公开(公告)号：US20220303998A1

公开(公告)日：2022-09-22

申请号：US17439024

申请日：2020-10-12

Applicant: Apple Inc.

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

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

Abstract: A cellular base station (BS) which transmits more flexible downlink control information (DCI) to the UE, and a UE capable of receiving and processing a received DCI message. The DCI message may have a DCI format of 0_1 or 0_2 and further may comprise an UL-SCH set to 0, a CSI request field of all 0s and an SRS request field having a nonzero value. The DCI message may indicate to the UE that the UE should: 1) transmit an aperiodic SRS corresponding to SRS request; and 2) that the UE should not transmit on the PUSCH. The DCI may include existing fields that specify either a slot offset or beam information useable when transmitting the aperiodic SRS. The base station may also generate a DCI message with an SRS trigger that is targeted to a plurality of UEs in a group, or a plurality of groups of UEs, for greater efficiency.

公开(公告)号：US20220303086A1

公开(公告)日：2022-09-22

申请号：US17437571

申请日：2020-09-16

Applicant: Apple Inc.

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

IPC: H04L5/00 ,  H04W24/08 ,  H04W72/04

Abstract: This disclosure relates to techniques for a user equipment device (UE) performing a quasi-colocation (QCL) update in a wireless communication system. The UE may receive an indication to change a spatial relationship for transmission/reception. The UE may receive aperiodic reference signals for use in beam tracking according to the new spatial relationship. The UE may also receive provide aperiodic reference signals for time, frequency, and/or phase tracking. Thus, the UE may change to the new spatial relationship and use the aperiodic reference signals to quickly complete initial tracking operations.

公开(公告)号：US20220302966A1

公开(公告)日：2022-09-22

申请号：US17442129

申请日：2020-08-05

Applicant: Apple Inc.

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

IPC: H04B7/0456 ,  H04W72/04 ,  H04L5/00

Abstract: Embodiments are presented herein of apparatuses, systems, and methods for a user equipment device (UE) to establish a cellular connection with a base station. The UE may receive multiple input, multiple output (MIMO) uplink configuration information from the base station. The MIMO configuration information may indicate a plurality of sounding reference signal (SRS) resources. The UE may receive downlink control information (DCI) from the base station, which may specify a plurality of MIMO parameters. The UE may perform uplink MIMO communication with the base station according to the MIMO configuration and the plurality of MIMO parameters.

公开(公告)号：US11451361B2

公开(公告)日：2022-09-20

申请号：US17023342

申请日：2020-09-16

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Yushu Zhang ,  Yakun Sun ,  Fangli Xu ,  Yuqin Chen ,  Dawei Zhang ,  Haijing Hu ,  Chunhai Yao ,  Yuchul Kim ,  Hong He ,  Wei Zeng ,  Haitong Sun

IPC: H04L5/00 ,  H04B7/06 ,  H04W24/10

Abstract: A wireless user equipment (UE) may employ any of various mechanisms for reporting signal quality measurements to a wireless network. The UE may impose a time delay between measurement and reporting, based on a delay parameter K. The UE may average measurements obtained at different measurement instances. The UE may employ any of various schemes for prioritizing transmission of one type of report over another, when temporal collisions occur between different types of report. The UE may employ a differential report that includes a state for indicating that a beam is not workable. The UE may employ a beam index that includes a state for indicating an invalid beam. A base station may receive a signal quality report and determine workability of a beam, e.g., by triggering a report of channel state information.

公开(公告)号：US11445563B2

公开(公告)日：2022-09-13

申请号：US16931254

申请日：2020-07-16

Applicant: Apple Inc.

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

IPC: H04W72/14 ,  H04W76/18 ,  H04W76/19 ,  H04W72/12 ,  H04W74/08 ,  H04W8/24

Abstract: Embodiments are presented herein of apparatuses, systems, and methods for a user equipment device (UE) to transmit an indication of a link failure on a secondary cell. The indication may be transmitted on resources selected based on one or more conditions. One or more priority rules may be used to resolve collisions. The UE may further make an assumption of a beam or beams to use for communications with the secondary cell following the link failure and prior to receiving an indication from the network of a selected beam.

公开(公告)号：US20220279450A1

公开(公告)日：2022-09-01

申请号：US16977442

申请日：2019-09-29

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Yushu Zhang ,  Chunhai Yao ,  Dawei Zhang ,  Fangli Xu ,  Haijing Hu ,  Haitong Sun ,  Hong He ,  Wei Zeng ,  Yakun Sun ,  Yuchul Kim ,  Yuqin Chen

IPC: H04W52/08 ,  H04W52/14 ,  H04W52/36 ,  H04W52/24

Abstract: Embodiments are presented herein of apparatuses, systems, and methods for a user equipment device (UE) to perform power control for uplink (UL) reference signals (RS). A UE may determine spatial configuration for UL RS based on another communication. A UE may determine an updated pathloss within a reduced implementation following an update of downlink (DL) RS. A UE may reset a power control factor in response to receiving an update.

公开(公告)号：US20220271886A1

公开(公告)日：2022-08-25

申请号：US17438586

申请日：2021-01-13

Applicant: Apple Inc.

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

IPC: H04L5/00

Abstract: Transmission of uplink demodulation reference signals (DMRSs) may be dynamically adapted for mobile devices. Downlink control information (DCI) that schedules uplink transmission(s) of the mobile device may include an information element (IE) corresponding to a DMRS to be transmitted by the UE during the uplink transmission(s). The IE enables the mobile device to determine when to transmit DMRSs during the scheduled uplink transmission(s). The mobile device may identify a corresponding DMRS pattern indicated by the IE, with the DMRS pattern defining how many DMRSs to transmit during the uplink transmission(s), how many DMRSs to transmit in a given time interval (TTI) bundle in the uplink transmission(s), how many DMRSs to transmit in a given repetition of the TTI bundle, and/or where the relative position(s) of the DMRSs are within the given repetition and the given TTI bundle. The DMRS patterns may be configured for the mobile device via higher layer signaling or may be hard-coded.

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：US11387942B2

公开(公告)日：2022-07-12

申请号：US16410095

申请日：2019-05-13

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Sergey Panteleev ,  Debdeep Chatterjee ,  Hong He

IPC: H04L1/08 ,  H04W72/04 ,  H04W76/27 ,  H04L27/00 ,  H04L1/00 ,  H04L5/00 ,  H04L1/16

Abstract: An apparatus is configured for a next Generation NodeB (gNB). The apparatus comprises baseband circuitry and/or application circuitry which includes a radio frequency (RF) interface and one or more processors. The one or more processors are configured to determine a transmission mode for a user equipment (UE) device; dynamically determine a repetition level sequence for a physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH) based on a transmission time interval (TTI) and the transmission mode; generate repetition level signaling for the determined repetition level sequence; and provide the generated repetition level signaling to the RF interface for transmission to the UE device.