公开(公告)号：US20230098700A1

公开(公告)日：2023-03-30

申请号：US17941049

申请日：2022-09-09

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Biljana Badic ,  Babar Qaisrani

IPC: H04W28/02 ,  H04W40/22

Abstract: Implementations relate to identifying an event disrupting connectivity to a first network; determining, for an apparatus, that the apparatus has a connection to a second network; transmitting a message indicating to one or more neighboring devices that the apparatus has network connectivity; receiving a first relay request from a first device and a second relay request from a second device; forwarding, using the connection to the second network, a message associated with the first relay request; and transmitting, to the second device, a backoff message.

公开(公告)号：US11588751B2

公开(公告)日：2023-02-21

申请号：US17210306

申请日：2021-03-23

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Mikhail Vilgelm ,  Babar Qaisrani ,  Biljana Badic ,  Christian Drewes ,  Krisztian Kiss ,  Matthias Sauer ,  Vijay Venkataraman ,  Ralph Hasholzner ,  Robert Zaus ,  Teck Yang Lee

IPC: G06F15/173 ,  H04L47/80 ,  H04L47/78 ,  H04L47/762

Abstract: Methods and devices for creating and operating a combined network and computational slice instance (NCSI) in a Multi-access Edge Computing (MEC) scenario. Communication and computational resources may be reserved by a NCSI controller for the NCSI. The communication resources may include network slices and the computational resources may include MEC computational resources of one or more MEC servers. The reserved resources may be selected based on quality of service (QoS) requirements of UEs that will utilize the NCSI. During operation, reserved resources for the NCSI may be dynamically renegotiated based on an aggregate load of the NCSI, the QoS of data traffic, and/or updated QoS requirements of the UEs.

公开(公告)号：US20220360645A1

公开(公告)日：2022-11-10

申请号：US17439481

申请日：2020-12-17

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Biljana Badic ,  Christian Drewes ,  Ralph Hasholzner ,  Krisztian Kiss ,  Teck Yang Lee ,  Matthias Sauer ,  Mikhail Vilgelm ,  Babar Qaisrani ,  Vijay Venkataraman ,  Robert Zaus

IPC: H04L67/59 ,  H04L67/51 ,  H04W4/50

Abstract: A user equipment (UE) or other device performs service discovery of edge computing resources in a cellular network system and dynamic offloading of UE application tasks to discovered edge computing resources. As part of the discovery process, the device (e.g., the UE) may request edge server site capability information. When performing dynamic offloading, the UE may obtain (collect and/or receive) information regarding channel conditions, cellular network parameters or application requirements and dynamically determine whether a task of the application executing on the UE should be offloaded to an edge server or executed locally on the UE. In making decisions between offloaded or local execution, the UE may use a utility function that takes into account factors such as relative differences in application latency, energy consumption and offloading cost.

公开(公告)号：US20220109969A1

公开(公告)日：2022-04-07

申请号：US17483936

申请日：2021-09-24

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Babar Qaisrani ,  Biljana Badic ,  Gaurav Lamba ,  Krisztian Kiss ,  Mona Agnel ,  Rafael L. Rivera-Barreto ,  Rohan C. Malthankar ,  Sudeep Manithara Vamanan ,  Vijay Venkataraman

IPC: H04W4/90 ,  H04W76/14 ,  H04W76/50 ,  H04W4/80 ,  H04W4/029

Abstract: Apparatuses, systems, and methods for emergency communications (e.g., voice calls and/or SMS messages) for UE's without cellular coverage (e.g., in non-cellular coverage). A UE may establish, while out of range of cellular service, a peer-to-peer communication session with a relay UE using a channel in an unlicensed frequency band. The UE may transmit, using the peer-to-peer communication session, an emergency notification to the relay UE. The emergency notification may include an approximate location of the UE. Further the UE may communicate with a Public Safety Answering Point (PSAP), where the communications may be relayed between the UE and the PSAP by the relay UE. The approximate location of the UE may be based, at least in part, on a location of the relay UE and determining the approximate location of the UE may include performing a ranging procedure with the relay UE.

公开(公告)号：US10798567B2

公开(公告)日：2020-10-06

申请号：US16563766

申请日：2019-09-06

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Biljana Badic ,  Markus Dominik Mueck ,  Srikathyayani Srikanteswara ,  Joey Chou

IPC: H04W16/14 ,  H04W12/00 ,  H04W8/00 ,  H04W12/02 ,  H04W16/02 ,  H04W24/08 ,  H04W24/10 ,  H04W72/04 ,  H04W88/12

Abstract: Embodiments of an Evolved Node-B (eNB), shared spectrum controller and methods for communication in shared spectrum are generally described herein. A mobile network shared spectrum controller may operate as part of a domain of a mobile network. A public shared spectrum controller may operate externally to the mobile network domain. The mobile network shared spectrum controller and the public shared spectrum controller may operate cooperatively to perform operations of a shared spectrum controller, such as management of secondary usage of shared spectrum by a group of eNBs. The mobile network shared spectrum controller may obfuscate at least a portion of network configuration information from the public shared spectrum controller to enable maintenance of confidential information within the mobile network domain.

公开(公告)号：US11917517B2

公开(公告)日：2024-02-27

申请号：US17379458

申请日：2021-07-19

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Jan Ellenbeck ,  Biljana Badic ,  Christian Drewes

IPC: H04W4/90 ,  H04B1/00 ,  H04W40/22 ,  H04W76/14 ,  H04W76/28 ,  H04W92/18

CPC classification number: H04W4/90 ,  H04B1/005 ,  H04W40/22 ,  H04W76/14 ,  H04W76/28 ,  H04W92/18

Abstract: A communications network may include user equipment (UE) devices. When a first UE device becomes off-grid and has an emergency message, the first UE device may transmit device-to-device signals for receipt by a second UE device. The signals may include one or more preambles that precede the emergency message and that are used by the second UE device to perform synchronization with the first UE device. The second UE device may periodically activate a receiver during a series of windows to listen for the signals, may receive a preamble sequence during one of the windows, and may synchronize its timing to the first UE device for receipt of the emergency message based on the preamble sequence. This may allow the UE devices to be synchronized for transfer of the emergency message over long distances while consuming a minimal amount of power on the second UE device.

公开(公告)号：US11843997B2

公开(公告)日：2023-12-12

申请号：US17403548

申请日：2021-08-16

Applicant: APPLE INC.

Inventor： Sudeep Manithara Vamanan ,  Yu-Ting Yu ,  Biljana Badic ,  Christian W. Mucke ,  Lennert Niemeyer

IPC: H04W56/00 ,  H04W4/08 ,  H04W92/18

CPC classification number: H04W4/08 ,  H04W56/0015 ,  H04W92/18

Abstract: A device-to-device (D2D) communication application is stored in a memory of a first device, and has an application identifier (ApplicationID) configured to enable D2D communication between two or more devices in proximity. The first device is configured with a user identifier (UserID). A group associated with the D2D communication application can then be established, which includes the first device and one or more second devices, each having the D2D communication capability and an associated UserID, each of the devices exchanging their ApplicationID and UserID with other devices to establish the group. A role in the group is assigned to each device of the first device and one or more second devices, which defines functions for each device to establish the D2D communications. Based on the role of each device, a set of resources from the network are allocated to enable the D2D communication on the D2D communication channel.

公开(公告)号：US11832289B2

公开(公告)日：2023-11-28

申请号：US17554903

申请日：2021-12-17

Applicant: APPLE INC.

Inventor： Markus Mueck ,  Srikathyayani Srikanteswara ,  Biljana Badic

IPC: H04W52/14 ,  H04W72/541 ,  H04W24/02 ,  H04W16/14 ,  H04W52/24 ,  H04B17/345 ,  H04W88/08

CPC classification number: H04W72/541 ,  H04B17/345 ,  H04W16/14 ,  H04W24/02 ,  H04W52/143 ,  H04W52/243 ,  H04W88/08

Abstract: Various embodiments to enable Spectrum Access System (SAS) interference mitigation options are disclosed herein. In one embodiment, an apparatus is provided. The apparatus includes a memory to store a data sequence, and one or more processing devices coupled to the memory. The processing devices to generate an interference metric associated with a first group and a second group of infrastructure nodes of a Long-Term Evolution (LTE) network infrastructure based on measurement information. The measurement information comprises measurements related to the transmission of data sequences associated with the first group and the second group. Thereupon, configuration settings are determined for infrastructure nodes of the first group and second group based on the generated interference metric. Each configuration setting represents a frequency band and transmission power level for a corresponding infrastructure node to access data in the LTE network infrastructure.

公开(公告)号：US11791958B2

公开(公告)日：2023-10-17

申请号：US15937943

申请日：2018-03-28

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Biljana Badic ,  Markus Dominik Mueck

IPC: H04L5/00 ,  H04W24/08 ,  H04W64/00 ,  H04W72/04 ,  H04W72/542

CPC classification number: H04L5/0041 ,  H04L5/0053 ,  H04W24/08 ,  H04W64/003 ,  H04W72/542 ,  H04L5/0007

Abstract: A method of allocating radio resources includes identifying a first grouping of terminal devices and a second grouping of terminal devices based on reporting information that indicates terminal device positions, selecting first radio resources and second radio resources based on a distance between the first grouping and the second grouping, and assigning the first radio resources to the first grouping and assigning the second radio resources to the second grouping.

公开(公告)号：US20230091862A1

公开(公告)日：2023-03-23

申请号：US17481214

申请日：2021-09-21

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Jan K. Ellenbeck ,  Biljana Badic ,  Christian Drewes

IPC: H04W76/15 ,  H04W4/70 ,  H04W28/02 ,  H04W36/22

Abstract: A communications network may include a relay device that receives device-to-device (D2D) signals. In an ad hoc mode, the relay may consume relatively little power while receiving relatively few messages from relatively few transmitting devices in the D2D signals. In an organized mode, the device may consume relatively high power while receiving many messages from many transmitting devices in the D2D signals. A receiver on the device may transition from the ad hoc mode to the organized mode in response to a first criterion and may transition from the organized mode to the ad hoc mode in response to a second switching criterion. This may allow the device to balance communications load and power consumption while relaying messages such as emergency messages received over D2D signals given that the signals may arrive rarely or in clusters due to an unforeseen event.