Patents by Inventor Anatoliy S. Ioffe

Anatoliy S. Ioffe 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).

  • Patent number: 11985645
    Abstract: Reporting UL Tx DC sub-carrier location information may include decoding a radio resource control (RRC) message received from a base station. The RRC message may comprise a configuration for dynamically reporting uplink (UL) transmit (Tx) direct current (DC) sub-carrier location information. A change associated with at boast one previous UL Tx DC sub-carrier location may be determined to have occurred, thereby creating at least one new UL Tx DC sub-carrier location. In response to determining the change, a medium access control (MAC) control element (MAC CE) may be encoded for transmission to the base station. The MAC CE may include information corresponding to the at least one new UL Tx DC sub-carrier location.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2024
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: Naveen Kumar R Palle Venkata, Anatoliy S. Ioffe, Fangli Xu, Fucheng Wang, Haijing Hu, Ralf Rossbach, Sarma V. Vangala, Yuqin Chen, Zhibin Wu
  • Publication number: 20240114348
    Abstract: Embodiments described herein include methods, systems, and apparatuses for allowing a user equipment (UE) that supports dynamic spectrum sharing (DSS) with uplink (UL)-shift to access a cell and barring UEs that do not support DSS with UL-shift. Embodiments may use a cell barring field in a master information block and additional filters to indicate a barring state for a network node.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 7, 2023
    Publication date: April 4, 2024
    Inventors: Naveen Kumar R Palle Venkata, Alexander Sayenko, Anatoliy S. Ioffe, Fangli Xu, Haijing Hu, Leilei Song, Ralf Rossbach, Ruoheng Liu, Sarma V. Vangala, Yuqin Chen, Zhibin Wu
  • Publication number: 20240113845
    Abstract: User equipment indicates its maximum aggregated bandwidth capability to a base station. The user equipment may also indicate a maximum bandwidth capability for each component carrier. Additionally or alternatively, the base station may assume that the maximum aggregated bandwidth capability is also supported by the user equipment for lower order carrier aggregation bandwidth classes having aggregated bandwidth upper limits greater than or equal to the maximum aggregated bandwidth capability. Further, the user equipment may indicate a maximum number of components carriers capable of supporting a maximum components carrier bandwidth. The user equipment may indicate the maximum aggregated bandwidth capability via a new signaling capability added to a standard (e.g., the Third Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) standard), or via existing signaling provided by the 3GPP standard, such as by using a frequency separation class signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 21, 2022
    Publication date: April 4, 2024
    Inventors: Fucheng Wang, Anatoliy S. Ioffe
  • Publication number: 20240097861
    Abstract: User equipment may transmit and receive wireless signals to and from various communication networks. Furthermore, user equipment may indicate usage capabilities to the various wireless communication networks to enable the user equipment to transmit and/or receive wireless signals to and from at least two different communication networks. In particular, the user equipment may indicate usage capabilities of supporting both Frequency Range 2 (FR2) wireless signals of a fifth generation (5G) network and 7-24 gigahertz (GHz) wireless signals of a sixth generation (6G) network in an intermediate frequency range of the user equipment. The communication network(s) may then configure and/or schedule the user equipment based on the usage capabilities to enable the user equipment to simultaneously or non-simultaneously communicate using both the FR2 wireless signals and the 7-24 GHz wireless signals while preventing interference in the intermediate frequency range of the user equipment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 19, 2022
    Publication date: March 21, 2024
    Inventors: Anatoliy S. Ioffe, Amit Freiman, Alexander Sayenko, Sumit Verma, Sharad Sambhwani
  • Publication number: 20240097862
    Abstract: User equipment may transmit and receive wireless signals to and from various communication networks. Furthermore, user equipment may indicate usage capabilities to the various wireless communication networks to enable the user equipment to transmit and/or receive wireless signals to and from at least two different communication networks. In particular, the user equipment may indicate usage capabilities of supporting both Frequency Range 2 (FR2) wireless signals of a fifth generation (5G) network and 7-24 gigahertz (GHz) wireless signals of a sixth generation (6G) network in an intermediate frequency range of the user equipment. The communication network(s) may then configure and/or schedule the user equipment based on the usage capabilities to enable the user equipment to simultaneously or non-simultaneously communicate using both the FR2 wireless signals and the 7-24 GHz wireless signals while preventing interference in the intermediate frequency range of the user equipment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 19, 2022
    Publication date: March 21, 2024
    Inventors: Anatoliy S Ioffe, Amit Freiman, Alexander Sayenko, Sumit Verma, Sharad Sambhwani
  • Publication number: 20240089949
    Abstract: User equipment may transmit and receive wireless signals to and from communication networks. However, in close proximity, transmission signals from a first user equipment may interfere with wireless signals received by a second user equipment. In certain instances, the user equipment may establish a session via peer-to-peer technologies and coordinate timing for communication with the networks. For example, the user equipment may establish a sidelink having a frequency different from a frequency used for communication with the networks. The user equipment may prioritize communication to a first communication network over a second communications network or vice versa. The user equipment may also designate a network connector and relay communication with the networks through the network connector. Additionally or alternatively, the user equipment may share the task of determining a global position. Accordingly, the user equipment may reduce or eliminate signal interference and preserve battery power.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 14, 2022
    Publication date: March 14, 2024
    Inventors: Anatoliy S. Ioffe, Lydi Smaini
  • Patent number: 11909125
    Abstract: An electronic device may be provided with wireless circuitry and control circuitry. The wireless circuitry may communicate with a wireless base station using a 5G New Radio (NR) communications protocol. The wireless circuitry may include a phased antenna array. The electronic device may perform antenna scaling operations in which the active antennas in the phased antenna array change over time to optimize wireless performance and power consumption. The electronic device may inform the base station when antenna scaling operations have occurred. This may allow the base station to compensate for power density discontinuities associated with the antenna scaling operations. If desired, the base station may break transmit and receive signal beam correspondence and the electronic device may use different antenna scaling settings for transmitting and receiving signals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Anatoliy S. Ioffe, Amit Freiman, Jan M. Zaleski, Ozgur Inac
  • Publication number: 20240056988
    Abstract: User equipment to transmit signals (e.g., concurrently) using multiple SIMs. If the user equipment determines to perform transmission power back-off due to operating using the multiple SIMs (MuSIM operation), the user equipment sends an indication to each network corresponding to each SIM that it is performing the power back-off. If a network supports MuSIM operation, then the user equipment sends an indication that it is performing the power back-off due to MuSIM operation (e.g., an MuSIM Maximum Power Reduction (M-MPR) indication). For such a network, it is assumed that the M-MPR indication would be standardized under an applicable specification. If a network does not support MuSIM operation (e.g., a legacy network), then the user equipment leverages a legacy power back-off indication (e.g., a Power Management Maximum Power Reduction (P-MPR) indication) to indicate to the network that it is performing a power back-off.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 22, 2022
    Publication date: February 15, 2024
    Inventors: Alexander Sayenko, Daniel Popp, Anatoliy S. Ioffe, Fucheng Wang, Camila Priale Olivares
  • Patent number: 11902003
    Abstract: Systems and methods related to partial beam correspondence may be used to address potential limitations of beamforming wireless networks. A user equipment electronic device and/or wireless network identifies a subset of available transmitter beams for the user equipment electronic device that are indicated as similar to a downlink reference signal received at the user equipment electronic device from a wireless network node. The user equipment electronic device sweeps the subset of available transmitter beams for communication with the wireless network node and uses a best beam from the sweep to communicate with the wireless network node.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Yakun Sun, Anatoliy S. Ioffe, Ehsan Haghani, Rohit U. Nabar
  • Publication number: 20240031933
    Abstract: A wake-up signal (WUS) network (separate from a cellular network) includes WUS nodes that broadcast WUSs targeting WUS receivers of user equipment (UE). The WUSs may have low frequencies, such as within a television whitespace spectrum. When the cellular network determines that a UE should enter a power saving mode, or when a cellular receiver of the UE enters an idle state, the cellular network may request resources for the UE from a WUS node and activate a WUS receiver of the UE. When the cellular network has data to send to the UE or a threshold time has expired, the cellular network may request a WUS from the WUS network, which broadcasts the WUS that may be received by the UE. If the UE has data to transmit to the cellular network, the cellular network may request that the WUS node stop providing resources to the UE.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 25, 2022
    Publication date: January 25, 2024
    Inventors: Anatoliy S Ioffe, Alexander Sayenko, Camila Priale Olivares, Brandy Jo F Sykes, Sharad Sambhwani
  • Publication number: 20230354161
    Abstract: A communication network broadcasts an indication of a frequency band and an indication of a partial frequency band. User equipment receives the broadcasted indications, if it may operate on the full frequency band, transmits an indication. The network then configures the user equipment to operate on the full frequency band, and the user equipment communicates with the network using the full frequency band. Otherwise, the user equipment transmits an indication that it may operate on the partial frequency band, the network configures the user equipment to operate on the partial frequency band, and the user equipment communicates with the network using the partial frequency band.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 19, 2022
    Publication date: November 2, 2023
    Inventors: Elmar Wagner, Anatoliy S. Ioffe
  • Publication number: 20230344533
    Abstract: A testing device determines an Effective Isotropic Radiated Power (EIRP) of a wanted signal at a beam-peak direction and a maximum Total Radiated Power (TRP) of the wanted signal. The testing device then determines a power difference (?P) between the EIRP of the wanted signal at the beam-peak direction and the maximum TRP of the wanted signal. The testing device determines EIRP of a spectral emission mask (SEM) at each measurement bandwidth step at the beam-peak direction. The testing device then determines TRP at each measurement bandwidth step by determining a difference between the EIRP of the SEM at that measurement bandwidth step and the power difference (?P). The testing device compares the TRP at each measurement bandwidth step to a SEM specification, and reports whether the SEM specification has been met.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 24, 2023
    Publication date: October 26, 2023
    Inventors: Fucheng Wang, Fahmi L. Al Sabie, Vikas O. Jain, In Kwang Kim, Abhiram Rudrapatna Sridhar, Krishna Kalyanaraman, Ashwin Mohan, Anatoliy S. Ioffe
  • Publication number: 20230345229
    Abstract: A base station sends system information to user equipment based on the user equipment detecting network coverage provided by the base station. The system information may include one or more network signaling flags indicative of a legacy regulation and an updated regulation (or a legacy version of a regulation and an updated version of the regulation) for operating on a frequency band. The user equipment transmits an indication to the base station as to whether it supports the legacy regulation and/or the updated regulation. The base station configures uplink and/or downlink resources on the frequency band for the user equipment based on the regulation indicated. The user equipment and the base station then communicate using the configured resources on the frequency band.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 10, 2023
    Publication date: October 26, 2023
    Inventors: Anatoliy S Ioffe, Daniel Popp, Sumit Verma, Abhishek Rala
  • Publication number: 20230345446
    Abstract: Embodiments herein enable user equipment to indicate that it may operate in a transmission diversity mode, but may fall back to a single transmission mode for a lower power class. In particular, if the user equipment will not fall back to a single transmission mode for a lower power class, then the base station configures uplink resources for the user equipment based on the user equipment operating in the transmission diversity mode. Otherwise, the user equipment sends an indication to the base station that it will use the single transmission mode for the lower power class. The base station then configures uplink resources for the user equipment based on the user equipment operating in the transmission diversity mode for the higher power class, and configures the uplink resources for the user equipment based on the user equipment operating in the single transmission mode for the lower power class.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 12, 2022
    Publication date: October 26, 2023
    Inventors: Daniel Popp, Fucheng Wang, Anatoliy S. Ioffe
  • Publication number: 20230319736
    Abstract: Embodiments herein provide various apparatuses and techniques that indicate multiple power classes that user equipment may support to a network. The user equipment may support at least a lower power class (e.g., having a lower maximum transmission power) and a higher power class (e.g., having a higher maximum transmission power) to the network. The user equipment may send indications to the network that it supports both the lower power class and the higher power class. If the network/user equipment are in a geographical region associated with regulations limiting transmission power to the lower maximum transmission power, then the network may configure a transmission power characteristic based on the lower power class. If the network/user equipment are in a geographical region associated with regulations limiting transmission power to the higher maximum transmission power, then the network may configure the transmission power characteristic based on the higher power class.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 28, 2022
    Publication date: October 5, 2023
    Inventors: Alexander Sayenko, Daniel Popp, Anatoliy S. Ioffe
  • Patent number: 11751176
    Abstract: Methods and systems include beamformed wireless communications to and from a user equipment electronic device. During operation of the user equipment electronic device, a change in slot aggregation is made. Using the aggregated slots, the user equipment electronic device and/or a wireless network utilize beam sweeps to determine a best beam pairing by repeating a shared channel in the aggregated slots with a beam sweep of multiple beams between the user equipment electronic device and the wireless network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2023
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Yakun Sun, Anatoliy S. Ioffe, Ehsan Haghani, Rohit U. Nabar
  • Publication number: 20230254778
    Abstract: A communication system may include user equipment (UE) communicatively coupled to one or more base stations. The UE and/or the one or more base stations may receive an indication of self-interference at the UE. This indication may be based on a receiver of the UE (e.g., a receive signal quality, a receive signal power, and so on), a transmitter of the UE (e.g., a transmission power), an estimate of self-interference, and so on. If there is sufficient self-interference (e.g., if the self-interference exceeds a threshold), then the one or more base stations may configure the UE for non-simultaneous receive/transmit operation to avoid transmission interfering with reception. If there is a lack of self-interference (e.g., if the self-interference does not exceed the threshold), then the one or more base stations may configure the UE for simultaneous receive/transmit operation, as transmission is unlikely to interfere with reception.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 11, 2022
    Publication date: August 10, 2023
    Inventors: Anatoliy S Ioffe, Fucheng Wang, Daniel Popp
  • Publication number: 20230199743
    Abstract: The present disclosure is directed to techniques to facilitate power boosting for wireless communication devices (e.g., user equipment). The user equipment may be subject to specifications (e.g., the 3GPP specification) that require maximum power reduction (MPR) depending on the resource block allocation region in which the user equipment is operating. However, certain regions defined by the 3GPP specification may not facilitate transmission power boost as applied to shaped (e.g., modulated) transmissions. The techniques disclosed herein include defining the regions such that the MPR restrictions applied to the user equipment are reduced or minimized for allocations that enable power boosting. The regions may be defined using parameters based on a maximum number of resource blocks specified for a certain channel bandwidth, the amount of allocated resource blocks, and the resource block at which the allocation begins.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 19, 2022
    Publication date: June 22, 2023
    Inventors: Daniel Popp, Anatoliy S. Ioffe
  • Publication number: 20230199744
    Abstract: The present disclosure is directed to techniques to facilitate power boosting for wireless communication devices (e.g., user equipment). The user equipment may be subject to specifications (e.g., the 3GPP specification) that require maximum power reduction (MPR) depending on the resource block allocation region in which the user equipment is operating. However, certain regions defined by the 3GPP specification may not facilitate transmission power boost as applied to shaped (e.g., modulated) transmissions. The techniques disclosed herein include defining the regions such that the MPR restrictions applied to the user equipment are reduced or minimized for allocations that enable power boosting. The regions may be defined using parameters based on a maximum number of resource blocks specified for a certain channel bandwidth, the amount of allocated resource blocks, and the resource block at which the allocation begins.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 19, 2022
    Publication date: June 22, 2023
    Inventors: Daniel Popp, Anatoliy S. Ioffe
  • Publication number: 20230131663
    Abstract: User equipment that is capable of filtering for an irregular bandwidth of an allocated channel may send an indication of this capability to a network, which may then configure the channel to a next higher standard channel size, enabling the user equipment to filter this larger channel bandwidth to the irregular bandwidth. User equipment that is not capable of filtering for the irregular bandwidth may send an indication that it does not have this capability to the network, which may then configure the channel to a next lower standard channel size, thus avoiding the need for the user equipment to filter a larger channel bandwidth to the irregular bandwidth. In cases where the network detects that a blocking signal is not present that may interfere with the allocated channel, the network may configure the channel to the next higher standard channel size.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 13, 2022
    Publication date: April 27, 2023
    Inventors: Alexander Sayenko, Fucheng Wang, Camila Priale Olivares, Elmar Wagner, Anatoliy S Ioffe