公开(公告)号：US20230118526A1

公开(公告)日：2023-04-20

申请号：US17790056

申请日：2021-09-06

Applicant: APPLE INC.

Inventor： Sarma V. Vangala ,  Weidong Yang ,  Fangli Xu ,  Haijing Hu ,  Naveen Kumar R. Palle Venkata ,  Yuqin Chen ,  Zhibin Wu ,  Alexander Sirotkin ,  Dawei Zhang ,  Pavan Nuggehalli ,  Sethuraman Gurumoorthy ,  Ralf Rossbach

IPC: H04W72/50

Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatuses for synchronizing data transmission activity by user equipment (UE). In one aspect, the method comprises determining, by the UE and based on current usage of resources, that alignment of subsequent usage of resources is to be adjusted, generating, by the UE, data that indicates a plurality of activity alignment parameters that are to be adjusted in order to cause the adjusted alignment of subsequent usage of resources, encoding, by the UE, the generated data for transmission to a base station, and transmitting, by the UE, the encoded data to the base station.

公开(公告)号：US20230039715A1

公开(公告)日：2023-02-09

申请号：US17852208

申请日：2022-06-28

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Chunxuan Ye ,  Dawei Zhang ,  Wei Zeng ,  Haitong Sun ,  Hong He ,  Huaning Niu ,  Oghenekome Oteri ,  Seyed Ali Akbar Fakoorian ,  Sarma V. Vangala ,  Pavan Nuggehalli ,  Haijing Hu ,  Weidong Yang ,  Sigen Ye ,  Alexander Sirotkin

IPC: H04W56/00 ,  H04B7/185 ,  H04B7/19

Abstract: The present application relates to devices and components including apparatus, systems, and methods for ephemeris signaling in wireless networks.

公开(公告)号：US20220078692A1

公开(公告)日：2022-03-10

申请号：US17416257

申请日：2020-03-20

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Alexandre Saso Stojanovski ,  Robert Zaus ,  Alexander Sirotkin

IPC: H04W36/32 ,  H04W60/04 ,  H04W36/00

Abstract: A computer system that establishes a first registration and a second registration in a common wireless communication system is described. During operation, the computer system performs a first registration of the user equipment over a first access, where, after the first registration, the user equipment is connected via the first access with a first access and mobility management function (AMF). Then, the computer system performs a second registration of the user equipment over a second access, where the second access is different from the first access and, after the second registration, the user equipment is connected via the second access with a second AMF. Moreover, when performing the second registration, the computer system: transfers a context of the user equipment from the first AMF to the second AMF; and/or relocates a network interface in a control plane from the first AMF to the second AMF.

公开(公告)号：US20220039080A1

公开(公告)日：2022-02-03

申请号：US16639660

申请日：2018-08-17

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Alexey Khoryaev ,  Alexander Sirotkin ,  Sergey Panteleev ,  Sergey D. Sosnin ,  Dmitry Belov ,  Pavel Dyakov ,  Mikhail S. Shilov ,  Andrey Chervyakov

IPC: H04W72/04 ,  H04W4/40 ,  H04L5/00 ,  G01S19/46

Abstract: A user equipment (UE) or network device such as a Vehicle-to-Everything (V2X) node, or V2X device operates to configure sidelink signals with another vehicle or node with resources that can be used for ranging and sidelink communications within a Long Term Evolution (LTE) network or a New Radio (NR) network. The UE/device generate or process a broadcast communication of the sidelink signal via an adaptive antenna array or a directional antenna array and forming a directional radiation pattern from a beam sweeping operation based on geo-location information determined based on a sidelink signal. Depending on the geo-location information coordinates or the position of other vehicles or nodes can be derived to select or configure resources for a sidelink communication, including a Sidelink Ranging Reference Signal (SR-RS) and associated sidelink communication data.

公开(公告)号：US11197332B2

公开(公告)日：2021-12-07

申请号：US16615081

申请日：2018-06-19

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Alexander Sirotkin ,  Yifan Yu ,  Min Huang ,  Jaemin Han ,  Feng Yang

IPC: H04W76/12 ,  H04W80/02 ,  H04W92/20

Abstract: Embodiments of a Next Generation Node B (gNB) are described herein. The gNB may be configured with logical nodes, including a gNB central unit (gNB-CU) and a gNB distributed unit (gNB-DU). The gNB-CU may include a gNB-CU control plane (gNB-CU-CP) for control-plane functionality, and a gNB-CU user plane (gNB-CU-UP) for user-plane functionality. The gNB may initiate an E1 interface setup procedure, a bearer context setup procedure, and a UE context setup procedure to establish a UE context that includes a signaling radio bearer (SRB) and a data radio bearer (DRB) configuration. The UE context setup request message may be configured to include quality-of-service parameters for the DRB configuration.

公开(公告)号：US11190989B2

公开(公告)日：2021-11-30

申请号：US16419245

申请日：2019-05-22

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Alexander Sirotkin ,  Xu Zhang ,  Jaemin Han ,  Feng Yang ,  Honglei Miao ,  Jerome Parron ,  Markus Dominik Mueck ,  Jing Zhu ,  Ellen Liao ,  Jeongho Jeon ,  Youn Hyoung Heo ,  Anthony Lee ,  Seau S. Lim ,  Marta Martinez Tarradell ,  Meghashree Dattatri Kedalagudde ,  Puneet Jain ,  Bharat Shrestha

IPC: H04W36/00 ,  H04W36/08 ,  H04B17/318 ,  H04W80/02 ,  H04W76/27 ,  H04W80/08

Abstract: A Next Generation Node-B (gNB) and methods of communication are generally described herein. The gNB is configurable to operate as a source gNB. The gNB is configured with logical nodes including a gNB central unit (gNB-CU) and a gNB distributed unit (gNB-DU). The gNB-CU comprises a gNB-CU control plane (gNB-CU-CP) for control-plane functionality, and a gNB-CU user plane (gNB-CU-UP) for user-plane functionality. When a handover of a User Equipment (UE) from the source gNB to a target gNB is performed, the gNB transfers, from the gNB-DU to the gNB-CU-UP, a downlink data delivery status (DDDS) message to indicate that the gNB-CU-UP is to stop transfer, to the gNB-DU, of downlink data intended for the UE.

公开(公告)号：US20210266779A1

公开(公告)日：2021-08-26

申请号：US17315952

申请日：2021-05-10

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Jaemin Han ,  Yujian Zhang ,  Sudeep Palat ,  Alexander Sirotkin

IPC: H04W28/02 ,  H04W28/04

Abstract: Systems and methods of providing feedback when a specific PDU is successfully delivered or transmitted are described. The node hosting PDCP entity indicates triggering of a DDDS frame from the remote corresponding node. Rather than immediately triggering transmission of a DDDS frame, the node hosting PDCP entity indicates triggering based on successful delivery of a PDU having a specific SN, as long as in-sequence delivery or transmission of PDUs up to the specific SN was successful. The DDDS frame is transmitted once the corresponding node determines that the PDU having the SN was successfully delivered or transmitted. After reporting by the DDDS frame, the QoS flow associated with the PDUs is remapped from a source DRB to a target DRB.

公开(公告)号：US20210176676A1

公开(公告)日：2021-06-10

申请号：US17182106

申请日：2021-02-22

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Feng Yang ,  Min Huang ,  Alexander Sirotkin ,  Xu Zhang

IPC: H04W36/00

Abstract: Embodiments of a Next Generation Node-B (gNB) and methods of communication are disclosed herein. The gNB may be configurable to operate as a source gNB (S-gNB). The S-gNB may transfer, from a control plane (CU-CP) of the S-gNB to a CU-CP of a target gNB (T-gNB), an XnAP handover request message that indicates an Xn handover of a User Equipment (UE) from the S-gNB to the T-gNB. The S-gNB may initiate data forwarding, from a user plane (CU-UP) of the S-gNB to a CU-UP of the T-gNB, of downlink data packets. The data forwarding may be terminated based on reception of end marker packets from a user plane function (UPF) entity. The CU-UP of the S-gNB may transfer end marker packets to the CU-UP of the S-gNB to indicate termination of the data forwarding.

公开(公告)号：US10932158B2

公开(公告)日：2021-02-23

申请号：US16746312

申请日：2020-01-17

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Alexander Sirotkin ,  Muthaiah Venkatachalam ,  Alexandre S. Stojanovski

IPC: H04W28/08 ,  H04W36/00 ,  H04W28/12 ,  H04W36/06 ,  H04W92/20 ,  H04W36/04 ,  H04W36/22 ,  H04W36/24 ,  H04W36/38 ,  H04W36/12 ,  H04W88/16 ,  H04W88/08

Abstract: Some demonstrative embodiments include devices, systems and methods of offloading traffic of a Secondary Cell Group (SCG). For example, some embodiments may include identifying a SCG bearer that is offloadable to the Internet via a Network Address Translation (NAT) gateway, based on offloading information received from a Master Evolved Node B (eNB) (MeNB); and offloading uplink Internet Protocol (IP) packets of the SCG bearer to the Internet via the NAT gateway, if the SCG bearer is indicated to be offloadable.

公开(公告)号：US10911984B2

公开(公告)日：2021-02-02

申请号：US15724282

申请日：2017-10-04

Applicant: APPLE INC.

Inventor： Alexander Sirotkin ,  Alexandre S. Stojanovski ,  Vivek Gupta ,  Chen-Ho Chin

IPC: H04W28/08 ,  H04W36/00 ,  H04W36/14 ,  H04W84/12 ,  H04W88/06

Abstract: Some demonstrative embodiments include devices, systems and methods of providing offloadability information to a User Equipment (UE). For example, a core network (CN) may provide to the UE Packet Data Network (PDN) offloadability information corresponding to one or more PDN connections of the UE, the PDN offloadability information indicating which PDN connection of the one or more PDN connections is able to be offloaded to a Wireless Local Area Network (WLAN).