公开(公告)号：US11588751B2

公开(公告)日：2023-02-21

申请号：US17210306

申请日：2021-03-23

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Mikhail Vilgelm ,  Babar Qaisrani ,  Biljana Badic ,  Christian Drewes ,  Krisztian Kiss ,  Matthias Sauer ,  Vijay Venkataraman ,  Ralph Hasholzner ,  Robert Zaus ,  Teck Yang Lee

IPC: G06F15/173 ,  H04L47/80 ,  H04L47/78 ,  H04L47/762

Abstract: Methods and devices for creating and operating a combined network and computational slice instance (NCSI) in a Multi-access Edge Computing (MEC) scenario. Communication and computational resources may be reserved by a NCSI controller for the NCSI. The communication resources may include network slices and the computational resources may include MEC computational resources of one or more MEC servers. The reserved resources may be selected based on quality of service (QoS) requirements of UEs that will utilize the NCSI. During operation, reserved resources for the NCSI may be dynamically renegotiated based on an aggregate load of the NCSI, the QoS of data traffic, and/or updated QoS requirements of the UEs.

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：US11523323B2

公开(公告)日：2022-12-06

申请号：US17241988

申请日：2021-04-27

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Han Pu ,  Alosious Pradeep Prabhakar ,  Jordi Agud Ruiz ,  Krisztian Kiss ,  Srinivasan Nimmala ,  Vijay Venkataraman ,  Yip Pong Herbert Wong

IPC: H04W36/32 ,  H04W76/30 ,  H04W76/25 ,  H04W48/04 ,  H04W84/06

Abstract: Apparatuses, systems, and methods for pairing/unpairing unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) to/from UAV controllers (UACs). A UAV and/or a UAC may initiate, based on a triggering condition, a paring/unpairing of the UAV to/from a host UAC and receive, from a network, a configuration update that may confirm the paring/unpairing of the UAV to/from the host UAC. The triggering condition may include at least one of the UAV moving from a location designated as controlled by the host UAC, the UAV moving into a location in which the host UAC is restricted from controlling the host UAV, and/or the host UAC losing signaling capabilities. The configuration update may include at least one of a cause code, an identifier associated with the UAV, an identifier associated with the host UAC, an identifier associated with an unmanned aerial system (UAS).

公开(公告)号：US20220360645A1

公开(公告)日：2022-11-10

申请号：US17439481

申请日：2020-12-17

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Biljana Badic ,  Christian Drewes ,  Ralph Hasholzner ,  Krisztian Kiss ,  Teck Yang Lee ,  Matthias Sauer ,  Mikhail Vilgelm ,  Babar Qaisrani ,  Vijay Venkataraman ,  Robert Zaus

IPC: H04L67/59 ,  H04L67/51 ,  H04W4/50

Abstract: A user equipment (UE) or other device performs service discovery of edge computing resources in a cellular network system and dynamic offloading of UE application tasks to discovered edge computing resources. As part of the discovery process, the device (e.g., the UE) may request edge server site capability information. When performing dynamic offloading, the UE may obtain (collect and/or receive) information regarding channel conditions, cellular network parameters or application requirements and dynamically determine whether a task of the application executing on the UE should be offloaded to an edge server or executed locally on the UE. In making decisions between offloaded or local execution, the UE may use a utility function that takes into account factors such as relative differences in application latency, energy consumption and offloading cost.

公开(公告)号：US20220312307A1

公开(公告)日：2022-09-29

申请号：US17593526

申请日：2021-05-19

Applicant: APPLE INC.

Inventor： Nirlesh Koshta ,  Krisztian Kiss ,  Pradeep Pangi ,  Sridhar Prakasam ,  Vijay Venkataraman

IPC: H04W48/18 ,  H04W76/18 ,  H04W60/04 ,  H04W60/06 ,  H04W8/12 ,  H04W12/06

Abstract: Disclosed are embodiments for disabling N1 mode in response to several scenarios including an S-NSSAI failure, searching NR PLMNs after a loss of coverage in an attempt to maintain network slices, and triggering a UE to reattempt authentication of a rejected S-NSSAI when authentication credentials change and the UE either has N1 mode enabled or is camped on LTE PLMN that might be the same as the NR PLMN through which the S-NSSAI was rejected.

公开(公告)号：US20220294745A1

公开(公告)日：2022-09-15

申请号：US17829704

申请日：2022-06-01

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Vijay Venkataraman ,  Xiangpeng Jing ,  Krisztian Kiss ,  Sree Ram Kodali ,  Martin Kugler ,  Srinivasan Nimmala ,  Sridhar Prakasam ,  Kavya B. Ravikumar ,  Ahmed M. Salem ,  Murtaza A. Shikari

IPC: H04L47/74 ,  H04L43/028 ,  H04L47/80 ,  H04L47/762 ,  H04L41/0866 ,  H04L43/16 ,  H04L69/08

Abstract: The present application relates to devices and components including apparatus, systems, and methods for user equipments and network components performing or assisting in packet filtering operations.

公开(公告)号：US20220141754A1

公开(公告)日：2022-05-05

申请号：US17508283

申请日：2021-10-22

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Basant Kumar ,  Krisztian Kiss ,  Anikethan Ramakrishna Vijaya Kumar ,  Nirlesh Koshta ,  Sridhar Prakasam

IPC: H04W48/02 ,  H04W76/10 ,  H04W60/02 ,  H04W68/00

Abstract: This disclosure relates to techniques for performing wireless communications in context of unified access control. A UE may enter an update needed state. The UE may detect a pending communication. The UE may access the network using an access category associated with the pending communication. The UE may complete the update.

公开(公告)号：US20220141705A1

公开(公告)日：2022-05-05

申请号：US17480979

申请日：2021-09-21

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Vijay Venkataraman ,  Yingjie Zhao ,  Jason Ke ,  Ahmed M. Salem ,  Bobby Jose ,  Haijing Hu ,  Krisztian Kiss ,  Longda Xing ,  Martin Kugler ,  Robert Zaus ,  Ronald Gruber ,  Sridhar Prakasam ,  Srinivasan Nimmala ,  Sudeep Manithara Vamanan ,  Zhanfeng Jia

IPC: H04W28/02

Abstract: Apparatuses, systems, and methods for Reflective Quality of Service (RQoS) enhancements. Methods may include enhancements for both UE behavior and network function behavior. Network function behaviors may include enhancements to UPF behavior and SPF behavior. Enhancements to RQoS may include methods for resetting an RQoS indicator (RQI) bit for downlink packets of a flow destined for a UE, methods for generating a flow ID to include in a SDAP header destined for a UE, methods for using the flow ID to limit L3 and L4 header parsing, methods for sending/receiving feedback regarding processing of the RQI bit, methods for maintaining a QFI mapping table, methods for skipping parsing of SDAP header fields, methods for specifying and signaling a QoS Flow Identifier (QFI) range to a UE, methods for limiting downlink header parsing, methods for updating a QFI, and methods for performing high efficiency RQoS processing.

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：US20220109969A1

公开(公告)日：2022-04-07

申请号：US17483936

申请日：2021-09-24

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Babar Qaisrani ,  Biljana Badic ,  Gaurav Lamba ,  Krisztian Kiss ,  Mona Agnel ,  Rafael L. Rivera-Barreto ,  Rohan C. Malthankar ,  Sudeep Manithara Vamanan ,  Vijay Venkataraman

IPC: H04W4/90 ,  H04W76/14 ,  H04W76/50 ,  H04W4/80 ,  H04W4/029

Abstract: Apparatuses, systems, and methods for emergency communications (e.g., voice calls and/or SMS messages) for UE's without cellular coverage (e.g., in non-cellular coverage). A UE may establish, while out of range of cellular service, a peer-to-peer communication session with a relay UE using a channel in an unlicensed frequency band. The UE may transmit, using the peer-to-peer communication session, an emergency notification to the relay UE. The emergency notification may include an approximate location of the UE. Further the UE may communicate with a Public Safety Answering Point (PSAP), where the communications may be relayed between the UE and the PSAP by the relay UE. The approximate location of the UE may be based, at least in part, on a location of the relay UE and determining the approximate location of the UE may include performing a ranging procedure with the relay UE.