公开(公告)号：US10863459B2

公开(公告)日：2020-12-08

申请号：US15741282

申请日：2015-12-23

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Tao Wu ,  Debdeep Chatterjee ,  Gang Xiong ,  Mohammad Mamunur Rashid

IPC: H04J3/06 ,  H04W56/00 ,  H04L27/26 ,  H04W4/70 ,  H04L5/00

Abstract: User equipment (UE) provides machine type communications (MTC) through a narrowband (NB)-long term evolution (LTE) system having a downlink transmission bandwidth in a range from about 180 kilohertz (kHz) to about 200 kHz. Receive circuitry is configured to receive, through a downlink transmission of an evolved node B (eNB) in the NB-LTE system, an NB-physical synchronization channel (NB-PSCH), the NB-PSCH including a synchronization signal and having a channel structure, the synchronization signal including a primary synchronization signal (PSS) and a secondary synchronization signal (SSS), and the channel structure defined by multiple subcarriers mutually spaced apart by about 15 kHz and located entirely within the downlink transmission bandwidth. Control circuitry configured to decode the synchronization signal.

公开(公告)号：US20200336270A1

公开(公告)日：2020-10-22

申请号：US16085124

申请日：2017-04-13

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Peng Lu ,  Qiaoyang Ye ,  Gang Xiong ,  Glenn J. Bradford ,  Joonyoung Cho ,  Jong-Kae Fwu ,  Bishwarup Mondal

IPC: H04L5/00 ,  H04L7/00 ,  H04J13/00

Abstract: A method is provided to generate and control transmission of reference symbols in a synchronization subframe, wherein a reference symbol includes reference values mapped to a block of K subcarriers. The method includes generating data corresponding to a basic subsequence of K−R1−R2 reference values, where R1 and R2 are integers such that 1≤R1+R2

公开(公告)号：US12289732B2

公开(公告)日：2025-04-29

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: H04W72/23 ,  H04L1/1829 ,  H04W76/30

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：US12273169B2

公开(公告)日：2025-04-08

申请号：US17859363

申请日：2022-07-07

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Huaning Niu ,  Hyejung Jung ,  Gang Xiong ,  Yushu Zhang ,  Hooman Shirani-Mehr ,  Yuan Zhu ,  Jong-Kae Fwu

IPC: H04B7/06 ,  H04J11/00 ,  H04L5/00 ,  H04L27/26 ,  H04W36/00 ,  H04W72/23 ,  H04W88/16

Abstract: Disclosed herein are apparatuses, systems, and methods using or implementing dynamic beamforming in control channels, by transmitting downlink control channels to user equipment (UEs) in a number of orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) symbols of a downlink subframe. A first OFDM symbol of the number of OFDM symbols can be transmitted using first beamforming parameters in a first direction, and a second OFDM symbol of the number of OFDM symbols can be transmitted using second beamforming parameters different from the first beamforming parameters and in a second direction different from the first direction. The number of OFDM symbols used, as well as other parameters, can be dynamically adjusted in subsequent subframes. Other embodiments are described.

公开(公告)号：US20250056554A1

公开(公告)日：2025-02-13

申请号：US18931676

申请日：2024-10-30

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Hong He ,  Debdeep Chatterjee ,  Gang Xiong

IPC: H04W72/23 ,  H04L5/00 ,  H04W24/08 ,  H04W48/16 ,  H04W76/11 ,  H04W76/27

Abstract: A network device (e.g., a user equipment (UE), or a new radio NB (gNB)) can process or generate a configuration of physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) monitoring in different search spaces sets independently from one another in order to manage different services optimally. A processor of the network device can be configured to receive physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) candidates of a PDCCH in a slot for channel estimation across search spaces of the slot. Different priorities can be determined among the PDCCH candidates in the slot based on a priority rule. Then a number of PDCCH candidates can be skipped/dropped from monitoring based on the different priorities of the PDCCH candidates to ensure that a threshold level of blind decoding operations across a plurality of slots of the PDCCH is being satisfied. The UE can monitor a portion of the PDCCH candidates while concurrently skipping another.

公开(公告)号：US20250055624A1

公开(公告)日：2025-02-13

申请号：US18928589

申请日：2024-10-28

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Lopamudra KUNDU ,  Bisharup Mondal ,  Gang Xiong ,  Yongjun Kwak ,  Daewon Lee

IPC: H04L5/00 ,  H04W74/0808

Abstract: The present invention discloses one or more computer-readable media comprising instructions to: determine SRS resource allocation information to configure uplink resources for an SRS, the uplink resources to include a plurality of bandwidth ranges within a sounding bandwidth; perform a LET procedure in individual bandwidth ranges of the plurality of bandwidth ranges to detect at least one bandwidth range available for the SRS; and generate the SRS for transmission within the at least one bandwidth range.

公开(公告)号：US12219576B2

公开(公告)日：2025-02-04

申请号：US18352324

申请日：2023-07-14

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Yushu Zhang ,  Alexei Davydov ,  Guotong Wang ,  Gang Xiong

IPC: H04W72/23 ,  H04L5/00 ,  H04W52/08 ,  H04W52/24 ,  H04W72/0446

Abstract: Systems, apparatuses, methods, and computer-readable media are provided for uplink beam management and power control in wireless communications systems. Disclosed embodiments include beam management and power control enhancements for Physical Uplink Shared Channel (PUSCH), Sounding Reference Signal (SRS), and Physical Uplink Control Channel (PUSCH) transmissions. Other embodiments may be described and/or claimed.

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：US12192015B2

公开(公告)日：2025-01-07

申请号：US17438661

申请日：2020-03-27

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Gang Xiong ,  Yushu Zhang ,  Bishwarup Mondal ,  Debdeep Chatterjee ,  Guotong Wang

IPC: H04L1/1829 ,  H04L1/1867 ,  H04W74/00

Abstract: Systems, devices, and techniques for wireless communications are described. A described technique includes receiving, by a user equipment (UE) from one or more Transmission and Reception Points (TRPs), a physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH) transmission; determining, by the UE for a physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) carrying hybrid automatic repeat request-acknowledgement (HARQ-ACK), a TRP index in accordance with a control resource set (CORESET) scheduling the PDSCH transmission; and transmitting, by the UE via the PUCCH, HARQ-ACK information based on the receiving of the PDSCH transmission in accordance with the TRP index.

公开(公告)号：US20240430063A1

公开(公告)日：2024-12-26

申请号：US18823914

申请日：2024-09-04

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Alexei Vladimirovich Davydov ,  Gang Xiong ,  Yushu Zhang ,  Victor Alexandrovich Sergeev ,  Joonyoung Cho

IPC: H04L5/00 ,  H04L1/1607 ,  H04L1/1829 ,  H04L5/02

Abstract: Aspects of this disclosure relate to resource mapping schemes. One embodiments is an apparatus including one or more processors coupled to a memory interface, and configure to encode a two part CSI that includes information bits of a first UCI type and information bits of a second UCI type. The First UCI type is a HARQ-ACK and the second the second UCI type is a SR. The encoded information bits of the first UCI type and the second UCI type are mapped onto a first physical resource. The first physical resource and a second physical resource are multiplexed in a TDM manner and the first physical resource precedes the second physical resource in a time domain. Information bits of the first and second UCI types are jointly encoded to respectively generate encoded HARQ-ACK bits and encoded SR bits. The two part CSI is output in a PUCCH.