公开(公告)号：US12289639B2

公开(公告)日：2025-04-29

申请号：US17596618

申请日：2020-06-12

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Binita Gupta ,  Qian Li ,  Jing Zhu ,  Sangeetha L Bangolae ,  Youn Hyoung Heo ,  Puneet Jain ,  Necati Canpolat ,  Carlos Cordeiro ,  Alexander Sirotkin

IPC: H04W28/06 ,  H04W28/086 ,  H04W84/12

Abstract: A next generation NodeB (gNB) implements a radio access network (RAN) convergence functionality for new radio (NR) and wireless local area network (WLAN) access, the gNB further implementing a split architecture comprising a central unit (CU) and a distributed unit (DU) for each of the NR access and WLAN access. The gNB receives a data packet for transmission to a user equipment (UE) implementing the RAN convergence functionality, the data packet comprising one of a control plane (CP) packet or a user plane (UP) packet. The gNB splits the data packet via a convergence layer residing on the NR CU or a convergence layer residing on the WLAN CU and transmits the split data packet over the NR access and the WLAN access.

公开(公告)号：US12267736B2

公开(公告)日：2025-04-01

申请号：US17442086

申请日：2021-08-30

Applicant: APPLE INC.

Inventor： Alexander Sirotkin ,  Fangli Xu ,  Haijing Hu ,  Naveen Kumar R. Palle Venkata ,  Pavan Nuggehalli

IPC: H04W36/00 ,  H04W36/36 ,  H04W76/20

Abstract: The present application relates to devices and components including apparatus, systems, and methods for user equipment (UE)-based mobility optimization are described herein, including machine learning (ML)-assisted techniques.

公开(公告)号：US20250081072A1

公开(公告)日：2025-03-06

申请号：US18724385

申请日：2022-01-05

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Pavan Nuggehalli ,  Alexander Sirotkin ,  Chunxuan Ye ,  Fangli Xu ,  Haijing Hu ,  Naveen Kumar R Palle Venkata ,  Ralf Rossbach ,  Sarma V Vangala ,  Sethuraman Gurumoorthy ,  Yuqin Chen ,  Zhibin Wu

IPC: H04W36/32 ,  H04W36/08 ,  H04W84/06

Abstract: A user equipment (UE) may receive a downlink message from a non-terrestrial network (NTN) which may include one or more sets of terrestrial network (TN) cell reselection information. The one or more sets of TN cell reselection information may further include location information corresponding to one or more cells of the TN. The UE may determine its location and, in response to receiving the downlink message, compare its location to the location information corresponding to the one or more cells of the TN. The UE may then select, based on the comparison, a set of the one or more sets of TN cell reselection information and further perform a cell reselection procedure based on the selection.

公开(公告)号：US12041587B2

公开(公告)日：2024-07-16

申请号：US17286631

申请日：2019-10-29

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Alexander Sirotkin ,  Qian Li ,  Lili Wei ,  Dawei Ying ,  Geng Wu ,  Jaemin Han ,  Murali Narasimha ,  Youn Hyoung Heo ,  Sudeep K Palat

IPC: H04W72/0446 ,  H04W28/02 ,  H04W40/22 ,  H04W88/08

CPC classification number: H04W72/0446 ,  H04W28/0263 ,  H04W40/22 ,  H04W88/08

Abstract: Embodiments of an integrated access and backhaul (IAB) donor, IAB node, and methods of communication are generally described herein. An IAB network may comprise a plurality of IAB nodes to operate as relays between the IAB donor and one or more User Equipment (UE). The IAB donor may, for each of the IAB nodes, allocate a plurality of subframes to the IAB node. Each allocated subframe may have a subframe type that is one of: a downlink subframe, an uplink subframe, a flexible subframe or a not available subframe. The IAB donor may transmit, from a central unit (CU) of the IAB donor to a distributed unit (DU) an IAB node over an F1 interface, a resource coordination request message that indicates the subframe types of the plurality of subframes.

公开(公告)号：US20240187919A1

公开(公告)日：2024-06-06

申请号：US17796633

申请日：2021-09-03

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Ralf Rossbach ,  Fangli Xu ,  Alexander Sirotkin ,  Bobby Jose ,  Dawei Zhang ,  Francois E. Deparis ,  Haijing Hu ,  Mohamed Mounir Mohamed Abdelrahman ,  Murali Narasimha ,  Murtaza A. Shikari ,  Naveen Kumar R. Palle Venkata ,  Pavan Nuggehalli ,  Ralf Itjeshorst ,  Sarma V. Vangala ,  Sethuraman Gurumoorthy ,  Vijay Venkataraman ,  Yuqin Chen ,  Zhibin Wu

IPC: H04W28/04 ,  H04L1/00 ,  H04W28/02 ,  H04W76/20 ,  H04W80/02

CPC classification number: H04W28/04 ,  H04L1/0064 ,  H04W28/0268 ,  H04W76/20 ,  H04W80/02

Abstract: The present application relates to devices and components including apparatus, systems, and methods for concatenating in the packet data convergence protocol sublayer or the service data adaptation sublayer in wireless networks.

公开(公告)号：US20240187145A1

公开(公告)日：2024-06-06

申请号：US17773146

申请日：2021-08-05

Applicant: Apple Inc.

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

IPC: H04L1/1829 ,  H04L1/1825 ,  H04W84/06

CPC classification number: H04L1/1864 ,  H04L1/1825 ,  H04W84/06

Abstract: Techniques, described herein, include solutions for managing hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) processes and communications for non-terrestrial networks (NTNs) (e.g., a wireless communication network that includes a satellite network component). A user equipment (UE) may connect to an NTN and determine hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) capabilities regarding NTNs. The UE may also communicate a HARQ disablement message to the NTN and communicate with NTN without HARQ procedures. The HARQ disablement message may provide the HARQ disablement capabilities of the UE and/or be a request for the network to disable HARQ. The HARQ disablement message may include a radio resource control (RRC) reconfiguration message and may address HARQ disablement per logical channel identifier (LCID) or dedicated radio bearer (DRB).

公开(公告)号：US11991087B2

公开(公告)日：2024-05-21

申请号：US17309159

申请日：2019-10-29

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Jaemin Han ,  Feng Yang ,  Yujian Zhang ,  Alexander Sirotkin

IPC: H04L47/34 ,  H04L1/1607

CPC classification number: H04L47/34 ,  H04L1/1642

Abstract: An apparatus of a next generation Node B (gNB) Distributed Unit (DU) comprises one or more baseband processors to transmit one or more retransmitted Packet Data Convergence Protocol (PDCP) Protocol Data Units (PDUs) received from a gNB Central Unit (CU) to a user equipment (UE), and to feed back not only a latest, in-sequence New Radio User-plane (NR-U) Sequence Number (SN) to the CU for Release 15, but also a highest, in-sequence successfully delivered/transmitted PDCP SN, optionally, with a NR-U SN up to which the reported PDCP SN should be applied, which can provide an exact range of successfully delivered/transmitted status for retransmitted packets even in case of DU's re-ordering based on PDCP SN before transmitting to the UE. The apparatus can include a memory to store the reported PDCP SN and NR-U SN.

公开(公告)号：US20230076746A1

公开(公告)日：2023-03-09

申请号：US17871865

申请日：2022-07-22

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Alexander Sirotkin ,  Chunxuan Ye ,  Haijing Hu ,  Naveen Kumar R. Palle Venkata ,  Pavan Nuggehalli ,  Ralf Rossbach ,  Sarma V. Vangala ,  Sethuraman Gurumoorthy ,  Zhibin Wu

IPC: H04W36/32 ,  H04W36/00

Abstract: The present application relates to devices and components including apparatus, systems, and methods for control-plane signaling for UE associations in wireless networks.

公开(公告)号：US20230053774A1

公开(公告)日：2023-02-23

申请号：US17967982

申请日：2022-10-18

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Alexandre Saso Stojanovski ,  Alexander Sirotkin

IPC: H04W68/00 ,  H04W8/08 ,  H04W76/28 ,  H04W72/04 ,  H04W80/10

Abstract: Embodiments of a Next Generation Node-B (gNB) and methods of communication are disclosed herein. The gNB may be configured with a gNB-CU and a gNB-DU. A first paging message for paging of the UE may be received at the gNB-CU from an access management function (AMF) entity. The first paging message may include: a paging identity of the UE; and a paging origin information element (IE) that indicates whether the paging of the UE is originated due to a protocol data unit (PDU) session from non-3GPP access. A second paging message to page the UE may be transmitted from the gNB-DU to the UE. The second paging message may include: the paging identity of the UE; and an access type parameter that indicates whether the paging of the UE is originated due to the PDU session from the non-3GPP access.

公开(公告)号：US11457503B2

公开(公告)日：2022-09-27

申请号：US16487173

申请日：2018-03-16

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Jaemin Han ,  Yujian Zhang ,  Alexander Sirotkin ,  Xu Zhang ,  Yifan Yu ,  Min Huang ,  Feng Yang ,  Sudeep Palat

IPC: H04W80/02 ,  H04W76/10 ,  H04L1/18 ,  H04L69/16 ,  H04W28/06

Abstract: A centralized RAN architecture that includes lower layer transmission nodes (referred to as distributed units (DUs) herein) that connect to an upper layer RAN node (referred to as a centralized unit (CU) herein). A centralized RAN architecture may include a functional split, between the CU and DU, corresponding to the Packet Data Convergence Protocol (PDCP) and Radio Link Control (RLC) layers. In one embodiment, a CU may store copies of downlink PDCP PDUs that are transmitted to a first DU. The CU may retransmit, to a second DU, those of the PDCP PDUs which were previously transmitted to the source DU but have not been acknowledged as successfully delivered by the source DU.