公开(公告)号：US20220304062A1

公开(公告)日：2022-09-22

申请号：US17437808

申请日：2020-08-05

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Sarma V. Vangala ,  Tarik Tabet ,  Chunxuan Ye ,  Dawei Zhang ,  Fangli Xu ,  Haijing Hu ,  Murtaza A Shikari ,  Naveen Kumar R Palle Venkata ,  Rafael L Rivera-Barreto ,  Ralf Rossbach ,  Sreevalsan Vallath ,  Srinivasan Nimmala ,  Wei Zeng ,  Yuqin Chen ,  Zhibin Wu

IPC: H04W74/08 ,  H04W74/00 ,  H04W24/08

Abstract: A base station may operate in a context where the propagation delay between the base station and user equipment (UE) devices is large. The base station configures UE devices with a common delay. The base station receives a random access preamble from a UE device. The base station determines a time slot in which the random access preamble was transmitted, based on a configured correspondence between allowable time slots and subsets of an available set of preambles. The base station computes a Random Access Radio Network Temporary Identifier (RA-RNTI) based on parameter values including an index, of the determined time slot. The base station employs the computed RA-RNTI to address a random access response for the UE device.

公开(公告)号：US11382080B2

公开(公告)日：2022-07-05

申请号：US14980710

申请日：2015-12-28

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Tarik Tabet ,  Farouk Belghoul ,  Awais M. Hussain

IPC: H04W72/04 ,  H04W48/16 ,  H04W48/12

Abstract: This disclosure relates to providing system information for cell access to link budget limited devices. According to some embodiments, a base station may transmit a master information block (MIB), a first system information block (SIB), and second SIBs. The first SIB and the second SIBs may be configured for different device categories, and may accordingly have different characteristics. For example, the first SIB may be configured for link budget limited devices, and may include information specific to such devices and/or may exclude information not relevant to such devices or not critical to accessing the cell. In some instances, the first SIB may also include information from the MIB, such that at least some devices may be able to decode the first SIB and gain cell access without decoding the MIB.

公开(公告)号：US11212846B2

公开(公告)日：2021-12-28

申请号：US16791157

申请日：2020-02-14

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Tarik Tabet ,  Youngjae Kim ,  Syed Aon Mujtaba

IPC: H04W74/08 ,  H04J13/00 ,  H04L1/18 ,  H04W52/34 ,  H04W72/04 ,  H04W74/00

Abstract: Enhanced random access procedures for link-budget-limited user equipment (UE) devices are disclosed. A user equipment device may transmit a first message containing a Physical Random Access Channel (PRACH). The PRACH contains instances of a Zadoff-Chu sequence, and may be transmitted repeatedly as part of a single random attempt, to facilitate correlation data combining at the base station. The available Zadoff-Chu sequences may be partitioned among a plurality of sets, each set being associated with a respective Doppler shift range (or frequency hop pattern or time repetition pattern). A UE device may signal Doppler shift (or other information) to the base station by selection of one of the sets. The first PRACH transmission and the following PRACH transmission may occur in consecutive subframes. A UE device may select from a special set of Zadoff-Chu sequences (different from a conventional set of sequences), to signal its status as a link-budget-limited device.

公开(公告)号：US11115997B2

公开(公告)日：2021-09-07

申请号：US16272596

申请日：2019-02-11

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Farouk Belghoul ,  Tarik Tabet ,  Syed A. Mujtaba

IPC: H04W72/12 ,  H04W76/15 ,  H04L1/18 ,  H04L5/00 ,  H04L27/00 ,  H04L5/14 ,  H04W72/04 ,  H04W16/14 ,  H04W84/12

Abstract: Apparatus and methods for time division based communication between a wireless device and a wireless network in a licensed radio frequency (RF) band and an unlicensed RF band are disclosed. The wireless device receives downlink control information (DCI), via a primary component carrier (PCC) of a primary cell (Pcell) in the licensed RF band, indicating downlink (DL) data transmission via a secondary component carrier (SCC) of a secondary cell (Scell) in the unlicensed RF band. The wireless device receives via the SCC part of the DL data transmission and transmits a control message via the PCC in response. The wireless device sends a scheduling request (SR) to the eNodeB and receives uplink (UL) transmission opportunities in a combination of the licensed RF band and the unlicensed RF band. The wireless device performs a clear channel assessment before reserving and transmitting to the eNodeB in the unlicensed RF band.

公开(公告)号：US11044594B2

公开(公告)日：2021-06-22

申请号：US16217361

申请日：2018-12-12

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Sanjeevi Balasubramanian ,  Shiva Krishna Narra ,  Tarik Tabet ,  Dhruv Khati ,  Lydi Smaini ,  Anjaneyulu Maganti ,  Mohit Narang ,  Tiberiu Muresan

IPC: H04W4/90 ,  H04W4/12 ,  H04L5/00 ,  H04W56/00 ,  H04W52/02 ,  H04W4/70 ,  H04W72/04 ,  H04L1/00

Abstract: In a method of device-to-device communication, a user device initially sends an emergency message repeatedly at a first repeating frequency. When a specified number acknowledgement (ACK) messages are received, the user device sends the emergency message repeatedly at a reduced repeating frequency. The repeating frequency may be further reduced when more ACK messages are received.

公开(公告)号：US11032772B2

公开(公告)日：2021-06-08

申请号：US16893039

申请日：2020-06-04

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Moustafa M. Elsayed ,  Tarik Tabet

IPC: H04W52/02 ,  H04W68/00 ,  H04W76/28

Abstract: A wireless communication device (UE) may include a paging subsystem that performs paging-monitoring as part of wireless communications of the wireless communication device. The UE may place wireless communication system resources not required during paging-monitoring into either a low-power state or a power-down state, and those system resources may remain in one of those respective states during paging-monitoring. The wireless communication system resources not required during the paging-monitoring may include at least a wireless communications protocol stack used during the wireless communications of the UE, and at least system resources used for performing uplink related tasks independently of wireless communication system resources used for performing downlink related tasks. The paging subsystem may include at least a control manager subsystem capable of decoding a physical downlink control channel, a downlink control subsystem capable of performing tasks related to a physical downlink data channel, and a message parser for parsing paging messages.

公开(公告)号：US11013049B2

公开(公告)日：2021-05-18

申请号：US16549904

申请日：2019-08-23

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Farouk Belghoul ,  Tarik Tabet ,  Dawei Zhang

IPC: H04W76/15 ,  H04W28/02 ,  H04W28/08 ,  H04W36/28 ,  H04W36/14 ,  H04W84/12 ,  H04W88/06 ,  H04W76/16

Abstract: This disclosure relates to aggregation of radio resources provided according to multiple radio interfaces. According to some embodiments, a base station may establish a radio bearer with a wireless user equipment (UE) device. The radio bearer may initially utilize a first radio interface between the base station and the UE. The base station may receive an indication to aggregate radio resources of an access point that utilizes a second radio interface for the UE. Based on the indication to aggregate radio resources for the UE, the base station may redirect at least a portion of data of the radio bearer by way of the access point to be exchanged with the UE using the second radio interface.

公开(公告)号：US10972247B2

公开(公告)日：2021-04-06

申请号：US16892901

申请日：2020-06-04

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Tarik Tabet ,  Farouk Belghoul ,  S. Aon Mujtaba ,  Dawei Zhang

IPC: H04J3/06 ,  H04L7/00 ,  H04L5/00 ,  H04L12/26

Abstract: This disclosure relates to using a dedicated reference subframes in a cellular communication system. According to one embodiment, a base station may transmit reference signals in a dedicated synchronization and measurement reference subframe. Neighboring base stations may also transmit reference signals in dedicated reference subframes in a temporally coordinated (synchronized) manner. The reference signals transmitted be each base station may be orthogonal with the reference signals transmitted by each neighboring base station. The reference subframes may be transmitted periodically, and data subframes may be transmitted between reference subframes. Some or all of the data subframes may not include cell-specific reference symbols, as their function may be unnecessary given the use of the dedicated reference subframes.

公开(公告)号：US10903943B2

公开(公告)日：2021-01-26

申请号：US14729285

申请日：2015-06-03

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Tarik Tabet ,  Youngjae Kim ,  Syed Aon Mujtaba

IPC: H04L1/18 ,  H04L1/16 ,  H04L5/00 ,  H04W72/04

Abstract: Mobile devices, base stations, and/or relay stations may implement a method for an improved and reliable automatic repeat request feedback indication. A mobile device (UE) may establish communication within a wireless network, and indicate to the network that the UE is a special type device, e.g. a constrained device. The network (base station) may then not send an indication on a physical indicator channel to the UE when certain conditions are met, and instead, the mobile device may interpret control information received from the network on a physical control channel as a negative acknowledgment indication corresponding to an automatic repeat request from the network. The UE may then perform a retransmission according to the interpreted control information. A new control information format may be used to further define how the network and UE implement the automatic repeat request process, to reduce the total number of bits required in the control information.

公开(公告)号：US20200374769A1

公开(公告)日：2020-11-26

申请号：US16991814

申请日：2020-08-12

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Tarik Tabet ,  Farouk Belghoul ,  Samy Khay-Ibbat ,  Sarma V. Vangala ,  Rafael L. Rivera-Barreto ,  David Boettger ,  Awais M. Hussain ,  Syed Aon Mujtaba

IPC: H04W36/00 ,  H04B17/336 ,  H04B17/382

Abstract: This disclosure relates to techniques for a link budget limited UE to improve communications performance with a cellular network. The UE may perform signal to interference noise ratio (SINR) measurements and use these measurements to adjust a received signal power value that is provided to the cellular network as a received signal power measurement. The UE may generate the received signal power value based at least in part on the SINR measurement in order to reduce the likelihood of handover when the UE has good SINR but poor received signal power. The UE may also provide preferred configuration information to the base station which enhances the performance of the UE when link budget limited. The configuration information may specify one or more parameter values designed to provide improved performance for a link budget limited device.