公开(公告)号：US20230163922A1

公开(公告)日：2023-05-25

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

CPC classification number: H04L5/0055 ,  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：US20220417990A1

公开(公告)日：2022-12-29

申请号：US17437784

申请日：2021-03-31

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Xiang Chen ,  Dawei Zhang ,  Huaning Niu ,  Jie Cui ,  Manasa Raghavan ,  Qiming Li ,  Yang Tang

IPC: H04W74/08

Abstract: An apparatus may receive a media access control (MAC) control element (CE) from a base station (BS) indicating a secondary cell (SCell) to be activated in an unlicensed band. The apparatus may initiate a timer with an end value in response to receiving the MAC CE and may further adjust a radio-frequency (RF) chain from a first state to a second state corresponding to the SCell to be activated. The apparatus may determine, based on measurements of one or more synchronization signal blocks (SSBs) transmitted from the BS indicating one or more listen before talk (LBT) failures corresponding to the SCell, one or more failed SSB transmissions corresponding to the SCell. Accordingly, the apparatus may readjust, in response to expiry of the timer, the RF chain from the second state to the first state and receive one or more additional SSBs in the first state.

公开(公告)号：US20220312400A1

公开(公告)日：2022-09-29

申请号：US17437409

申请日：2020-09-15

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Yushu Zhang ,  Dawei Zhang ,  Fangli Xu ,  Haijing Hu ,  Haitong Sun ,  Huaning NIU ,  Jie Cui ,  Manasa Raghavan ,  Wei Zeng ,  Weidong Yang ,  Yakun Sun ,  Yang Tang

IPC: H04W72/04

Abstract: Apparatuses, systems, and methods for beam indication latency reduction via a symbol level beam sweeping configuration. A base station may receive, from a user equipment device (UE), a report associated with symbol level beam sweeping. The base station may determine a symbol level beam sweeping configuration. The symbol level beam sweeping configuration may be based, at least in part, on the report. The base station may transmit, to the UE, the symbol level beam sweeping configuration.

公开(公告)号：US20220159772A1

公开(公告)日：2022-05-19

申请号：US17440526

申请日：2020-05-08

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Manasa Raghavan ,  Jie Cui ,  Yang Tang ,  Qiming Li ,  Zhibin Yu

IPC: H04W76/20

Abstract: Systems, devices, and techniques for wireless communications based on one or more transmission configuration indicator (TCI) states are described. A described technique performed by a user equipment (UE) includes receiving a first downlink channel based on a current TCI state; receiving a physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH) in a first slot, the PDSCH carrying a radio resource control (RRC) activation command in the first slot, the RRC activation command indicating a switch to a target TCI state; waiting until an end of a switching period triggered by the RRC activation command to use the target TCI state, the switching period being based on a RRC processing delay; and receiving, based on the end of the switching period, a second downlink channel based on the target TCI state in a second slot.

公开(公告)号：US20220132416A1

公开(公告)日：2022-04-28

申请号：US17498375

申请日：2021-10-11

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Jie Cui ,  Yang Tang ,  Dawei Zhang ,  Hong He ,  Manasa Raghavan ,  Huaning Niu ,  Wenshu Zhang

IPC: H04W52/02 ,  H04W76/15 ,  H04L5/00

Abstract: The present application relates to devices and components including apparatus, systems, and methods to provide an interruption mechanism for deactivated secondary cell measurement in new radio.

公开(公告)号：US20210314785A1

公开(公告)日：2021-10-07

申请号：US17267080

申请日：2019-08-09

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Manasa Raghavan ,  Jie Cui ,  Yang Tang

IPC: H04W16/28 ,  H04W8/24 ,  H04W76/11 ,  H04W56/00 ,  H04B7/06

Abstract: An apparatus of a New Radio (NR) User Equipment (UE), a method, and a system. The apparatus includes a Radio Frequency (RF) interface, and processing circuitry coupled to the RF interface. The processing circuitry is to: generate a signal including capability information of the UE, wherein a time period for intra-frequency cell detection and measurement for the UE is based on the capability information; and cause a transmission of the signal within a cellular network to include the UE using the RF interface.

公开(公告)号：US20250167942A1

公开(公告)日：2025-05-22

申请号：US18834863

申请日：2022-02-11

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Jie Cui ,  Yang Tang ,  Dawei Zhang ,  Qiming Li ,  Manasa Raghavan ,  Xiang Chen ,  Huaning Niu ,  Qunfeng He ,  Hong He ,  Haitong Sun

IPC: H04L5/00 ,  H04W24/10

Abstract: A user equipment (UE) may receive, from a base station (BS) configured to support activation of a secondary cell (SCell), a request to provide a measurement report. In response to the request, the UE may perform one or more measurements on the SCell using one or more reference signals (RSs). Additionally or alternatively, the UE may generate the measurement report based on the one or more measurements and further transmit the measurement report to the BS. In some embodiments, the UE may further determine a pathloss estimation based on the one or more measurements.

公开(公告)号：US20250167936A1

公开(公告)日：2025-05-22

申请号：US18834971

申请日：2022-02-12

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Qiming Li ,  Dawei Zhang ,  Yang Tang ,  Huaning Niu ,  Jie Cui ,  Manasa Raghavan ,  Xiang Chen

IPC: H04L5/00 ,  H04W24/08 ,  H04W24/10 ,  H04W56/00

Abstract: Disclosed are methods, systems, and computer-readable medium to perform operations including: receiving first signaling information from a first base station (BS), where the first signaling information indicates that a user equipment (UE) device is to determine an index of a first synchronization signal block (SSB) transmitted by a second BS to the UE device on a second component carrier, based on timing information regarding a first component carrier associated with the first BS; determining a first measurement window for measuring one or more characteristics of the first SSB, where the first measurement window is determined based on a first time offset value Δt1 and an expected length of the first SSB and measuring the one or more characteristics of the first SSB on the second carrier during the first measurement window.

公开(公告)号：US12289610B2

公开(公告)日：2025-04-29

申请号：US17437787

申请日：2021-04-01

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Huaning Niu ,  Jie Cui ,  Dawei Zhang ,  Yang Tang ,  Manasa Raghavan ,  Qiming Li ,  Xiang Chen ,  Haitong Sun ,  Yushu Zhang

IPC: H04W16/18 ,  H04W4/44 ,  H04W36/32 ,  H04W36/08

Abstract: A network may transmit either beam deployment information or beam number information to a user equipment (UE) carried on a train and configured for operation in the millimeter wave band. The deployment information may include deployment related distance parameters or azimuth angle spread parameters. The beam number information may indicate a number of network beams associated with a current cell. The UE may determine a number of UE receive beams based on deployment information or the network-indicated number of network beams. The UE may transmit feedback to the network, indicating the number of UE receive beams. Alternatively, the network may send a configuration message indicating a first number of UE receive beams to the UE, which the UE may treat as an upper bound or lower bound in its determination of a desired number of UE receive beams. The UE may transmit the desired number to the network.

公开(公告)号：US12273827B2

公开(公告)日：2025-04-08

申请号：US17904808

申请日：2021-09-24

Applicant: APPLE INC.

Inventor： Xiang Chen ,  Anatoliy S Ioffe ,  Dawei Zhang ,  Fucheng Wang ,  Huaning Niu ,  Jie Cui ,  Manasa Raghavan ,  Qiming Li ,  Yang Tang

IPC: H04B7/00 ,  H04W52/24 ,  H04W52/36

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to devices, apparatuses, and methods for enhanced PHR reporting in support of UE antenna scaling. A wireless device, which comprises at least one antenna array each comprising a plurality of antenna elements may perform antenna scaling by activating or deactivating at least one of the plurality of antenna elements (with corresponding RF chains) of one or more antenna arrays. The wireless device may generate a power headroom (PHR) report based at least on a difference between beamforming gains obtained after the antenna scaling and before the antenna scaling. The wireless device may then send the PHR report to a base station in communication with the wireless device.