公开(公告)号：US11877228B2

公开(公告)日：2024-01-16

申请号：US17543440

申请日：2021-12-06

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Puneet Jain ,  Robert Zaus ,  Ahmed Soliman ,  Marta Martinez Tarradell ,  Stefania Sesia

IPC: H04W8/22 ,  H04W48/16 ,  H04W48/04 ,  H04W8/02 ,  H04W8/18 ,  H04W88/06

CPC classification number: H04W48/04 ,  H04W8/02 ,  H04W8/18 ,  H04W8/22 ,  H04W48/16 ,  H04W88/06

Abstract: Methods, systems, and storage media are provided for user equipment (UE) that supports enhanced coverage and may operate with a voice centric usage setting or a data centric usage setting. When the UE's usage setting is set to voice centric, the UE may not operate in coverage enhancement (CE) mode B. When the UE's usage setting is set to data centric, then the UE may operate in CE mode B. The UE may indicate the UE's usage setting in an Attach or Tracking Area Update (TAU) request message, and a mobility management entity (MME) may indicate to an evolved NodeB that CE mode B is restricted or not restricted based on the usage setting. Other embodiments may be described and/or claimed.

公开(公告)号：US11838979B2

公开(公告)日：2023-12-05

申请号：US17491165

申请日：2021-09-30

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Marta Martinez Tarradell ,  Youn Hyoung Heo ,  Sudeep Palat ,  Seau S. Lim

IPC: H04W4/00 ,  H04W76/27 ,  H04W76/34 ,  H04W76/15 ,  H04W24/10 ,  H04W68/02

CPC classification number: H04W76/27 ,  H04W24/10 ,  H04W68/02 ,  H04W76/15 ,  H04W76/34

Abstract: Embodiments of a next generation Node-B (gNB), User Equipment (UE) and methods for communication are generally described herein. A gNB may be configurable to operate as a master gNB (MgNB). The MgNB may transmit radio-resource control (RRC) signaling to provide information for dual connectivity to allow the UE to utilize radio resources of both a master cell group (MCG) associated with the MgNB and a secondary cell group (SCG) associated with a secondary gNB (SgNB). The MgNB may transmit, to the SgNB, an SgNB release request message that indicates a partial suspension of the dual connectivity, wherein: a first portion of a configuration for the SCG is to be maintained and a second portion of the configuration for the SCG is to be released.

公开(公告)号：US11695529B2

公开(公告)日：2023-07-04

申请号：US16797956

申请日：2020-02-21

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Debdeep Chatterjee ,  Marta Martinez Tarradell

IPC: H04L5/00 ,  H04W48/00 ,  H04W4/70 ,  H04W48/12 ,  H04W68/02 ,  H04W68/00 ,  H04W76/28

CPC classification number: H04L5/0053 ,  H04L5/0048 ,  H04L5/0094 ,  H04W4/70 ,  H04W48/00 ,  H04W48/12 ,  H04W68/02 ,  H04W68/005 ,  H04W76/28

Abstract: This disclosure relates to implementations to support non-UE-specific (i.e. common) and UE-specific search spaces (SS) for M-PDCCH. One implementation relates to a UE comprising RF circuitry to receive, from an eNB, configuration information of one or a plurality of common Search Spaces (CSSs) for M-PDCCH; and baseband circuitry to monitor the one or more configured CSS for M-PDCCH transmissions; wherein the RF circuitry and/or baseband circuitry is adapted to support a reduced bandwidth (BW). Another implementation relates to an eNB comprising RF circuitry to transmit configuration information of a plurality of CSSs for M-PDCCH to one or more UEs supporting a reduced BW, wherein the plurality of CSSs for M-PDCCH are differentiated by “based on functionality”-differentiation that includes the type of use case and/or an EC level of the UE.

公开(公告)号：US11405883B2

公开(公告)日：2022-08-02

申请号：US17008056

申请日：2020-08-31

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Hyung-Nam Choi ,  Chandru Aswani ,  Karim E. Morsy ,  Marta Martinez Tarradell

IPC: H04W76/27 ,  H04W64/00 ,  G01S5/02 ,  G01S5/06 ,  H04W84/04

Abstract: System and methods of providing location techniques for a NB UE are described. The UE transmits, to a location server, a capability message that indicates position capabilities of the UE to support different positioning methods and common information related to the position methods, including that the UE is a NB UE. The UE receives a request for location information that includes a request for positioning measurement for a particular positioning method, a NB message size limit that indicates a limit on an amount of location information to return, and a NB response time to provide the positioning measurements. At least one of the response time or message size limit is different than for the NB UE than for non-NB UEs. The UE enters an idle state, performs the measurements, and transmits at expiry of or before the NB response time, a message containing the measurements.

公开(公告)号：US20220167140A1

公开(公告)日：2022-05-26

申请号：US17441447

申请日：2020-03-26

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Bharat Shrestha ,  Marta Martinez Tarradell ,  Seau S. Lim ,  Debdeep Chatterjee

IPC: H04W4/90

Abstract: Methods, systems, apparatus, and computer programs, for warning system notifications and acquisition. In one aspect, the method includes actions of receiving, by user equipment (UE) and from an access node, data indicating the presence of a PDSCH broadcast, configuring, by the UE and based on the received data, a narrowband (NB) to receive transport blocks in PDSCH, and receiving, by the UE, one or more transport blocks broadcast in PDSCH using the NB, the one or more transport blocks including the warning system information.

公开(公告)号：US20220117027A1

公开(公告)日：2022-04-14

申请号：US17491165

申请日：2021-09-30

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Marta Martinez Tarradell ,  Youn Hyoung Heo ,  Sudeep Palat ,  Seau S. Lim

IPC: H04W76/27 ,  H04W76/34 ,  H04W76/15 ,  H04W24/10 ,  H04W68/02

Abstract: Embodiments of a next generation Node-B (gNB), User Equipment (UE) and methods for communication are generally described herein. A gNB may be configurable to operate as a master gNB (MgNB). The MgNB may transmit radio-resource control (RRC) signaling to provide information for dual connectivity to allow the UE to utilize radio resources of both a master cell group (MCG) associated with the MgNB and a secondary cell group (SCG) associated with a secondary gNB (SgNB). The MgNB may transmit, to the SgNB, an SgNB release request message that indicates a partial suspension of the dual connectivity, wherein: a first portion of a configuration for the SCG is to be maintained and a second portion of the configuration for the SCG is to be released.

公开(公告)号：US11190989B2

公开(公告)日：2021-11-30

申请号：US16419245

申请日：2019-05-22

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Alexander Sirotkin ,  Xu Zhang ,  Jaemin Han ,  Feng Yang ,  Honglei Miao ,  Jerome Parron ,  Markus Dominik Mueck ,  Jing Zhu ,  Ellen Liao ,  Jeongho Jeon ,  Youn Hyoung Heo ,  Anthony Lee ,  Seau S. Lim ,  Marta Martinez Tarradell ,  Meghashree Dattatri Kedalagudde ,  Puneet Jain ,  Bharat Shrestha

IPC: H04W36/00 ,  H04W36/08 ,  H04B17/318 ,  H04W80/02 ,  H04W76/27 ,  H04W80/08

Abstract: A Next Generation Node-B (gNB) and methods of communication are generally described herein. The gNB is configurable to operate as a source gNB. The gNB is configured with logical nodes including a gNB central unit (gNB-CU) and a gNB distributed unit (gNB-DU). The gNB-CU comprises a gNB-CU control plane (gNB-CU-CP) for control-plane functionality, and a gNB-CU user plane (gNB-CU-UP) for user-plane functionality. When a handover of a User Equipment (UE) from the source gNB to a target gNB is performed, the gNB transfers, from the gNB-DU to the gNB-CU-UP, a downlink data delivery status (DDDS) message to indicate that the gNB-CU-UP is to stop transfer, to the gNB-DU, of downlink data intended for the UE.

公开(公告)号：US11184930B2

公开(公告)日：2021-11-23

申请号：US16316842

申请日：2017-08-01

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Seau Lim ,  Marta Martinez Tarradell ,  Debdeep Chatterjee ,  Youn Hyoung Heo

IPC: H04W72/04 ,  H04W74/08 ,  H04L5/00

Abstract: A Narrowband-Internet-of-Things (NB-IoT) device may select between multiple carrier resources (of an anchor carrier and/or non-anchor carriers) to perform a Narrowband Physical Random Access Channel (NPRACH) procedure. The NB-IoT device may determine, based on a reference signal from an enhanced NodeB (eNB), a coverage level for the NB-IoT device and receive carrier configuration information, from the eNB, that indicates the carriers (e.g., an anchor carrier and one or more non-anchor carriers) that are available for NPRACH procedure. The NB-IoT device may select a carrier resource from among the carriers based on factors, such as the coverage level of the NB-IoT device and the Reference Signals Received Power (RSRP) thresholds and Repetition levels of the carrier resources. The NB-IoT device may use the selected carrier resource to initiate the NPRACH procedure.

公开(公告)号：US20210120456A1

公开(公告)日：2021-04-22

申请号：US17137739

申请日：2020-12-30

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Hyung-Nam Choi ,  Ozgur Oyman ,  Jerome Parron ,  Marta Martinez Tarradell

IPC: H04W28/22 ,  H04W76/27 ,  H04L29/06 ,  H04W28/20 ,  H04W72/08

Abstract: Devices, methods, user equipment (UE), network core devices, gateway devices, evolved node B (eNB), and storage media for UE provisioning are described. In one embodiment, a UE is configured for codec bitrate adaptation via an interface configured to receive a bandwidth indication and a codec awareness indication from an eNB. The UE process the bandwidth indication and identifies, based on the codec awareness indication, a first codec from a plurality of codecs supported by the UE. The UE then configures with the eNB using data encoded with the first codec. This data may, for example, be Voice over Long-Term Evolution (VoLTE) data or other such media data. Selection of the codec or associated codec information may be further based on the codec awareness indication.

公开(公告)号：US10979958B2

公开(公告)日：2021-04-13

申请号：US16142115

申请日：2018-09-26

Applicant: APPLE INC.

Inventor： Bharat Shrestha ,  Christiane Senger ,  Marta Martinez Tarradell ,  Debdeep Chatterjee ,  Qiaoyang Ye ,  Seau Sian Lim

IPC: H04W36/36 ,  H04W36/00 ,  H04W48/12

Abstract: Systems, methods, and apparatuses can provide or obtain scheduling information for a system information block type1-bandwidth reduced (SIB1-BR) without obtaining a master information block during handover. A user equipment (UE) can identify SIB1-BR scheduling information in a radio resource control connection (RRC) reconfiguration message. The UE can determine scheduling of an SIB1-BR for a target cell based on the RRC reconfiguration message, and process the SIB1-BR received from the target cell during the determined scheduling.