公开(公告)号：US20240205971A1

公开(公告)日：2024-06-20

申请号：US18428244

申请日：2024-01-31

Applicant: Apple Inc.

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

IPC: H04W74/0816 ,  H04L27/26 ,  H04W72/0446 ,  H04W74/00 ,  H04W74/08

CPC classification number: H04W74/0816 ,  H04L27/2607 ,  H04W72/0446 ,  H04W74/006 ,  H04W74/0866

Abstract: Apparatuses, systems, and methods for selecting channel access mechanisms in wireless communications, and particularly in 3GPP NR-U. For example, an appropriate listen-before talk (LBT) channel access category (Cat) may be defined for certain messages, such as certain DL and/or UL control messages and certain RACH messages. For other messages, an appropriate Cat may be signaled by the base station, e.g., in a DCI message or SIB. Mechanisms are provided for the base station to signal to the UE certain channel access profile parameters, such as an appropriate LBT Cat, CAPC, and/or CP extension. Mechanisms are also provided for adjustment of contention window duration.

公开(公告)号：US11979760B2

公开(公告)日：2024-05-07

申请号：US17593419

申请日：2020-08-04

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Weidong Yang ,  Amir Farajidana ,  Chunhai Yao ,  Chunxuan Ye ,  Dawei Zhang ,  Haitong Sun ,  Hong He ,  Jie Cui ,  Keith W. Saints ,  Linbo Li ,  Oghenekome Oteri ,  Sigen Ye ,  Wei Zeng ,  Wei Zhang ,  Yang Tang ,  Yushu Zhang

IPC: H04W24/08 ,  H04L1/00 ,  H04W72/0446 ,  H04W72/23

CPC classification number: H04W24/08 ,  H04L1/0038 ,  H04W72/0446 ,  H04W72/23

Abstract: A user equipment (UE) monitors a Physical Downlink Control Channel (PDCCH) in multiple component carriers (CC). The UE determines if the UE is operating in carrier aggregation (CA) mode having a first CC in a first frequency band and a second CC in a second frequency band. When the UE is operating in CA with a first CC in the first frequency band and the second CC in the second frequency band, the UE determines a span pattern for PDCCH symbols being received on the first and second CC and selects a PDCCH monitoring type based on, at least, the span pattern. A UE also determines if a first CC and a second CC of a CA combination are collocated and selects a PDCCH monitoring type based on, at least, the determination of whether the first and second CC are collocated.

公开(公告)号：US11974362B2

公开(公告)日：2024-04-30

申请号：US17499619

申请日：2021-10-12

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Pengkai Zhao ,  Dawei Zhang ,  Fangli Xu ,  Haijing Hu ,  Haitong Sun ,  Sami M. Almalfouh ,  Wanping Zhang ,  Wei Zeng ,  Wei Zhang ,  Yuqin Chen

IPC: H04W76/14 ,  H04W4/40 ,  H04W24/10 ,  H04W72/50 ,  H04W88/04 ,  H04W92/18

CPC classification number: H04W88/04 ,  H04W4/40 ,  H04W24/10 ,  H04W72/535 ,  H04W76/14 ,  H04W92/18

Abstract: Apparatuses, systems, and methods for a wireless device to perform methods for determining resources for scheduling side-link communications. The resources may be semi-persistent and/or dynamic resources. A user equipment device (UE) may determine a resource map for use in scheduling semi-persistent resources for side-link communications with at least one wireless node. The UE may transmit a resource map request message indicating preferred resource blocks, where each resource block may be defined by a time and a frequency. The UE may receive a confirmation message that may include a report regarding a set of resource blocks. The set of resource blocks may be from the preferred resource blocks included in the resource map request message. The UE may determine, based, at least in part, on the confirmation message, resource blocks to be used for the side-link communications and initiate the side-link communications using the determined resource blocks.

公开(公告)号：US11963220B2

公开(公告)日：2024-04-16

申请号：US17053718

申请日：2019-11-07

Applicant: Apple Inc.

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

IPC: H04W74/08 ,  H04L27/26 ,  H04W72/0446 ,  H04W74/00 ,  H04W74/0816

CPC classification number: H04W74/0816 ,  H04L27/2607 ,  H04W72/0446 ,  H04W74/006 ,  H04W74/0866

Abstract: Apparatuses, systems, and methods for selecting channel access mechanisms in wireless communications, and particularly in 3GPP NR-U. For example, an appropriate listen-before talk (LBT) channel access category (Cat) may be defined for certain messages, such as certain DL and/or UL control messages and certain RACH messages. For other messages, an appropriate Cat may be signaled by the base station, e.g., in a DCI message or SIB. Mechanisms are provided for the base station to signal to the UE certain channel access profile parameters, such as an appropriate LBT Cat, CAPC, and/or CP extension. Mechanisms are also provided for adjustment of contention window duration.

公开(公告)号：US20240057107A1

公开(公告)日：2024-02-15

申请号：US17765478

申请日：2021-04-05

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Haitong Sun ,  Dawei Zhang ,  Wei Zeng ,  Yushu Zhang ,  Hong He ,  Chunxuan Ye ,  Huaning Niu ,  Jie Cui ,  Wei Zhang

IPC: H04W72/232 ,  H04W72/12

CPC classification number: H04W72/232 ,  H04W72/12

Abstract: Techniques described herein may include a special scheduling cell (sSCell) provided for dynamic spectrum sharing (DSS). The sSCell may schedule a primary cell of a master cell group (MCG) or a primary cell of a secondary cell group (SCG). The primary cell may be referred to as a special cell or SpCell. The sSCell may be activated and/or deactivated, enter in or exit from a state of dormancy, and radio link monitoring (RLM), beam failure recovery (BFR), and cell grouping parameters may be provided. Techniques described herein include configuring a UE-specific search space (USS) with non-fallback downlink control information (DCI), USS with fallback DCI, and overall search space for DSS enhancement.

公开(公告)号：US11877245B2

公开(公告)日：2024-01-16

申请号：US16976322

申请日：2019-11-28

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Haitong Sun ,  Wei Zhang ,  Tianyan Pu ,  Pengkai Zhao ,  Jia Tang ,  Yushu Zhang ,  Yuchul Kim ,  Hong He ,  Dawei Zhang ,  Wei Zeng

IPC: H04W52/14 ,  H04L5/00 ,  H04W52/36

CPC classification number: H04W52/146 ,  H04L5/0051 ,  H04W52/365 ,  H04W52/367

Abstract: Apparatuses, systems, and methods to indicate power transmission capability for a wireless device. A wireless device may connect to a base station (BS). The wireless device may transmit information regarding transmit power capability to the BS. The wireless device may indicate support for full power transmit capability for a subset of TPMIs for which it provides full power transmit capability, e.g., in a bitmap. This subset of TPMIs may be less than all of the available TPMIs (i.e., it may be a strict subset of the available TPMIs). Full power transmission capability of these indicated TPMIs may be provided via antenna switching and/or antenna virtualization. The wireless device may perform uplink transmission to the BS according to the transmit power capability indicated in the information. For example, the UE may transmit data using the antenna virtualization related to the subset of the TPMIs.

公开(公告)号：US20230413087A1

公开(公告)日：2023-12-21

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

CPC classification number: H04W24/08 ,  H04L5/0053

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：US11696281B2

公开(公告)日：2023-07-04

申请号：US16990041

申请日：2020-08-11

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Hong He ,  Dawei Zhang ,  Haitong Sun ,  Jia Tang ,  Pengkai Zhao ,  Wei Zeng ,  Wei Zhang ,  Yuchul Kim

IPC: H04W72/1268 ,  H04L69/06 ,  H04W16/14 ,  H04W72/23 ,  H04W88/02

CPC classification number: H04W72/1268 ,  H04L69/06 ,  H04W16/14 ,  H04W72/23 ,  H04W88/02

Abstract: Apparatuses, systems, and methods for a user equipment device (UE) to perform multiple TTI PUSCH transmissions in a wireless communication system as well as code block groups (CBGs) based retransmissions operations. A UE may perform radio resource control (RRC) signaling with a network entity to configure a data structure that may include one or more sets of physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH) transmission configurations, where each set of PUSCH transmission configurations span multiple TTIs. The wireless device may be configured to receive, from the network entity, a downlink control information (DCI) message that may include a time domain resource assignment field (TDRA) that may indicate a set of PUSCH transmission configurations included in the data structure. The wireless device may perform PUSCH transmissions spanning multiple TTIs according to the indicated set of PUSCH transmission configurations over an unlicensed band.

公开(公告)号：US11690129B2

公开(公告)日：2023-06-27

申请号：US17069385

申请日：2020-10-13

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Wei Zhang ,  Yuchul Kim ,  Junsung Lim ,  Haitong Sun ,  Wei Zeng ,  Sami M. Almalfouh ,  Yang Li ,  Zhu Ji ,  Dawei Zhang ,  Johnson O. Sebeni

IPC: H04W76/28 ,  H04W72/0453 ,  H04W24/10 ,  H04W76/25 ,  H04W52/02 ,  H04W72/23

CPC classification number: H04W76/28 ,  H04W24/10 ,  H04W52/0216 ,  H04W72/0453 ,  H04W72/23 ,  H04W76/25

Abstract: Apparatuses, systems, and methods for a base station to perform a method construct dynamic hierarchical sub-configurations of bandwidth parts (BWPs) for use in a connected mode discontinuous reception (CDRX) communication session with a user equipment (UE) device. The base station may configure a first BWP at a baseband frequency associated with the CDRX communication session as a default BWP, a second BWP with a wider bandwidth than the first BWP as a transmission BWP, and one or more third BWPs as resting BWPs. The transmission BWP and the one or more resting BWPs may be configured to periodically override the default BWP as the active BWP for a predetermined number of CDRX cycles. The transmission BWP may be utilized, when activated to perform data transmission by UE device, and the one or more resting BWPs may be utilized, when activated, for performing channel measurements.

公开(公告)号：US11683106B2

公开(公告)日：2023-06-20

申请号：US16813264

申请日：2020-03-09

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Shiva Krishna Narra ,  Madhukar K. Shanbhag ,  Pengkai Zhao ,  Sami M. Almalfouh ,  Sanjeevi Balasubramanian ,  Sriram Subramanian ,  Wei Zhang ,  Yi Su

IPC: H04B17/21 ,  H04W16/28 ,  H04W52/24 ,  H01Q3/24 ,  H01Q1/24 ,  H04B7/08 ,  H04B17/327 ,  H01Q21/28

CPC classification number: H04B17/21 ,  H01Q1/243 ,  H01Q3/247 ,  H01Q21/28 ,  H04B7/0808 ,  H04B7/0814 ,  H04B7/0888 ,  H04B17/327 ,  H04W16/28 ,  H04W52/241

Abstract: A method performed by a user equipment (UE) configured with a plurality of antenna panels. Each antenna panel is configured to beamform over a millimeter wave (mmWave) frequency band. The method includes identifying a predetermined condition corresponding to a first antenna panel of the plurality of antenna panels, selecting a second antenna panel of the plurality of antenna panels based on identifying the predetermined condition corresponding to the first antenna panel and transmitting a beam via the second antenna panel based on the selection.