公开(公告)号：US10897756B2

公开(公告)日：2021-01-19

申请号：US16707563

申请日：2019-12-09

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Hong He ,  Seunghee Han ,  Alexei Vladimirovich Davydov ,  Gang Xiong

IPC: H04W72/04 ,  H04L1/18 ,  H04L1/16 ,  H04L5/00 ,  H04L1/00 ,  H04W52/32 ,  H04W72/12

Abstract: Future LTE systems will support massive carrier aggregation that necessitates transmission of a large number of acknowledgement signals (HARQ-ACKs) in response to downlink data transmitted over multiple component carriers. Described herein are methods and apparatus for efficiently transmitting HARQ-ACK and periodic channel state information (P-CSI) bits over the PUCCH (physical uplink control channel).

公开(公告)号：US20200382970A1

公开(公告)日：2020-12-03

申请号：US16997051

申请日：2020-08-19

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Konstantinos D. Dimou ,  Gang Xiong ,  Seunghee Han ,  Hong He

IPC: H04W24/02 ,  H04W48/12 ,  H04W24/08 ,  H04W74/08

Abstract: Embodiments of a User Equipment (UE) to operate in accordance with a physical random access channel (PRACH) are disclosed herein. The UE may comprise hardware processing circuitry to determine a coverage enhancement category for the UE based on downlink channel statistics related to reception of downlink signals at the UE from an Evolved Node-B (eNB) and an uplink-downlink imbalance parameter related to uplink reception at the eNB. The hardware processing circuitry may be further to select, for use in a coverage enhancement mode, a PRACH preamble from a set of candidate PRACH preambles based on the determined coverage enhancement category for the UE. In some embodiments, at least some of the candidate PRACH preambles may span a different number of sub-frames.

公开(公告)号：US10855407B2

公开(公告)日：2020-12-01

申请号：US16099629

申请日：2016-12-29

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Gang Xiong ,  Glenn J. Bradford ,  Bishwarup Mondal ,  Hong He ,  Jong-Kae Fwu

IPC: H04L1/18 ,  H04L5/00 ,  H04L1/00 ,  H03M13/09

Abstract: Devices and methods of receiving a PDCCH-less xSIB are generally described. A UE receive a xPBCH that occurs in a 0th or a 25th subframe and an ePBCH in an ePBCH transmission block. The ePBCH has the xSIB and is received on different Tx beams. The ePBCH spans consecutive symbols on the same subcarrier and with the same ePBCH symbol. The frame number, subframe number and symbol number of the ePBCH is dependent on a subframe number and symbol number of the xPBCH. The number of beams received for a particular symbol is dependent on a total number of beams, a beam sweeping time for the beams and a transmission periodicity of the xPBCH and ePBCH. The UE also uses different OCCs to demodulate a DMRS from different APs, in a same PRB as the ePBCH.

公开(公告)号：US20200351043A1

公开(公告)日：2020-11-05

申请号：US16809985

申请日：2020-03-05

Applicant: APPLE INC.

Inventor： Gang Xiong ,  Hong He ,  Ralf Bendlin ,  Ajit Nimbalker ,  Jong-Kae Fwu

IPC: H04L5/00 ,  H04L27/26 ,  H04W72/04

Abstract: Disclosed are embodiments related to implementing a dynamic resource allocation and transmission scheme for a fifth generation (5G) physical uplink control channel (xPUCCH) in a 5G system. In particular, embodiments include mechanisms to dynamically allocate resources for the transmission of xPUCCH, and resource mapping schemes for 5G systems supporting more than one symbol allocated for an xPUCCH transmission.

公开(公告)号：US10813068B2

公开(公告)日：2020-10-20

申请号：US14582580

申请日：2014-12-24

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Hong He ,  Alexey Khoryaev ,  Debdeep Chatterjee ,  Mikhail Shilov ,  Pingping Zong

IPC: H04W56/00 ,  H04W24/10 ,  H04W8/00 ,  H04W48/16 ,  H04W76/14

Abstract: A user equipment (UE) is configured to scan for device-to-device synchronization sources based on scanning configuration information. The UE is configured to report detection of a device-to-device synchronization source to an Evolved Universal Terrestrial Radio Access Network (E-UTRAN) Node B (eNB) in response to determining that the device-to-device synchronization source meets one or more reporting requirements of the scanning configuration information. The UE is configured to receive a communication from the eNB enabling the UE as a synchronization source and transmit signals to provide a synchronization reference to one or more in-range UEs including the device-to-device synchronization source.

公开(公告)号：US10805926B2

公开(公告)日：2020-10-13

申请号：US14671998

申请日：2015-03-27

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Youn Hyoung Heo ,  Richard C. Burbidge ,  Hong He ,  Mo-Han Fong

IPC: H04W72/04 ,  H04W76/14 ,  H04W4/80 ,  H04W8/00 ,  H04W48/20 ,  H04L5/00

Abstract: A user equipment (UE) is configured to perform cell selection and camp on a first cell in a first frequency resource. The UE is configured to determine that proximity services are supported in a second frequency resource. The first and second wireless frequency resources are within licensed spectrums corresponding to one or more mobile communications networks. The UE is configured to start device-to-device communication on the second frequency resource and send, with the transceiver, a device-to-device message in the second frequency resource. The device-to-device message includes one of a device-to-device discovery message and a device-to-device communication message.

公开(公告)号：US20200313814A1

公开(公告)日：2020-10-01

申请号：US16808165

申请日：2020-03-03

Applicant: APPLE INC.

Inventor： Alexey Khoryaev ,  Andrey Chervyakov ,  Mikhail Shilov ,  Jong-Kae Fwu ,  Hong He

IPC: H04L5/00 ,  H04W16/32 ,  H04L5/22 ,  H04J3/00 ,  H04W72/12 ,  H04W28/02 ,  H04W76/27 ,  H04W76/11 ,  H04W48/10 ,  H04W52/02 ,  H04W56/00 ,  H04W72/04 ,  H04W88/06 ,  H04W12/04 ,  H04W84/12 ,  H04W76/28 ,  H04W76/14 ,  H04B7/0417 ,  H04B7/0456 ,  H04L1/18 ,  H04L5/14 ,  H04L9/14 ,  H04L12/26 ,  H04L29/06 ,  H04L29/08 ,  H04W4/06 ,  H04W8/00 ,  H04W36/22 ,  H04W48/08 ,  H04W48/20 ,  H04W68/02 ,  H04W72/00 ,  H04W72/02 ,  H04W74/00 ,  H04W24/02 ,  H04W24/10 ,  H04W48/16 ,  H04W12/02 ,  H04W36/00

Abstract: Technology for a user equipment (UE) operable to perform adaptive time division duplexing (TDD) hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ)-ACKnowledgement (ACK) reporting is described. The UE can implement an adaptive uplink-downlink (UL-DL) configuration received from an eNodeB. The UE can decode a downlink (DL) HARQ reference configuration received from the base station for a serving cell, wherein the DL HARQ reference configuration is for the implemented adaptive UL-DL configuration. The UE can decode a reference UL-DL configuration received from the base station via a system information block (SIB). The UE can encode HARQ-ACK feedback for transmission on an uplink channel of the serving cell in accordance with the DL HARQ reference configuration. The UE can perform uplink scheduling and the HARQ-ACK feedback based on the reference UL-DL configuration received from the base station via the SIB.

公开(公告)号：US20200186226A1

公开(公告)日：2020-06-11

申请号：US16792781

申请日：2020-02-17

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Yushu Zhang ,  Gang Xiong ,  Honglei Miao ,  Hong He ,  Guotong Wang ,  Alexei Vladimirovich Davydov ,  Seunghee Han ,  Avik Sengupta

IPC: H04B7/06 ,  H04L1/00 ,  H04W76/27 ,  H04B7/0456 ,  H04W52/16 ,  H04W52/26

Abstract: User equipment (UE) can include processing circuitry configured to decode radio resource control (RRC) signaling from a base station, the RRC signaling indicating a transmission coding scheme for a physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH) transmission. PUSCH-to-phase tracking reference signal (PT-RS) energy per resource element (EPRE) ratio is determined using the RRC signaling. A PT-RS power boosting factor is determined based on the transmission coding scheme and the PUSCH-to-PT-RS EPRE ratio. The PT-RS is encoded for transmission using a plurality of PT-RS symbols, the transmission to using increased transmission power corresponding to the PT-RS power boosting factor. The RRC signaling further includes a flag enabling the PT-RS transmission. The PUSCH-to-PT-RS EPRE ratio is 00 or 01, and the transmission coding scheme is a codebook-based uplink transmission or non-codebook-based uplink transmission.

公开(公告)号：US20250158705A1

公开(公告)日：2025-05-15

申请号：US19020244

申请日：2025-01-14

Applicant: APPLE INC.

Inventor： Dae Won Lee ,  Seunghee Han ,  Gregory V. Morozov ,  Alexei Davydov ,  Hong He

IPC: H04B7/26 ,  H04L27/26 ,  H04W56/00

Abstract: Systems and methods for synchronizing communications between a User Equipment (UE) and Base Station (BS) using a synchronization signal structure. The synchronization signal structure can include a sequence of Synchronization Signals (SS) including repetitions of a synchronization signal burst set. The synchronization signal burst set can include a plurality of synchronization signal bursts. The synchronization signal bursts can include a plurality of synchronization signal blocks, wherein the synchronization signal blocks can include a plurality of Synchronization Signals (SS).

公开(公告)号：US12294455B2

公开(公告)日：2025-05-06

申请号：US17593463

申请日：2020-09-15

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Weidong Yang ,  Chunhai Yao ,  Chunxuan Ye ,  Dawei Zhang ,  Haitong Sun ,  Hong He ,  Huaning Niu ,  Jie Cui ,  Manasa Raghavan ,  Oghenekome Oteri ,  Seyed Ali Akbar Fakoorian ,  Sigen Ye ,  Wei Zeng ,  Yang Tang ,  Yushu Zhang

IPC: H04L1/00 ,  H04L25/02 ,  H04W24/10

Abstract: A base station is configured to receive channel state information (CSI) from a user equipment (UE). The base station transmits configuration information including one or more interference measurement resources (IMRs) allocated for measurement by the UE, receives a reference CSI report from the UE, receives a new CSI report including interference and noise power fluctuation feedback from the UE and selects a modulation and coding scheme (MCS) for the UE based on at least the interference and noise power fluctuation feedback and the reference CSI report.