公开(公告)号：US20220279521A1

公开(公告)日：2022-09-01

申请号：US17439330

申请日：2020-10-22

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Jie Cui ,  Yushu Zhang ,  Yang Tang ,  Dawei Zhang ,  Hong He ,  Manasa Raghavan ,  Huaning Niu ,  Haitong Sun ,  Chunhai Yao ,  Wenshu Zhang

IPC: H04W72/08 ,  H04W72/04 ,  H04W72/12

Abstract: The present application relates to devices and components including apparatus, systems, and methods to provide SCell activation. In one example, an SCell activation procedure may be extended by a duration based on cancelation of CSI-RS reception. In another example, a base station may use particular configuration parameters to avoid cancelation of CSI-RS reception. In yet another example, a UE and a base station may use particular information for a CSI-RS reception/transmission on an SCell that is being activated.

公开(公告)号：US20220201563A1

公开(公告)日：2022-06-23

申请号：US17441972

申请日：2020-04-03

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Qiming LI ,  Jie Cui ,  Yang Tang ,  Hua LI ,  Rui Huang

IPC: H04W36/00 ,  H04W36/18 ,  H04W36/08

Abstract: Methods, systems, apparatus, and computer programs, for implementing dual-connectivity handover. In one aspect, a method includes determining, by user equipment (UE), whether the UE is capable of simultaneous communication with a source cell and a target cell, generating, by the UE, a handover indicator, the handover indicator having one or more fields structuring data that indicates that the UE is capable of simultaneous communication with the source cell and the target cell, transmitting, by the UE, the handover indicator to an access node, and receiving, by the UE and from the access node based on receipt by the access node of the handover indicator, a command to perform handover.

公开(公告)号：US20220158778A1

公开(公告)日：2022-05-19

申请号：US17440134

申请日：2020-05-01

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Manasa Raghavan ,  Jie Cui ,  Yang Tang ,  Hua Li ,  Qiming Li

IPC: H04L1/20 ,  H04L1/00 ,  H04W24/08

Abstract: The present application relates to wireless devices, and more particularly to apparatus, systems, and methods for radio link monitoring beam management in 5G-New Radio (NR) for Ultra-Reliable Low-Latency Communication (URLLC). In one embodiment, a method for signal quality monitoring in a wireless system is disclosed, comprising: determining, by a user device, to connect to the wireless system in a high reliability mode, and determining, based on the determination to connect to the wireless system in the high reliability mode, to use, by the user device, a first pair of out-of-sync (OOS) and in-sync (IS) block error rate (BLER) threshold values and/or a first set of transmission parameters for radio link monitoring (RLM), rather than a second pair of OOS and IS BLER threshold values or a second set of transmission parameters that are configured for use in a non-high reliability mode.

公开(公告)号：US20220061017A1

公开(公告)日：2022-02-24

申请号：US17464639

申请日：2021-09-01

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Jie Cui ,  Yang Tang

IPC: H04W64/00 ,  G01S5/02 ,  G01S5/10 ,  H04L5/00 ,  H04W24/10 ,  H04W72/04

Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure describe methods, apparatuses, storage media, and systems for delivering UE capability indication to a positioning server in a wireless communication network. A user equipment (UE) or access note (AN) may notify a positioning server of UE capability information associated with positioning measurements so that the positioning server may determine corresponding positioning measurement configurations based on acknowledgement of such UE capability information in terms of the positioning measurement. Embodiments describe UE capability indications to a positioning server that may enable flexible deployment and integration of various types of UEs. Other embodiments may be described and claimed.

公开(公告)号：US20220038224A1

公开(公告)日：2022-02-03

申请号：US17357544

申请日：2021-06-24

Applicant: APPLE INC.

Inventor： Jie Cui ,  Dawei Zhang ,  Hong He ,  Manasa Raghavan ,  Yang Tang

IPC: H04L5/00 ,  H04W72/04

Abstract: Techniques for grouping multiple serving component carriers (CCs) are disclosed. In one example, a frequency separation that defines a frequency range from a lower bound frequency to a higher bound frequency for each CC group of a plurality of CC groups may be determined, wherein a difference between the lower bound frequency and the higher bound frequency of each CC group may be equal to the frequency separation. A frequency of a first CC from a collection of CCs may be determined. The first CC may be assigned to a first CC group, of the plurality of CC groups, wherein the first CC group may have a frequency range that includes the frequency of the first CC.

公开(公告)号：US11240692B2

公开(公告)日：2022-02-01

申请号：US16604982

申请日：2018-05-11

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Jie Cui ,  Yang Tang ,  Rui Huang ,  Yuan Zhu ,  Shuang Tian

IPC: H04B7/204 ,  H04W24/10 ,  H04L27/26 ,  H04W28/06 ,  H04W36/00

Abstract: An invention to perform a method of cell measurement in a wireless network, wherein the wireless network comprises a plurality of frequency layers, the invention configured to: determine a Measurement Gap Length, MGL, for each one of the plurality of frequency layers operational in the wireless network; determine a gap bitmap to indicate a measurement gap availability in a time sequence for each one of the plurality of frequency layers of the wireless network; and transmit gap assistance information for each one of the plurality of frequency layers of the wireless network to a User Equipment, wherein the gap assistance information comprises at least the determined Measurement Gap Length and the determined gap bitmap.

公开(公告)号：US11212716B2

公开(公告)日：2021-12-28

申请号：US16613541

申请日：2018-05-16

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Candy Yiu ,  Yang Tang ,  Youn Hyoung Heo

IPC: H04W36/00 ,  H04W76/27 ,  H04W8/24 ,  H04W24/08 ,  H04W36/04 ,  H04W24/10

Abstract: An apparatus of a user equipment (UE) can include processing circuitry configured to encode capability information for transmission within a serving cell of an evolved Node-B (eNB), the capability information indicating the UE supports per UE network controlled small gap (NCSG) operation. A request message is encoded to request a per UE NCSG on a first frequency associated with the serving cell. Configuration information received in response to the request message can be decoded, the configuration information including a NCSG configuration for the NCSG on the first frequency. Measurements can be performed on a second frequency during a measurement gap, the measurement gap configured based on the NCSG configuration. A network message is decoded in response to the capability information, the network message including an indication of the request message for requesting the per UE NCSG on the first frequency.

公开(公告)号：US20210377988A1

公开(公告)日：2021-12-02

申请号：US17286606

申请日：2018-11-05

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Yuhan Zhou ,  Rui Huang ,  Yang Tang ,  Hua Li ,  Jie Cui ,  Qiming Li

IPC: H04W72/12

Abstract: A device of a New Radio (NR) User Equipment (UE), a system, a method and a machine-readable medium. The device includes a radio frequency (RF) interface and processing circuitry coupled to the RF interface. The processing circuitry is to: cause communication with a NR evolved Node B (gNodeB) on a first bandwidth part (BWP); determine a BWP switching delay for an uplink (UL) communication from the UE to the gNodeB, the BWP switching delay based on a timing advance (TA) for the UL communication; encode the UL communication for transmission to the gNodeB; switch from the first BWP to a second BWP at an expiration of the BWP switching delay; and cause transmission of the UL communication on the second BWP.

公开(公告)号：US11134432B2

公开(公告)日：2021-09-28

申请号：US16480837

申请日：2018-02-02

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Anatoliy Ioffe ,  Debdeep Chatterjee ,  Marta Martinez Tarradell ,  Andrey Chervyakov ,  Jie Cui ,  Seau S. Lim ,  Qiaoyang Ye ,  Yang Tang ,  Seunghee Han ,  Shuang Tian

IPC: H04W48/12 ,  H04W4/70 ,  H04W76/10 ,  H04W74/00 ,  H04W74/08

Abstract: An apparatus of a user equipment (UE) includes processing circuitry configured to decode a master information block (MIB) using a set of physical broadcast channel (PBCH) symbols received within a downlink frame to obtain system frame number (SFN) information. The downlink frame includes multiple copies of the PBCH symbols within at least three subframes of the downlink frame. A system information block (SIB) may be decoded based on the SFN information, to obtain uplink channel configuration information. Random access channel (RACH) procedure may be performed with a base station (BS) based on the uplink channel configuration information, to obtain an uplink resource assignment. A connection setup completion message can be encoded for transmission to the BS using the uplink resource assignment. The set of PBCH symbols can include a set of four legacy PBCH symbols.

公开(公告)号：US20210250267A1

公开(公告)日：2021-08-12

申请号：US16917359

申请日：2020-06-30

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Anatoliy Sergey Ioffe ,  Elmar Wagner ,  Jan M. Zaleski ,  Jie Cui ,  Yang Tang ,  Andre Hanke

IPC: H04L12/26 ,  H04W24/10 ,  H04W72/04 ,  H04B1/12 ,  H04L12/24

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to systems and methods for operating transceiver circuitry to transmit or receive signals on various frequency ranges. To do so, an electronic device may determine a receive delay between one or more messages received on different component carriers and may transmit the receive delay to a base station to update how communications are transmitted on one of the component carriers. The update made to at least one of the component carriers may compensate for the receive delay between the different component carriers. Compensating for the receive delay may improve operations that delay downlink communications to reduce a likelihood or stop simultaneous downlink and uplink communications by further adjusting for delays seen at an electronic device when communicating with base stations disposed at a different distances from the electronic device.