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.

公开(公告)号：US20220303948A1

公开(公告)日：2022-09-22

申请号：US17439010

申请日：2020-10-15

Applicant: Apple Inc.

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

IPC: H04W72/00 ,  H04W72/04 ,  H04L1/08 ,  H04L5/00

Abstract: This disclosure relates to apparatuses and methods for providing and managing reception feedback for multicast and broadcast services (MBS). A base station (BS) may select and communicate, to a group of user equipment devices (UEs), configuration parameters for MBS communications, such as an indication of an MBS retransmission procedure for an MBS service. The BS may also transmit, to the group of UEs, an MBS data communication. A first UE may receive the MBS data communication, but may determine that the received MBS data communication is corrupted. The first UE may respond by transmitting, to the BS, a negative-acknowledgement (NACK) message. The BS may retransmit the MBS data communication either as an MBS transmission or as a unicast transmission, based on the configuration parameters. The first UE may monitor the appropriate resources to receive the retransmitted MBS data communication, based on the configuration parameters.

公开(公告)号：US20220303088A1

公开(公告)日：2022-09-22

申请号：US17439059

申请日：2020-10-12

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Haitong Sun ,  Yushu Zhang ,  Huaning Niu ,  Hong He ,  Wei Zeng ,  Chunxuan Ye ,  Oghenekome Oteri ,  Sigen Ye ,  Dawei Zhang ,  Jie Cui ,  Yang Tang

IPC: H04L5/00 ,  H04L41/0803 ,  H04W72/04

Abstract: A cellular base station (BS) which determines an aperiodic sounding reference signal (SRS) triggering offset configuration specifying an offset between an aperiodic SRS trigger received by a user equipment (UE) and transmission of the SRS by the UE. The cellular base station may determine that the SRS triggering offset should be adjusted. In response, the cellular base station may transmit signaling to the UE specifying a new value for the aperiodic SRS triggering offset. The new SRS triggering offset value may be partly based on a minimum timing offset for the UE and may be contained in a medium access control (MAC) control element (CE) or in downlink control information (DCI). Additionally, the new triggering offset value may be applicable for a plurality of component carriers or bandwidth parts. The cellular base station may also determine a new triggering offset value due to conflicts regarding the AP-SRS transmission.

公开(公告)号：US20220272724A1

公开(公告)日：2022-08-25

申请号：US17438918

申请日：2021-01-14

Applicant: Apple Inc.

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

IPC: H04W72/12 ,  H04W72/04 ,  H04L5/00

Abstract: This disclosure relates to techniques for performing wireless communications including signaling resource allocation for multiple transport blocks (TBs) on either PUSCH or PDSCH using a single control element, such as a DCI. In various scenarios, the multiple TBs may be scheduled either at contiguous or at non-contiguous dime-domain resources. Various mechanisms are disclosed for performing signaling the resource allocation for the multiple TBs without introducing excessive signaling overhead.

公开(公告)号：US20220271887A1

公开(公告)日：2022-08-25

申请号：US17438912

申请日：2021-01-13

Applicant: Apple Inc.

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

IPC: H04L5/00

Abstract: A user equipment (UE) may establish communication with a plurality of transmission reception points (TRPs) and determine one or more beam failures associated with a first or second TRP based on reference signals received from the first and second TRPs. The UE may then transmit a scheduling request requesting resources for indicating the beam failures associated with the first TRP or second TRPs. Upon receiving a response to the scheduling request allocating resources, the UE may then transmit, using allocated resources, a beam failure indication of the first one or more beam failures associated with the first TRP or second TRP. After receiving a beam failure response from the first or second TRP, the UE may then communicate with the first TRP and the second TRP using one or more new beams based on the beam failure indication and the beam failure response.

公开(公告)号：US20220225416A1

公开(公告)日：2022-07-14

申请号：US17456304

申请日：2021-11-23

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Hong He ,  Chunxuan Ye ,  Dawei Zhang ,  Haitong Sun ,  Huaning Niu ,  Jie Cui ,  Oghenekome Oteri ,  Wei Zeng ,  Yang Tang

IPC: H04W74/08 ,  H04W72/04

Abstract: Aspects herein relate to wireless devices, circuits, and methods for determining a PRACH resource mapping comprising a starting symbol position within a reference slot, wherein the starting symbol position is determined based, at least in part, on a subcarrier spacing configuration of PRACH resources of a wireless network that a wireless device is operating on; and using the radio to transmit a RACH preamble and an associated RA-RNTI via the determined PRACH resource mapping. Further aspects herein relate to devices, circuits, and methods for using a modified RA-RNTI for transmission or reception of data over a wireless network, wherein the wireless network has a subcarrier spacing configuration of PRACH resources, wherein a size of the subcarrier spacing configuration of the PRACH resources causes out-of-range RA-RNTI values to be calculated using a legacy RA-RNTI equation in an unmodified form, wherein the range of permissible RA-RNTI values is from 0 to 216−1.

公开(公告)号：US11388777B2

公开(公告)日：2022-07-12

申请号：US16605784

申请日：2018-05-15

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Wenting Chang ,  Jinyu Zhang ,  Huaning Niu ,  Jeongho Jeon ,  Salvatore Talarico

IPC: H04W88/06 ,  H04W76/11 ,  H04L1/00 ,  H04L1/16 ,  H04L1/18 ,  H04L5/00 ,  H04W16/14 ,  H04W72/04 ,  H04W72/12 ,  H04W74/08

Abstract: Described is an apparatus of a User Equipment (UE). The apparatus may comprise a first circuitry and a second circuitry. The first circuitry may be operable to process a first Downlink Control Information (DCI) format 0A transmission indicating a Grant-less Uplink (GUL) activation. The first circuitry may also be operable to process a second DCI format 0A transmission indicating a GUL release. The second circuitry may be operable to generate one or more Uplink (UL) transmissions for an unlicensed spectrum of the wireless network after the GUL activation and before the GUL release.

公开(公告)号：US11363608B2

公开(公告)日：2022-06-14

申请号：US16638384

申请日：2018-08-08

Applicant: APPLE INC.

Inventor： Huaning Niu ,  Wenting Chang ,  Anthony Sautung Lee ,  Rongrong Sun ,  Salvatore Talarico ,  Qiaoyang Ye

IPC: H04W4/00 ,  H04W72/04 ,  H04W4/80 ,  H04L5/00

Abstract: In embodiments, a base station may be able to identify whether a user equipment (UE) is to operate within the cellular network in accordance with a wideband (WB) protocol or a narrowband (NB) protocol. Based on this identification, the base station may further be able to identify a number of resource blocks (RBs) that include subcarriers occupied by enhanced narrowband control channel elements (eNCCEs). Finally, the base station may be able to transmit the eNCCEs on the subcarriers. Other embodiments may be described and/or claimed.

公开(公告)号：US11336348B2

公开(公告)日：2022-05-17

申请号：US17007688

申请日：2020-08-31

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Wenting Chang ,  Yushu Zhang ,  Yuan Zhu ,  Huaning Niu ,  Jong-Kae Fwu

IPC: H04B7/06 ,  H04L5/00

Abstract: User Equipment (UE) and base station (eNB) apparatus and methodology for adjusting receive beamforming. A beam refinement reference signal (BRRS) is transmitted with the same transmit beam direction on which data is to be transmitted. While receiving the BRRS, the receiver varies its receive beam direction and measures a signal characteristic of reception of the BRRS to determine a refined receive beam direction. The refined receive beam direction is used to receive the data.