公开(公告)号：US11457508B2

公开(公告)日：2022-09-27

申请号：US16391559

申请日：2019-04-23

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Yang Li ,  Li Su ,  Zhu Ji ,  Tianyan Pu

IPC: H04L12/00 ,  H04W88/04 ,  H04W88/02 ,  H04W56/00 ,  H04W72/04 ,  H04W4/70 ,  H04W72/02 ,  H04W8/00 ,  H04W76/11

Abstract: This disclosure relates to techniques for supporting message mapping via time and/or frequency indexing. For example, these techniques may be applied to device-to-device wireless communication. For example, device to device discovery may use message mapping via frequency indexing. A portion of the payload of a message, such as a discovery message, may be offloaded to a frequency and/or time index. A receiving device may determine the offloaded portion of the payload based on the frequency and/or time (e.g., subcarrier and/or slot) used to transmit the message.

公开(公告)号：US11191025B2

公开(公告)日：2021-11-30

申请号：US16895950

申请日：2020-06-08

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Li Su ,  Stephan V. Schell ,  Jianxiong Shi ,  Sami M. Almalfouh

IPC: H04W52/02 ,  H04W72/02 ,  H04J3/16

Abstract: A user equipment device (UE) may implement improved communication methods which include radio resource time multiplexing, dynamic sub-frame allocation, and UE transmit duty cycle control. The UE may communicate with base stations using radio frames that include multiple sub-frames, transmit information regarding allocation of a portion of the sub-frames of a respective radio frame for each of a plurality of the radio frames, and transmit and receive data using allocated sub-frames and not using unallocated sub-frames. Additionally, the UE may operate according to a sub-frame allocation based on its current power state. The UE may transmit information to the base station and receive the sub-frame allocation based on at least the information and switch transmit duty cycles based on an occurrence of a condition at the UE. The UE may inform the network of the switch.

公开(公告)号：US11166336B2

公开(公告)日：2021-11-02

申请号：US16264885

申请日：2019-02-01

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Sethuraman Gurumoorthy ,  Srirang A. Lovlekar ,  Murtaza A. Shikari ,  Srinivasan Nimmala ,  Haijing Hu ,  Fangli Xu ,  Yuqin Chen ,  Longda Xing ,  Xu Ou ,  Li Su ,  Vijay Venkataraman ,  Dawei Zhang ,  Muthukumaran Dhanapal ,  Sree Ram Kodali ,  Srinivas Burugupalli

IPC: H04W76/27 ,  H04W76/28 ,  H04W76/38

Abstract: This disclosure relates to performing implicit radio resource control state transitions in a cellular communication system. A wireless device may establish a radio resource control (RRC) connection with a cellular base station. A data inactivity timer length and a target RRC state for implicit RRC transitions may be determined. A data inactivity timer having the determined data inactivity timer length may be initiated. It may be determined that the data inactivity timer has expired. The wireless device may transition to the target RRC state based at least in part on determining that the data inactivity timer has expired.

公开(公告)号：US20210337621A1

公开(公告)日：2021-10-28

申请号：US17234453

申请日：2021-04-19

Applicant: APPLE INC.

Inventor： Muthukumaran Dhanapal ,  Li Su ,  Vijay Venkataraman

IPC: H04W76/27 ,  H04W68/00 ,  H04W76/28 ,  H04W24/08

Abstract: A UE in an RRC inactive state may determine an operational state mismatch between an actual RRC operational state for the UE and a stored RRC operational state for the UE maintained at a network node. To determine the mismatch, while the UE is in the RRC inactive state, the UE may monitor at least one of paging messages, serving cell power levels, or neighbor cell power levels. When an operational state mismatch is detected, the UE may initiate a state correction procedure rather than an RRC resume procedure.

公开(公告)号：US20210266801A1

公开(公告)日：2021-08-26

申请号：US17178121

申请日：2021-02-17

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Sagar B. Shah ,  Alosious Pradeep Prabhakar ,  Kanuganti Rajeswar Reddy ,  Lakshmi N. Kavuri ,  Li Su ,  Manish G. Vemulapalli ,  Muthukumaran Dhanapal ,  Ozgur Ekici ,  Rangakrishna Nallandigal ,  Sachin J. Sane ,  Shivani Suresh Babu ,  Sree Ram Kodali ,  Srinivasan Nimmala ,  Vijay Venkataraman ,  Yifan Zhu

IPC: H04W36/00 ,  H04W48/20 ,  H04W8/24 ,  H04W24/10 ,  H04B17/318 ,  H04B17/336 ,  H04W76/27 ,  H04L27/26

Abstract: Apparatuses, systems, and methods for a user equipment device (UE) to prioritize cells that support EN-DC over similar cells not supporting EN-DC. The UE may be configured to perform one or more measurement scans associated with cell selection and/or cell re-selection and may determine whether at least two LTE cells meet a selection criteria based on RSRP and/or SNR measurements. The UE may be configured to, in response to determining that at least two LTE cells meet the selection criteria, prioritize a first LTE cell of the at least two LTE cells over a second LTE cell of the at least two LTE cells based, at least in part, on support EN-DC. The first LTE cell may indicate support of EN-DC, e.g., via a ULI IE included in a SIB2 broadcast by the first LTE cell. The UE may be configured to select the first LTE cell for camping.

公开(公告)号：US20200305083A1

公开(公告)日：2020-09-24

申请号：US16895950

申请日：2020-06-08

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Li Su ,  Stephan V. Schell ,  Jianxiong Shi ,  Sami M. Almalfouh

IPC: H04W52/02 ,  H04J3/16 ,  H04W72/02

Abstract: A user equipment device (UE) may implement improved communication methods which include radio resource time multiplexing, dynamic sub-frame allocation, and UE transmit duty cycle control. The UE may communicate with base stations using radio frames that include multiple sub-frames, transmit information regarding allocation of a portion of the sub-frames of a respective radio frame for each of a plurality of the radio frames, and transmit and receive data using allocated sub-frames and not using unallocated sub-frames. Additionally, the UE may operate according to a sub-frame allocation based on its current power state. The UE may transmit information to the base station and receive the sub-frame allocation based on at least the information and switch transmit duty cycles based on an occurrence of a condition at the UE. The UE may inform the network of the switch.

公开(公告)号：US20200275311A1

公开(公告)日：2020-08-27

申请号：US16461879

申请日：2018-05-18

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Yingjie Zhao ,  Lele Cui ,  Faraz Faheem ,  Li Su ,  Jianxiong Shi ,  Xu Ou

IPC: H04W28/06 ,  H04L12/823 ,  H04W28/02

Abstract: A compressor may obtain information indicative of a transmit delay representative of a time duration that elapses between creation (e.g. by the compressor) of a packet and the transmission of the packet, e.g. over a wireless link. The transmit delay may be determined based at least on information indicative of the uplink capacity of the cellular network. The uplink capacity may be determined/obtained based on the uplink throughput and uplink power headroom. When the compressor receives a negative acknowledgement transmission/packet from the decompressor, if the transmit delay is not greater than a specified threshold value, the compressor may process the received negative acknowledgement packet. If the transmit delay is greater than the specified threshold value, the compressor may first discard the buffered compressed packet scheduled to be transmitted next to the decompressor, and transmit an initialization and refresh (IR) or IR dynamic packet to the decompressor instead.

公开(公告)号：US20200229166A1

公开(公告)日：2020-07-16

申请号：US16834908

申请日：2020-03-30

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Johnson O. Sebeni ,  Yang Li ,  Zhu Ji ,  Yuchul Kim ,  Wei Zeng ,  Dawei Zhang ,  Haijing Hu ,  Xiangying Yang ,  Li Su

IPC: H04W72/04 ,  H04W76/28 ,  H04W52/02

Abstract: A downlink control information (DCI), such as a blanking DCI (bDCI) message may be transmitted by a base station (e.g., eNB) and received by a mobile device (e.g., UE). The bDCI may indicate that the eNB will not transmit a subsequent DCI to the UE for a duration of time. The UE may be in continuous reception mode or connected discontinuous reception (C-DRX) mode. The UE may therefore determine to enter a sleep state or take other action. The bDCI may specify an explicit blanking duration, or an index indicating a blanking duration from a lookup table, and/or the blanking duration (and/or a blanking duration offset value) may be determined in advance, e.g., semi-statically. When the UE is in C-DRX mode, the UE may be configured such that either the sleep/wake period of the C-DRX mode or the blanking period of the bDCI may take precedence over the other.

公开(公告)号：US10716059B2

公开(公告)日：2020-07-14

申请号：US15202257

申请日：2016-07-05

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Li Su ,  Ozgur Ekici ,  Sachin J. Sane ,  Madhusudan Chaudhary ,  Jianxiong Shi

IPC: H04W48/18 ,  H04J11/00 ,  H04L29/06 ,  H04B1/3827 ,  H04B17/318 ,  H04W84/02 ,  H04W84/04

Abstract: Techniques for a link budget limited UE to improve communications performance with cellular networks are disclosed. The UE may be associated with subscriptions to multiple carriers and may connect to a cell of a first carrier. The UE may detect that received signal strength from the cell is below a threshold and search for a new cell that may be of a different carrier. The UE may store a PLMN eSIM priority look up table and the search may be based on the look up table. Additionally, the UE may track received signal strength and geographic location in a first data structure that the UE may send to a server. The UE may receive a second data structure from the server that includes received signal strength at geographic locations compiled from a plurality of UEs, including the UE. The UE may also use the second data structure in searches for a new cell.

公开(公告)号：US10694465B2

公开(公告)日：2020-06-23

申请号：US16261828

申请日：2019-01-30

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Li Su ,  Stephan V. Schell ,  Jianxiong Shi ,  Sami M. Almalfouh

IPC: H04W52/02 ,  H04W72/02 ,  H04J3/16

Abstract: In some embodiments, a user equipment device (UE) implements improved communication methods which include radio resource time multiplexing, dynamic sub-frame allocation, and UE transmit duty cycle control. In some embodiments, the UE may communicate with base stations using radio frames that include multiple sub-frames, transmit information regarding allocation of a portion of the sub-frames of a respective radio frame for each of a plurality of the radio frames, and transmit and receive data using allocated sub-frames and not using unallocated sub-frames. In some embodiments, the UE may operate according to a sub-frame allocation based on its current power state. The UE may transmit information to the base station and receive the sub-frame allocation based on at least the information. In some embodiments, the UE may switch transmit duty cycles based on an occurrence of a condition at the UE. The UE may inform the network of the switch.