Temporary Handling of Wireless Communication Device Capabilities

    公开(公告)号:US20220322073A1

    公开(公告)日:2022-10-06

    申请号:US17835705

    申请日:2022-06-08

    Applicant: Apple Inc.

    Abstract: A wireless communication device (UE) may provide information pertaining to one or more operating capabilities of the UE to LTE and 5G-NR networks. The UE may transmit information to an LTE base station directly, and to a 5G-NR base station directly, or indirectly via the LTE base station. The information may include preferred values corresponding to any number of different operating parameters associated with wireless communications or wireless communication capabilities of the UE in both LTE and 5G-NR networks, to inform and/or request the LTE and 5G-NR networks to make provisions based on the transmitted information for the wireless communications of the UE on those networks. The UE may thereby provide assistance information to LTE and 5G-NR networks in a multi-radio-access-technology dual-connectivity setting to request the respective networks to adjust certain operating capabilities of the UE in order to alleviate one or more operating issues that may be affecting the UE.

    PRIORITIZATION OF UPLINK AND SIDELINK TRANSMISSIONS

    公开(公告)号:US20220312435A1

    公开(公告)日:2022-09-29

    申请号:US17593115

    申请日:2021-04-06

    Applicant: APPLE INC.

    Abstract: Determining priority of a simultaneous sidelink (SL) transmission and uplink (UL) transmission of a user equipment (UE) within a 5G New Radio (NR) network may comprise processing an SL control information (SCI) corresponding to at least one of a SL hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) or an SL schedule request (SR) included in a UL transmission to be sent by a UE to thereby determine a priority value associated with the at least one SL HARQ or SL SR. An SCI of an SL transmission to be sent by the UE simultaneously with the UL transmission may be processed to thereby determine a priority value associated with the SL transmission. The priority value of the at least one SL HARQ or SL SR may be compared to the priority value of the SL transmission. Transmissions may then be prioritized based on the comparison of priority values.

    Configuring Cellular Sidelink Resources in a Flexible Manner

    公开(公告)号:US20220303962A1

    公开(公告)日:2022-09-22

    申请号:US17442120

    申请日:2020-08-05

    Applicant: Apple Inc.

    Abstract: Embodiments are presented herein of apparatuses, systems, and methods for configuring cellular sidelink resources in a flexible manner. A cellular base station may select a cellular sidelink resource pool. The cellular sidelink resource pool may include non-contiguous frequency resources. The cellular base station may provide cellular sidelink resource pool configuration information to a wireless device. The cellular sidelink resource pool configuration information may configure the cellular sidelink resource pool that includes non-contiguous frequency resources.

    Mechanisms for Indicating Beam Directions

    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.

    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.

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