公开(公告)号：US20230044098A1

公开(公告)日：2023-02-09

申请号：US17950912

申请日：2022-09-22

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Ajit Nimbalker ,  Debdeep Chatterjee ,  Jeongho Jeon ,  Fatemeh Hamidi-Sepehr ,  Sergey Panteleev ,  Gang Xiong ,  Alexey Vladimirovich Khoryaev ,  Mikhail Shilov ,  Sergey Sosnin ,  Andrey Chervyakov

IPC: H04W56/00 ,  H04L5/00 ,  H04W4/40 ,  H04W72/12

Abstract: Embodiments of a User Equipment (UE), Generation Node-B (gNB) and methods of communication are disclosed herein. The UE may attempt to decode sidelink synchronization signals (SLSSs) received on component carriers (CCs) of a carrier aggregation. In one configuration, synchronization resources for SLSS transmissions may be aligned across the CCs at subframe boundaries in time, restricted to a portion of the CCs, and restricted to a same sub-frame. The UE may, for multiple CCs, determine a priority level for the CC based on indicators in the SLSSs received on the CC. The UE may select, from the CCs on which one or more SLSSs are decoded, the CC for which the determined priority level is highest. The UE may determine a reference timing for sidelink communication based on the one or more SLSSs received on the selected CC.

公开(公告)号：US20220394770A1

公开(公告)日：2022-12-08

申请号：US17887223

申请日：2022-08-12

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Jeongho Jeon ,  Abhijeet Bhorkar ,  Seunghee Han ,  Hwan-Joon Kwon

IPC: H04W74/08 ,  H04W74/00

Abstract: Devices, methods, user equipment (UE), evolved node B (eNB), and storage media are described suitable for coexistence operations for uplink communications on multiple unlicensed carriers. Various embodiments are implemented in LTE systems with license-assisted access (LAA) associated communications. In one embodiment, a UE processes one or more uplink grants from an eNB scheduling transmissions on multiple unlicensed carriers at a first time, and indicating a first channel access procedure. The UE then selects a first unlicensed carrier and performs the first channel access procedure, and performs a second channel access procedure on a second unlicensed carrier of the multiple unlicensed carriers.

公开(公告)号：US11496277B2

公开(公告)日：2022-11-08

申请号：US16349584

申请日：2018-06-15

Applicant: APPLE INC.

Inventor： Jeongho Jeon ,  Joonyoung Cho ,  Gang Xiong ,  Hong He ,  Debdeep Chatterjee

IPC: H04L5/00 ,  H04W72/04

Abstract: Methods, systems, and storage media are described for physical resource block indexing to provide coexistence for narrow band, carrier aggregation, and wide band user equipment in new radio. Other embodiments may be described and/or claimed.

公开(公告)号：US11412535B2

公开(公告)日：2022-08-09

申请号：US15775745

申请日：2016-03-29

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Qiaoyang Ye ,  Hwan-Joon Kwon ,  Jeongho Jeon ,  Abhijeet Bhorkar

IPC: H04W72/12 ,  H04W72/14 ,  H04L5/00 ,  H04W72/04 ,  H04W16/14

Abstract: Systems, apparatus, user equipment (UE), evolved node B (eNB), computer readable media, and methods are described for scheduling of multiple uplink transmissions in unlicensed spectrum. One embodiment involves receiving, at an eNB, a first uplink scheduling request from a UE, scheduling a plurality of uplink subframes on the unlicensed channel in response to the first uplink scheduling request, and initiating transmission of a first subframe to the first UE in response to the scheduling of the plurality of uplink subframes, wherein the first subframe comprises one or more downlink control indicators (DCIs) allocating the plurality of uplink subframes to the first UE.

公开(公告)号：US11368981B2

公开(公告)日：2022-06-21

申请号：US16085532

申请日：2017-04-14

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Qiaoyang Ye ,  Huaning Niu ,  Abhijeet Bhorkar ,  Seau S. Lim ,  Jeongho Jeon

IPC: H04W4/00 ,  H04W74/08 ,  H04W74/00

Abstract: Described is an apparatus of an Evolved Node-B (eNB) operable to communicate with a User Equipment (UE) on a wireless network. The apparatus may comprise a first circuitry and a second circuitry. The first circuitry may be operable to initiate a Listen-Before-Talk (LBT) procedure on a bandwidth of the wireless network, the bandwidth being unlicensed spectrum. The second circuitry may be operable to generate a transmission if the LBT procedure indicates that the bandwidth is idle, the transmission comprising a Physical Random Access Channel (PRACH) preamble portion and a message portion.

公开(公告)号：US11350400B2

公开(公告)日：2022-05-31

申请号：US16826421

申请日：2020-03-23

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Yujian Zhang ,  Jeongho Jeon ,  Youn Hyoung Heo ,  Candy Yiu ,  Bharat Shrestha

IPC: H04L5/00 ,  H04W72/04 ,  H04W72/12 ,  H04W88/06 ,  H04W88/10 ,  H04W92/10

Abstract: 5G methods and architectures to determine active SCells and their bandwidth parts (BWP) used in carrier aggregation (CA) are disclosed in which activating a BWP for an active SCell is performed initially according to a default value provided in initial radio resource control (RRC) messaging. After initialization, SCells and the SCell BWPs used by the user equipment (UE) are activated by RRC messaging, downlink control information (DCI) or dedicated medium access control (MAC) control elements (MAC CEs) with the initial BWP used for an activated SCell being a default value provided during initialization.

公开(公告)号：US11310813B2

公开(公告)日：2022-04-19

申请号：US16490260

申请日：2018-04-02

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Wenting Chang ,  Jeongho Jeon ,  Huaning Niu ,  Salvatore Talarico ,  Qiaoyang Ye ,  Jinyu Zhang

IPC: H04W72/12 ,  H04L5/00 ,  H04W52/02 ,  H04W72/04

Abstract: Described is an apparatus of an Evolved Node-B (eNB) operable to communicate with a User Equipment (UE) on a wireless network. The apparatus may comprise a first circuitry, a second circuitry, and a third circuitry. The first circuitry may be operable to process one or more configuration transmissions from the eNB carrying one or more parameters for Grantless Uplink (GUL) transmission. The second circuitry may be operable to determine one or more GUL subframes of an acquired Maximum Channel Occupancy Time (MCOT) on time-domain resources allocated for GUL transmission from the UE. The third circuitry may be operable to generate a GUL transmission during the one or more GUL subframes of the acquired MCOT in accordance with the one or more parameters for GUL transmission.

公开(公告)号：US11140712B2

公开(公告)日：2021-10-05

申请号：US16779859

申请日：2020-02-03

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Abhijeet Bhorkar ,  Hwan-Joon Kwon ,  Jeongho Jeon ,  Qiaoyang Ye

IPC: H04W74/08 ,  H04L5/00 ,  H04W16/14 ,  H04W72/04

Abstract: Techniques for transmission of a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) or enhanced PDCCH (EPDCCH) within a partial subframe of a license assisted access (LAA) burst are discussed. One example apparatus comprises a processor configured to generate a LAA burst; generate one or more downlink control channel messages that comprise at least one of PDCCH messages or EPDCCH messages; generate a physical layer encoding of the LAA burst comprising a first partial subframe, wherein the first partial subframe comprises a physical layer encoding of the one or more downlink control channel messages; and output the first partial subframe comprising the physical layer encoding of the one or more control channel messages to transmitter circuitry for subsequent transmission via an unlicensed carrier.

公开(公告)号：US11140705B2

公开(公告)日：2021-10-05

申请号：US16604141

申请日：2018-07-12

Applicant: APPLE INC.

Inventor： Wenting Chang ,  Jeongho Jeon ,  Huaning Niu ,  Jinyu Zhang ,  Salvatore Talarico

IPC: H04W72/12 ,  H04L1/00 ,  H04L1/18 ,  H04L5/00 ,  H04W52/58 ,  H04W72/04 ,  H04W76/27

Abstract: Technology for a user equipment (UE) operable to decode grant less downlink control information (G-D 5 CI) received from a Next Generation NodeB (gNB) is disclosed. The UE can decode the G-DCI received from the gNB in a MulteFire system. The UE can identify grant less uplink DCI components included in the G-DCI. The UE can perform a grant less uplink transmission with the gNB based on the grant less uplink DCI components in the G-DCI received from the gNB.

公开(公告)号：US20210281368A1

公开(公告)日：2021-09-09

申请号：US16465225

申请日：2018-08-13

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Jeongho Jeon ,  Huaning Niu ,  Wenting Chang ,  Jinyu Zhang ,  Dae Won Lee ,  Alexei Davydov ,  Kyeongin Jeong ,  Candy Yiu

IPC: H04L1/20 ,  H04L5/00 ,  H04W72/04 ,  H04L27/26 ,  H04W56/00 ,  H04W24/08

Abstract: A user equipment (UE) may assess a radio link quality of a plurality of frames for communication, via the interface to the RF circuitry, with a radio access network (RAN) node. When the radio link quality of a frame, of the plurality of frames, is below an out-of-sync (OOS) threshold, the UE may indicate that the frame is OOS. When the radio link quality of a frame, of the plurality of frames, is above an in-sync (IS) threshold that the frame is IS. Additionally, or alternatively, the UE may process information, received from the RAN node indicating a partial subframe, of a subframe, to be used to transmit uplink control information (UCI) to the RAN node. The UE may also perform UCI mapping for using of the partial subframe to transmit UCI via a physical uplink control channel (PUSCH), and proceed by using the partial subframe to communicate the UCI to the RAN node.