公开(公告)号：US20220377654A1

公开(公告)日：2022-11-24

申请号：US17366105

申请日：2021-07-02

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Ahmed M. Soliman ,  Krisztian Kiss ,  Yu-Ting Yu ,  Sudeep Manithara Vamanan

IPC: H04W48/18 ,  H04W28/08

Abstract: Systems, methods, and processors are provided for flexibly configuring network slices in device to device communication. In one example, a baseband processor for a relay user equipment (UE) is configured to cause the UE to receive a UE route selection policy (URSP) from a network. The URSP includes respective URSP rules for routing UE traffic through respective network slices to the network. A first URSP rule indicates whether an associated first network slice is designated for remote UE traffic, relay UE traffic, or both remote UE traffic and relay UE traffic. The baseband processor is configured to cause the UE to establish a device to device (D2D) connection with a remote UE to relay remote UE traffic from the remote UE to a base station and assign the remote UE traffic to at least one network slice based on the URSP.

公开(公告)号：US20230370134A1

公开(公告)日：2023-11-16

申请号：US18181130

申请日：2023-03-09

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Danila Zaev ,  Ayman F Naguib ,  Yu-Ting Yu

IPC: H04B7/06

CPC classification number: H04B7/0617 ,  H04B7/0632

Abstract: A user equipment (UE) device may communicate with a base station using signals reflected off a network-independent intelligent reflecting surface (IRS). The UE device and the IRS may form part of a virtual UE device, the components of which communicate with each other and with other virtual UE devices over a channel control plane (CCP) separate from the control and data plane of the base station. The CCP may be used to perform control functions for the virtual UE device such as channel estimation, synchronization, scheduling, sensing, and beamforming. The IRS may be controlled by the UE device, a service controller, or itself. Grouping the UE device and IRS into a virtual UE device may keep the structure the presence of the IRS transparent to the network while allowing the UE device to have more beneficial channel propagation properties relative to when the IRS is registered to the network.

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：US11792726B2

公开(公告)日：2023-10-17

申请号：US17366105

申请日：2021-07-02

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Ahmed M Soliman ,  Krisztian Kiss ,  Yu-Ting Yu ,  Sudeep Manithara Vamanan

IPC: H04W48/18 ,  H04W28/08

CPC classification number: H04W48/18 ,  H04W28/0875

Abstract: Systems, methods, and processors are provided for flexibly configuring network slices in device to device communication. In one example, a baseband processor for a relay user equipment (UE) is configured to cause the UE to receive a UE route selection policy (URSP) from a network. The URSP includes respective URSP rules for routing UE traffic through respective network slices to the network. A first URSP rule indicates whether an associated first network slice is designated for remote UE traffic, relay UE traffic, or both remote UE traffic and relay UE traffic. The baseband processor is configured to cause the UE to establish a device to device (D2D) connection with a remote UE to relay remote UE traffic from the remote UE to a base station and assign the remote UE traffic to at least one network slice based on the URSP.

公开(公告)号：US20220060858A1

公开(公告)日：2022-02-24

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: H04W4/08 ,  H04W56/00

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.