公开(公告)号：US11665632B2

公开(公告)日：2023-05-30

申请号：US17137166

申请日：2020-12-29

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Alosious Pradeep Prabhakar ,  Vijay Venkataraman ,  Mohammed Sadique ,  Krisztian Kiss ,  Srinivasan Nimmala ,  Yifan Zhu ,  Utkarsh Kumar

IPC: H04W4/00 ,  H04W48/18 ,  H04W8/06 ,  H04W8/12 ,  H04W48/16 ,  H04W84/12

CPC classification number: H04W48/18 ,  H04W8/06 ,  H04W8/12 ,  H04W48/16 ,  H04W84/12

Abstract: A mobile device (UE) may access standalone non-public networks (SNPNs) in various different locations as equivalent SNPNs (eSNPNs) corresponding to a home SNPN of the device. The device may obtain a list of eSNPNs corresponding to the home SNPN, and may access a second SNPN at a location different from a location of the home SNPN, in response to identifying the second SNPN and the list including the second SNPN as an eSNPN corresponding to the home SNPN of the device. The eSNPNs may include roaming eSNPNs (ReSNPNs) for accessing an enterprise NPN globally and/or at various different locations. The eSNPN/ReSNPN list may be maintained in a new network identifier management function (NMF). NPNs may be implemented as network slice instances (NSIs) via identifying data in the single network slice selection assistance information (S-NSSAI). Multiple credentialed SNPNs of a UE may be prioritized for access by the UE.

公开(公告)号：US20210211975A1

公开(公告)日：2021-07-08

申请号：US17137166

申请日：2020-12-29

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Alosious Pradeep Prabhakar ,  Vijay Venkataraman ,  Mohammed Sadique ,  Krisztian Kiss ,  Srinivasan Nimmala ,  Yifan Zhu ,  Utkarsh Kumar

IPC: H04W48/18 ,  H04W48/16 ,  H04W8/06 ,  H04W8/12 ,  H04W84/12

Abstract: A mobile device (UE) may access standalone non-public networks (SNPNs) in various different locations as equivalent SNPNs (eSNPNs) corresponding to a home SNPN of the device. The device may obtain a list of eSNPNs corresponding to the home SNPN, and may access a second SNPN at a location different from a location of the home SNPN, in response to identifying the second SNPN and the list including the second SNPN as an eSNPN corresponding to the home SNPN of the device. The eSNPNs may include roaming eSNPNs (ReSNPNs) for accessing an enterprise NPN globally and/or at various different locations. The eSNPN/ReSNPN list may be maintained in a new network identifier management function (NMF). NPNs may be implemented as network slice instances (NSIs) via identifying data in the single network slice selection assistance information (S-NSSAI). Multiple credentialed SNPNs of a UE may be prioritized for access by the UE.

公开(公告)号：US20210105687A1

公开(公告)日：2021-04-08

申请号：US17033429

申请日：2020-09-25

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Alosious Pradeep Prabhakar ,  Mohammed Sadique ,  Vijay Venkataraman ,  Krisztian Kiss ,  Han Pu ,  ChunLei Lin ,  Rodney G. Ibrahim ,  Yip Pong Herbert Wong ,  Jordi Agud Ruiz ,  Srinivasan Nimmala ,  Lakshmi N. Kavuri ,  Utkarsh Kumar ,  Yifan Zhu ,  Kok Yin Chan

IPC: H04W36/14 ,  H04W36/26 ,  H04L12/26

Abstract: Embodiments are presented herein of apparatuses, processors, systems, and methods for performing Quality of Service handling procedures. A wireless device may establish a cellular link that provides access to a fifth generation core network. The wireless device may establish a protocol data unit session with a cellular network entity of the fifth generation core network. The wireless device may determine one or more Quality of Service flow descriptions for the protocol data unit session. The wireless device may perform one or more Quality of Service related modifications to the protocol data unit session.

公开(公告)号：US20250031139A1

公开(公告)日：2025-01-23

申请号：US18907171

申请日：2024-10-04

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Rohit R. Matolia ,  Vijay Venkataraman ,  Krisztian Kiss ,  Alosious Pradeep Prabhakar ,  Mohammed Sadique ,  ChunLei Lin ,  Han Pu ,  Robert Zaus

IPC: H04W48/18 ,  H04B7/185 ,  H04W48/16 ,  H04W84/04 ,  H04W84/06

Abstract: Systems, devices and methods for a user equipment (UE) to perform public land mobile network (PLMN) selection with a non-terrestrial network (NTN). A UE performs a non-access stratum (NAS) procedure with a public land mobile network (PLMN) of an NTN. The UE receives a NAS message from the PLMN, and the NAS message indicates that the UE is not allowed to access a core network of the NTN. The NAS message may indicate that the UE is not allowed to access the core network of the NTN because a location of the UE is unknown to the NTN, that access to the NTN is not allowed in a country in which the UE is located, or that a location of the UE is not within a country associated with the NTN. The UE modifies its PLMN search procedure responsive to receiving the NAS message.

公开(公告)号：US20230396972A1

公开(公告)日：2023-12-07

申请号：US18453773

申请日：2023-08-22

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Alosious Pradeep Prabhakar ,  Mohammed Sadique ,  Vijay Venkataraman ,  Krisztian Kiss ,  Jordi Agud Ruiz ,  Yip Pong Herbert Wong ,  Kok Yin Chan ,  Srinivasan Nimmala ,  Lakshmi N. Kavuri ,  Yifan Zhu ,  Utkarsh Kumar

IPC: H04W4/50 ,  H04W8/22

CPC classification number: H04W4/50 ,  H04W8/22

Abstract: Embodiments are presented herein of apparatuses, systems, and methods for a user equipment device (UE), manufacturer server, and/or cellular network to perform radio capability signaling. A new type of UE radio capability identifier is provided which may allow a network to distinguish between similar UEs that have or have not implemented a capability update. In order to perform a forced capability update, a manufacturer may issue information about the update to a cellular network (and receive acknowledgement of the information) prior to pushing the update to UEs. In response to an unforced capability update, a cellular network may maintain multiple UE radio capability identifiers for similar UEs which have or have not implemented the update. A UE radio capability identifier may be adjusted dynamically in response to temporary changes in the UE's capability.

公开(公告)号：US20230319700A1

公开(公告)日：2023-10-05

申请号：US18302306

申请日：2023-04-18

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Alosious Pradeep Prabhakar ,  Vijay Venkataraman ,  Mohammed Sadique ,  Krisztian Kiss ,  Srinivasan Nimmala ,  Yifan Zhu ,  Utkarsh Kumar

IPC: H04W48/18 ,  H04W8/06 ,  H04W8/12 ,  H04W48/16 ,  H04W84/12

CPC classification number: H04W48/18 ,  H04W8/06 ,  H04W8/12 ,  H04W48/16 ,  H04W84/12

Abstract: A mobile device (UE) may access standalone non-public networks (SNPNs) in various different locations as equivalent SNPNs (eSNPNs) corresponding to a home SNPN of the device. The device may obtain a list of eSNPNs corresponding to the home SNPN, and may access a second SNPN at a location different from a location of the home SNPN, in response to identifying the second SNPN and the list including the second SNPN as an eSNPN corresponding to the home SNPN of the device. The eSNPNs may include roaming eSNPNs (ReSNPNs) for accessing an enterprise NPN globally and/or at various different locations. The eSNPN/ReSNPN list may be maintained in a new network identifier management function (NMF). NPNs may be implemented as network slice instances (NSIs) via identifying data in the single network slice selection assistance information (S-NSSAI). Multiple credentialed SNPNs of a UE may be prioritized for access by the UE.

公开(公告)号：US11758000B2

公开(公告)日：2023-09-12

申请号：US17593672

申请日：2021-05-05

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Alosious Pradeep Prabhakar ,  Han Pu ,  Jordi Agud Ruiz ,  Krisztian Kiss ,  Mohammed Sadique ,  Rohit R. Matolia ,  Srinivasan Nimmala ,  Vijay Venkataraman

IPC: H04L67/141 ,  H04W76/10 ,  H04W28/08 ,  H04L47/28 ,  H04L69/28 ,  H04W28/02

CPC classification number: H04L67/141 ,  H04L47/28 ,  H04L69/28 ,  H04W28/0268 ,  H04W28/0975 ,  H04W76/10

Abstract: A fifth-generation core network (5GC) provides 5G radio access network (RAN) services to a user equipment (UE) in a time-sensitive communications (TSC) network (TSN). This includes receiving a protocol data unit (PDU) session establishment request from the UE, the PDU session establishment request including an industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) vertical or application type, identifying a TSN application function (AF) relating to the IIoT vertical or application type, determining quality of service (QoS) parameters for communications between the UE and the 5G RAN based on the identified TSN AF, the QoS parameters including a survival time for the IIoT vertical or application type and establishing a PDU session with the UE when the QoS parameters including the survival time are satisfied.

公开(公告)号：US11546805B2

公开(公告)日：2023-01-03

申请号：US17302520

申请日：2021-05-05

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Alosious Pradeep Prabhakar ,  Han Pu ,  Krisztian Kiss ,  Mohammed Sadique ,  Rohit R. Matolia ,  Srinivasan Nimmala ,  Sriram Subramanian ,  Vijay Venkataraman ,  Wei Zhang

IPC: H04W28/24 ,  H04W76/14 ,  H04W24/08 ,  H04W28/02

Abstract: Disclosed are systems, methods, integrated circuits and computer readable storage media for configuring time sensitive communications (TSC). The configuring of the TSC includes monitoring, by a user plane function (UPF), a source and destination of packets in a first protocol data unit (PDU) session of a first user equipment (UE) and in a second PDU session of a second UE, pairing a first device side TSN translator (DS-TT) port of the first UE with a second DS-TT port of the second UE when the first PDU session and the second PDU session are served by the same UPF, wherein the pairing is based on the monitoring of the first and second PDU sessions and when the first DS-TT and second DS-TT ports are paired, communicating the packets between the first UE and the second UE in a UE-UE communication without traversing the TSN.

公开(公告)号：US20220132287A1

公开(公告)日：2022-04-28

申请号：US17571133

申请日：2022-01-07

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Alosious Pradeep Prabhakar ,  Mohammed Sadique ,  Vijay Venkataraman ,  Krisztian Kiss ,  Jordi Agud Ruitz ,  Yip Pong Herbert Wong ,  Kok Yin Chan ,  Srinivasan Nimmala ,  Lakshmi N. Kavuri ,  Yifan Zhu ,  Utkarsh Kumar

IPC: H04W4/50 ,  H04W8/22

Abstract: Embodiments are presented herein of apparatuses, systems, and methods for a user equipment device (UE), manufacturer server, and/or cellular network to perform radio capability signaling. A new type of UE radio capability identifier is provided which may allow a network to distinguish between similar UEs that have or have not implemented a capability update. In order to perform a forced capability update, a manufacturer may issue information about the update to a cellular network (and receive acknowledgement of the information) prior to pushing the update to UEs. In response to an unforced capability update, a cellular network may maintain multiple UE radio capability identifiers for similar UEs which have or have not implemented the update. A UE radio capability identifier may be adjusted dynamically in response to temporary changes in the UE's capability.

公开(公告)号：US20210105847A1

公开(公告)日：2021-04-08

申请号：US17033289

申请日：2020-09-25

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Alosious Pradeep Prabhakar ,  Mohammed Sadique ,  Vijay Venkataraman ,  Krisztian Kiss ,  Han Pu ,  ChunLei Lin ,  Rodney G. Ibrahim ,  Yip Pong Herbert Wong ,  Jordi Agud Ruiz ,  Srinivasan Nimmala ,  Lakshmi N. Kavuri ,  Utkarsh Kumar ,  Yifan Zhu ,  Kok Yin Chan

IPC: H04W76/16 ,  H04W76/27 ,  H04W36/00 ,  H04L29/08 ,  H04W12/00 ,  H04W76/18 ,  H04W76/19

Abstract: Embodiments are presented herein of apparatuses, processors, systems, and methods for performing User Plane Integrity Protection handling procedures. A wireless device may establish a cellular link that provides access to a fifth generation core network. The wireless device may establish a protocol data unit session with a cellular network entity of the fifth generation core network. The wireless device may determine whether user plane integrity protection may be enabled for the protocol data unit session. The wireless device may perform one or more user plane integrity protection related modifications to the protocol data unit session.