CPC classification number: H04W24/08 ,  H04L1/0038 ,  H04W72/0446 ,  H04W72/23

Abstract: A user equipment (UE) monitors a Physical Downlink Control Channel (PDCCH) in multiple component carriers (CC). The UE determines if the UE is operating in carrier aggregation (CA) mode having a first CC in a first frequency band and a second CC in a second frequency band. When the UE is operating in CA with a first CC in the first frequency band and the second CC in the second frequency band, the UE determines a span pattern for PDCCH symbols being received on the first and second CC and selects a PDCCH monitoring type based on, at least, the span pattern. A UE also determines if a first CC and a second CC of a CA combination are collocated and selects a PDCCH monitoring type based on, at least, the determination of whether the first and second CC are collocated.

公开(公告)号：US20240223336A1

公开(公告)日：2024-07-04

申请号：US17913757

申请日：2021-09-24

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Yushu ZHANG ,  Wei ZENG ,  Huaning NIU ,  Oghenekome OTERI ,  Dawei ZHANG ,  Weidong YANG ,  Haitong SUN ,  Jie CUI ,  Qiming LI

IPC: H04L5/00 ,  H04B7/06 ,  H04W24/10

CPC classification number: H04L5/0053 ,  H04B7/0626 ,  H04B7/06968 ,  H04W24/10

Abstract: Approaches are described for receiving downlink signals simultaneously where analog beamforming is being used to increase the link budget between the base station and user equipment (UE). Alternatives within these approaches include the UE determining the synchronization signal block (SSB) to receive when there are multiple SSBs from different cells in a slot, and determining whether there are other signals in the same symbols with the selected SSB based on the type of signal and the SSB's functionality. In the case where there are another downlink signals channel state information-reference signal (CSI-RS) or physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH) from another cell, the UE selects the corresponding quasi co-location (QCL) assumption to receive the signals. Optionally, the UE can report whether it can support one or two QCL-TypeD at a time and whether it supports SSBs in different cells multiplexed in overlapped symbols.