公开(公告)号：US20230118771A1

公开(公告)日：2023-04-20

申请号：US18083968

申请日：2022-12-19

Applicant: Apple Inc.

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

IPC: H04W52/02 ,  H04W72/0446 ,  H04W72/23

Abstract: Apparatuses, systems, and methods for a wireless device to perform a method including a user equipment device (UE) exchanging communications with a base station to determine one or more scheduling profiles, such as one or more scheduling-power profiles, where a scheduling-power profile may specify one or more parameters associated with UE communication behavior, e.g., one or more constraints on UE communication behavior and/or slot scheduling of UE communications. In addition, the method may include the UE receiving a slot configuration schedule from the base station. The slot configuration schedule may be based on at least one scheduling-power profile of the one or more scheduling-power profiles. Further, the method may include the UE performing communications with the base station based on the at least one scheduling-power profile.

公开(公告)号：US11589305B2

公开(公告)日：2023-02-21

申请号：US16295230

申请日：2019-03-07

Applicant: Apple Inc.

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

IPC: H04W52/02 ,  H04W72/04 ,  H04W72/0446

Abstract: Apparatuses, systems, and methods for a wireless device to perform a method including a user equipment device (UE) exchanging communications with a base station to determine one or more scheduling profiles, such as one or more scheduling-power profiles, where a scheduling-power profile may specify one or more parameters associated with UE communication behavior, e.g., one or more constraints on UE communication behavior and/or slot scheduling of UE communications. In addition, the method may include the UE receiving a slot configuration schedule from the base station. The slot configuration schedule may be based on at least one scheduling-power profile of the one or more scheduling-power profiles. Further, the method may include the UE performing communications with the base station based on the at least one scheduling-power profile.

公开(公告)号：US20220264471A1

公开(公告)日：2022-08-18

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 ,  H04W52/36 ,  H04L5/00

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：US11387949B2

公开(公告)日：2022-07-12

申请号：US16902656

申请日：2020-06-16

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Sriram Subramanian ,  Tarakkumar G. Dhanani ,  Shiva Krishna Narra ,  Sharad Garg ,  Vijay Gadde ,  Madhukar K. Shanbhag ,  Sandeep K. Sunkesala ,  Sree Ram Kodali ,  Haitong Sun ,  Sanjeevi Balasubramanian ,  Vishwanth Kamala Govindaraju ,  Wei Zhang ,  Wei Zeng ,  Dawei Zhang ,  Yuchul Kim ,  Hong He ,  Alosious Pradeep Prabhakar

IPC: H04L1/18 ,  H04W76/15

Abstract: This disclosure relates to methods and devices for transmitting acknowledgment messages on a preferred cell in a carrier aggregation scenario. A user equipment device (UE) establishes a connection with a primary cell and one or more secondary cells, and determines a preferred cell from among the primary cell and the one or more secondary cells based at least in part on one or more quality metrics. The UE may determine the preferred cell at least in part in response to determining that transmission power of the UE has been limited due to a specific absorption rate (SAR) backoff feature of the UE. The UE transmits a notification to a network indicating that the UE intends to transmit an acknowledgement message to the preferred cell, and transmits the acknowledgment message to the preferred cell.

公开(公告)号：US11330668B2

公开(公告)日：2022-05-10

申请号：US17021136

申请日：2020-09-15

Applicant: Apple Inc.

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

IPC: H04W88/06 ,  H04W76/11 ,  H04W76/27 ,  H04B7/06 ,  H04L5/00 ,  H04L25/02 ,  H04W52/24 ,  H04W56/00 ,  H04W72/04 ,  H04W80/02

Abstract: Apparatuses, systems, and methods for a user equipment device (UE) to perform methods for Fifth Generation New Radio (5G NR) frequency range two (FR2) based communications beam management. The UE may configure, via communications with a base station, serving the UE, a group ID for PUCCH resources within a group of PUCCHs, e.g., for FR2 based communications. The UE may receive, from the base station, an update to one or more PUCCH resources within the group of PUCCHs via a medium access control (MAC) control element (CE) that may include one of a resource ID indicating an update to a PUCCH resource or the group ID to update the group of PUCCH resources. The UE may update, based on the MAC-CE, the one or more PUCCH resources within the group of PUCCHs.

公开(公告)号：US11290992B2

公开(公告)日：2022-03-29

申请号：US16990322

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: H04W72/04 ,  H04W72/10 ,  H04W74/08

Abstract: Embodiments are presented herein of apparatuses, systems, and methods for a user equipment device (UE) to group transmissions into one or more groups, e.g., of various priority levels and/or types of transmissions. The UE may resolve collisions, e.g., according to one or more procedures described herein. The UE may transmit the transmissions according to the resolutions.

公开(公告)号：US11272576B2

公开(公告)日：2022-03-08

申请号：US16245389

申请日：2019-01-11

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Wei Zhang ,  Haitong Sun ,  Wei Zeng ,  Yuchul Kim ,  Dawei Zhang ,  Sami M. Almalfouh ,  Johnson O. Sebeni

IPC: H04W4/00 ,  H04W88/10 ,  H04W28/06 ,  H04B7/06 ,  H04W72/04 ,  H04W24/08 ,  H04W16/28 ,  H04W80/02 ,  H04W4/80 ,  H04B7/08 ,  H04B7/0413

Abstract: A hierarchical beamforming structure may help reduce network traffic overhead for transmission of beam indication (information) and enable efficient Transmission Configuration Indication, while facilitating beam tracking between a base station(s) and a mobile device(s) during downlink communications. Downlink control information (DCI) may be expanded to carry/transmit a beam/QCL (quasi co-location) indication for a control resource set (CORESET) for monitoring a next instance of a physical control channel. Error resilient design techniques may be employed to further improve device mobility while increasing the flexibility and reducing the latency for GC-PDCCH/PDCCH beam/QCL indications. For example, the aggregation level for select DCI (e.g. DCI in which the GC-PDCCH/PDCCH beam indication has changed) may be increased, the transmission of such select DCI may be limited to a certain (specified) aggregation level, and in case discontinuous transmission (DTX) is received, the base station may transmit both old and new beam/QCL indications.

公开(公告)号：US11202259B2

公开(公告)日：2021-12-14

申请号：US16590656

申请日：2019-10-02

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Zhu Ji ,  Jia Tang ,  Dawei Zhang ,  Wei Zeng ,  Yuchul Kim ,  Pengkai Zhao ,  Beibei Wang ,  Haitong Sun ,  Wei Zhang

IPC: H04W52/02 ,  H04W68/00 ,  H04W72/04

Abstract: Apparatuses, systems, and methods for performing power saving for a wireless device. The wireless device may connect to a base station (BS). The wireless device may establish discontinuous reception (DRX) with the BS, where the DRX comprises a DRX cycle having a cycle length. The wireless device may receive reference signal information from the base station in association with the DRX cycle length, where the reference signal information is transmitted according to the cycle length. The wireless device may perform tracking using the reference signal information.

公开(公告)号：US20210368368A1

公开(公告)日：2021-11-25

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

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：US10993117B2

公开(公告)日：2021-04-27

申请号：US16214472

申请日：2018-12-10

Applicant: APPLE INC.

Inventor： Tianyan Pu ,  Farouk Belghoul ,  Wei Zeng ,  Wei Zhang ,  Xiaowen Wang ,  Yang Li ,  Ping Wang ,  Haitong Sun ,  Beibei Wang ,  Yuchul Kim ,  Johnson O. Sebeni ,  Dawei Zhang ,  Sami M. Almalfouh ,  Zhu Ji ,  Sunny Arora

IPC: H04W16/14 ,  H04W24/10 ,  H04W72/04 ,  H04W24/08 ,  H04W48/12 ,  H04W74/08 ,  H04W48/16

Abstract: An evolved Node B (eNB) serves as a primary serving cell (PCell) providing a primary component carrier (PCC) in a licensed spectrum to a user equipment (UE) in a carrier aggregation (CA) scheme. A secondary component carrier (SCC) is provided in an unlicensed spectrum. The eNB monitors parameters of bandwidths in the unlicensed spectrum, when at least one of the parameters indicates a change in availability of a select one of the bandwidths, the eNB generates a control indicator defining the change in availability of the bandwidth and broadcasts the control indicator to the UE, wherein the control indicator affects a modification in a transceiver of the UE associated with the bandwidth.