Patents by Inventor Weidong Yang

Weidong Yang 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: 20240146475
    Abstract: This disclosure relates to techniques for performing physical uplink shared channel transmissions with improved reliability in a wireless communication system. The wireless device may establish a wireless link with a cellular base station. The wireless device may receive uplink data transmission configuration information from the cellular base station. The uplink data transmission configuration information may configure an uplink data transmission to multiple transmission-reception-points. The wireless device may perform the uplink data transmission to the multiple transmission-reception-points.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 9, 2024
    Publication date: May 2, 2024
    Inventors: Haitong Sun, Yushu Zhang, Hong He, Wei Zeng, Dawei Zhang, Chunxuan Ye, Oghenekome Oteri, Sigen Ye, Weidong Yang, Chunhai Yao, Jie Cui, Yang Tang
  • Patent number: 11973705
    Abstract: This disclosure relates to techniques for performing wireless communications by a network in communication with a UE that is moving rapidly. The network may adapt communication techniques in response to the UEs motion. For example, reference signals may be transmitted to the UE from additional transmission and reception points and/or using different configurations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Haitong Sun, Chunhai Yao, Chunxuan Ye, Dawei Zhang, Hong He, Huaning Niu, Jie Cui, Oghenekome Oteri, Wei Zeng, Weidong Yang, Yang Tang, Yushu Zhang
  • Patent number: 11973591
    Abstract: Embodiments are presented herein of apparatuses, systems, and methods for a user equipment device (UE) and/or cellular network to perform downlink control information (DCI) mode signaling and control resource set (CORESET) selection. A DCI mode may be signaled based on a predefined rule, media access control (MAC) control element (CE), and/or group based beam reporting. One or more CORESETs may be selected based on configuration of an active bandwidth part (BWP), CORESET identifier, higher layer index, periodicity, type of search space, and/or MAC CE.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 4, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: 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
  • Publication number: 20240137939
    Abstract: A service device (e.g., a user equipment (UE), a new radio NR (gNB), or other network component) as a service provider/consumer can process or generate sidelink communications based on a downlink control information (DCI) for one or more sidelink configured grants that enables resource allocation for the sidelink communication. The device can determine whether to activate, release/deactivate, or request a retransmission for the one or more sidelink configured grants based on one or more fields of a DCI format 3_0 configuration of the DCI.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 21, 2023
    Publication date: April 25, 2024
    Inventors: Chunhai Yao, Chunxuan Ye, Dawei Zhang, Wei Zeng, Yushu Zhang, Weidong Yang, Oghenekome Oteri, Haitong Sun, Yuchul Kim, Hong He, Jie Cui, Yang Tang
  • Patent number: 11968678
    Abstract: Methods and wireless communication systems are provided for uplink control information (UCI) multiplexing with physical layer (PHY) priority and logical channel (LCH) based prioritization.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: Weidong Yang, Ralf Rossbach, Fangli Xu, Amir Aminzadeh Gohari, Chunxuan Ye, Dawei Zhang, Haijing Hu, Oghenekome Oteri, Sigen Ye, Wei Zeng, Wenshu Zhang
  • Patent number: 11968051
    Abstract: Some aspects of this disclosure relate to apparatuses and methods for implementing techniques for a user equipment (UE) to multiplex a first HARQ of a first priority and a second HARQ of a second priority to form an initial UCI payload. The UE can select a PUCCH resource accordingly to a PUCCH configuration, and generate a second UCI payload by removing or replacing at least a portion of the initial UCI payload when a size of the initial UCI payload is larger than a size of the PUCCH resource. The UE can encode at least a part of the second UCI payload including the first HARQ to generate an error correction code word. Afterwards, the UE can add the error correction code word to the second UCI payload to generate a transmission UCI payload, and transmit the transmission UCI payload to the base station.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Seyed Ali Akbar Fakoorian, Yushu Zhang, Huaning Niu, Haitong Sun, Hong He, Sigen Ye, Wei Zeng, Dawei Zhang, Oghenekome Oteri, Chunxuan Ye, Weidong Yang
  • Patent number: 11968715
    Abstract: Systems and methods for using clear channel assessment (CCA) on a channel prior to transmitting the channel are disclosed. A wireless transmission system may perform omnidirectional CCA using a CCA power threshold that is calculated based on a number of synchronization signal blocks (SSBs) transmitted by the wireless transmission system per SSB burst or per synchronization signal/physical broadcast channel (SS/PBCH) block measurement timing configuration (SMTC) window, or on a number of transmit (Tx) antennas used. A wireless transmission system may perform directional CCA on one or more Rx beams that correspond to one or more intended Tx beams using CCA power thresholds calculated based on an equivalent isotropic radiated power (EIRP) of the one or more intended Tx beams to determine directional availability of the channel. A wireless transmission system may determine a CCA power threshold based on a scaling between an actual CCA bandwidth and a nominal CCA bandwidth.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: Huaning Niu, Chunhai Yao, Chunxuan Ye, Dawei Zhang, Haitong Sun, Hong He, Oghenekome Oteri, Sigen Ye, Wei Zeng, Weidong Yang, Yang Tang, Yushu Zhang
  • Patent number: 11963185
    Abstract: The present application relates to devices and components including apparatus, systems, and methods for search space grouping to facilitate repeated transmissions of a physical downlink control channel in wireless communication systems.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Yushu Zhang, Chunhai Yao, Chunxuan Ye, Dawei Zhang, Haitong Sun, Hong He, Oghenekome Oteri, Wei Zeng, Weidong Yang
  • Patent number: 11962540
    Abstract: The present application relates to devices and components including apparatus, systems, and methods related to multiplexing patterns for synchronization signal/physical broadcast channel block (SSB) and remaining minimum system information (RMSI).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: Oghenekome Oteri, Chunhai Yao, Chunxuan Ye, Dawei Zhang, Haitong Sun, Huaning Niu, Sigen Ye, Wei Zeng, Weidong Yang, Yushu Zhang
  • Patent number: 11962520
    Abstract: Embodiments disclosed relate to apparatuses, systems, and methods for improved handling of phase noise (PN) in millimeter wave (MMW or mmWave) communications in a wireless communication system, such as 5G NR. When severe phase noise is present in a communication link, the link performance can be substantially degraded. Thus, it would be desirable to utilize techniques to compensate for phase noise in mmWave communications. In Rel-15, a Phase Tracking Reference Signal (PT-RS or PTRS) was specified for both downlink and uplink communications, specifically for Cyclic Prefix-Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (CP-OFDM) and Discrete Fourier Transform spread Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (DFT-S-OFDM). However, prior art approaches to PTRS using block-based pilot allocation schemes required complicated receiver processing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Weidong Yang, Oghenekome Oteri, Haitong Sun, Chunhai Yao, Yushu Zhang, Dawei Zhang, Chunxuan Ye, Wei Zeng, Hong He, Sigen Ye, Jie Cui, Yang Tang
  • Patent number: 11956654
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus are provided for searcher resource coordination between NR mobility based measurement and LTE (E-UTRA) PRS based measurement without measurement gap in EN-DC mode or NE-DC mode. Other embodiments are also provided for searcher resource coordination between NR PRS measurement and LTE (E-UTRA) PRS measurement without measurement gap in EN-DC mode or NE-DC mode. Further embodiments provide for searcher resource coordination between NR or LTE (E-UTRA) PRS measurement and NR mobility measurement without measurement gap in EN-DC mode or NE-DC mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: Jie Cui, Hong He, Dawei Zhang, Chunhai Yao, Chunxuan Ye, Haitong Sun, Weidong Yang, Wei Zeng, Yuchul Kim, Yushu Zhang, Zhibin Wu, Yang Tang
  • Publication number: 20240113841
    Abstract: A user equipment (UE) includes a transceiver and a processor configured to receive, from a network via the transceiver, a configuration of channel state information (CSI) report characteristics. The CSI report characteristics include one or more of: a maximum size of a CSI report payload, a maximum number of bits per layer or rank, a neural network (NN) identification (ID), or an expected CSI report content type. The processor is configured to generate a CSI report, in accordance with the received CSI report characteristics, to transmit to the network via the transceiver.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 30, 2022
    Publication date: April 4, 2024
    Inventors: Huaning Niu, Weidong Yang, Chunxuan Ye, Dawei Zhang, Wei Zeng, Oghenekome Oteri, Ankit Bhamri, Hong He
  • Publication number: 20240114476
    Abstract: Apparatuses, systems, and methods for synchronization and resource allocation for sidelink positioning, e.g., in 5G NR systems and beyond. A device, e.g., a UE or an LMF, may be configured to transmit, to a plurality of wireless devices, an anchor selection request for a sidelink positioning procedure for a target UE. The device may be configured to receive, from one or more wireless devices of the plurality of wireless devices, an anchor selection response. The device may be configured to select based, at least in part, on the anchor selection responses, one or more anchor devices from the one or more wireless devices.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 17, 2023
    Publication date: April 4, 2024
    Inventors: Oghenekome Oteri, Sigen Ye, Dawei Zhang, Wei Zeng, Chunxuan Ye, Weidong Yang, Haitong Sun, Seyed Ali Akbar Fakoorian
  • Patent number: 11950259
    Abstract: To extend a physical broadcast channel (PBCH) in wireless communications, an extended physical broadcast channel (EPBCH) transmission is generated with one or more legacy PBCH blocks and one or more EPBCH blocks within an extension window. A size of the extension window is determined based at least in part on a PBCH repetition number and a number of the legacy PBCH blocks relative to a number of the EPBCH blocks. The EPBCH transmission is transmitted by a base station (BS) to one or more user equipment (UE).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Hong He, Dawei Zhang, Wei Zeng, Chunhai Yao, Haitong Sun, Yuchul Kim, Yushu Zhang, Chunxuan Ye, Oghenekome Oteri, Weidong Yang, Yang Tang, Jie Cui, Haijing Hu, Zhibin Wu, Fangli Xu
  • Patent number: 11950263
    Abstract: A user equipment (UE) transmits concurrent channel state information (CSI) processing capability information to a base station. The capability information can take various forms, and is intended to constrain the base station in the types of CSI requests that can be made to the UE. For example, the UE may indicate different CSI processing capabilities for intra-CC and inter-CC cases and/or for different codebook types. The UE may also specify supported combinations of codebook types for concurrent CSI reporting. The UE may also specify maximum resources or weighting factors for different codebook types. The UE may further restrict the rank information it provides and use a priority rule for “dropping” CSI report data due to payload size restrictions. The base station may direct, or the UE may implement, improved utilization of CSI resources that are shared for multiple concurrent CSI reports. Minimum time requirements for CSI reporting may also be relaxed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Chunhai Yao, Chunxuan Ye, Dawei Zhang, Ghaith N Hattab, Haitong Sun, Hong He, Ismael Gutierrez Gonzalez, Oghenekome Oteri, Wei Zeng, Weidong Yang, Yeong-Sun Hwang, Yuchul Kim, Yushu Zhang
  • Patent number: 11950230
    Abstract: The present application relates to devices and components including apparatus, systems, and methods for control signaling and reference signal transmission in wireless networks.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Hong He, Chunhai Yao, Chunxuan Ye, Dawei Zhang, Haitong Sun, Huaning Niu, Jie Cui, Oghenekome Oteri, Seyed Ali Akbar Fakoorian, Sigen Ye, Wei Zeng, Weidong Yang, Yushu Zhang
  • Publication number: 20240107524
    Abstract: A method and apparatus are provided for, in aspects, receiving, at a User Equipment (UE), a configuration relating to a logical channel (LCH) from a Base Station (BS); receiving, at the UE, an uplink grant for an uplink data; identifying a subset of the LCH mappable to the uplink grant based on the at least a part of the configuration; determining, at the UE, a connected-mode discontinuous reception (C-DRX) setting to be applied for an uplink transmission associated with the uplink grant based on the identified subset of the LCH; and controlling a quiescent state of the UE based on the C-DRX setting, wherein, in aspects, mappable may refer to allowed to be mapped or actually mapped. When LCHs of the subset are associated with different C-DRX settings, rule-based C-DRX selection can be used.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 29, 2023
    Publication date: March 28, 2024
    Inventors: Ping-Heng Kuo, Weidong Yang, Ralf Rossbach
  • Patent number: 11943699
    Abstract: An example method for wireless communication includes: configuring a wireless device to access a wireless network using a set of at least three components carriers (CCs); dividing the at least three component carriers into groups of component carriers based on whether the component carriers share a span pattern and a starting span for monitoring a Physical Downlink Control Channel (PDCCH) of each component carrier; determining a number of non-overlapping control channel elements (CCE) to monitor for each group of component carriers; and configuring the wireless device to monitor the non-overlapping CCEs based on the determined number to monitor for each group.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 8, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Oghenekome Oteri, Chunxuan Ye, Dawei Zhang, Haitong Sun, Hong He, Wei Zeng, Weidong Yang, Yushu Zhang, Sigen Ye, Chunhai Yao
  • Patent number: 11943803
    Abstract: A method for wireless communication includes: scheduling, by a wireless station, a first uplink (UL) transmission from a wireless device; determining, by the wireless station, a need for a higher priority uplink transmission that uses resources overlapping with the first UL transmission; determining, by the wireless station, a reference region, within which a UL cancellation indication (CI) is to be applied; determining, by the wireless station, a set of UL resources in the reference region for cancellation, wherein at least a subset of the UL resources in the reference region are interlaced; sending, via a downlink control channel, indication of the determined set of UL resources for cancellation (e.g., by indicating particular interlaces and/or particular Physical Resource Blocks within such interlaces that are to be canceled); and receiving, at the wireless station, the higher priority uplink transmission via at least a subset of the determined set of cancelled UL resources.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Sigen Ye, Weidong Yang, Oghenekome Oteri, Haitong Sun, Chunhai Yao, Yushu Zhang, Dawei Zhang, Chunxuan Ye, Wei Zeng, Hong He
  • Patent number: 11943808
    Abstract: A wireless communication system may use higher layer signaling to send transmission configuration indicator (TCI) parameters for a frequency band comprising the 52.6 GHz to 71 GHz range. A DCI message may be used to indicate an enabled TCI state for a channel occupancy time (COT). The wireless communication system may apply the enabled TCI state for the COT as indicated in the DCI message.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: Huaning Niu, Dawei Zhang, Haitong Sun, Hong He, Oghenekome Oteri, Wei Zeng, Weidong Yang, Yushu Zhang