Patents by Inventor Honglei Miao

Honglei Miao has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Publication number: 20210400584
    Abstract: Technology is disclosed for a user equipment (UE) operable for wake-up signal (WUS) communication in a fifth generation (5G) new radio (NR) network. The UE can be configured to: identify a resource set for a WUS with a repetition level, wherein: the resource set for the WUS includes a mapping of the WUS that associates the WUS with one or more physical resource blocks and one or more orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) symbols, and the repetition level identifies a number of base sequences for the WUS in the resource set; and switch to a network access mode (NAM) from a power saving mode (PSM) based on a detection of the WUS in the resource set.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 14, 2019
    Publication date: December 23, 2021
    Inventors: Honglei Miao, Hong He, Grigory Ermolaev, Toufiqul Islam
  • Publication number: 20210392673
    Abstract: Technology is disclosed for a user equipment (UE) operable for physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) transmission. The UE can be configured to: decode a multiple-PUCCH transmission indicator, wherein the multiple-PUCCH transmission indicator enables multiple-PUCCH transmissions from the UE via a plurality of transmission-reception points (TRPs); decode one or more PUCCH resource fields in a downlink control information (DCI); and identify from the one or more PUCCH resource fields in the DCI: one or more PUCCH resources associated with a primary TRP of the plurality of TRPs, wherein the one or more PUCCH resources associated with the primary TRP are used for hybrid automatic repeat request acknowledgment (HARQ-ACK) feedback; or one or more PUCCH resources associated with a secondary TRP of the plurality of TRPs, wherein the one or more PUCCH resources associated with the secondary TRP are used for HARQ-ACK feedback.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 28, 2019
    Publication date: December 16, 2021
    Inventor: Honglei Miao
  • Publication number: 20210377747
    Abstract: An apparatus of user equipment (UE) includes processing circuitry coupled to a memory, where to configure the UE for uplink (UL) beam selection in a New Radio (NR) network, the processing circuitry is to decode a medium access control (MAC) control element (CE) from a base station. The MAC CE identifies a sounding reference signal (SRS) resource set and a plurality of spatial relationship reference signals. An SRS is selected from the SRS resource set. A beam direction associated with a spatial relationship reference signal of the plurality of spatial relationship reference signals is derived. The spatial relationship reference signal corresponds to the selected SRS. The SRS is encoded for beamforming to transmit the selected SRS in the derived beam direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 26, 2019
    Publication date: December 2, 2021
    Inventor: Honglei MIAO
  • Publication number: 20210377108
    Abstract: A base station may generate first configuration information to configure a first user equipment (“UE”) to operate using a first bandwidth within a wideband carrier of a cell, generate second configuration information to configure a second UE to operate using a second bandwidth within the wideband carrier of the cell, and cause transmission of the first and second configuration information to the first and second UEs, respectively. The base station may configure the first and second UEs based upon capabilities received from each UE, respectively.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 18, 2017
    Publication date: December 2, 2021
    Inventors: Joonyoung CHO, Gang XIONG, Ralf BENDLIN, Hwan-Joon KWON, Seunghee HAN, Honglei MIAO, Ingolf KARLS, Markus Dominik MUECK, Michael FAERBER
  • Patent number: 11190989
    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.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 30, 2021
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: 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
  • Publication number: 20210360599
    Abstract: Techniques for transmitting and receiving beamformed transmission(s) of a common search space of a DL (Downlink) control channel are discussed. One example embodiment that can be employed at a UE (User Equipment) comprises processing circuitry configured to: select a set of receive beamforming weights for a DL (Downlink) control channel; and decode one or more control channel sets from a common search space of the DL control channel, wherein each control channel set of the one or more control channel sets is mapped to an associated symbol of one or more symbols of a slot, wherein each control channel set of the one or more control channel sets has an associated transmit beamforming, and wherein each control channel set of the one or more control channel sets comprises a common set of control information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 29, 2021
    Publication date: November 18, 2021
    Inventors: Alexei Davydov, Wook Bong Lee, Hong He, Seung Hee Han, Honglei Miao
  • Patent number: 11178012
    Abstract: The disclosure describes configuration schemes for secondary cell (SCell), bandwidth part (BWP) and physical resource block (PRB) indexing. An apparatus of user equipment (UE) for BWP activation and deactivation operation is disclosed. The apparatus includes baseband circuitry that includes a radio frequency (RF) interface, and one or more processors. The one or more processors are to receive radio resource control (RRC) data via the RF interface, configure a timer for a BWP according to the RRC data, and trigger the timer for the BWP in response to detection of an event associated with an access node after the BWP has been activated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 16, 2021
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Honglei Miao, Jeongho Jeon, Alexei Davydov, Hong He, Debdeep Chatterjee, Joonyoung Cho, Daewon Lee, Gang Xiong
  • Publication number: 20210352607
    Abstract: A radio access node comprises one or more processors configured to determine a first reference timing of a first communication connection between the radio access node and a second, parent radio access node; determine a second reference timing of a second communication connection between the radio access node and a third, child radio access node; a memory storing the first and second reference timings; the one or more processors further configured to generate a request for the child radio access node to perform a timing advance adjustment based on the stored first and second reference timings, so that an uplink receive signal transmitted by the child radio access node arrives at the same time at the radio access node as a downlink receive signal transmitted by the parent radio access node arrives at the radio access node in case of frequency division multiplexed signals.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 4, 2019
    Publication date: November 11, 2021
    Inventor: Honglei Miao
  • Patent number: 11153863
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure describe methods and apparatuses for physical downlink control channel (PD-CCH) demodulation reference signal (DMRS) transmission and reception.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 19, 2021
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Honglei Miao, Wook Bong Lee, Yushu Zhang, Michael Faerber, Seunghee Han
  • Publication number: 20210321333
    Abstract: Techniques discussed herein can facilitate transmit diversity for power saving signals (e.g., WUS (Wake Up Signal) or GTS (Go To Sleep signal)). One example embodiment comprises an apparatus configured to be employed in a UE (User Equipment), comprising: a memory interface; and processing circuitry configured to: process a power saving signal associated with a drx-onDuration (Discontinuous Reception On Duration) occasion, wherein the power saving signal is received via a set of RBs (Resource Blocks) comprising a first plurality of RBs associated with a first precoder and a different second set of RBs associated with a different second precoder, wherein the set of RBs are within a configured set of time and frequency resources of the drx-onDuration occasion; and determine, based on the set of RBs, whether the power saving signal is a WUS or a GTS.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 23, 2019
    Publication date: October 14, 2021
    Inventor: Honglei MIAO
  • Publication number: 20210314974
    Abstract: An apparatus configured to be employed in a gNodeB associated with a new radio (NR) system is disclosed. The apparatus comprises one or more processors configured to configure one or more sidelink sounding reference signals (SRS), for one or more user equipments (UEs) associated with the gNodeB, to be utilized by the one or more UEs for transmission or reception, or both, over sidelink. The one or more processors is further configured to generate one or more sidelink SRS configuration signals to be provided, respectively, to the one or more UEs, wherein each sidelink SRS configuration signal comprises sidelink SRS configuration information on the one or more sidelink SRS configured for a respective UE. The apparatus further comprises a radio frequency (RF) interface, configured to provide, to a radio frequency (RF) circuitry, the one or more sidelink SRS configuration signals, for subsequent transmission to the one or more UEs, respectively.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 28, 2019
    Publication date: October 7, 2021
    Inventor: Honglei Miao
  • Publication number: 20210314954
    Abstract: Technology for user equipment (UE) operable for physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH) repetition communication is disclosed. The UE can comprise one or more processors configured to: decode information from a first transmission from a PDSCH and information from one or more repeated transmissions from the PDSCH; decode a repetition parameter value; and determine whether a first transmission configuration indicator (TCI) state for the first transmission and one or more additional TCI states for the one or more repeated transmission are different based on the repetition parameter value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 6, 2019
    Publication date: October 7, 2021
    Inventor: Honglei Miao
  • Publication number: 20210297199
    Abstract: The present disclosure includes methods and devices for NACK feedback based HARQ retransmission scheme in a wireless communication network. The method includes receiving mobile radio communication terminal devices transmitting NACK feedback signaled time-frequency resources and transmitting mobile radio communication terminal devices performing retransmission of the previously sent messages based on receiving NACK feedback.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 12, 2019
    Publication date: September 23, 2021
    Inventor: Honglei Miao
  • Publication number: 20210297192
    Abstract: Systems and methods provide for enhanced HARQ-ACK feedback for PDSCH repetition transmission. A UE is configured to provide feedback ACK for PDSCH with repetitions less than scheduled repetition numbers. In response, the network adapts the PDSCH repetition numbers according to the channel condition to further optimize the overall system spectrum efficiency.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 8, 2019
    Publication date: September 23, 2021
    Inventor: Honglei Miao
  • Publication number: 20210259044
    Abstract: Systems, Methods, Devices, and Apparatuses for power saving are provided. In at least one embodiment, a device may be configured for discontinuous reception (DRX) mode and further receive signaling indicating whether or not to wake and/or may receiving signaling indicating whether or not to go-to-sleep. The signaling may be implemented as group-specific signaling.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 16, 2019
    Publication date: August 19, 2021
    Inventors: Toufiqul Islam, Hong He, Qiaoyang Ye, Honglei Miao, Daewon Lee
  • Publication number: 20210250973
    Abstract: A device of a New Radio (NR) User Equipment (UE), a method and a machine readable medium to implement the method. The device includes a Radio Frequency (RF) interface, and processing circuitry coupled to the RF interface, the processing circuitry to: decode a downlink (DL) communication from a NR evolved NodeB (gNodeB), the DL communication including DL Semi-Persistent Scheduling (SPS) assignments for respective DL SPS transmissions from the gNodeB, the DL communication further including a SPS Configuration (SPS-Config) parameter, the SPS-Config parameter including information on a symbol-level periodicity of the DL SPS transmissions from the gNodeB; determining the symbol-level periodicity of the DL SPS transmissions from the SPS-Config parameter; and decoding the DL SPS transmissions based on a determination of the symbol-level periodicity of the DL SPS assignments.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 26, 2019
    Publication date: August 12, 2021
    Inventor: Honglei Miao
  • Publication number: 20210243782
    Abstract: An apparatus, a method, and a computer-readable storage medium.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 21, 2021
    Publication date: August 5, 2021
    Inventor: Honglei Miao
  • Patent number: 11082966
    Abstract: Techniques for transmitting and receiving beamformed transmission(s) of a common search space of a DL (Downlink) control channel are discussed. One example embodiment that can be employed at a UE (User Equipment) comprises processing circuitry configured to: select a set of receive beamforming weights for a DL (Downlink) control channel; and decode one or more control channel sets from a common search space of the DL control channel, wherein each control channel set of the one or more control channel sets is mapped to an associated symbol of one or more symbols of a slot, wherein each control channel set of the one or more control channel sets has an associated transmit beamforming, and wherein each control channel set of the one or more control channel sets comprises a common set of control information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 3, 2021
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Alexei Davydov, Wook Bong Lee, Hong He, Seung Hee Han, Honglei Miao
  • Patent number: 11071170
    Abstract: Technology for a user equipment, operable to configure a control resource set (CORESET) is disclosed. The UE can decode a signal, received from a next generation node B (gNB), that includes a resource element group (REG) bundling size for a first CORESET. The UE can decode a signal, received from the gNB that includes a REG bundling size for a second CORESET. The UE can decode a control message contained in one or more REGs in one or more of the first CORESET or the second CORESET.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 20, 2021
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: Gang Xiong, Hong He, Debdeep Chatterjee, Honglei Miao, Yongjun Kwak
  • Publication number: 20210204229
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure describe methods and apparatuses for beam-specific power control.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 5, 2018
    Publication date: July 1, 2021
    Applicant: Apple Inc.
    Inventor: Honglei MIAO