公开(公告)号：US20230180185A1

公开(公告)日：2023-06-08

申请号：US17593501

申请日：2021-01-14

Applicant: APPLE INC.

Inventor： Chunxuan Ye ,  Chunhai Yao ,  Dawei Zhang ,  Haitong Sun ,  Hong He ,  Huaning Niu ,  Oghenekome Oteri ,  Seyed Ali Akbar Fakoorian ,  Sigen Ye ,  Wei Zeng ,  Weidong Yang ,  Yushu Zhang

IPC: H04W72/02 ,  H04W28/26 ,  H04W72/51

CPC classification number: H04W72/02 ,  H04W28/26 ,  H04W72/51

Abstract: Systems and methods used by reduced sensing user equipment (UE) (relative to a full sensing UE) are disclosed herein. A UE performing partial sensing may use knowledge of resource reservation periods for a resource pool of one or more resources to reduce sensing as compared to the full sensing case. A UE performing resource re-evaluation and/or resource pre-emption may use one or more sensing windows that are relatively smaller than windows used in the full sensing case to reduce sensing. A UE performing prioritized resource selection may use a sensing window to determine availability of resources within it prioritized resource selection window with a high reliability, thereby reducing the need to spend power on other sensing methods (which may include full sensing methods). Combinations of these embodiments are also contemplated.

公开(公告)号：US20230171627A1

公开(公告)日：2023-06-01

申请号：US17593257

申请日：2021-02-18

Applicant: APPLE INC.

Inventor： Yushu Zhang ,  Chunhai Yao ,  Chunxuan Ye ,  Dawei Zhang ,  Haitong Sun ,  Hong He ,  Huaning Niu ,  Wei Zeng ,  Weidong Yang

IPC: H04W24/10 ,  H04L5/00

CPC classification number: H04W24/10 ,  H04L5/0048

Abstract: Systems and methods provide user equipment (UE) coordinated channel state information (CSI) measurement and reporting. One or both of a first UE and a second UE may perform CSI measurement, but only the first UE sends a CSI report to a base station.

公开(公告)号：US20230155657A1

公开(公告)日：2023-05-18

申请号：US17593809

申请日：2020-08-05

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Yushu Zhang ,  Oghenekome Oteri ,  Weidong Yang ,  Sigen Ye ,  Haitong Sun ,  Chunhai Yao ,  Dawei Zhang ,  Chunxuan Ye ,  Wei Zeng ,  Hong He ,  Huaning Niu ,  Seyed Ali Akbar Fakoorian

IPC: H04B7/06 ,  H04B7/0404 ,  H04W52/36 ,  H04W8/24

CPC classification number: H04B7/0691 ,  H04B7/0404 ,  H04W52/365 ,  H04W8/24

Abstract: A method for wireless communication includes: receiving, at a base station: (1) a capability report for each of a plurality of antenna panels of a first user device; and (2) an initial antenna panel index for the first user device; transmitting, to the first user device, configuration information corresponding to each antenna panel of the plurality; selecting first configuration information corresponding to the antenna panel with the initial antenna panel index; and receiving a first uplink transmission from the first user device, wherein the first user device uses a selected first antenna panel corresponding to the initial antenna panel index and the first configuration information corresponding to the selected first antenna panel. In other aspects, rather than initially transmitting configuration information corresponding to each antenna panel, the base station may transmit the configuration information for each panel as it is selected by the first user device for an uplink transmission.

公开(公告)号：US20230155655A1

公开(公告)日：2023-05-18

申请号：US17593797

申请日：2020-08-05

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Yushu Zhang ,  Oghenekome Oteri ,  Weidong Yang ,  Sigen Ye ,  Haitong Sun ,  Chunhai Yao ,  Dawei Zhang ,  Chunxuan Ye ,  Wei Zeng ,  Hong He ,  Huaning Niu ,  Seyed Ali Akbar Fakoorian

IPC: H04B7/06 ,  H04B7/0404

CPC classification number: H04B7/0628 ,  H04B7/0404 ,  H04B7/061 ,  H04B7/0691

Abstract: An example method for wireless communication includes: transmitting to a base station, via a user device: (1) a capability report for each of a plurality of antenna panels; and (2) an initial antenna panel index; receiving, from the base station, configuration information corresponding to each antenna panel of the plurality of antenna panels; selecting a first antenna panel for a first uplink (UL) transmission to the base station, wherein the first antenna panel corresponds to the antenna panel with the initial antenna panel index; selecting first configuration information corresponding to the selected first antenna panel; and transmitting the first UL transmission to the base station, using the selected first antenna panel and the selected first configuration information. In other aspects, rather than initially receiving configuration information corresponding to each antenna panel, the user device may receive the configuration information for each panel as it is selected for an UL transmission.

公开(公告)号：US20230140658A1

公开(公告)日：2023-05-04

申请号：US17947847

申请日：2022-09-19

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Hong He ,  Chunxuan Ye ,  Dawei Zhang ,  Haitong Sun ,  Huaning Niu ,  Oghenekome Oteri ,  Seyed Ali Akbar Fakoorian ,  Sigen Ye ,  Wei Zeng ,  Weidong Yang

IPC: H04L5/00

Abstract: In an example method, a user equipment (UE) device receives a plurality of Synchronization Signal Block (SSB) beams transmitted by base stations (BSes) during discovery burst transmission windows (DBTWs). For each of the SSB beams, the UE device determines an index value of the SSB beam (lSSB) within a respective one of the DBTWs, and determines a value Z=lSSB mod NSSDQCL, where NSSBQCL represents a maximum allowable number of SSB beams transmitted by each of the BSes during a single DBTW. The UE device determines whether two or more of the SSB beams are quasi co-located based on the values Z for the SSB beams, and processes wireless signals received from the BSes based on the determination.

公开(公告)号：US11622377B2

公开(公告)日：2023-04-04

申请号：US17368638

申请日：2021-07-06

Applicant: APPLE INC.

Inventor： Gang Xiong ,  Wenting Chang ,  Huaning Niu ,  Yushu Zhang ,  Yuan Zhu

IPC: H04W72/50 ,  H04W76/27 ,  H04B7/06 ,  H04B7/08 ,  H04L5/00 ,  H04L27/26

Abstract: Technology for a user equipment (UE) using a self-contained scheduling resource to communicate with an eNodeB within a wireless communication network is disclosed. The UE can select, at the UE, a selected eNodeB transmission (Tx) beam and a selected UE reception (Rx) beam based on a highest power beamforming reference signal (BRS) received power (BRS-RP). The UE can signal a transceiver of the UE to transmit to the eNodeB a scheduling request (SR), using the selected Rx beam, on a scheduling request (SR) resource in a self-contained subframe according to a time and frequency location of the selected eNodeB Tx beam. The UE can process an advanced physical downlink control channel (xPDCCH), received from the eNodeB, for an uplink (UL) grant using the selected UE RX beam.

公开(公告)号：US20230092295A1

公开(公告)日：2023-03-23

申请号：US17593224

申请日：2021-01-15

Applicant: APPLE INC.

Inventor： Jie Cui ,  Qiming Li ,  Yang Tang ,  Manasa Raghavan ,  Xiang Chen ,  Huaning Niu ,  Dawei Zhang ,  Hong He

IPC: H04W56/00 ,  H04W24/10

Abstract: Provided is a method for a user equipment (UE), comprising performing, based on acquired information, in at least one of an idle mode and an inactive mode, at least One of an intra-frequency neighbor cell measurement and an inter-frequency neighbor cell measurement. The acquired information comprises at least one of a group of a periodicity of synchronization signal and physical broadcast channel block (SSB)-based measurement timing configuration (SWTC) and a periodicity of SMTC2-long periodicity (SMTC2-LP) and a physical cell identifier (PCI) list of SMTC2-LP.

公开(公告)号：US20220346123A1

公开(公告)日：2022-10-27

申请号：US17655252

申请日：2022-03-17

Applicant: APPLE INC.

Inventor： Huaning Niu ,  Dawei Zhang ,  Farhan Aziz ,  Haitong Sun ,  Hong He ,  Navid Ehsan ,  Sigen Ye ,  Wei Zeng ,  Wei Zhang ,  Weidong Yang

IPC: H04W72/12 ,  H04L5/00 ,  H04W76/28

Abstract: A wireless communication system may adapt physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) monitoring behaviors using downlink control information (DCI). The change in monitoring behavior may be skipping or switching. The timeline for applying switching or skipping may be applied after a reference point and a processing time. In some embodiments, the processing time may be either based on UE processing, network processing, or a combination.

公开(公告)号：US20220321315A1

公开(公告)日：2022-10-06

申请号：US17439138

申请日：2020-10-08

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Oghenekome Oteri ,  Yushu Zhang ,  Dawei Zhang ,  Wei Zeng ,  Chunhai Yao ,  Chunxuan Ye ,  Weidong Yang ,  Sigen Ye ,  Haitong Sun ,  Hong He ,  Seyed Ali Akbar Fakoorian ,  Huaning Niu

IPC: H04L5/00 ,  H04L1/18 ,  H04W72/04

Abstract: The present application relates to devices and components including apparatus, systems, and methods to provide reception and transmission in 5G NR at a frequency larger than 52.6 GHz and with a subcarrier spacing larger than 120 KHz.

公开(公告)号：US20220303950A1

公开(公告)日：2022-09-22

申请号：US17438044

申请日：2020-10-15

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Sigen Ye ,  Oghenekome Oteri ,  Haitong Sun ,  Yushu Zhang ,  Weidong Yang ,  Wei Zeng ,  Huaning Niu ,  Chunxuan Ye ,  Hong He ,  Chunhai Yao ,  Dawei Zhang

IPC: H04W72/02 ,  H04W72/04 ,  H04W16/28

Abstract: A base station may transmit beam indication information to one or more user equipment (UE) devices. For each of a plurality of time units (e.g., symbols) in a time interval (e.g., spanning one or more slots), the beam indication information indicates a corresponding beam that the base station will use to transmit or receive. A UE device may have knowledge of the beam in which it currently resides, e.g., by performing power measurements during a beam scan procedure. Thus, the beam indication information enables the UE to perform transmissions and/or receptions (e.g., configured transmissions and/or receptions) during the appropriate time unit(s). The beam indication information may be dynamically transmitted as part of downlink control information. This transmission may omni-directional, wide beam, or narrow beam. Various schemes of encoding the beam indication information are contemplated.