公开(公告)号：US20210227610A1

公开(公告)日：2021-07-22

申请号：US17267365

申请日：2019-08-07

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Jie CUI ,  Yang TANG

IPC: H04W76/15 ,  H04W24/10 ,  H04W72/04 ,  H04W76/27

Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure describe methods, apparatuses, storage media, and systems for measurement gap (MG) configuration in an E-UTRA (Evolved Universal Terrestrial Radio Access)-New radio dual connectivity (EN-DC) network, and other new radio (NR) related networks. Various embodiments describe how to configure a measurement gap (MG) based on various conditions in a network, which may include, but are not limited to, different MG types, operating frequencies and modes in the network, timing advancing, and how to determine a starting point of the configured MG to utilize the MG and perform certain measurements adequately. Other embodiments may be described and claimed.

公开(公告)号：US20200275522A1

公开(公告)日：2020-08-27

申请号：US16638328

申请日：2018-08-09

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Andrey CHERVYAKOV ,  Jie CUI ,  Dmitry BELOV ,  Yang TANG ,  Alexey KHORYAEV

IPC: H04W88/06 ,  H04L5/00 ,  H04W72/04 ,  H04L5/10 ,  H04W68/00 ,  H04W76/28 ,  H04W74/08 ,  H04W76/27

Abstract: An apparatus of a user equipment (UE), comprises one or more baseband processors to receive one or more subframes from a cell of a network, and to detect a Cell Specific Reference Signal (CRS) transmission pattern in the one or more subframes to determine whether CRS mitigation is used by the cell, wherein the one or more baseband processors are to adjust processing of the one or more subframes when CRS mitigation is used. The apparatus further includes a memory to store the one or more subframes.

公开(公告)号：US20250168655A1

公开(公告)日：2025-05-22

申请号：US19028331

申请日：2025-01-17

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Haitong SUN ,  Dawei ZHANG ,  Fangli XU ,  Haijing HU ,  Jie CUI ,  Wei ZENG ,  Yang TANG ,  Yushu ZHANG

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

Abstract: Some aspects include an apparatus, method, and computer program product for facilitating control messaging for multi-beam communications in 5G wireless communication systems. Nodes of a 5G network may be generate Medium Access Control Control Elements (MAC CEs) to update User Equipment (UE) with different Component Carrier (CC) settings. The MAC CEs may update a list of CCs to reduce messaging overhead and latency. For example, a MAC CE may indicate an update for a Transmission Configuration Indication (TCI) state for a list of CCs. Similarly, a MAC CE may be used to update a spatial relation for a Sounding Reference Signal (SRS) resource set and/or a SRS resource corresponding to a list of CCs. A MAC CE may also be used to update multiple TCI codepoints having one or two TCI states in a multi-Transmission Reception Point (multi-TRP) scenario.

公开(公告)号：US20250159748A1

公开(公告)日：2025-05-15

申请号：US18837067

申请日：2022-02-12

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Hong He ,  Dawei Zhang ,  Wei Zeng ,  Haitong Sun ,  Weidong Yang ,  Seyed Ali Akbar Fakoorian ,  Yushu Zhang ,  Chunxuan Ye ,  Jie CUI ,  Huaning Niu

IPC: H04W76/20 ,  H04W8/22 ,  H04W56/00 ,  H04W74/0833

Abstract: Disclosed are methods, systems, and computer-readable medium to perform operations including: determining a number of repetitions for a random access response or a paging message using downlink control information; receiving one or more instances of the random access response or the paging message; and decoding at least one of the one or more instances of the random access response or the paging message using the number of repetitions.

公开(公告)号：US20250105949A1

公开(公告)日：2025-03-27

申请号：US18973364

申请日：2024-12-09

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Hong HE ,  Dawei ZHANG ,  Fangli XU ,  Jie CUI ,  Oghenekome OTERI ,  Wei ZENG ,  Weidong YANG ,  Yang TANG ,  Zhibin WU

IPC: H04L1/1829 ,  H04L1/1607 ,  H04L1/1812 ,  H04L5/00

Abstract: A computer readable storage medium, a user equipment, a method and an integrated circuit that are used to perform operations. Operations include receiving, from a network, a plurality of Physical Downlink Shared Channel (PDSCH) transmissions in slots of a hybrid automatic repeating request acknowledgement (HARQ-ACK) window, decoding each of the PDSCH transmissions in the slots of the HARQ window, determining a HARQ-ACK feedback for each PDSCH transmission in the HARQ-ACK window, bundling the HARQ-ACK feedback for at least two of the PDSCH transmissions and reporting the bundled HARQ-ACK feedback for the HARQ window to the network.

公开(公告)号：US20250071700A1

公开(公告)日：2025-02-27

申请号：US18726758

申请日：2022-01-05

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Jie CUI ,  Dawei ZHANG ,  Hong HE ,  Huaning NIU ,  Manasa RAGHAVAN ,  Qiming LI ,  Xiang CHEN ,  Yang TANG

IPC: H04W56/00

Abstract: Systems and methods for operating a 5G NR. In particular, a reduced capability (RedCap) user equipment (UE) can be configured to traverse a synchronization raster to locate a cell-defining synchronization signal block (CD-SSB). The CD-SSB can be used to derive, calculate, or otherwise obtain time/frequency information of a non-cell-defining synchronization signal block (NCD-SSB) which may be monitored and/or measured by the RedCap UE in a more power efficient manner.

公开(公告)号：US20250055506A1

公开(公告)日：2025-02-13

申请号：US18764625

申请日：2024-07-05

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Xiang CHEN ,  Yang TANG ,  Qiming LI ,  Haitong SUN ,  Jie CUI ,  Manasa RAGHAVAN ,  Dawei ZHANG

IPC: H04B7/0408 ,  H04B7/0404 ,  H04B7/06 ,  H04L5/00

Abstract: A user equipment (UE) and a network node can support sounding reference signals (SRS) based antenna beam pair selection for simultaneous uplink transmission with multi-panels by the UE. One or more antenna beam pairs of a UE having a first antenna panel and a second antenna panel may be used to transmit SRSs to a first transmission reception point (TRP) and a second TRP simultaneously using SRS resources configured by one or more SRS configuration sets from the network node. The UE can configure a SRS spatial filter for a SRS resource to indicate a direction of an antenna beam, while some of the SRS resource is configured by the one or more SRS configuration sets received from the network node. The network node can select an antenna beam pair among the one or more antenna beam pairs based on indications of signal strength of SRSs received.

公开(公告)号：US20250031061A1

公开(公告)日：2025-01-23

申请号：US18668587

申请日：2024-05-20

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Xiang CHEN ,  Yang TANG ,  Qiming LI ,  Jie CUI ,  Manasa RAGHAVAN ,  Konstantinos SARRIGEORGIDIS

IPC: H04W16/28 ,  H04B7/06 ,  H04L5/00 ,  H04W24/10

Abstract: Embodiments are disclosed for enhanced layer 3 (L3) measurement reporting that supports L3 measurement assisted group-based beam reporting (GBBR). Some embodiments include a user equipment (UE) that can receive a first reference signal from a network at a first angle of arrival (AoA), and receive a second reference signal from the network at a second AoA. The UE can perform L3 measurements on the first reference signal and the second reference signal, and generate and transmit to the network, an enhanced L3 measurement report that includes L3 measurements as well as: a corresponding identity of an antenna panel of the UE; bits that correlate an antenna panel with a respective L3 measurements, or an implication that the L3 measurements in the enhanced L3 measurement report correspond to different antenna panels. The UE can receive simultaneous downlink transmissions from the network that are based on the enhanced L3 measurement report.

公开(公告)号：US20240357642A1

公开(公告)日：2024-10-24

申请号：US18757758

申请日：2024-06-28

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Hong HE ,  Chunhai YAO ,  Chunxuan YE ,  Dawei ZHANG ,  Haitong SUN ,  Jie CUI ,  Oghenekome OTERI ,  Sigen YE ,  Wei ZENG ,  Weidong YANG ,  Yang TANG ,  Yushu ZHANG

IPC: H04W74/08 ,  H04W72/1268

CPC classification number: H04W74/08 ,  H04W72/1268

Abstract: A user equipment is configured to connect to a base station (BS) over a shared channel subject to channel access operations. The UE receives a first configuration for a BS-initiated fixed frame period (FFP) (BS-FFP) and a second configuration for a UE-initiated FFP (UE-FFP), determines that no downlink (DL) transmissions are detected during a predefined time of the BS-FFP and determines that at least one condition associated with an uplink (UL) transmission is satisfied. When no downlink (DL) transmissions are detected during the predefined time of the BS-FFP and the at least one condition is satisfied, the UE performs a UE-initiated channel access operation. When the UE-initiated channel access operation is successful, the UE performs the UL transmission during the UE-FFP.

公开(公告)号：US20240334321A1

公开(公告)日：2024-10-03

申请号：US18588969

申请日：2024-02-27

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Jie CUI ,  Yang Tang ,  Qiming Li ,  Haitong Sun ,  Dawei Zhang ,  Chunxuan Ye

IPC: H04W48/20 ,  H04W48/16 ,  H04W64/00

CPC classification number: H04W48/20 ,  H04W48/16 ,  H04W64/00

Abstract: Some aspects of this disclosure relate to apparatuses and methods for apparatuses and methods for providing continuous communication services for a user equipment (UE) connected to a non-terrestrial network (NTN) and/or one or more satellites providing cellular coverage. The UE may receive a list of neighbor cells from a serving cell, which may be a satellite moving relative to the Earth and having a moving coverage area. After receiving the list of neighbor cells, the UE may sort the list to prioritize the neighbor cells. This sorting may be based on a calculated distance between the UE and each of the neighbor cells. The UE may sequentially perform a synchronization and measurement process with each of the neighbor cells or a subset of the neighbor cells based on the prioritization order. The UE may then establish communications with a target cell from the prioritized list to maintain continuity.