公开(公告)号：US11930474B2

公开(公告)日：2024-03-12

申请号：US17422522

申请日：2020-01-20

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Meghashree Dattatri Kedalagudde ,  Puneet Jain ,  Ching-Yu Liao ,  Vivek Gupta

IPC: H04W4/50 ,  H04W8/12 ,  H04W48/18 ,  H04W60/04 ,  H04W76/10 ,  H04W76/28

CPC classification number: H04W60/04 ,  H04W8/12 ,  H04W76/10 ,  H04W76/28

Abstract: Systems, apparatuses, methods, and computer-readable media are provided for a user equipment (UE) of a wireless communication system. The UE includes a processor circuitry, and radio front end circuitry coupled to the processor circuitry. The processor circuitry is configured to determine and indicate, to a core network via a radio access network (RAN), one or more cellular internet of things (CIoT) features that are required by the UE and CIoT network behavior expected from the core network to support the one or more CIoT features that are required by the UE. The processor circuitry is configured to select either an enhanced packet core (EPC) or a 5G core (5GC) to establish a wireless connection with the core network, based on a first set of CIoT features supported by the EPC and a second set of CIoT features supported by the 5GC received from the core network.

公开(公告)号：US11917701B2

公开(公告)日：2024-02-27

申请号：US17575464

申请日：2022-01-13

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Meghashree Kedalagudde ,  Muthaiah Venkatachalam ,  Wu-Chi Feng ,  Puneet Jain

IPC: H04W76/12 ,  H04W36/00 ,  H04W76/11 ,  H04W76/15 ,  H04L45/64 ,  H04L9/40 ,  H04W88/16

CPC classification number: H04W76/12 ,  H04L45/64 ,  H04L63/029 ,  H04W36/0027 ,  H04W76/11 ,  H04W76/15 ,  H04W88/16 ,  Y02D30/70

Abstract: Embodiments related to gateway arrangements for wireless communication networks are disclosed herein. For example, in some embodiments, a network controller computing system may include serving gateway (SGW) control plane circuitry to virtualize control plane functions of an SGW, packet data network gateway (PGW) control plane circuitry to virtualize control plane functions of a PGW, first communication circuitry to establish a first secure communication link between the SGW control plane circuitry and an SGW user plane computing system that is to perform user plane functions of an SGW, and second communication circuitry to establish a second secure communication link between the PGW control plane circuitry and a PGW user plane computing system that is to perform user plane functions of a PGW. Other embodiments may be disclosed and/or claimed.

公开(公告)号：US11877228B2

公开(公告)日：2024-01-16

申请号：US17543440

申请日：2021-12-06

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Puneet Jain ,  Robert Zaus ,  Ahmed Soliman ,  Marta Martinez Tarradell ,  Stefania Sesia

IPC: H04W8/22 ,  H04W48/16 ,  H04W48/04 ,  H04W8/02 ,  H04W8/18 ,  H04W88/06

CPC classification number: H04W48/04 ,  H04W8/02 ,  H04W8/18 ,  H04W8/22 ,  H04W48/16 ,  H04W88/06

Abstract: Methods, systems, and storage media are provided for user equipment (UE) that supports enhanced coverage and may operate with a voice centric usage setting or a data centric usage setting. When the UE's usage setting is set to voice centric, the UE may not operate in coverage enhancement (CE) mode B. When the UE's usage setting is set to data centric, then the UE may operate in CE mode B. The UE may indicate the UE's usage setting in an Attach or Tracking Area Update (TAU) request message, and a mobility management entity (MME) may indicate to an evolved NodeB that CE mode B is restricted or not restricted based on the usage setting. Other embodiments may be described and/or claimed.

公开(公告)号：US11765253B2

公开(公告)日：2023-09-19

申请号：US17442262

申请日：2020-04-17

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Zongrui Ding ,  Gabriel Arrobo Vidal ,  Qian Li ,  Puneet Jain ,  Geng Wu

IPC: H04L67/60

CPC classification number: H04L67/60

Abstract: Methods of operating an information centric network (ICN) control function (CF). At least one of the methods includes: processing an ICN create-service request received from an Access and Mobility Management Function (AMF); allocating one or more ICN point of attachments (ICN-PoAs) based on the ICN create-service request; and forwarding the ICN create-service request to at least one of the allocated one or more ICN-PoAs.

公开(公告)号：US11190989B2

公开(公告)日：2021-11-30

申请号：US16419245

申请日：2019-05-22

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Alexander Sirotkin ,  Xu Zhang ,  Jaemin Han ,  Feng Yang ,  Honglei Miao ,  Jerome Parron ,  Markus Dominik Mueck ,  Jing Zhu ,  Ellen Liao ,  Jeongho Jeon ,  Youn Hyoung Heo ,  Anthony Lee ,  Seau S. Lim ,  Marta Martinez Tarradell ,  Meghashree Dattatri Kedalagudde ,  Puneet Jain ,  Bharat Shrestha

IPC: H04W36/00 ,  H04W36/08 ,  H04B17/318 ,  H04W80/02 ,  H04W76/27 ,  H04W80/08

Abstract: A Next Generation Node-B (gNB) and methods of communication are generally described herein. The gNB is configurable to operate as a source gNB. The gNB is configured with logical nodes including a gNB central unit (gNB-CU) and a gNB distributed unit (gNB-DU). The gNB-CU comprises 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. When a handover of a User Equipment (UE) from the source gNB to a target gNB is performed, the gNB transfers, from the gNB-DU to the gNB-CU-UP, a downlink data delivery status (DDDS) message to indicate that the gNB-CU-UP is to stop transfer, to the gNB-DU, of downlink data intended for the UE.

公开(公告)号：US11076314B2

公开(公告)日：2021-07-27

申请号：US16349219

申请日：2017-12-22

Applicant: APPLE INC.

Inventor： Vivek Gupta ,  Puneet Jain

IPC: H04W28/02 ,  H04W28/06

Abstract: A mobility management entity (MME) can enable overload control of data transmission via control plane in an evolved packet system (EPS), optimized for cellular internet of things (CIoT), by use of a control plane data backoff timer that suppresses the use of control plane for data transfer by a user equipment (UE) for the duration of the timer. For example, an MME sends a control plane data backoff timer to a UE that suppresses the use of control plane for data transfer for the duration of the timer. Alternatively, when an MME load reaches a threshold, an MME triggers an Overload Start message and sends it to the RAN node, so that the RAN node can restrict selecting this MME for UEs requiring data transfer using control plane CIoT optimization. The RAN node can reject these UEs and return a wait timer in an RRC Connection Release message.

公开(公告)号：US10785673B2

公开(公告)日：2020-09-22

申请号：US15916044

申请日：2018-03-08

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Vivek G. Gupta ,  Puneet Jain

IPC: G06F21/00 ,  H04W28/02 ,  H04N21/2365 ,  H04N21/643 ,  H04J11/00 ,  H04L5/00 ,  H04L27/26 ,  H04B7/0417 ,  H04L29/06 ,  H04W52/02 ,  H04W12/06 ,  H04W12/08 ,  H04W88/02 ,  H04W4/70 ,  H04B7/0456 ,  H04W72/04 ,  H04W48/06 ,  H04L12/803 ,  H04L12/801 ,  H04L1/18 ,  H04L1/00 ,  H04B7/0413 ,  H04W68/00 ,  H04B7/0452 ,  H04W72/12 ,  H04W36/14 ,  H04B7/06 ,  H04W88/06 ,  H04W84/12 ,  H04W88/10

Abstract: Systems, devices, and configurations to implement trusted connections within wireless networks and associated devices and systems are generally disclosed herein. In some examples, a wireless local area network (WLAN) may be attached to a 3GPP evolved packet core (EPC) as a trusted access network, without use of an evolved packet data gateway (ePDG) and overhead from related tunneling and encryption. Information to create the trusted attachment between a mobile device and a WLAN may be exchanged using Access Network Query Protocol (ANQP) extensions defined by IEEE standard 802.11u-2011, or using other protocols or standards such as DHCP or EAP. A trusted WLAN container with defined data structure fields may be transferred in the ANQP elements to exchange information used in the establishment and operation of the trusted attachment.

公开(公告)号：US20200252334A1

公开(公告)日：2020-08-06

申请号：US16785533

申请日：2020-02-07

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Changhong Shan ,  Muthaiah Venkatachalam ,  Puneet Jain ,  Alexandre S. Stojanovski

IPC: H04L12/721 ,  H04L12/24 ,  H04L12/801 ,  H04L12/851 ,  H04W28/02

Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure describe systems, devices, and methods for traffic steering in the mobile networks. Various embodiments may include a service steering and control function to route a service dataflow through one or more service enablers based on service steering and control rules. Other embodiments may be described or claimed.

公开(公告)号：US12022280B2

公开(公告)日：2024-06-25

申请号：US17309286

申请日：2019-11-13

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Alexandre Stojanovski ,  Robert Zaus ,  Puneet Jain ,  Meghashree Dattatri Kedalagudde ,  Ellen Liao

IPC: H04W12/06 ,  H04W48/18 ,  H04W60/04 ,  H04W36/14 ,  H04W48/12 ,  H04W84/04

CPC classification number: H04W12/06 ,  H04W48/18 ,  H04W60/04 ,  H04W36/14 ,  H04W48/12 ,  H04W84/042

Abstract: An apparatus of user equipment (UE) comprises one or more baseband processors to process at least one non-public network (NPN) identifier (NPN-ID) broadcast by an NPN and zero or more Public Land Mobile Network (PLMN) identifier (PLMN-ID) broadcast by a PLMN, to compare the NPN-ID against a logical list of NPN-IDs and PLMN-IDs ranked in decreasing order of priority, and to connect with the highest ranked processed NPN or PLMN based on a rank of the NPN-ID in the list. The apparatus can include a memory to store the list of NPN-IDs and PLMN-IDs as a logical list of Equivalent Home Networks or as Operator Controlled Network Selector with Access Technology list.

公开(公告)号：US11411616B2

公开(公告)日：2022-08-09

申请号：US16996661

申请日：2020-08-18

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Vivek G. Gupta ,  Puneet Jain

IPC: G06F21/00 ,  H04B7/0417 ,  H04N21/2365 ,  H04N21/643 ,  H04J11/00 ,  H04L5/00 ,  H04L27/26 ,  H04L65/611 ,  H04W52/02 ,  H04W88/02 ,  H04W4/70 ,  H04W12/06 ,  H04W12/08 ,  H04B7/0456 ,  H04W72/04 ,  H04W48/06 ,  H04W28/02 ,  H04L47/125 ,  H04L9/40 ,  H04L1/18 ,  H04L1/00 ,  H04B7/0413 ,  H04W68/00 ,  H04B7/0452 ,  H04W72/12 ,  H04W36/14 ,  H04B7/06 ,  H04W88/06 ,  H04W84/12 ,  H04W88/10

Abstract: Systems, devices, and configurations to implement trusted connections within wireless networks and associated devices and systems are generally disclosed herein. In some examples, a wireless local area network (WLAN) may be attached to a 3GPP evolved packet core (EPC) as a trusted access network, without use of an evolved packet data gateway (ePDG) and overhead from related tunneling and encryption. Information to create the trusted attachment between a mobile device and a WLAN may be exchanged using Access Network Query Protocol (ANQP) extensions defined by IEEE standard 802.11u-2011, or using other protocols or standards such as DHCP or EAP. A trusted WLAN container with defined data structure fields may be transferred in the ANQP elements to exchange information used in the establishment and operation of the trusted attachment.