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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.
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公开(公告)号:US20220368384A1
公开(公告)日:2022-11-17
申请号:US17811499
申请日:2022-07-08
Applicant: APPLE INC.
Inventor: Jan Schreck , Nageen Himayat , Hosein Nikopour , Feng Xue , Ehsan Aryafar , Oner Orhan , Mustafa R. Akdeniz , Wook Bong Lee , Jing Zhu
IPC: H04B7/0456 , H04B7/0417 , H04B7/06 , H04L5/00 , H04W72/12
Abstract: Apparatuses of a user equipment (UE), a cellular base station, and radio access network (RAN) nodes are disclosed. An apparatus of a wireless communication device includes circuitry configured to measure reference signals received from a plurality of antennas of an other wireless communication device, and circuitry configured to cause one or more antennas of the wireless communication device to transmit information regarding the received reference signals back to the other wireless communication device to enable the other wireless communication device to estimate a utility function for different transmit parameter sets.
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公开(公告)号:US20220368383A1
公开(公告)日:2022-11-17
申请号:US17811494
申请日:2022-07-08
Applicant: APPLE INC.
Inventor: Jan Schreck , Nageen Himayat , Hosein Nikopour , Feng Xue , Ehsan Aryafar , Oner Orhan , Mustafa R. Akdeniz , Wook Bong Lee , Jing Zhu
IPC: H04B7/0456 , H04B7/0417 , H04B7/06 , H04L5/00 , H04W72/12
Abstract: Apparatuses of a user equipment (UE), a cellular base station, and radio access network (RAN) nodes are disclosed. An apparatus of a wireless communication device includes circuitry configured to measure reference signals received from a plurality of antennas of an other wireless communication device, and circuitry configured to cause one or more antennas of the wireless communication device to transmit information regarding the received reference signals back to the other wireless communication device to enable the other wireless communication device to estimate a utility function for different transmit parameter sets.
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公开(公告)号:US11019500B2
公开(公告)日:2021-05-25
申请号:US14851771
申请日:2015-09-11
Applicant: APPLE INC.
Inventor: Jing Zhu , Jerome Parron , Nageen Himayat , Penny Efraim-Sagi , Martin Kolde
Abstract: Systems and methods provide cross-layer bearer splitting and cross-RAT retransmission in a RAN-based WLAN/WWAN integrated network. A link aggregation transmitter is configured to receive, from a WLAN stack lower layer protocol, a WLAN transmission confirmation signal and a WLAN congestion status, and to receive, from a WWAN stack lower layer protocol, a WWAN transmission confirmation signal and a WWAN congestion status. The link aggregation transmitter dynamically splits the bearer traffic across the WWAN link and the WLAN link based at least in part on the WLAN transmission confirmation signal, the WLAN congestion status, and the WWAN congestion status.
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公开(公告)号:US10813086B2
公开(公告)日:2020-10-20
申请号:US16409350
申请日:2019-05-10
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor: Jing Zhu , Nageen Himayat , Alexander Sirotkin , Alexandre R. Stojanovski
IPC: H04W72/04 , H04W88/06 , H04W76/16 , H04W76/22 , H04W28/06 , H04W28/08 , H04W84/12 , H04W88/10 , H04W92/10
Abstract: A wireless local area network (WLAN) point-to-point communications link between an evolved universal terrestrial radio access network node B (eNB) and a user equipment device (or simply UE) is identified by UE/eNB media access control (MAC) identifiers on a per UE or per data radio bearer (DRB) basis for offloading cellular data from a long term evolution (LTE) link to the WLAN point-to-point communications link. A wireless local area network tunneling protocol (WLTP) includes packet formats and network protocol stack arrangements to support functions facilitated by the WLAN point-to-point communications link, such as, for example, identification of control and data traffic messages, DRB identification for WLTP packets, quality of service (QoS) delay and packet loss measurement, support of bearer splitting, and support of a general framework for offloading cellular traffic at different depths of the 3rd Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) network protocol stack.
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公开(公告)号:US10716114B2
公开(公告)日:2020-07-14
申请号:US14817679
申请日:2015-08-04
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor: Maruti Gupta , Rath Vannithamby , Satish C. Jha , Kathiravetpillai Sivanesan , Mohammad Mamunur Rashid , Jing Zhu
Abstract: Technology described herein provides systems and technologies that help avoid waste of wireless network resources due to frequent losses of wireless connectivity with energy-harvesting devices (EHDs). An energy-harvesting-indicator communication can be sent from a wireless device to a cellular base station to inform the cellular base station that the wireless device is an EHD. The cellular base station can preserve context information and/or DL data pertaining to a wireless connection with the EHD when a wireless connection is lost due to a temporarily low level of available energy at the EHD. The context information and/or DL data can be preserved by the cellular base station until the period of time elapsed exceeds a threshold time value. Upon receiving a connection-resumption communication from the EHD, the cellular base station can use preserved context information to restore the wireless connection and proceed to send preserved DL data to the EHD.
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公开(公告)号:US11949474B2
公开(公告)日:2024-04-02
申请号:US17811494
申请日:2022-07-08
Applicant: APPLE INC.
Inventor: Jan Schreck , Nageen Himayat , Hosein Nikopour , Feng Xue , Ehsan Aryafar , Oner Orhan , Mustafa R. Akdeniz , Wook Bong Lee , Jing Zhu
IPC: H04B7/0456 , H04B7/0417 , H04B7/06 , H04L5/00 , H04W72/542
CPC classification number: H04B7/0456 , H04B7/0417 , H04B7/0617 , H04B7/0626 , H04L5/0051 , H04W72/542
Abstract: Apparatuses of a user equipment (UE), a cellular base station, and radio access network (RAN) nodes are disclosed. An apparatus of a wireless communication device includes circuitry configured to measure reference signals received from a plurality of antennas of an other wireless communication device, and circuitry configured to cause one or more antennas of the wireless communication device to transmit information regarding the received reference signals back to the other wireless communication device to enable the other wireless communication device to estimate a utility function for different transmit parameter sets.
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公开(公告)号:US20220368382A1
公开(公告)日:2022-11-17
申请号:US17811484
申请日:2022-07-08
Applicant: APPLE INC.
Inventor: Jan Schreck , Nageen Himayat , Hosein Nikopour , Feng Xue , Ehsan Aryafar , Oner Orhan , Mustafa R. Akdeniz , Wook Bong Lee , Jing Zhu
IPC: H04B7/0456 , H04B7/0417 , H04B7/06 , H04L5/00 , H04W72/12
Abstract: Apparatuses of a user equipment (UE), a cellular base station, and radio access network (RAN) nodes are disclosed. An apparatus of a wireless communication device includes circuitry configured to measure reference signals received from a plurality of antennas of an other wireless communication device, and circuitry configured to cause one or more antennas of the wireless communication device to transmit information regarding the received reference signals back to the other wireless communication device to enable the other wireless communication device to estimate a utility function for different transmit parameter sets.
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公开(公告)号:US20220361064A1
公开(公告)日:2022-11-10
申请号:US17867420
申请日:2022-07-18
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor: Candy Yiu , Jing Zhu , Kyeongin Jeong , Dae Won Lee
Abstract: Devices, methods, user equipment (UE), base stations, storage media, and other embodiments are provided for a dynamic random access channel (RACH). In one embodiment, an apparatus includes a memory configured to store a configuration communication from a base station, the configuration communication comprising a dynamic dedicated random access channel (RACH) configuration (RACH-ConfigDedicated) information element, the RACH-ConfigDedicated information element comprising a plurality of dedicated random access parameters. Processing circuitry coupled to the memory is then configured to decode the configuration communication from the base station to identify the plurality of dedicated random access parameters and set up a RACH procedure for connection to the base station using the plurality of dedicated random access parameters. In various embodiments, different communications may be used for the dedicated random access parameters which are used in the RACH procedure.
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公开(公告)号:US20220345954A1
公开(公告)日:2022-10-27
申请号:US17811520
申请日:2022-07-08
Applicant: APPLE INC.
Inventor: Jing Zhu
Abstract: Apparatuses for partially offloading processing from a user equipment (UE) to a cellular Radio Access Network (RAN) node are disclosed. An apparatus for a UE includes at least one processor configured to perform Transmission Control Protocol and Internet Protocol (TCP/IP) processing and offload only a portion of the TCP/IP processing to a cellular RAN node while maintaining TCP protocols running end-to-end between the UE and a remote host.
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