公开(公告)号：US12289618B2

公开(公告)日：2025-04-29

申请号：US17916850

申请日：2020-04-08

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Yushu Zhang ,  Chunhai Yao ,  Chunxuan Ye ,  Dawei Zhang ,  Fangli Xu ,  Haijing Hu ,  Haitong Sun ,  Hong He ,  Jie Cui ,  Oghenekome Oteri ,  Wei Zeng ,  Weidong Yang ,  Yang Tang ,  Yuchul Kim ,  Yuqin Chen

IPC: H04W16/28 ,  H04L5/00 ,  H04W80/02

Abstract: Apparatuses, systems, and methods for overhead reduction for multi-carrier beam selection and power control. A user equipment device (UE) may receive an uplink beam configuration for a group of component carriers and may communicate using the uplink beam configuration for the group of component carriers. The UE may receive an updated uplink beam configuration for the group of component carriers. The update uplink beam configuration may include a medium access control (MAC) control element (CE) that may update a pathloss reference signal for the group of component carriers. The MAC CE may include an indication of a spatial relation for aperiodic or semi-persistent sounding reference signals for the group of component carriers, an indication of a transmission control indicator for a physical downlink control channel, an indication of an update for a physical uplink shared channel, and/or an indication of an update for a sounding reference signal.

公开(公告)号：US12279166B2

公开(公告)日：2025-04-15

申请号：US17764586

申请日：2021-04-02

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Qiming Li ,  Jie Cui ,  Yang Tang ,  Fangli Xu ,  Yuqin Chen ,  Yushu Zhang ,  Chunhai Yao ,  Dawei Zhang ,  Manasa Raghavan ,  Xiang Chen

IPC: H04W56/00 ,  H04W36/00 ,  H04W36/08

Abstract: A method for a network element is provided. The method comprises: encoding a message for transmission to a user equipment (UE) including neighbor cell configuration information that includes a list of a plurality of neighbor cell groups, wherein each of the plurality of neighbor cell groups is associated with a specific cell; and transmitting the message to the UE.

公开(公告)号：US12273741B2

公开(公告)日：2025-04-08

申请号：US17757312

申请日：2020-12-15

Applicant: APPLE INC.

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

IPC: H04W16/28 ,  H04L5/00 ,  H04W56/00 ,  H04W74/0833

Abstract: Methods and apparatus are provided for a UE to determine a UL spatial relation for an UL transmission in response to an unknown UL spatial relation switch. The UE may determine whether the UL spatial relation is based on an SRS transmission in UL, a CSI-RS in DL, or an SSB in the DL. If the UL spatial relation is based on the SRS transmission, the UE may select the UL spatial relation for the UL transmission corresponding to a Tx beam of the SRS transmission. If the UL spatial relation is based on the CSI-RS or the SSB, the UE may select the UL spatial relation for the UL transmission based on whether the unknown UL spatial relation switch is due to a corresponding resource for beam training not being configured by a communication network or a corresponding beam information being expired.

公开(公告)号：US12273169B2

公开(公告)日：2025-04-08

申请号：US17859363

申请日：2022-07-07

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Huaning Niu ,  Hyejung Jung ,  Gang Xiong ,  Yushu Zhang ,  Hooman Shirani-Mehr ,  Yuan Zhu ,  Jong-Kae Fwu

IPC: H04B7/06 ,  H04J11/00 ,  H04L5/00 ,  H04L27/26 ,  H04W36/00 ,  H04W72/23 ,  H04W88/16

Abstract: Disclosed herein are apparatuses, systems, and methods using or implementing dynamic beamforming in control channels, by transmitting downlink control channels to user equipment (UEs) in a number of orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) symbols of a downlink subframe. A first OFDM symbol of the number of OFDM symbols can be transmitted using first beamforming parameters in a first direction, and a second OFDM symbol of the number of OFDM symbols can be transmitted using second beamforming parameters different from the first beamforming parameters and in a second direction different from the first direction. The number of OFDM symbols used, as well as other parameters, can be dynamically adjusted in subsequent subframes. Other embodiments are described.

公开(公告)号：US12262399B2

公开(公告)日：2025-03-25

申请号：US17442068

申请日：2021-07-27

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Yushu Zhang ,  Chunhai Yao ,  Dawei Zhang ,  Haitong Sun ,  Huaning Niu ,  Jie Cui ,  Qiming Li ,  Sigen Ye ,  Wei Zeng

IPC: H04W72/54 ,  H04L5/00

Abstract: The present application relates to devices and components including apparatus, systems, and methods for latency reduction for beam failure recovery (BFR), with respect to transmit-receive point (TRP)-specific BFR.

公开(公告)号：US12255846B2

公开(公告)日：2025-03-18

申请号：US17442294

申请日：2020-08-07

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Yushu Zhang ,  Hong He ,  Dawei Zhang ,  Haitong Sun ,  Jie Cui ,  Manasa Raghavan ,  Wei Zeng ,  Yang Tang

IPC: H04L5/00 ,  H04L1/1812

Abstract: A user equipment (UE) device is disclosed. The UE device comprises a processor configured to perform operations comprising receiving a downlink control information (DCI) from a base station. In some embodiments, the DCI comprises an indication to trigger a Type-3 hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) acknowledgement (ACK) feedback signal. The operations further comprise generating the Type-3 HARQ ACK feedback signal, based on processing the DCI. In some embodiments, the Type-3 HARQ ACK feedback signal comprises one or more HARQ-ACK bits for semi-persistent scheduling (SPS) physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH) release(s). In some embodiments, each of the one or more HARQ-ACK bits for SPS PDSCH release(s) is adapted to include HARQ-ACK information for an SPS PDSCH release associated with the UE. Further, the operations comprise sending the Type-3 HARQ-ACK feedback signal to the base station.

公开(公告)号：US20250088218A1

公开(公告)日：2025-03-13

申请号：US18958557

申请日：2024-11-25

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Yushu Zhang ,  Haitong Sun ,  Wei Zeng ,  Dawei Zhang ,  Yuchul Kim ,  Hong He ,  Weidong Yang ,  Chunxuan Ye ,  Chunhai Yao ,  Oghenekome Oteri ,  Wei Zhang ,  Jia Tang ,  Tianyan Pu ,  Pengkai Zhao

IPC: H04B7/022 ,  H04L5/00

Abstract: In an example method, a user equipment (UE) device determines one or more component carriers available to the UE device for at least one of transmitting or receiving data over a wireless network. The UE device transmits, to the wireless network, for each component carrier, an indication whether the component carrier supports at least one of transmitting or receiving data according to a multi-transmission and receiving points (multi-TRP) communication protocol.

公开(公告)号：US12250723B2

公开(公告)日：2025-03-11

申请号：US17441362

申请日：2020-05-14

Applicant: Apple Inc.

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

IPC: H04W74/0816 ,  H04W72/12 ,  H04W72/21 ,  H04W74/08

Abstract: Methods and apparatuses are disclosed for signaling unused channel occupancy time (COT) to the gNB for COT sharing among other UEs. Upon determining that a portion of the maximum COT (MCOT) provided to the UE will be unused, the UE can generate COT sharing information for transmission back to the gNB. The COT sharing information identifies a starting point and a duration (e.g., a number of consecutive slots) of the unused portion of the MCOT. This information is then encoded into configured grant uplink control information (UG-UCI) and transmitted to the gNB as part of the uplink transmission. In aspects, the unused portion may begin part-way through a slot. In this instance, a starting symbol of the unused portion or an ending symbol of the used portion may also be encoded into the uplink transmission. In this manner, unused COT is not wasted, but rather repurposed by the gNB.

公开(公告)号：US12250677B2

公开(公告)日：2025-03-11

申请号：US17811997

申请日：2022-07-12

Applicant: APPLE INC.

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

IPC: H04W72/1268 ,  H04B7/06 ,  H04L5/00 ,  H04W72/23

Abstract: Systems and methods using control signaling for uplink frequency selective precoding at a user equipment (UE) are disclosed herein. A base station may indicate a transmission rank indicator (TRI), a wideband transmission precoder matrix indicator (TPMI), and one or more subband TPMI(s) to the UE. The base station may indicate, to the UE, whether to use the wideband TPMI or a subband TPMI to precode a physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH) transmission from the UE to the base station. The UE then precodes (and transmits) the PUSCH accordingly. Methods of UE application of the indicated subband TPMI(s) to subbands of the bandwidth in which a PUSCH may be transmitted are described. Methods accounting for a UE capability as to non-coherent, partial-coherent, and/or coherent precoding are described. Methods of assigning TPMI(s) to subbands in view of multiple transmission reception point (TRP) use by the UE for UE transmission are described.

公开(公告)号：US12250660B2

公开(公告)日：2025-03-11

申请号：US17593692

申请日：2021-01-14

Applicant: APPLE INC.

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

IPC: H04W72/02 ,  H04W28/06 ,  H04W28/26 ,  H04W72/0446 ,  H04W72/563

Abstract: Systems and methods used by reduced sensing user equipment (UE) (relative to a full sensing UE) are disclosed herein. A UE performing partial sensing may use knowledge of resource reservation periods for a resource pool of one or more resources to reduce sensing as compared to the full sensing case. A UE performing resource re-evaluation and/or resource pre-emption may use one or more sensing windows that are relatively smaller than windows used in the full sensing case to reduce sensing. A UE performing prioritized resource selection may use a sensing window to determine availability of resources within a prioritized resource selection window with a high reliability, thereby reducing the need to spend power on other sensing methods (which may include full sensing methods). Combinations of these embodiments are also contemplated.