公开(公告)号：US20220417972A1

公开(公告)日：2022-12-29

申请号：US17438214

申请日：2021-06-25

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Ralf Rossbach ,  Fangli Xu ,  Sarma V. Vangala ,  Haijing Hu ,  Weidong Yang ,  Lakshmi Iyer ,  Sabine Roessel

IPC: H04W72/12

Abstract: An application layer in a device, a service data adaptation protocol (SDAP) layer in the device, and/or a media access control (MAC) layer in the device may determine that wireless communication resources allocated to the device need to be adjusted. The determination may be in response to detecting that a quality of the wireless connection of the device has deteriorated, or it may be based on advance knowledge of information pertaining to an application layer payload in the device. In response to the determination the device may transmit, in a MAC Control Element (MAC CE) to a base station, a request for an adjustment of the allocated wireless communication resources. The adjustment may lead to a temporary boost of resources for a limited period of time or to a persistent update of the allocated wireless communication resources. To allow better scheduling of multiple QoS flows mapped to the same DRB and better selection of data when constructing a MAC Packet Data Unit (PDU), a mapping between QoS flows and LCHs may also be provided to the MAC layer.

公开(公告)号：US20220417819A1

公开(公告)日：2022-12-29

申请号：US17770594

申请日：2019-11-07

Applicant: Apple Inc.

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

IPC: H04W36/30 ,  H04W36/08 ,  H04W36/00

Abstract: Embodiments are presented herein of apparatuses, systems, and methods for a user equipment device (UE) and/or cellular network to perform to perform cell detection and measurement, e.g., in new radio (NR) unlicensed (NR-U). The UE may determine that a threshold condition related to missed reference signal opportunities is reached. In response, the UE may modify reference signal monitoring and/or measurement.

公开(公告)号：US20220361007A1

公开(公告)日：2022-11-10

申请号：US17757312

申请日：2020-12-15

Applicant: APPLE INC.

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

IPC: H04W16/28 ,  H04L5/00 ,  H04W56/00 ,  H04W74/08

Abstract: Methods and apparatus are provided for a UE to determine a UL spatial relation for an UL transmission in response to an unknown UL spatial relation switch. The UE may determine whether the UL spatial relation is based on an SRS transmission in UL, a CSI-RS in DL, or an SSB in the DL. If the UL spatial relation is based on the SRS transmission, the UE may select the UL spatial relation for the UL transmission corresponding to a Tx beam of the SRS transmission. If the UL spatial relation is based on the CSI-RS or the SSB, the UE may select the UL spatial relation for the UL transmission based on whether the unknown UL spatial relation switch s due to a corresponding resource for beam training not being configured by a communication network or a corresponding beam information being expired.

公开(公告)号：US20220346123A1

公开(公告)日：2022-10-27

申请号：US17655252

申请日：2022-03-17

Applicant: APPLE INC.

Inventor： Huaning Niu ,  Dawei Zhang ,  Farhan Aziz ,  Haitong Sun ,  Hong He ,  Navid Ehsan ,  Sigen Ye ,  Wei Zeng ,  Wei Zhang ,  Weidong Yang

IPC: H04W72/12 ,  H04L5/00 ,  H04W76/28

Abstract: A wireless communication system may adapt physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) monitoring behaviors using downlink control information (DCI). The change in monitoring behavior may be skipping or switching. The timeline for applying switching or skipping may be applied after a reference point and a processing time. In some embodiments, the processing time may be either based on UE processing, network processing, or a combination.

公开(公告)号：US20220321315A1

公开(公告)日：2022-10-06

申请号：US17439138

申请日：2020-10-08

Applicant: Apple Inc.

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

IPC: H04L5/00 ,  H04L1/18 ,  H04W72/04

Abstract: The present application relates to devices and components including apparatus, systems, and methods to provide reception and transmission in 5G NR at a frequency larger than 52.6 GHz and with a subcarrier spacing larger than 120 KHz.

公开(公告)号：US20220312435A1

公开(公告)日：2022-09-29

申请号：US17593115

申请日：2021-04-06

Applicant: APPLE INC.

Inventor： Chunxuan Ye ,  Dawei Zhang ,  Haijing Hu ,  Haitong Sun ,  Oghenekome Oteri ,  Wei Zeng ,  Weidong Yang ,  Yuqin Chen ,  Zhibin Wu

IPC: H04W72/12 ,  H04W72/14 ,  H04W74/08 ,  H04L1/18 ,  H04L5/00

Abstract: Determining priority of a simultaneous sidelink (SL) transmission and uplink (UL) transmission of a user equipment (UE) within a 5G New Radio (NR) network may comprise processing an SL control information (SCI) corresponding to at least one of a SL hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) or an SL schedule request (SR) included in a UL transmission to be sent by a UE to thereby determine a priority value associated with the at least one SL HARQ or SL SR. An SCI of an SL transmission to be sent by the UE simultaneously with the UL transmission may be processed to thereby determine a priority value associated with the SL transmission. The priority value of the at least one SL HARQ or SL SR may be compared to the priority value of the SL transmission. Transmissions may then be prioritized based on the comparison of priority values.

公开(公告)号：US20220304038A1

公开(公告)日：2022-09-22

申请号：US17441982

申请日：2020-05-15

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Yushu Zhang ,  Yang Tang ,  Yakun Sun ,  Wei Zeng ,  Dawei Zhang ,  Haijing Hu ,  Haitong Sun ,  Weidong Yang ,  Chunxuan YE ,  Hong He ,  Yuchul Kim ,  Chunhai Yao ,  Fangli Xu

IPC: H04W72/12 ,  H04L5/00 ,  H04W24/08

Abstract: Apparatuses, systems, and methods for radio resource management (RRM) signal reception. A user equipment device (UE) may receive, via a first reception path, an RRM related signal and receive, via a second reception path, a non-RRM related signal that may be multiplexed with the RRM related signal onto a symbol. The first reception path may be a first antenna port of an antenna panel or a first antenna panel of the UE and the second reception path may be a second antenna port of the antenna panel or a second antenna panel of the UE. The RRM related signal may include a reference signal for RRM. and may be included in a non-zero power (NZP) interference measurement.

公开(公告)号：US20220303950A1

公开(公告)日：2022-09-22

申请号：US17438044

申请日：2020-10-15

Applicant: Apple Inc.

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

IPC: H04W72/02 ,  H04W72/04 ,  H04W16/28

Abstract: A base station may transmit beam indication information to one or more user equipment (UE) devices. For each of a plurality of time units (e.g., symbols) in a time interval (e.g., spanning one or more slots), the beam indication information indicates a corresponding beam that the base station will use to transmit or receive. A UE device may have knowledge of the beam in which it currently resides, e.g., by performing power measurements during a beam scan procedure. Thus, the beam indication information enables the UE to perform transmissions and/or receptions (e.g., configured transmissions and/or receptions) during the appropriate time unit(s). The beam indication information may be dynamically transmitted as part of downlink control information. This transmission may omni-directional, wide beam, or narrow beam. Various schemes of encoding the beam indication information are contemplated.

公开(公告)号：US20220303948A1

公开(公告)日：2022-09-22

申请号：US17439010

申请日：2020-10-15

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: H04W72/00 ,  H04W72/04 ,  H04L1/08 ,  H04L5/00

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：US20220302986A1

公开(公告)日：2022-09-22

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 ,  H04W76/19 ,  H04W24/08 ,  H04W74/08 ,  H04W56/00

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.