公开(公告)号：US11122647B2

公开(公告)日：2021-09-14

申请号：US16519699

申请日：2019-07-23

Applicant: APPLE INC.

Inventor： Youn Hyoung Heo ,  Yujian Zhang

IPC: H04W76/28 ,  H04W76/15 ,  H04W52/54 ,  H04B7/26 ,  H04W52/02 ,  H04W72/04 ,  H04L1/18 ,  H04W28/02 ,  H04W24/08 ,  H04W72/12 ,  H04W28/06 ,  H04W28/18 ,  H04W52/14 ,  H04W52/36 ,  H04L5/00 ,  H04W92/20 ,  H04W36/00 ,  H04W88/02 ,  H04W88/08

Abstract: Embodiments of user equipment (UE) and methods for enhanced discontinuous reception (DRX) operations for inter eNB carrier aggregation (CA) in an LTE network are generally described herein. In some embodiments, a UE is configured to be served by multiple serving cells. The first set of the serving cells may be associated with a first eNB and a second set of serving cells may be associated with a second eNB. In these embodiments, DRX operations may be performed independently in multiple serving cells belonging to the different eNBs. Other embodiments for enhanced DRX operations are also described.

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：US11025376B2

公开(公告)日：2021-06-01

申请号：US15574765

申请日：2015-12-15

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Gang Xiong ,  Pingping Zong ,  Yujian Zhang ,  Mo-Han Fong ,  Jong-Kae Fwu

IPC: H04L5/00 ,  H04W72/04 ,  H04W4/70 ,  H04W72/00 ,  H04L29/08 ,  H04W88/02

Abstract: Disclosed herein are apparatuses, systems, and methods using or implementing dynamic resource allocation (DRA) of resources for machine-type communication (MTC), as a secondary partition within a system bandwidth. Allocations outside the secondary partition are configured as a primary partition for other than MTC. Apparatuses may perform MTC communications within the secondary partition when DRA configuration information includes allocation information for the secondary partition and the apparatus is configured for MTC. Otherwise, if the apparatus is other than MTC, the apparatus may refrain from performing communications in the secondary partition. Other embodiments are described.

公开(公告)号：US20210112459A1

公开(公告)日：2021-04-15

申请号：US17131118

申请日：2020-12-22

Applicant: APPLE INC.

Inventor： Sudeep Palat ,  Richard Burbidge ,  Yujian Zhang ,  Alexandre Saso Stojanovski ,  Jerome Parron

IPC: H04W28/24 ,  H04W76/27 ,  H04L5/00 ,  H04W28/02

Abstract: Disclosed are apparatuses for quality of service (QoS) flow to data radio bearer (DRB) mapping override bits. An apparatus of a user equipment (UE), includes one or more data storage devices, and one or more processors operably coupled to the one or more data storage devices. The one or more data storage devices are configured to store data corresponding to mapping of QoS flows to data radio bearers. The one or more processors are configured to map one or more QoS flows to a DRB in an uplink (UL) responsive to receipt, by the UE from a cellular base station, of a user plane packet in a downlink (DL) through the DRB if an override bit of the user plane packet indicates that reflective mapping should apply.

公开(公告)号：US20210014836A1

公开(公告)日：2021-01-14

申请号：US16826421

申请日：2020-03-23

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Yujian Zhang ,  Jeongho Jeon ,  Youn Hyoung Heo ,  Candy Yiu ,  Bharat Shrestha

IPC: H04W72/04 ,  H04L5/00 ,  H04W72/12

Abstract: 5G methods and architectures to determine active SCells and their bandwidth parts (BWP) used in carrier aggregation (CA) are disclosed in which activating a BWP for an active SCell is performed initially according to a default value provided in initial radio resource control (RRC) messaging. After initialization, SCells and the SCell BWPs used by the user equipment (UE) are activated by RRC messaging, downlink control information (DCI) or dedicated medium access control (MAC) control elements (MAC CEs) with the initial BWP used for an activated SCell being a default value provided during initialization.