公开(公告)号：US20250167961A1

公开(公告)日：2025-05-22

申请号：US18836718

申请日：2022-02-12

Applicant: Apple Inc.

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

IPC: H04L5/00 ,  H04W24/08

Abstract: Disclosed are methods, systems, and computer-readable medium to perform operations including: identifying one or more instances of a control resource set (“CORESET”); monitoring a physical downlink control channel (“PDCCH”) candidate to detect a physical downlink control channel using the one or more instances of the CORESET; and receiving, based on the detected PDCCH, data scheduled by the PDCCH.

公开(公告)号：US20250151087A1

公开(公告)日：2025-05-08

申请号：US18836844

申请日：2022-02-11

Applicant: Apple Inc.

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

IPC: H04W72/25 ,  H04W72/0446

Abstract: A user equipment including a transceiver and a processor is disclosed. The processor is configured to determine a sidelink control information (SCI) format payload size based on resource pool configuration for the UE for inter-UE coordination with a second UE. The processor is configured to determine, based on the determined SCI format payload size, an SCI format including a number of message elements identifying attributes of a number of resources being used by the UE over a predetermined time period. The processor is configured to encode and transmit, to the second UE, the SCI format for the IUC for resource selection by the second UE.

公开(公告)号：US12289618B2

公开(公告)日：2025-04-29

申请号：US17916850

申请日：2020-04-08

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Yushu Zhang ,  Chunhai Yao ,  Chunxuan Ye ,  Dawei Zhang ,  Fangli Xu ,  Haijing Hu ,  Haitong Sun ,  Hong He ,  Jie Cui ,  Oghenekome Oteri ,  Wei Zeng ,  Weidong Yang ,  Yang Tang ,  Yuchul Kim ,  Yuqin Chen

IPC: H04W16/28 ,  H04L5/00 ,  H04W80/02

Abstract: Apparatuses, systems, and methods for overhead reduction for multi-carrier beam selection and power control. A user equipment device (UE) may receive an uplink beam configuration for a group of component carriers and may communicate using the uplink beam configuration for the group of component carriers. The UE may receive an updated uplink beam configuration for the group of component carriers. The update uplink beam configuration may include a medium access control (MAC) control element (CE) that may update a pathloss reference signal for the group of component carriers. The MAC CE may include an indication of a spatial relation for aperiodic or semi-persistent sounding reference signals for the group of component carriers, an indication of a transmission control indicator for a physical downlink control channel, an indication of an update for a physical uplink shared channel, and/or an indication of an update for a sounding reference signal.

公开(公告)号：US12279166B2

公开(公告)日：2025-04-15

申请号：US17764586

申请日：2021-04-02

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Qiming Li ,  Jie Cui ,  Yang Tang ,  Fangli Xu ,  Yuqin Chen ,  Yushu Zhang ,  Chunhai Yao ,  Dawei Zhang ,  Manasa Raghavan ,  Xiang Chen

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

Abstract: A method for a network element is provided. The method comprises: encoding a message for transmission to a user equipment (UE) including neighbor cell configuration information that includes a list of a plurality of neighbor cell groups, wherein each of the plurality of neighbor cell groups is associated with a specific cell; and transmitting the message to the UE.

公开(公告)号：US12273741B2

公开(公告)日：2025-04-08

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 ,  H04W74/0833

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 is 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：US12267853B2

公开(公告)日：2025-04-01

申请号：US18613642

申请日：2024-03-22

Applicant: APPLE INC.

Inventor： Hong He ,  Chunhai Yao ,  Dawei Zhang ,  Haitong Sun ,  Jie Cui ,  Oghenekome Oteri ,  Wei Zeng ,  Weidong Yang ,  Yang Tang

IPC: H04W72/23 ,  H04L5/00

Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. To monitor a PDCCH for CA, a UE may receive PDCCH candidates in a plurality of configured component carriers (CCs). In response to a determination that a maximum number of virtual CCs that the UE is capable of monitoring for PDCCH is smaller than a number of the plurality of configured CCs, the UE groups the plurality of configured CCs into CC groups based at least in part on SCS numerologies and PDCCH monitoring configurations corresponding to span patterns within a slot of a DL subframe. The UE determines a maximum number of blind decoding operations and non-overlapped CCEs for each of the CC groups. The UE then monitors at least a first portion of the PDCCH candidates based on the maximum number of blind decoding operations and non-overlapped CCEs for each of the CC groups.

公开(公告)号：US12262399B2

公开(公告)日：2025-03-25

申请号：US17442068

申请日：2021-07-27

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Yushu Zhang ,  Chunhai Yao ,  Dawei Zhang ,  Haitong Sun ,  Huaning Niu ,  Jie Cui ,  Qiming Li ,  Sigen Ye ,  Wei Zeng

IPC: H04W72/54 ,  H04L5/00

Abstract: The present application relates to devices and components including apparatus, systems, and methods for latency reduction for beam failure recovery (BFR), with respect to transmit-receive point (TRP)-specific BFR.

公开(公告)号：US20250088218A1

公开(公告)日：2025-03-13

申请号：US18958557

申请日：2024-11-25

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Yushu Zhang ,  Haitong Sun ,  Wei Zeng ,  Dawei Zhang ,  Yuchul Kim ,  Hong He ,  Weidong Yang ,  Chunxuan Ye ,  Chunhai Yao ,  Oghenekome Oteri ,  Wei Zhang ,  Jia Tang ,  Tianyan Pu ,  Pengkai Zhao

IPC: H04B7/022 ,  H04L5/00

Abstract: In an example method, a user equipment (UE) device determines one or more component carriers available to the UE device for at least one of transmitting or receiving data over a wireless network. The UE device transmits, to the wireless network, for each component carrier, an indication whether the component carrier supports at least one of transmitting or receiving data according to a multi-transmission and receiving points (multi-TRP) communication protocol.

公开(公告)号：US12250723B2

公开(公告)日：2025-03-11

申请号：US17441362

申请日：2020-05-14

Applicant: Apple Inc.

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

IPC: H04W74/0816 ,  H04W72/12 ,  H04W72/21 ,  H04W74/08

Abstract: Methods and apparatuses are disclosed for signaling unused channel occupancy time (COT) to the gNB for COT sharing among other UEs. Upon determining that a portion of the maximum COT (MCOT) provided to the UE will be unused, the UE can generate COT sharing information for transmission back to the gNB. The COT sharing information identifies a starting point and a duration (e.g., a number of consecutive slots) of the unused portion of the MCOT. This information is then encoded into configured grant uplink control information (UG-UCI) and transmitted to the gNB as part of the uplink transmission. In aspects, the unused portion may begin part-way through a slot. In this instance, a starting symbol of the unused portion or an ending symbol of the used portion may also be encoded into the uplink transmission. In this manner, unused COT is not wasted, but rather repurposed by the gNB.

公开(公告)号：US12250677B2

公开(公告)日：2025-03-11

申请号：US17811997

申请日：2022-07-12

Applicant: APPLE INC.

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

IPC: H04W72/1268 ,  H04B7/06 ,  H04L5/00 ,  H04W72/23

Abstract: Systems and methods using control signaling for uplink frequency selective precoding at a user equipment (UE) are disclosed herein. A base station may indicate a transmission rank indicator (TRI), a wideband transmission precoder matrix indicator (TPMI), and one or more subband TPMI(s) to the UE. The base station may indicate, to the UE, whether to use the wideband TPMI or a subband TPMI to precode a physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH) transmission from the UE to the base station. The UE then precodes (and transmits) the PUSCH accordingly. Methods of UE application of the indicated subband TPMI(s) to subbands of the bandwidth in which a PUSCH may be transmitted are described. Methods accounting for a UE capability as to non-coherent, partial-coherent, and/or coherent precoding are described. Methods of assigning TPMI(s) to subbands in view of multiple transmission reception point (TRP) use by the UE for UE transmission are described.