公开(公告)号：US12218767B2

公开(公告)日：2025-02-04

申请号：US17773146

申请日：2021-08-05

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Haijing Hu ,  Sarma V Vangala ,  Alexander Sirotkin ,  Chunxuan Ye ,  Dawei Zhang ,  Fangli Xu ,  Naveen Kumar R Palle Venkata ,  Pavan Nuggehalli ,  Ralf Rossbach ,  Sethuraman Gurumoorthy ,  Yuqin Chen ,  Zhibin Wu

IPC: H04L1/1829 ,  H04L1/1825 ,  H04W84/06

Abstract: Techniques, described herein, include solutions for managing hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) processes and communications for non-terrestrial networks (NTNs) (e.g., a wireless communication network that includes a satellite network component). A user equipment (UE) may connect to an NTN and determine hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) capabilities regarding NTNs. The UE may also communicate a HARQ disablement message to the NTN and communicate with NTN without HARQ procedures. The HARQ disablement message may provide the HARQ disablement capabilities of the UE and/or be a request for the network to disable HARQ. The HARQ disablement message may include a radio resource control (RRC) reconfiguration message and may address HARQ disablement per logical channel identifier (LCID) or dedicated radio bearer (DRB).

公开(公告)号：US20240388388A1

公开(公告)日：2024-11-21

申请号：US18641285

申请日：2024-04-19

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Ping-Heng Kuo ,  Fangli Xu ,  Zhibin Wu ,  Ralf Rossbach ,  Naveen Kumar R. Palle Venkata ,  Sethuraman Gurumoorthy ,  Peng Cheng ,  Yuqin Chen ,  Haijing Hu ,  Alexander Sirotkin

IPC: H04L1/1867 ,  H04L1/1812

Abstract: The present application relates to devices and components, including apparatus, systems, and methods for selecting timer values and starting or stopping timers related to configured grant or discontinuous reception.

公开(公告)号：US20240381167A1

公开(公告)日：2024-11-14

申请号：US18633427

申请日：2024-04-11

Applicant: APPLE INC.

Inventor： Ping-Heng Kuo ,  Weidong Yang ,  Zhibin Wu ,  Fangli Xu ,  Ralf Rossbach ,  Peng Cheng ,  Yuqin Chen ,  Naveen Kumar R. Palle Venkata ,  Sethuraman Gurumoorthy ,  Haijing Hu ,  Alexander Sirotkin

IPC: H04W28/02

Abstract: The present application relates to devices and components, including apparatus, systems. and methods for buffer status reporting in wireless networks.

公开(公告)号：US12096498B2

公开(公告)日：2024-09-17

申请号：US18119463

申请日：2023-03-09

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Alexander Sirotkin ,  Yifan Yu ,  Min Huang ,  Jaemin Han ,  Feng Yang

IPC: H04W76/12 ,  H04W80/02 ,  H04W92/20

CPC classification number: H04W76/12 ,  H04W80/02 ,  H04W92/20

Abstract: Embodiments of a Next Generation Node B (gNB) are described herein. The gNB may be configured with logical nodes, including a gNB central unit (gNB-CU) and a gNB distributed unit (gNB-DU). The gNB-CU may include a gNB-CU control plane (gNB-CU-CP) for control-plane functionality, and a gNB-CU user plane (gNB-CU-UP) for user-plane functionality. The gNB may initiate an E1 interface setup procedure, a bearer context setup procedure, and a UE context setup procedure to establish a UE context that includes a signaling radio bearer (SRB) and a data radio bearer (DRB) configuration. The UE context setup request message may be configured to include quality-of-service parameters for the DRB configuration.

公开(公告)号：US20240251307A1

公开(公告)日：2024-07-25

申请号：US17917922

申请日：2021-10-21

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Yuqin Chen ,  Alexander Sirotkin ,  Fangli Xu ,  Haijing Hu ,  Naveen Kumar R. Palle Venkata ,  Pavan Nuggehalli ,  Ralf Rossbach ,  Sarma Vangala ,  Sethuraman Gurumoorthy ,  Sudeep Manithara Vamanan ,  Vijay Venkataraman ,  Zhibin Wu

IPC: H04W36/00

CPC classification number: H04W36/0072

Abstract: Provided is a method performed by a user equipment (UE), comprising: receiving, from a communication network comprising a radio access network, one or more messages comprising configuration information of at least one network slice and of at least one frequency, wherein the radio access network is associated with a plurality of base stations (BSs) providing a plurality of cells, wherein the configuration information indicates for each of the at least one frequency which one or more slices of the at least one network slice are supported; and selecting, based on the configuration information, a cell from the plurality of cells for camping on.

公开(公告)号：US12010548B2

公开(公告)日：2024-06-11

申请号：US17274116

申请日：2019-09-05

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Murali Narasimha ,  Jaemin Han ,  Candy Yiu ,  Alexander Sirotkin

IPC: H04W28/02 ,  H04W28/086 ,  H04W88/14

CPC classification number: H04W28/0284 ,  H04W28/0273 ,  H04W28/0862 ,  H04W88/14

Abstract: Provided herein is an apparatus and a method for congestion handling in RAN. The disclosure provides an apparatus for a relay node in a RAN including the relay node and a donor node providing an interface to a core network and a backhaul link to the relay node. The apparatus includes a RF interface to receive and transmit downlink data for one or more UEs or UE bearers; and a processing circuitry coupled with the RF interface. The processing circuitry is to determine a downlink congestion occurs at the relay node; and generate a downlink congestion indication to identify a UE or a UE bearer or a backhaul RLC channel affected by the downlink congestion. The RF interface is to transmit the downlink congestion indication to the donor node. In addition to the downlink congestion handling, the relay node can also be to handle uplink congestion in a similar way.

公开(公告)号：US20240146794A1

公开(公告)日：2024-05-02

申请号：US17978146

申请日：2022-10-31

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Ralf Rossbach ,  Alexander Sirotkin ,  Fangli Xu ,  Haijing Hu ,  Huarui Liang ,  Naveen Kumar R. Palle Venkata ,  Pavan Nuggehalli ,  Sarma V. Vangala ,  Sethuraman Gurumoorthy ,  Sudeep Manithara Vamanan ,  Yuqin Chen ,  Zhibin Wu

IPC: H04L65/756 ,  H04L1/00 ,  H04L65/70

CPC classification number: H04L65/756 ,  H04L1/0004 ,  H04L65/70 ,  H04W80/12

Abstract: The present application relates to devices and components including apparatuses, systems, and methods for technologies for packet framing for application data unit transmission in wireless networks.

公开(公告)号：US20240080799A1

公开(公告)日：2024-03-07

申请号：US18379382

申请日：2023-10-12

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Alexander Sirotkin ,  Jaemin Han

IPC: H04W68/00 ,  H04L1/1607 ,  H04W28/06 ,  H04W80/08

CPC classification number: H04W68/005 ,  H04L1/1642 ,  H04W28/06 ,  H04W80/08 ,  H04W84/18

Abstract: Devices, methods, communication nodes, base stations, storage media, and other embodiments are provided for managing associations in a communication network. In one example embodiment, a New Radio (NR) node is configured for NR user-plane protocol communications between a master node (MN) and a secondary node (SN). The NRnode is configured to generate a downlink (DL) user data message with downlink user data, initiate transmission of the DL user data message to a second node, and process a DL data delivery status message from the second node in response to the DL user data message. In various embodiments, polling and SCG split-bearer configurations are supported by such messaging. In some embodiments, packet data convergence protocol (PDCP) serial numbers are communicated for transmission and retransmission management. In some embodiments, DL configurations initiated by an SN are enabled, as well as UL configurations initiated by either an MN or an SN.

公开(公告)号：US11818793B2

公开(公告)日：2023-11-14

申请号：US16615054

申请日：2018-06-12

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Alexander Sirotkin ,  Alexandre Saso Stojanovski

IPC: H04W8/08 ,  H04W76/11 ,  H04L29/12 ,  H04L29/08 ,  H04W8/26 ,  H04W60/00 ,  H04W80/02 ,  H04L67/00 ,  H04L101/663

CPC classification number: H04W8/08 ,  H04L67/34 ,  H04W8/26 ,  H04W60/005 ,  H04W76/11 ,  H04W80/02 ,  H04L2101/663

Abstract: Devices, methods, user equipment (UE), base stations, storage media, and other embodiments are provided for managing associations in a communication network. In one example embodiment, a Next Generation (NG) core network device is configured for an Access and Mobility Management Function (AMF) with an NG-Radio Access Network (NG-RAN) node. The network device may be configured to access a plurality of Transport Network Link (TNL) associations and generate an AMF configuration update using the TNL associations, the AMF configuration update comprising AMF transport layer address information for the plurality of TNL associations. The network device may then initiate transmission of the AMF configuration update comprising the AMF transport layer address information to the NG-RAN node. Additional embodiments may involve binding updates or setup response messaging for managing associations, along with additional operations.

公开(公告)号：US20230136741A1

公开(公告)日：2023-05-04

申请号：US17962447

申请日：2022-10-07

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Alexander Sirotkin ,  Fangli Xu ,  Haijing Hu ,  Naveen Kumar R. Palle Venkata ,  Pavan Nuggehalli ,  Ralf Rossbach ,  Sarma V. Vangala ,  Sethuraman Gurumoorthy ,  Yuqin Chen ,  Zhibin Wu

IPC: H04W72/00

Abstract: The present application relates to devices and components including apparatus, systems, and methods for control-plane signaling for UE associations in wireless networks.