公开(公告)号：US12200644B2

公开(公告)日：2025-01-14

申请号：US17441891

申请日：2021-04-06

Applicant: Apple Inc.

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

IPC: H04W56/00 ,  H04L27/26 ,  H04W24/08

Abstract: A user equipment (UE) may monitor a downlink frequency position to detect a synchronization block (SSB) from a cellular base station. When monitoring the downlink frequency position, the UE may be configured to use at least one step size in calculating a SSB frequency position. The UE may determine a subcarrier spacing (SCS) used by the cellular base station in response to monitoring the downlink frequency position, and the subcarrier spacing for one or more SSB transmissions may be determined at least in part based on the step size used in calculating the SSB frequency position. The UE may then utilize the determined subcarrier spacing of the one or more SSB transmissions in communicating with the cellular base station.

公开(公告)号：US12200524B2

公开(公告)日：2025-01-14

申请号：US18457147

申请日：2023-08-28

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Hong He ,  Pengkai Zhao ,  Wei Zeng ,  Dawei Zhang ,  Haitong Sun ,  Yuchul Kim ,  Chunhai Yao ,  Yushu Zhang ,  Wei Zhang ,  Weidong Yang ,  Chunxuan Ye

IPC: H04W24/08 ,  H04L5/00

Abstract: A device may wirelessly communicate with a number of different cells used in a carrier aggregation. The device may monitor physical downlink control channels (PDCCHs) on the different cells, dynamically switching between a dormant monitoring state (DS) and an active monitoring state (AS). In the DS, the UE may not monitor any PDCCH candidates on the active secondary SCells corresponding to the DS, or it may monitor PDCCH candidates in the search space (SS) set with the largest monitoring periodicity among the multiple SS sets on the active bandwidth part (BWP). In the AS, the UE may monitor a set of PDCCH candidates in physical resources configured by higher layers on the BWPs. Switching from one monitoring state to another may be facilitated through the use of a new downlink control information (DCI) format without data scheduling, a modified existing DCI format with data scheduling, and/or use of a DS timer.

公开(公告)号：US12199702B2

公开(公告)日：2025-01-14

申请号：US17175231

申请日：2021-02-12

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Yushu Zhang ,  Haitong Sun ,  Wei Zeng ,  Dawei Zhang ,  Yuchul Kim ,  Hong He ,  Weidong Yang ,  Chunxuan Ye ,  Chunhai Yao ,  Oghenekome Oteri ,  Wei Zhang ,  Jia Tang ,  Tianyan Pu ,  Pengkai Zhao

IPC: H04B7/022 ,  H04L5/00

Abstract: In an example method, a user equipment (UE) device determines one or more component carriers available to the UE device for at least one of transmitting or receiving data over a wireless network. The UE device transmits, to the wireless network, for each component carrier, an indication whether the component carrier supports at least one of transmitting or receiving data according to a multi-transmission and receiving points (multi-TRP) communication protocol.

公开(公告)号：US12177826B2

公开(公告)日：2024-12-24

申请号：US17442204

申请日：2021-08-05

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Chunhai Yao ,  Chunxuan Ye ,  Seyed Ali Akbar Fakoorian ,  Haitong Sun ,  Hong He ,  Huaning Niu ,  Weidong Yang ,  Yushu Zhang ,  Dawei Zhang ,  Sigen Ye ,  Oghenekome Oteri

IPC: H04W72/20 ,  H04W72/115 ,  H04W72/56

Abstract: Aspects are described for a user equipment (UE) comprising a transceiver configured to enable wireless communication with a base station and a processor communicatively coupled to the transceiver. The processor is configured to determine one or more configured grant (CG) transport blocks (TBs) of one or more CG uplink transmissions and determine one or more dynamic grant (DG) TBs of one or more DG uplink transmissions. The processor is further configured to determine that a first CG TB of the one or more CG TBs overlaps with a first DG TB of the one or more DG TBs in time and determine that a priority level of the first CG TB is lower than a priority level of the DG TB. The processor is further configured to determine that the priority level of the first CG TB is lower than the priority level of the first DG TB and transmit, in the first DG TB, a first DG uplink transmission corresponding to the first DG TB.

公开(公告)号：US20240413915A1

公开(公告)日：2024-12-12

申请号：US18807858

申请日：2024-08-16

Applicant: Apple Inc.

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

IPC: H04B17/318 ,  H04B7/06 ,  H04B17/336 ,  H04W24/10 ,  H04W72/20

Abstract: The present application relates to devices and components including apparatus, systems, and methods to beam reporting using media access control (MAC) control element (CE) in wireless communication systems.

公开(公告)号：US12167400B2

公开(公告)日：2024-12-10

申请号：US17437756

申请日：2020-10-02

Applicant: Apple Inc.

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

IPC: H04W72/21 ,  H04L1/08 ,  H04W72/0446

Abstract: A base station (BS) may receive a plurality of repetitions of a Physical Uplink Control Channel (PUCCH) from a user equipment (UE), and accumulate the received repetitions to obtain a resultant signal. The ability to accumulate repetitions enables the base station to experience a higher probability of successful recovery of the PUCCH payload bits than if decoding were based on the reception of a non-repeated transmission of the PUCCH. The base station may configure the number of repetitions, the temporal gap between the repetitions, and mode of repetition of the PUCCH. In an intra-slot mode, more than one copy may be received from each configured slot, with or without frequency hopping. In an inter-slot mode, one copy is received per configured slot. Different repetitions may be transmitted by the UE in different directions, according to a spatial consistency pattern.

公开(公告)号：US12160812B2

公开(公告)日：2024-12-03

申请号：US18475729

申请日：2023-09-27

Applicant: APPLE INC.

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

IPC: H04W48/10 ,  H04L5/00

Abstract: Methods and apparatus are provided for a UE to determine a cell global identity (CGI) of a target cell.

公开(公告)号：US12160286B2

公开(公告)日：2024-12-03

申请号：US17593621

申请日：2021-04-14

Applicant: APPLE INC.

Inventor： Haitong Sun ,  Chunhai Yao ,  Chunxuan Ye ,  Dawei Zhang ,  Hong He ,  Oghenekome Oteri ,  Pengkai Zhao ,  Sigen Ye ,  Wei Zeng ,  Weidong Yang ,  Wen Zhao ,  Yushu Zhang

IPC: H04B7/0413 ,  H04B7/10 ,  H04L5/00 ,  H04L41/40

Abstract: Various systems and methods disclosed herein describe improvements for beam management that leverage virtualization across a vertical polarization (V-Pol) and horizontal polarization (H-Pol). One or more of a user equipment (UE) and a base station may include an antenna array comprising both V-Pol and H-Pol antenna elements. A UE may message a base station to configure uplink (UL) multiple input multiple output (MIMO) operations across one or more of the V-Pol and the H-Pol. The message may include a number of MIMO layers to be concurrently used for communicating data to the base station, where each MIMO layer is transmitted using one of a V-Pol and an H-Pol; a number of sounding reference signals (SRS) to be transmitted by the UE, each SRS to be transmitted using one of the V-Pol and the H-Pol; and a supported maximum number of antenna ports per each SRS.

公开(公告)号：US20240388482A1

公开(公告)日：2024-11-21

申请号：US17921334

申请日：2021-11-04

Applicant: Apple Inc.

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

IPC: H04L27/26 ,  H04W72/0446 ,  H04W72/23

Abstract: Provided is a method for a user equipment (UE). The UE may performs at least one of: monitoring physical downlink control channels (PDCCHs) in a Type0-PDCCH common search space (CSS) set over one or two consecutive slots, starting from a slot index n_0, with a 480 kHz or 960 kHz subcarrier spacing (SCS); transmitting, to a base station (BS), a report of a UE capability related to search space configurations for multi-slot PDCCH monitoring; or performing a monitoring occasion (MO) shifting operation for a first group of search space (SS) sets in response to a determination that a second group of SS sets is updated.

公开(公告)号：US12133232B2

公开(公告)日：2024-10-29

申请号：US17442117

申请日：2020-08-05

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Weidong Yang ,  Arjun Bharadwaj ,  Yushu Zhang ,  Dawei Zhang ,  Haitong Sun ,  Chunhai Yao ,  Hong He ,  Chunxuan Ye ,  Oghenekome Oteri ,  Sigen Ye ,  Wei Zeng ,  Ralf Rossbach

IPC: H04W72/23 ,  H04W72/1268

CPC classification number: H04W72/23 ,  H04W72/1268

Abstract: Improved configured grants (CGs) may include the designation of a footprint corresponding to uplink transmission of a UE, with the footprint at least partially defined by the occupied transmission time, occupied transmission frequency, and transmission power. The footprint may be adjustable and/or selectable by the UE according to the current traffic needs of the UE and within limits set for the footprint via prior signaling from the base station to the UE. The UE may indicate the actual footprint parameters/values for the UE's uplink data transmissions by transmitting CG uplink control information (CG-UCI) inclusive of the actual footprint values to the base station. The UE may transmit the CG-UCI over resources configured according to additional parameter values received via the prior signaling from the base station. The UE may further transmit uplink data on resources configured according to the actual footprint values.