公开(公告)号：US20230396393A1

公开(公告)日：2023-12-07

申请号：US18248896

申请日：2020-10-23

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Chunhai Yao ,  Chunxuan Ye ,  Dawei Zhang ,  Fangli Xu ,  Haijing Hu ,  Haitong Sun ,  Hong He ,  Huaning Niu ,  Oghenekome Oteri ,  Sarma V. Vangala ,  Sigen Ye ,  Wei Zeng ,  Weidong Yang ,  Yushu Zhang ,  Zhu Ji

IPC: H04L5/00 ,  H04B17/318

CPC classification number: H04L5/0057 ,  H04B17/328

Abstract: Techniques discussed herein can facilitate beam management for non-terrestrial networks (NTN). One example aspect is A baseband processor, comprising: a memory interface; and processing communicatively coupled to the memory and transceiver interface and, while connected to a base station (BS) within a cell of a non-terrestrial network (NTN) and, where the cell comprises a plurality of bandwidth parts (BWPs) associated with a plurality of beams, configured to perform operations comprising: receiving a signaling from the base station (BS) comprising a channel state indicator reference signal (CSI-RS) configuration associated with a first BWP of the plurality of BWPs, where the CSI-RS configuration comprises a beam measurement configuration for the plurality of beams, switching from a second BWP of the plurality of BWPs to the first BWP according to the CSI-RS configuration and measure one or more of the plurality of beams according to the beam measurement configuration; and generating a measurement report that includes a layer 1 reference signal received power (L1-RSRP) measurement from the measured one or more of the plurality of beams.

公开(公告)号：US11825436B2

公开(公告)日：2023-11-21

申请号：US17598238

申请日：2020-08-07

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Chunhai Yao ,  Chunxuan Ye ,  Dawei Zhang ,  Haijing Hu ,  Haitong Sun ,  Hong He ,  Oghenekome Oteri ,  Sarma V. Vangala ,  Sigen Ye ,  Wei Zeng ,  Weidong Yang ,  Yushu Zhang

IPC: H04W56/00 ,  H04W72/0446 ,  H04W72/231 ,  H04W72/232

CPC classification number: H04W56/0045 ,  H04W72/0446 ,  H04W72/231 ,  H04W72/232

Abstract: A user equipment (UE) comprising a processor configured to perform the operations that determines an uplink (UL) slot is described. In exemplary embodiments, the UE receives, from a base station, a scaling factor through a first Radio Resource Control (RRC) signal. The UE may further determines an offset through a second RRC signal. In addition, the UE may receive from the base station, downlink control information (DCI) that includes an indication of an initial time gap. Furthermore, the UE may calculate a new time gap by at least applying the scaling factor to the initial time gap and determine a slot of uplink transmission based on at least the new time gap and the offset.

公开(公告)号：US20230345538A1

公开(公告)日：2023-10-26

申请号：US17598061

申请日：2021-01-14

Applicant: Apple Inc.

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

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

CPC classification number: H04W74/0833 ,  H04W74/006 ,  H04L5/0053

Abstract: Disclosed are methods and apparatus to enhance RACH transmission for beyond 52.6 GHz communications. A Physical Random Access Channel (PRACH) configuration information including an indication of a PRACH preamble format for a predefined subcarrier spacing (SCS) to enhance cell coverage may be received. The PRACH configuration information may include a new PRACH preamble format in a time-domain based on a short sequence PRACH preamble format. Additionally, the PRACH preamble may be transmitted using the PRACH preamble format over a PRACH to a base station (BS). The short sequence PRACH preamble format may be repeated over two consecutive time-domain RACH occasions (ROs).

公开(公告)号：US20230337094A1

公开(公告)日：2023-10-19

申请号：US17438179

申请日：2021-05-10

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Qiming Li ,  Chunhai Yao ,  Dawei Zhang ,  Huaning Niu ,  Jie Cui ,  Manasa Raghavan ,  Xiang Chen ,  Yang Tang ,  Yushu Zhang

IPC: H04W36/18 ,  H04W36/00

CPC classification number: H04W36/18 ,  H04W36/00725

Abstract: Apparatuses, systems, and methods for performing dual active protocol stack handovers in a frequency range above 24 GHz. A UE may transmit an indication to a base station indicating a dual active protocol stack (DAPS) handover capability of the UE corresponding to a frequency range (FR) above 24 GHz. The UE may receive, from a target cell of the one or more cells, a command to perform a DAPS handover from a source cell to the target cell. While performing the DAPS handover and maintaining a data connection with the source cell, the UE may perform measurements on the target cell followed by a physical random access channel (PRACH) procedure. The UE may then receive a source cell release command from the target cell and release the data connection with the source cell.

公开(公告)号：US11778638B2

公开(公告)日：2023-10-03

申请号：US17053278

申请日：2019-11-07

Applicant: Apple Inc.

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

IPC: H04W72/25 ,  H04L1/00 ,  H04L1/1829

CPC classification number: H04W72/25 ,  H04L1/0057 ,  H04L1/0067 ,  H04L1/0071 ,  H04L1/1854

Abstract: Embodiments are presented herein of apparatuses, systems, and methods for a vehicle-to-everything (V2X) capable wireless device configured to perform sidelink cellular communications. The wireless device performs sidelink communications using a two-stage sidelink control information (SCI) protocol including Stage 1 SCI messaging carried on a physical sidelink control channel (PSCCH), and Stage 2 SCI messaging carried on a physical sidelink shared channel (PSSCH). The SCI messaging may be encoded using polar codes. Channel interleaving is utilized on the SCI to interleave the SCI between two or more layers of a MIMO transmission system. Scrambling for Stage 2 SCI messaging is performed based on the result of a cyclic redundancy check (CRC) performed on Stage 1 SCI messaging. Collisions between sidelink HARQ feedback to be transmitted to a base station and other transmissions are avoided based on a priority analysis of the sidelink HARQ feedback.

公开(公告)号：US20230284223A1

公开(公告)日：2023-09-07

申请号：US17776737

申请日：2021-09-24

Applicant: Apple Inc.

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

IPC: H04W72/21 ,  H04W72/0446 ,  H04W72/563

CPC classification number: H04W72/21 ,  H04W72/0446 ,  H04W72/563

Abstract: Methods and devices for a UE to multiplex uplink control information (UCI). The UE establishes a connection with a base station. The UE determines whether to multiplex first UCI by first identifying whether intra-priority timing overlap exists between the timing resources of the first UCI and a PUSCH with the same priority. Subsequently, the UE identifies whether inter-priority timing overlap exists between the timing resources of the first UCI and a second PUCCH with a different priority from the first PUCCH. Finally, the UE identifies whether the timing resources of the first UCI overlap with a second PUSCH with a different priority than the first PUCCH. The UE multiplexes the first UCI based on the determination whether to multiplex the first UCI, and transmits the multiplexed first UCI to the base station.

公开(公告)号：US11743749B2

公开(公告)日：2023-08-29

申请号：US17059187

申请日：2019-11-28

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：US20230246685A1

公开(公告)日：2023-08-03

申请号：US17442413

申请日：2020-08-07

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Weidong Yang ,  Chunhai Yao ,  Chunxuan Ye ,  Dawei Zhang ,  Haitong Sun ,  Hong He ,  Ismael Gutierrez Gonzalez ,  Jie Cui ,  Oghenekome Oteri ,  Sigen Ye ,  Wei Zeng ,  Yang Tang ,  Yushu Zhang

IPC: H04B7/06

CPC classification number: H04B7/0626

Abstract: A user equipment (UE), or other network component can operate to configure channel state information (CSI) feedback in response to receiving a CSI-reference signal (CSI-RS) according to a hierarchical precoding scheme that selectively reduces a feedback overhead associated with the CSI feedback. The UE can operate to divide and further sub-divide a frequency band (e.g., a wideband, or particular frequency part) into a precoding hierarchy to generate precoders for conveyance to a base station, eNodeB (eNB), or next generation NodeB (gNB) via the CSI feedback.

公开(公告)号：US20230246673A1

公开(公告)日：2023-08-03

申请号：US18130450

申请日：2023-04-04

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

CPC classification number: H04B7/022 ,  H04L5/001

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：US11706809B2

公开(公告)日：2023-07-18

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 ,  H04W76/27 ,  H04W72/21

CPC classification number: H04W74/0833 ,  H04W72/21 ,  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.