公开(公告)号：US20240188073A1

公开(公告)日：2024-06-06

申请号：US18524050

申请日：2023-11-30

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Neha Goel ,  Ralph Hasholzner ,  Lakshmi Iyer ,  Mikhail Wilhelm ,  Murali Narasimha ,  Arjun Bharadwaj

IPC: H04W72/1268 ,  H04W28/02

CPC classification number: H04W72/1268 ,  H04W28/0278 ,  H04W88/02

Abstract: An application may provide prebooking information for multiple packet streams to a baseband processor. The prebooking information may include some or all of a first packet stream and information describing one or more additional packet streams. The baseband processor may generate a buffer status report (BSR) corresponding to multiple packet streams to the extent that the data for the packet streams are to arrive at the baseband processor prior to the a preconfigured duration (e.g., the baseband processor receiving a dynamic grant (DG) from the base station). In this sense, application data may be prebooked, by the baseband processor and/or base station, before actually arriving at the baseband processor. These and many other examples and techniques described herein, including the use of dummy packets for a DG, managing DGs based on dummy packets, and more.

公开(公告)号：US20240259480A1

公开(公告)日：2024-08-01

申请号：US18629489

申请日：2024-04-08

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

CPC classification number: 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：US11991260B2

公开(公告)日：2024-05-21

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

CPC classification number: 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：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：US20240365230A1

公开(公告)日：2024-10-31

申请号：US18770564

申请日：2024-07-11

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Mikhail Wilhelm ,  Ralph Hasholzner ,  Christian Drewes

IPC: H04W52/02

CPC classification number: H04W52/0216 ,  H04W52/0225

Abstract: Methods, systems, apparatuses, and computer programs for offloading computing tasks to one or more computers, e.g., that implement an edge server. In one aspect, the method can include actions of transmitting, for a user equipment and to the one or more computers, uplink information via an air interface; determining whether the uplink information has been fully transmitted across the air interface; based on determining that the uplink information has been fully transmitted across the air interface, triggering a sleep mode for the user equipment and starting a first timer; determining that the first timer has expired; and based on determining that the first timer has expired, triggering (i) a user equipment wake-up operation and (ii) maintaining a second timer that indicates when the user equipment should enter the sleep mode if result data, to be generated using the uplink information, has not been received.

公开(公告)号：US20230094143A1

公开(公告)日：2023-03-30

申请号：US17902722

申请日：2022-09-02

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Mikhail Wilhelm ,  Ralph Hasholzner ,  Christian Drewes

IPC: H04W52/02

Abstract: Methods, systems, apparatuses, and computer programs for offloading computing tasks to one or more computers, e.g., that implement an edge server. In one aspect, the method can include actions of transmitting, for a user equipment and to the one or more computers, uplink information via an air interface; determining whether the uplink information has been fully transmitted across the air interface; based on determining that the uplink information has been fully transmitted across the air interface, triggering a sleep mode for the user equipment and starting a first timer; determining that the first timer has expired; and based on determining that the first timer has expired, triggering (i) a user equipment wake-up operation and (ii) maintaining a second timer that indicates when the user equipment should enter the sleep mode if result data, to be generated using the uplink information, has not been received.

公开(公告)号：US20210306281A1

公开(公告)日：2021-09-30

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: H04L12/927 ,  H04L12/923 ,  H04L12/911

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：US11012945B2

公开(公告)日：2021-05-18

申请号：US15719685

申请日：2017-09-29

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Ralph Hasholzner ,  Eugene Gorbatov ,  Piotr Janik ,  Ajay Gupta ,  Ashish Singh ,  Kenan Kocagoez ,  Johannes Brendel

IPC: H04W52/22 ,  H04W52/06 ,  H04W52/34

Abstract: Methods and devices for allocating power among a plurality of circuits in a communication device, including determining a power budget for allocating to the plurality of circuits from a power supply information; receiving an activity status from a first circuit of the plurality of circuits; determining a first power value based on the activity status; deriving a second power value based on the first power value and the power budget; and allocating power to one or more remaining circuits of the plurality of circuits based on the second power value.