公开(公告)号：US12250565B2

公开(公告)日：2025-03-11

申请号：US17440611

申请日：2020-04-08

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Haitong Sun ,  Dawei Zhang ,  Fangli Xu ,  Haijing Hu ,  Jie Cui ,  Wei Zeng ,  Yang Tang ,  Yushu Zhang

IPC: H04W16/28 ,  H04L5/00 ,  H04W80/02

Abstract: Some aspects include an apparatus, method, and computer program product for facilitating control messaging for multi-beam communications in 5G wireless communication systems. Nodes of a 5G network may be generate Medium Access Control Control Elements (MAC CEs) to update User Equipment (UE) with different Component Carrier (CC) settings. The MAC CEs may update a list of CCs to reduce messaging overhead and latency. For example, a MAC CE may indicate an update for a Transmission Configuration Indication (TCI) state for a list of CCs. Similarly, a MAC CE may be used to update a spatial relation for a Sounding Reference Signal (SRS) resource set and/or a SRS resource corresponding to a list of CCs. A MAC CE may also be used to update multiple TCI codepoints having one or two TCI states in a multi-Transmission Reception Point (multi-TRP) scenario.

公开(公告)号：US20250081110A1

公开(公告)日：2025-03-06

申请号：US18724985

申请日：2022-01-10

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Qiming Li ,  Dawei Zhang ,  Fangli Xu ,  Haijing Hu ,  Huaning Niu ,  Jie Cui ,  Manasa Raghaven ,  Xiang Chen ,  Yang Tang ,  Yuqin Chen

IPC: H04W52/02 ,  H04L5/00 ,  H04W24/08

Abstract: Techniques, described herein, include solutions for enabling a user equipment (UEs) to operate in a power saving mode (PSM) by performing radio link monitoring (RLM), beam failure detection (BFD), and radio resource management (RRM) based on one or more reference signals with a decreased periodicity. The reference signals may include system synchronizations blocks (SSBs), a channel state information (CSI) m signal (CSI-RSs), or a combination thereof. A base station may be configured to operate as a master cell group (MCG) node or a secondary cell group (SCG) node and may transmit reference signals with an increased periodicity to UEs in an active mode of operation while also transmitting reference signals with a decreased periodicity to UEs in a PSM.

公开(公告)号：US12245191B2

公开(公告)日：2025-03-04

申请号：US17442539

申请日：2020-05-14

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Hong He ,  Chunhai Yao ,  Chunxuan Ye ,  Dawei Zhang ,  Haitong Sun ,  Jie Cui ,  Oghenekome Oteri ,  Wei Zeng ,  Weidong Yang ,  Yang Tang ,  Yuchul Kim ,  Yushu Zhang

IPC: H04W68/02 ,  H04W24/08 ,  H04W74/0816 ,  H04W76/28

Abstract: Some aspects of this disclosure include apparatuses and methods for implementing mechanisms for downlink control information between an electronic device (for example, a UE) and a network for cell detection and measurement. For example, some aspects relate to an electronic device including a transceiver and a processor communicatively coupled to the transceiver. The processor monitors one or more paging occasions within a discontinuous repetition cycle (DRX) and can make a determination of one or more paging occasions within the DRX to not monitor. Each paging occasion may include a transmission by the network of downlink control information for one or more paging messages.

公开(公告)号：US20250071632A1

公开(公告)日：2025-02-27

申请号：US18725114

申请日：2022-01-06

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Yuqin Chen ,  Fangli Xu ,  Haijing Hu ,  Qiming Li ,  Yang Tang

IPC: H04W36/00

Abstract: Provided is a method performed by a user equipment (UE), comprising: receiving, from a network (NW) comprising a master node (MN) and a secondary node (SN), one or more messages comprising pre-configured measurement gap (pre-MG) configurations for at least one pre-MG, wherein the UE is in dual connectivity (DC) with the MN and the SN; and determining, from the pre-MG configurations, respective pre-MG statuses for the at least one pre-MG, wherein the MN comprises a master cell group (MCG) and the SN comprises a secondary cell group (SCG).

公开(公告)号：US20250055628A1

公开(公告)日：2025-02-13

申请号：US18931780

申请日：2024-10-30

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Chunhai Yao ,  Chunxuan Ye ,  Dawei Zhang ,  Fangli Xu ,  Haijing Hu ,  Haitong Sun ,  Hong He ,  Jie Cui ,  Oghenekome Oteri ,  Shu Guo ,  Wei Zeng ,  Weidong Yang ,  Yang Tang ,  Yuchul Kim ,  Yuqin Chen ,  Yushu Zhang

IPC: H04L5/00 ,  H04W72/0453 ,  H04W72/23

Abstract: Methods to enhance the coverage of NR systems for coverage-limited wireless devices are disclosed. A user equipment (UE) may receive, from a base station, information indicating that a coverage enhancement mode is supported. The UE may determine whether to enter the coverage enhancement mode based on a downlink signal synchronization block (DL SSB). In response to determining to enter the coverage enhancement mode, the UE may transmit a reserved preamble to the base station to initiate random access for the coverage enhancement mode.

公开(公告)号：US12225495B2

公开(公告)日：2025-02-11

申请号：US17099969

申请日：2020-11-17

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Seunghee Han ,  Shafi Bashar ,  Yuan Zhu ,  Yang Tang

IPC: H04W64/00 ,  G01S1/20 ,  G01S3/48 ,  G01S5/00 ,  G01S5/02 ,  G01S5/10 ,  G01S5/12 ,  H04J11/00 ,  H04W56/00

Abstract: User equipment (UE), an enhanced NodeB (eNB) and method of improving positioning accuracy and enabling vertical domain positioning of the UE are generally described. The UE may receive a prsInfo control signal having at least one PRS configuration and subsequently a plurality of Reference Signals (RSs). The RSs may have a first Positioning Reference Signal (PRS) pattern in a first set of PRS subframes and a second PRS pattern in a second set of PRS subframes received prior to a subsequent first set of PRS subframes. The RSs may have a vertical positioning RS and a lateral positioning RS. The UE may measure PRS resource elements (REs), each having a PRS, in the first and second PRS pattern. The UE may transmit a measurement of the PRS in the first and second PRS pattern. The patterns may enable horizontal and vertical positioning to be determined.

公开(公告)号：US20250048255A1

公开(公告)日：2025-02-06

申请号：US18759726

申请日：2024-06-28

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Jie Cui ,  Chunxuan Ye ,  Dan Wu ,  Dawei Zhang ,  Peng Cheng ,  Yang Tang

IPC: H04W52/02 ,  H04B7/08 ,  H04W76/28

Abstract: The present application relates to devices and components including apparatus, systems, and methods for performance of candidate beam detection operations with discontinuous transmission implementation.

公开(公告)号：US20250039814A1

公开(公告)日：2025-01-30

申请号：US18912484

申请日：2024-10-10

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Qiming LI ,  Jie Cui ,  Yang Tang ,  Yuhan Zhou ,  Shuang Tian

IPC: H04W56/00 ,  H04W4/02

Abstract: A method for enhanced autonomous uplink timing adjustment includes determining that a user equipment (UE) is traveling above a predetermined velocity. In response to the determination that the UE is traveling above the predetermined velocity, a maximum aggregate adjustment rate to an uplink timing for the UE and a maximum amount of a magnitude of a timing change to the uplink timing for the UE are determined. The uplink timing for the UE is adjusted based on the maximum aggregate adjustment rate and the maximum amount of the magnitude of the timing change.

公开(公告)号：US12206502B2

公开(公告)日：2025-01-21

申请号：US17442276

申请日：2020-08-07

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Yushu Zhang ,  Hong He ,  Dawei Zhang ,  Haitong Sun ,  Jie Cui ,  Manasa Raghavan ,  Wei Zeng ,  Yang Tang

IPC: H04L1/1812 ,  H04L1/00 ,  H04W72/23

Abstract: A user equipment (UE) is disclosed. The UE comprises a processor configured to perform operations comprising receiving a hybrid automatic repeat request process group (HPG) configuration signal from a base station associated therewith, wherein the HPG configuration signal comprises information of a plurality HARQ process groups (HPGs), each HPG comprising one or more HARQ processes of a set of HARQ processes configured for the UE. The operations further comprise receiving a downlink control information (DCI) from the base station, wherein the DCI comprises information that identifies one or more HPGs of the plurality of HPGs, the HARQ-ACK feedback information of which are to be included in a HARQ-ACK feedback signal that is triggered by the DCI. In addition, the operations comprise generating the HARQ-ACK feedback signal comprising the HARQ-ACK feedback information of HARQ processes associated with the one or more HPGs and sending the HARQ-ACK feedback signal to the base station.

公开(公告)号：US12199893B2

公开(公告)日：2025-01-14

申请号：US17437796

申请日：2020-10-02

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Haitong Sun ,  Yushu Zhang ,  Hong He ,  Wei Zeng ,  Dawei Zhang ,  Chunxuan Ye ,  Oghenekome Oteri ,  Sigen Ye ,  Weidong Yang ,  Chunhai Yao ,  Jie Cui ,  Yang Tang

IPC: H04L5/00 ,  H04L1/16 ,  H04W72/23

Abstract: This disclosure relates to techniques for configuring physical uplink shared channel transmissions with improved reliability in a wireless communication system. A cellular base station may establish a wireless link with a wireless device. The cellular base station may provide uplink data transmission configuration information to the wireless device. The uplink data transmission configuration information may configure an uplink data transmission to multiple transmission-reception-points. The cellular base station may receive at least a portion of the uplink data transmission.