公开(公告)号：US11438811B2

公开(公告)日：2022-09-06

申请号：US17182106

申请日：2021-02-22

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Feng Yang ,  Min Huang ,  Alexander Sirotkin ,  Xu Zhang

IPC: H04W36/00 ,  H04W88/16 ,  H04W84/04 ,  H04W36/02 ,  H04W88/08

Abstract: Embodiments of a Next Generation Node-B (gNB) and methods of communication are disclosed herein. The gNB may be configurable to operate as a source gNB (S-gNB). The S-gNB may transfer, from a control plane (CU-CP) of the S-gNB to a CU-CP of a target gNB (T-gNB), an XnAP handover request message that indicates an Xn handover of a User Equipment (UE) from the S-gNB to the T-gNB. The S-gNB may initiate data forwarding, from a user plane (CU-UP) of the S-gNB to a CU-UP of the T-gNB, of downlink data packets. The data forwarding may be terminated based on reception of end marker packets from a user plane function (UPF) entity. The CU-UP of the S-gNB may transfer end marker packets to the CU-UP of the S-gNB to indicate termination of the data forwarding.

公开(公告)号：US11412554B2

公开(公告)日：2022-08-09

申请号：US16393753

申请日：2019-04-24

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Feng Yang ,  Alexander Sirotkin ,  Jaemin Han ,  Xu Zhang

IPC: H04W76/10 ,  H04W80/04 ,  H04W92/16

Abstract: Systems and methods of setting up an E1 interface for a gNB are described. A transmitting entity of the gNB-CU-CP and gNB-CU-UP initiates the first TNL association between the gNB-CU-CP and gNB-CU-UP, and is also limited to initiating the E1 Setup procedure. The transmitting entity sends an E1 SETUP REQUEST message to set up the E1 interface. Afterwards, a message is received from the receiving entity. The transmitting entity determines that the setup of the E1 interface is successful if the message contains IEs of an E1 SETUP RESPONSE message. The types of IEs include a message type IE and a name of the transmitting entity.

公开(公告)号：US11375558B2

公开(公告)日：2022-06-28

申请号：US16976969

申请日：2017-11-16

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Jerome Parron ,  Alexander Sirotkin

IPC: H04W76/12 ,  H04L1/16 ,  H04L1/18 ,  H04L12/46 ,  H04L9/40 ,  H04W84/12

Abstract: Techniques discussed herein can facilitate acknowledgment and/or re-ordering of LWIPEP (LWIP (LTE (Long Term Evolution)/WLAN (Wireless Local Area Network) Radio Level Integration Using IPSec (Internet Protocol Security) Tunnel) Encapsulation Protocol) packets. In various aspects employing a LWIP acknowledgment mode, LWIPEP packets can comprise an enhanced GRE (Generic Routing Encapsulation) header comprising a SN (Sequence Number) of the payload of that LWIPEP packet, which can facilitate acknowledgment of LWIPEP packets and re-ordering of LWIPEP packets (e.g., communicated over a WLAN link, an LTE link, or both) based on the SN(s) indicated in the enhanced GRE header(s).

公开(公告)号：US11317415B2

公开(公告)日：2022-04-26

申请号：US16639660

申请日：2018-08-17

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Alexey Khoryaev ,  Alexander Sirotkin ,  Sergey Panteleev ,  Sergey D. Sosnin ,  Dmitry Belov ,  Pavel Dyakov ,  Mikhail S. Shilov ,  Andrey Chervyakov

IPC: H04W72/04 ,  H04W4/40 ,  G01S19/46 ,  H04L5/00

Abstract: A user equipment (UE) or network device such as a Vehicle-to-Everything (V2X) node, or V2X device operates to configure sidelink signals with another vehicle or node with resources that can be used for ranging and sidelink communications within a Long Term Evolution (LTE) network or a New Radio (NR) network. The UE/device generate or process a broadcast communication of the sidelink signal via an adaptive antenna array or a directional antenna array and forming a directional radiation pattern from a beam sweeping operation based on geo-location information determined based on a sidelink signal. Depending on the geo-location information coordinates or the position of other vehicles or nodes can be derived to select or configure resources for a sidelink communication, including a Sidelink Ranging Reference Signal (SR-RS) and associated sidelink communication data.

公开(公告)号：US20220124542A1

公开(公告)日：2022-04-21

申请号：US17423704

申请日：2020-01-29

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Qian Li ,  Binita Gupta ,  Carlos Cordeiro ,  Puneet Jain ,  Necati Canpolat ,  Sangeetha L. Bangolae ,  Youn Hyoung Heo ,  Alexander Sirotkin

IPC: H04W28/02

Abstract: Some embodiments of this disclosure include apparatuses and methods for mechanisms to converge the Wi-Fi access network with the 5G New Radio (NR) access network within the radio access network. Some embodiments are direct to a base station (BS) apparatus. The BS apparatus can include at least a cellular distributed unit (DU); a cellular central unit Communicating with a 5G core network (5GC) via a (CU), coupled to the cellular DU; a wireless local area network (WLAN) CU, coupled to a WLAN DU; and the WLAN CU, coupled to the cellular CU.

公开(公告)号：US11265884B2

公开(公告)日：2022-03-01

申请号：US16326652

申请日：2017-06-22

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Alexander Sirotkin

IPC: H04L1/00 ,  H04W72/08 ,  H04L5/00 ,  H04W28/02 ,  H04W72/04 ,  H04W84/12

Abstract: Mapping information of a bearer or quality of service can be communicated from a Wireless Local Area Network Termination (WT) to the enhanced Node B (eNB), which then uses radio resource control (RRC) signaling to communicate the mapping to the user equipment (UE). For example, three options can be used to communicate mapping information: (1) Operations and Management (OAM), (2) Semi-static Xw-AP signaling (e.g., WT Configuration Update or Xw Setup procedures) or (3) Dynamic Xw-AP procedures (e.g., WT Addition Request procedure). In some embodiments, the mapping can be signaled by (1) bearer to wireless local area networks (WLAN) access category (AC) mapping or (2) long term evolution (LTE) quality of service class identifier (QCI) to WLAN AC mapping.

公开(公告)号：US20210410212A1

公开(公告)日：2021-12-30

申请号：US16976969

申请日：2017-11-16

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Jerome Parron ,  Alexander Sirotkin

IPC: H04W76/12 ,  H04L29/06 ,  H04L12/46 ,  H04L1/18 ,  H04L1/16

Abstract: Techniques discussed herein can facilitate acknowledgment and/or re-ordering of LWIPEP (LWIP (LTE (Long Term Evolution)/WLAN (Wireless Local Area Network) Radio Level Integration Using IPSec (Internet Protocol Security) Tunnel) Encapsulation Protocol) packets. In various aspects employing a LWIP acknowledgment mode, LWIPEP packets can comprise an enhanced GRE (Generic Routing Encapsulation) header comprising a SN (Sequence Number) of the payload of that LWIPEP packet, which can facilitate acknowledgment of LWIPEP packets and re-ordering of LWIPEP packets (e.g., communicated over a WLAN link, an LTE link, or both) based on the SN(s) indicated in the enhanced GRE header(s).

公开(公告)号：US20210378041A1

公开(公告)日：2021-12-02

申请号：US17277116

申请日：2019-09-26

Applicant: APPLE INC.

Inventor： Murali Narasimha ,  Qian Li ,  Jaemin Han ,  Alexander Sirotkin

IPC: H04W76/19 ,  H04W40/02 ,  H04W24/04

Abstract: Systems, method, and devices provide for recovery from backhaul failures for Integrated Access and Backhaul (IAB) communication systems with multi-hop routing.

公开(公告)号：US20200314963A1

公开(公告)日：2020-10-01

申请号：US16859673

申请日：2020-04-27

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Jaemin Han ,  Alexander Sirotkin

IPC: H04W88/10 ,  H04W92/12 ,  H04W88/08 ,  H04W76/27 ,  H04W72/04 ,  H04W28/10

Abstract: An apparatus of a RAN node in which flexible feedback for user data transferred between RAN nodes is described. The DL PDCP PDUs to be delivered to a UE is transmitted over an Xn or X2 interface between RAN and NG-RAN nodes, respectively. Feedback received allows transmitting RAN node to control downlink user data flow. The feedback contains a DDDS frame that includes a highest transmitted and delivered PDCP SN indicator parameter that respectively indicates whether a highest transmitted and successfully delivered PDCP PDU is present in the DDDS message and a highest transmitted and successfully delivered PDCP SN PDU parameter that provides feedback respectively about a transmitted status of the PDU sequence and an in-sequence delivery status of the PDUs to the UE. Buffered PDUs reported by the DDDS message are removed from memory as transmitted or successfully delivered PDUs.

公开(公告)号：US20250105913A1

公开(公告)日：2025-03-27

申请号：US18814362

申请日：2024-08-23

Applicant: APPLE INC.

Inventor： Yuqin Chen ,  Haijing Hu ,  Ping-Heng Kuo ,  Naveen Kumar R. Palle Venkata ,  Fangli Xu ,  Alexander Sirotkin ,  Peng Cheng ,  Zhibin Wu ,  Ralf Rossbach

IPC: H04B7/185 ,  H04W48/16 ,  H04W76/10

Abstract: The present application relates to devices and components, including apparatus, systems, and methods for non-terrestrial networks with store and forward operation.