公开(公告)号：US20220276335A1

公开(公告)日：2022-09-01

申请号：US17749241

申请日：2022-05-20

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Seunghee Han ,  Alexey Khoryaev ,  Yang Tang ,  Zhibin Yu ,  Shafi Bashar

IPC: G01S5/10 ,  G01S1/20 ,  G01S5/02

Abstract: Techniques for observed time difference of arrival (OTDOA) positioning based on heterogeneous reference signals (RSs) are discussed. One example apparatus configured to be employed within a user equipment (UE) comprises receiver circuitry, a processor, and transmitter circuitry. The receiver circuitry can receive, from each of a plurality of evolved Node Bs (eNBs), one or more RSs of each of a plurality of distinct types of RSs. The processor can determine, for each of the eNBs, a time of arrival (TOA) of the one or more RSs of each of the plurality of distinct types of RSs; and compute, for each of the eNBs, a reference signal time difference (RSTD) based at least in part on the TOAs of the one or more RSs of each of the plurality of distinct types of RSs. The transmitter circuitry can transmit the RSTD computed for each of the eNBs.

公开(公告)号：US11363477B2

公开(公告)日：2022-06-14

申请号：US16408053

申请日：2019-05-09

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Candy Yiu ,  Jie Cui ,  Yang Tang

IPC: H04W24/10 ,  H04W72/04 ,  H04W76/27 ,  H04W88/02 ,  H04W88/08

Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure describe methods, apparatuses, storage media, and systems for beam management techniques in New Radio (NR) Standalone (SA) applications. Various embodiments describe how to configure one or more measurement gaps in an NR SA network so that a UE may apply the same or different measurement gaps while operating with various technologies or services in various frequency ranges. Other embodiments may be described and claimed.

公开(公告)号：US11356151B2

公开(公告)日：2022-06-07

申请号：US17267603

申请日：2020-02-12

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Haitong Sun ,  Yushu Zhang ,  Wei Zeng ,  Dawei Zhang ,  Yuchul Kim ,  Hong He ,  Weidong Yang ,  Chunhai Yao ,  Chunxuan Ye ,  Oghenekome Oteri ,  Ismael Gutierrez Gonzalez ,  Ghaith N Hattab ,  Jie Cui ,  Yang Tang ,  Haijing Hu ,  Fangli Xu ,  Zhibin Wu ,  Yuqin Chen ,  Yeong-Sun Hwang

IPC: H04W92/18 ,  H04B7/0413 ,  H04L1/18 ,  H04L5/00 ,  H04W72/04

Abstract: Apparatuses, systems, and methods for multi-TRP by a UE, including out of order delivery of PDSCH, PUSCH, and/or DL ACK/NACK. The UE may receive, from a base station, a configuration that may include multiple control resource set (CORESET) poos and each CORESET pool may be associated with an index value. The UE may determine that at least two DCIs of the multiple DCIs end at a common symbol and determine, based on one or more predetermined rules, when the UE may be scheduled to receive PDSCHs, transmit PUSCHs, and/or transmit ACK/NACKs from CORESETs associated with the at least two DCIs.

公开(公告)号：US20220086791A1

公开(公告)日：2022-03-17

申请号：US17348713

申请日：2021-06-15

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Jie Cui ,  Chunxuan Ye ,  Dawei Zhang ,  Hong He ,  Manasa Raghavan ,  Oghenekome Oteri ,  Seyed Ali Akbar Fakoorian ,  Weidong Yang ,  Yang Tang ,  Zhibin Wu

IPC: H04W64/00

Abstract: The present application relates to devices and components including apparatus, systems, and methods to provide user equipment receive/transmit capability exchange for positioning in wireless communication systems.

公开(公告)号：US20220086624A1

公开(公告)日：2022-03-17

申请号：US17348629

申请日：2021-06-15

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Jie Cui ,  Yang Tang ,  Dawei Zhang ,  Hong He ,  Manasa Raghavan ,  Weidong Yang ,  Seyed Ali Akbar Fakoorian ,  Zhibin Wu

IPC: H04W8/24 ,  H04W64/00 ,  H04W74/08

Abstract: The present application relates to devices and components including apparatus, systems, and methods to provide positioning enhancements on unlicensed spectrum.

公开(公告)号：US20220078801A1

公开(公告)日：2022-03-10

申请号：US17416770

申请日：2020-03-26

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Rui Huang ,  Zhibin Yu ,  Qiming Li ,  Jie Cui ,  Yeong-Sun Hwang ,  Yang Tang ,  Andre Janssen

IPC: H04W72/08 ,  H04W24/02 ,  H04W24/10 ,  H04B7/06 ,  H04W76/15

Abstract: An electronic device may receive, from a radio node, a measurement configuration associated with a wireless communication system. In response, the electronic device may perform measurements using narrow beam patterns based at least in part on a network configuration, where the narrow beam patterns are narrower than a wide beam pattern of the electronic device. Furthermore, performing the measurements using the narrow beams pattern may include performing a beam-pattern search up to the network configuration. Then, the electronic device may perform an SCell activation procedure of an SCell with the radio node. Note that the SCell activation procedure may include reporting, to the radio node, CSI of a narrow beam pattern of the SCell that is to be activated, where the narrow beam pattern is narrower than the wide beam pattern of the electronic device, and the narrow beam pattern is based at least in part on the measurements.

公开(公告)号：US11265837B2

公开(公告)日：2022-03-01

申请号：US16480272

申请日：2018-03-14

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Jie Cui ,  Yang Tang ,  Rui Huang ,  Yuan Zhu

IPC: H04W56/00 ,  H04L5/00 ,  H04W8/08 ,  H04W36/08

Abstract: User equipment performs autonomous time adjustment that includes selecting a Timing Error Limit (i.e. Te_NR) and Maximum Autonomous Time Adjustment Step (i.e. Tq_NR) based on bandwidth (BW) and subcarrier spacing (SCS). In one embodiment, given a certain downlink BW, if the SCS=x(kHz) and the Te_NR of this SCS is N, then the Te_NR of SCS=x/2(kHz) is 2*N. Given a certain downlink BW, if the SCS=x(kHz) and the Te_NR of this SCS is N, then the Te_NR of SCS=2*x(kHz) is N/2. For example, given BW=10 MHz, if the Te_NR of SCS=30kHz is n*Ts_NR (TS_NR is the basic timing unit for NR system), then the Te_NR of SCS=60 kHz is N/2*Ts_NR, and the Te_NR of SCS=15 kHz is 2*N*Ts_NR.

公开(公告)号：US20210410094A1

公开(公告)日：2021-12-30

申请号：US16476397

申请日：2018-02-06

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Jie Cui ,  Hong He ,  Yang Tang ,  Yuan Zhu ,  Shuang Tian

IPC: H04W56/00 ,  H04W52/24

Abstract: Methods and architectures to determine whether carrier aggregation (CA) component carrier signals transmitted or received by a user equipment (UE) device with a primary serving cell (PCell) and one or more secondary serving cells (SCell) exceed a maximum transmission timing difference compare a relative difference of signals derived from subframe boundaries, a subslot transmission time interval (sTTI) boundary or a combination thereof, with a maximum receive timing threshold value. In the uplink, timing advance groups (TAGs) for the PCell and/SCells may be compared by the UE to a maximum transmit timing threshold value. If the maximum thresholds are exceeded, the SCell may be dropped or changed to avoid UE from exceeding its power maximums.

公开(公告)号：US11134464B2

公开(公告)日：2021-09-28

申请号：US16487406

申请日：2018-04-02

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Jie Cui ,  Yang Tang

IPC: H04W4/00 ,  H04W64/00 ,  G01S5/02 ,  G01S5/10 ,  H04L5/00 ,  H04W24/10 ,  H04W72/04

Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure describe methods, apparatuses, storage media, and systems for delivering UE capability indication to a positioning server in a wireless communication network. A user equipment (UE) or access note (AN) may notify a positioning server of UE capability information associated with positioning measurements so that the positioning server may determine corresponding positioning measurement configurations based on acknowledgement of such UE capability information in terms of the positioning measurement. Embodiments describe UE capability indications to a positioning server that may enable flexible deployment and integration of various types of UEs. Other embodiments may be described and claimed.

公开(公告)号：US11044787B2

公开(公告)日：2021-06-22

申请号：US16328543

申请日：2017-07-27

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Anatoliy Ioffe ,  Ralf Bendlin ,  Debdeep Chatterjee ,  Marta Martinez Tarradell ,  Seau S. Lim ,  Elmar Wagner ,  Yang Tang

IPC: H04W88/10 ,  H04L1/00 ,  H04L1/08 ,  H04W4/70 ,  H04L5/00 ,  H04W68/00 ,  H04W88/06 ,  H04W84/04

Abstract: An apparatus is configured to be employed within a base station. The apparatus comprises baseband circuitry which includes a radio frequency (RF) interface and one or more processors. The one or more processors are configured determine repetition level (RL) thresholds, allocate downlink resources, wherein the downlink resources include a repetition level (RL), send downlink data to the RF interface for transmission to a user equipment (UE) according to the RL, receive repetition feedback from the RF interface based on the transmission to the UE, and update aspects or the allocation of the downlink resources based on the repetition feedback.