公开(公告)号：US20210360674A1

公开(公告)日：2021-11-18

申请号：US16499178

申请日：2018-08-10

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Junsung Lim ,  Wei Zhang ,  Sami M. Almalfouh ,  Johnson O. Sebeni ,  Yuchul Kim ,  Wei Zeng ,  Haitong Sun ,  Pengkai Zhao ,  Ping Wang ,  Dawei Zhang ,  Fangli Xu ,  Yuqin Chen ,  Haijing Hu

IPC: H04W72/12 ,  H04L5/00 ,  H04W52/02

Abstract: A device may monitor a first search space (SS) corresponding to an active first component carrier (CC), and detect first control information (CI) that identifies an inactive second CC. In response to receiving the first CI, the device may activate the inactive second CC to make it an active second CC. The device may also set up a second SS corresponding to the active second CC, and may monitor the second SS to schedule the active second CC and receive a physical data channel. The first CI may also include additional scheduling information and a start time for reception of the physical data channel. The device may operate in a first bandwidth part (BWP) according to a first communication configuration associated with the first bandwidth part, and may switch to operating in a second BWP and to operating according to a second communication configuration associated with the second BWP.

公开(公告)号：US11152994B1

公开(公告)日：2021-10-19

申请号：US16884762

申请日：2020-05-27

Applicant: Apple Inc.

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

IPC: H04B7/02 ,  H04B7/06 ,  H04B7/0413

Abstract: The systems, methods, and apparatuses can receive one or more communication signals traversing through a communication channel. The systems, methods, and apparatuses can estimate one or more known parameters, characteristics, and/or attributes of the communication channel, for example, scattering, fading, and/or power decay over distance, through a process referred to as channel estimation. The systems, methods, and apparatuses can develop various channel coefficients, for example, amplitudes and/or phases, describing the channel response of the communication channel at discrete intervals of time, also referred to as taps. The systems, methods, and apparatuses can assign taps to various priorities and, thereafter, utilize these priorities to selectively include their corresponding channel coefficients in a CSI report or exclude their corresponding channel coefficients from the CSI report.

公开(公告)号：US20210251015A1

公开(公告)日：2021-08-12

申请号：US17174315

申请日：2021-02-11

Applicant: Apple Inc.

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

IPC: H04W74/08 ,  H04W72/04 ,  H04W76/27

Abstract: The implementations disclosed provide apparatus, systems, and methods for channel structure construction for a two-step random access channel (RACH) using a new radio (NR) user equipment (UE) wireless device. The wireless device includes one or more computer processors configured to generate a physical RACH (PRACH) preamble mapped to a physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH) resource unit. The PRACH preamble is associated with a preamble group indicating a configuration of the PUSCH. The preamble group has a size indicated by radio resource control (RRC) signaling performed by the wireless device. A message is encoded including the PRACH preamble and a payload carried by the PUSCH. The configuration of the PUSCH includes parameters for decoding the message. The wireless device couples communicatively to a base station using the PUSCH. The message is transmitted to the base station. The base station decodes the message based on the parameters of the PUSCH configuration.

公开(公告)号：US11057790B2

公开(公告)日：2021-07-06

申请号：US16935008

申请日：2020-07-21

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Wei Zhang ,  Tianyan Pu ,  Yang Li ,  Haitong Sun ,  Wei Zeng ,  Jia Tang ,  Beibei Wang ,  Sami M. Almalfouh ,  Zhu Ji ,  Johnson O. Sebeni ,  Yuchul Kim ,  Dawei Zhang

IPC: H04L5/00 ,  H04W24/10 ,  H04B7/08 ,  H04B7/06 ,  H04W72/08 ,  H04W24/08 ,  H04W72/04 ,  H04W88/02

Abstract: Apparatuses, systems, and methods for a wireless device to perform a method including performing one or more of periodic beam quality measurements and/or event-based beam quality measurements, determining, based at least in part on one or more of the periodic beam quality measurements and/or the event-based beam quality measurements, a recommended beam quality measurement configuration, and transmitting, to a base station serving the UE, the recommended beam quality measurement configuration. In addition, the UE may perform receiving, from the base station, instructions regarding the beam quality measurement configuration. The instructions may include instructions to activate, deactivate, and/or modify at least one beam quality measurement configuration. In addition, the instructions may be based, at least in part, on the recommended beam quality measurement configuration.

公开(公告)号：US10973008B2

公开(公告)日：2021-04-06

申请号：US16186350

申请日：2018-11-09

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Sami M. Almalfouh ,  Yuchul Kim ,  Wei Zhang ,  Tianyan Pu ,  Zhu Ji ,  Dawei Zhang ,  Wei Zeng ,  Johnson O. Sebeni ,  Yang Li

IPC: H04W76/10 ,  H04W72/04 ,  H04W28/18 ,  H04W76/28

Abstract: This disclosure relates to techniques for a wireless device to indicate a preferred bandwidth part and duty cycle in a cellular communication system. A wireless device and a cellular base station may establish a radio resource control connection. The wireless device may transmit an indication of a preferred bandwidth part, or a preferred communication duty cycle, or both, to the cellular base station. The cellular base station may select a bandwidth part, or communication duty cycle, or both, based at least in part on the indication provided by the wireless device, and may transmit an indication of the selected bandwidth part, communication duty cycle, or both, to the wireless device. The cellular base station and the wireless device may perform cellular communication using the selected bandwidth part, communication duty cycle, or both.

公开(公告)号：US20210100022A1

公开(公告)日：2021-04-01

申请号：US17024215

申请日：2020-09-17

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Yushu Zhang ,  Haitong Sun ,  Wei Zeng ,  Hong He ,  Yuchul Kim ,  Dawei Zhang ,  Haijing Hu ,  Yakun Sun

IPC: H04W72/12 ,  H04W72/04 ,  H04L1/00

Abstract: Apparatuses, systems, and methods for providing downlink control for multi-TRP transmission. A cellular base station may provide a downlink control information transmission to a wireless device scheduling downlink transmissions to the wireless device from multiple transmission reception points. The downlink control information may include information that can be used by the wireless device to determine any or all of physical resource block bundling sizes, frequency domain resource allocations, modulation and coding schemes, redundancy versions, phase tracking reference signal configurations, and any of various other possible types of configuration information for the downlink transmissions. The wireless device may receive the downlink transmissions from the plurality of transmission reception points in accordance with the downlink control information.

公开(公告)号：US10945268B2

公开(公告)日：2021-03-09

申请号：US16749553

申请日：2020-01-22

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Yang Li ,  Haitong Sun ,  Zhu Ji ,  Yuchul Kim ,  Beibei Wang ,  Wei Zhang ,  Wei Zeng ,  Jia Tang ,  Tianyan Pu ,  Sami M. Almalfouh ,  Johnson O. Sebeni ,  Dawei Zhang

IPC: H04B7/02 ,  H04W72/04 ,  H04B7/06 ,  H04B7/08 ,  H04W24/10

Abstract: Apparatuses, systems, and methods for a wireless device to perform user equipment (UE) initiated beam management procedures with a base station or gNB. A wireless device in communication with a 5G base station may detect degradation in the pair of transmit and receive beams between the gNB and the device. The device may select a preferred beam management procedure and indicate the preference to the gNB.

公开(公告)号：US20210051767A1

公开(公告)日：2021-02-18

申请号：US16968846

申请日：2019-08-15

Applicant: APPLE INC

Inventor： Wei Zhang ,  Fangli XU ,  Haitong Sun ,  Sriram Subramanian ,  Vishwanth Kamala Govindaraju ,  Johnson O. Sebeni ,  Dawei Zhang ,  Hong He ,  Yuchul Kim

IPC: H04W88/10 ,  H04W88/02 ,  H04W76/15 ,  H04W76/27 ,  H04W72/04 ,  H04W24/08

Abstract: A user equipment (UE) device may reside in a state of dual connectivity with a master cell group (MCG) and a secondary cell group (SCG), wherein the radio access technologies of the MCG and the SCG are different. While in the dual connectivity state, the UE device may transition to a mode of reduced activity (e.g., processing and/or RF activity) relative to the secondary cell group (SCG) in order to save power, e.g., when traffic flow via the SCG is below a threshold, or when scheduling activity on the SCG is low. Various mechanisms may be employed to reduce activity, e.g., mechanisms such as reduction of beam monitoring, deactivation of secondary cells of the SCG, reduction of number of active antenna elements, employment of longer periods for periodic measurement and reporting processes, etc.

公开(公告)号：US20200351695A1

公开(公告)日：2020-11-05

申请号：US16935008

申请日：2020-07-21

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Wei Zhang ,  Tianyan Pu ,  Yang Li ,  Haitong Sun ,  Wei Zeng ,  Jia Tang ,  Beibei Wang ,  Sami M. Almalfouh ,  Zhu Ji ,  Johnson O. Sebeni ,  Yuchul Kim ,  Dawei Zhang

IPC: H04W24/10 ,  H04L5/00 ,  H04B7/08 ,  H04B7/06 ,  H04W72/08 ,  H04W24/08 ,  H04W72/04

Abstract: Apparatuses, systems, and methods for a wireless device to perform a method including performing one or more of periodic beam quality measurements and/or event-based beam quality measurements, determining, based at least in part on one or more of the periodic beam quality measurements and/or the event-based beam quality measurements, a recommended beam quality measurement configuration, and transmitting, to a base station serving the UE, the recommended beam quality measurement configuration. In addition, the UE may perform receiving, from the base station, instructions regarding the beam quality measurement configuration. The instructions may include instructions to activate, deactivate, and/or modify at least one beam quality measurement configuration. In addition, the instructions may be based, at least in part, on the recommended beam quality measurement configuration.

公开(公告)号：US20200323006A1

公开(公告)日：2020-10-08

申请号：US16905636

申请日：2020-06-18

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Wei Zeng ,  Haijing Hu ,  Yuchul Kim ,  Dawei Zhang ,  Xiangying Yang ,  Zhu Ji ,  Yang Li ,  Beibei Wang ,  Jia Tang ,  Sami M. Almalfouh ,  Johnson O. Sebeni ,  Wei Zhang ,  Tianyan Pu ,  Vijay Venkataraman ,  Christian W. Mucke

IPC: H04W76/15 ,  H04W72/12 ,  H04B7/26 ,  H04W72/04 ,  H04W88/10

Abstract: Apparatuses, systems, and methods for a wireless device to perform substantially concurrent communications with a next generation network node and a legacy network node. The wireless device may be configured to stablish a first wireless link with a first cell according to a RAT, where the first cell operates in a first system bandwidth and establish a second wireless link with a second cell according to a RAT, where the second cell operates in a second system bandwidth. Further, the wireless device may be configured to perform uplink activity for both the first RAT and the second RAT by TDM uplink data for the first RAT and uplink data for the second RAT if uplink activity is scheduled according to both the first RAT and the second RAT.