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.

公开(公告)号：US20250081175A1

公开(公告)日：2025-03-06

申请号：US18679305

申请日：2024-05-30

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Ankit Bhamri ,  Dawei Zhang ,  Haitong Sun ,  Hong He ,  Seyed Ali Akbar Fakoorian ,  Sigen Ye ,  Wei Zeng ,  Weidong Yang

IPC: H04W72/12 ,  H04L27/26 ,  H04W72/232

Abstract: The present application relates to devices and components including apparatus, systems, and methods for multi-cell scheduling with different numerologies.

公开(公告)号：US12231204B2

公开(公告)日：2025-02-18

申请号：US17442108

申请日：2020-08-04

Applicant: Apple Inc.

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

IPC: H04B7/06 ,  H04W24/08 ,  H04W56/00 ,  H04W74/0833 ,  H04W76/19 ,  H04W36/08

Abstract: This disclosure relates to performing beam failure recovery during an inter-cell connection involving a UE in communication with one or more base stations in a cellular communication system. In various embodiments, a user equipment determines one or more beam failures by monitoring one or more reference signals transmitted by one or more base stations, where the UE is connected to the one or more base stations. The UE further performs candidate beam detection by monitoring at least one candidate reference signal that is transmitted by one or more candidate base stations, where at least one candidate base station (a first candidate base station) is different from the one or more base stations to which the UE was previously communicating. The UE selects the first candidate base station based on the candidate beam detection, and transmits a beam failure recovery request (BFRQ) message to the first candidate base station based on the selection.

公开(公告)号：US20250056587A1

公开(公告)日：2025-02-13

申请号：US18785235

申请日：2024-07-26

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Chunxuan Ye ,  Dan Wu ,  Dawei Zhang ,  Hong He ,  Huaning Niu ,  Wei Zeng ,  Weidong Yang

IPC: H04W72/40 ,  H04L1/1812 ,  H04W72/0446

Abstract: In accordance with aspects of the present disclosure, a user equipment (UE) may receive a physical sidelink shared channel (PSSCH) transmission via a slot i and a sub-channel j. The UE may determine, within a resource block (RB) set k and a physical sidelink feedback channel (PSFCH) transmission occasion n, at least one interlace to use for a PSFCH transmission based at least in part on an index of the slot i, an index of the sub-channel j, a PSFCH periodicity, and a quantity of sub-channels in the RB set k. The UE may transmit the PSFCH transmission via the at least one interlace in the RB set k during the PSFCH transmission occasion n. The PSFCH transmission may include feedback for the PSSCH transmission.

公开(公告)号：US12219368B2

公开(公告)日：2025-02-04

申请号：US17438873

申请日：2021-01-14

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Yushu Zhang ,  Haitong Sun ,  Wei Zeng ,  Dawei Zhang ,  Weidong Yang ,  Yakun Sun ,  Qiming Li ,  Jie Cui ,  Hong He ,  Chunhai Yao

IPC: H04W16/28 ,  H04B17/336 ,  H04W24/10

Abstract: Apparatuses, systems, and methods for beam reporting to facilitate multiple transmission and reception points, multi-TRPs, transmission schemes. A UE may receive, from a base station a configuration to report a beam quality based on at least one of a first reporting scheme and a second reporting scheme or a configuration of measurement resources for each TRP of a plurality of TRPs. The UE may report the beam quality based on the configuration or L1 measurements for multiple beam pairs and a recommended and/or assumed transmission scheme based on the configured measurement resources. The first reporting scheme may include the UE reporting at least one L1 measurement for multiple beams and the second reporting scheme may include the UE reporting at least one L1 measurement for multiple beam pairs. The recommended and/or assumed transmission scheme may be a non-coherent-joint transmission (NC-JT) transmission scheme and/or a single frequency network (SFN) transmission scheme.

公开(公告)号：US20250039907A1

公开(公告)日：2025-01-30

申请号：US18916382

申请日：2024-10-15

Applicant: Apple Inc.

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

IPC: H04W72/30 ,  H04L1/08 ,  H04L5/00 ,  H04W72/21

Abstract: This disclosure relates to apparatuses and methods for providing and managing reception feedback for multicast and broadcast services (MBS). A base station (BS) may select and communicate, to a group of user equipment devices (UEs), configuration parameters for MBS communications, such as an indication of an MBS retransmission procedure for an MBS service. The BS may also transmit, to the group of UEs, an MBS data communication. A first UE may receive the MBS data communication, but may determine that the received MBS data communication is corrupted. The first UE may respond by transmitting, to the BS, a negative-acknowledgement (NACK) message. The BS may retransmit the MBS data communication either as an MBS transmission or as a unicast transmission, based on the configuration parameters. The first UE may monitor the appropriate resources to receive the retransmitted MBS data communication, based on the configuration parameters.

公开(公告)号：US12206603B2

公开(公告)日：2025-01-21

申请号：US17598203

申请日：2020-02-12

Applicant: Apple Inc.

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

IPC: H04W72/00 ,  H04L5/00 ,  H04W72/0453 ,  H04W72/23

Abstract: A method and apparatus of a device that determines a physical downlink shared channel scheduling resource for a user equipment device and a base station is described. In an exemplary embodiment, the device selects a plurality of component carriers from a pool of available component carriers associated with a wireless link established between the user equipment device and the base station. In addition, the device selects a virtual component carrier from the plurality of component carriers. Furthermore, the device determines a physical downlink shared channel scheduling resource based on at least the virtual component carrier.