Patents by Inventor Birgit Breining

Birgit Breining 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: 20250119976
    Abstract: Systems, apparatus and methods enable layer 2 (L2) relaying optimizations for a remote user equipment (UE) to receive system information (SI) from a relay UE. The relay UE may establish a sidelink communication channel with the remote UE that is in a radio resource control (RRC) idle state, an RRC inactive state, or an out-of-coverage (OOC) state with respect to the base station. The relay UE decodes a relay SI request received through the sidelink communication channel from the first remote UE. The relay SI request indicates requested system information. The Relay UE obtains the requested system information or a subset of the requested system information from a memory device or from the base station and encodes a relay SI response to send to the first remote UE. The relay SI response includes the requested system information or the subset of the requested system information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 20, 2024
    Publication date: April 10, 2025
    Inventors: Zhibin Wu, Fangli Xu, Birgit Breining, Dawei Zhang, Haijing Hu, Longda Xing, Sethuraman Gurumoorthy, Srirang A. Lovlekar, Yuqin Chen
  • Patent number: 12256357
    Abstract: Devices and associated methods for operating a dual-subscriber identity module (SIM) dual-standby (DSDS) user equipment device (UE) configured with a first SIM and a second SIM. The UE transmits a connection request message to a base station over a first network using the first SIM, where the connection request message includes one or more capability indications of the UE. The UE receives a connection accept message from the base station, where the connection accept message includes one or more network capability indications corresponding to respective UE capability indications of the one or more UE capability indications. The UE performs communications with the base station according to the one or more network capability indications.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2025
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Sethuraman Gurumoorthy, Srirang A. Lovlekar, Fangli Xu, Haijing Hu, Naveen Kumar R. Palle Venkata, Sarma V. Vangala, Yuqin Chen, Zhibin Wu, Longda Xing, Rama Diwakara Rao Noolu, Birgit Breining
  • Patent number: 12177925
    Abstract: Systems, apparatus and methods enable layer 2 (L2) relaying optimizations for a remote user equipment (UE) to receive system information (SI) from a relay UE. The relay UE may establish a sidelink communication channel with the remote UE that is in a radio resource control (RRC) idle state, an RRC inactive state, or an out-of-coverage (OOC) state with respect to the base station. The relay UE decodes a relay SI request received through the sidelink communication channel from the first remote UE. The relay SI request indicates requested system information. The Relay UE obtains the requested system information or a subset of the requested system information from a memory device or from the base station and encodes a relay SI response to send to the first remote UE. The relay SI response includes the requested system information or the subset of the requested system information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2024
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: Zhibin Wu, Fangli Xu, Birgit Breining, Dawei Zhang, Haijing Hu, Longda Xing, Sethuraman Gurumoorthy, Srirang A. Lovlekar, Yuqin Chen
  • Patent number: 12041605
    Abstract: Determining RRC processing delays for multi-subscriber identify module (MSIM) user equipments (UEs) may include decoding a capabilities message from a UE that indicates the UE is an MSIM UE that includes at least a first SIM and a second SIM. A communication for the first SIM of the UE may be encoded. The communication may be configured to cause the UE to perform a radio resource control (RRC) procedure. A transmission request received from the UE may be decoded. The transmission request may be associated with the RRC procedure. In response to receiving the transmission request, an uplink (UL) gram may be scheduled for the first SIM of the UE.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2024
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: Srirang A. Lovlekar, Ahmed Mohamed Ibrahim Hassan, Amr Mostafa, Birgit Breining, Fangli Xu, Haijing Hu, Naveen Kumar R Palle Venkata, Sethuraman Gurumoorthy, Yuqin Chen
  • Patent number: 12041544
    Abstract: A method for power saving, comprising: establishing a radio resource control (RRC) connection with a wireless device, transmitting, to the wireless device, configuration information indicating a discontinuous reception (DRX) cycle time, a DRX on time period, and an offset time, transmitting an enhanced wake-up signal (EWUS) monitoring occasion for a DRX cycle, the EWUS monitoring occasion based on the offset time and the DRX on time period, determining that the wireless device can skip monitoring one or more future EWUS monitoring occasions, transmitting, during a first DRX cycle, a EWUS for the wireless device during the EWUS monitoring occasion associated with the first DRX cycle, the EWUS indicating that the wireless device can skip the one or more future EWUS monitoring occasions, and skipping transmitting the EWUS to the wireless device during the one or more future EWUS monitoring occasions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Sethuraman Gurumoorthy, Fangli Xu, Adesh Kumar, Birgit Breining, Dawei Zhang, Haijing Hu, Longda Xing, Naveen Kumar R. Palle Venkata, Sarma V. Vangala, Sigen Ye, Srirang A. Lovlekar, Wei Zeng, Yuqin Chen, Zhibin Wu
  • Patent number: 12041550
    Abstract: A technique for power saving, comprising establishing a radio resource control (RRC) connection with a wireless system, entering an RRC connected mode based on the established RRC connection, receiving, from the wireless system, configuration information indicating a discontinuous reception (DRX) cycle time, a DRX on time period, and an offset time, determining an enhanced wake-up signal (EWUS) monitoring occasion for a DRX cycle based on the offset time and the DRX on time period, monitoring, during a first DRX cycle, for an EWUS during the EWUS monitoring occasion associated with the first DRX cycle, receiving, from the wireless system, the EWUS during the EWUS monitoring occasion, determining that the EWUS indicates that the wireless device skip one or more future EWUS monitoring occasions, and skipping monitoring for the EWUS based on the indicated skipped one or more future EWUS monitoring occasions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Sethuraman Gurumoorthy, Fangli Xu, Adesh Kumar, Birgit Breining, Dawei Zhang, Haijing Hu, Longda Xing, Naveen Kumar R. Palle Venkata, Sarma V. Vangala, Sigen Ye, Srirang A. Lovlekar, Wei Zeng, Yuqin Chen, Zhibin Wu
  • Patent number: 12035394
    Abstract: A technique for determining that a wireless device supports using multiple subscriber identity module (SIM) cards to establish multiple connections to wireless networks, generating a multi-SIM capability message, and transmitting the multi-SIM capability message to a first wireless network. In another aspect, a technique for a wireless system to receive a multi-SIM capability message from a wireless device, determine a connection configuration of the wireless device based on the received multi-SIM capability message, and transmit an indication of the configured connection to the wireless device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Sethuraman Gurumoorthy, Fangli Xu, Adesh Kumar, Birgit Breining, Dawei Zhang, Haijing Hu, Longda Xing, Naveen Kumar R. Palle Venkata, Srirang A. Lovlekar, Yuqin Chen, Zhibin Wu
  • Publication number: 20240215101
    Abstract: A user equipment (UE) is configured to enter a radio resource control (RRC) CONNECTED state on a first network using a first subscriber identification module (SIM) and an RRC INACTIVE or RRC IDLE state on a second network using a second SIM, transmit, to the first network, a request for a scheduling gap (SG) configuration, wherein, during a duration of the SG, the first network avoids scheduling resources for the UE, receive, from the first network, an indication of the SG configuration to be used, during the duration of the SG, tune away from the first network to perform operations on the second network and after the duration of the SG, tune back to the first network, wherein the RRC CONNECTED state is maintained on the first network during the duration of the SG.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 5, 2021
    Publication date: June 27, 2024
    Inventors: Sethuraman GURUMOORTHY, Alexander SIROTKIN, Birgit BREINING, Fangli XU, Haijing HU, Naveen Kumar R. PALLE VENKATA, Pavan NUGGEHALLI, Ralf ROSSBACH, Sarma V. VANGALA, Srirang A. LOVLEKAR, Yuqin CHEN, Zhibin WU
  • Patent number: 11924919
    Abstract: An apparatus of a node of a network comprises one or more baseband processors to process a first user equipment (UE) capability report from a first UE, and to process a second UE capability report from a second UE, wherein the first UE capability report and the second UE capability report include a same UE capability ID for the first UE and the second UE, and wherein the first capability report includes partial UE capability information for the first UE and the second capability report includes partial UE capability information for the second UE. The apparatus can include a memory to store the first capability report and the second capability report.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Alexandre Stojanovski, Sudeep Vamanan, Birgit Breining, Michael Zitzmann
  • Patent number: 11871474
    Abstract: Coordinated leaving for a UE having a first SIM and a second SIM may include decoding, at a baseband processor, an RRC reconfiguration message associated with the first SIM received from a first network. A communication corresponding to the second SIM received from a second network is decoded while the baseband processor is processing the received RRC reconfiguration message. The communication received from the second network is determined to comprise a higher priority than the RRC reconfiguration procedure. Based on determining, a UAI message corresponding to the first SIM is encoded by the baseband processor for transmission to the first network. The UAI message is configured to inform the first network of coordinated leaving and abortion of the RRC reconfiguration procedure. The first SIM is transitioned to an idle mode. An RRC request corresponding to the second SIM is encoded by the baseband processor for transmission to the second network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: Srirang A. Lovlekar, Ahmed Mohamed Ibrahim Hassan, Amr Mostafa, Birgit Breining, Fangli Xu, Haijing Hu, Naveen Kumar R Palle Venkata, Sethuraman Gurumoorthy, Yuqin Chen
  • Publication number: 20230345236
    Abstract: The exemplary embodiments relate to a computer-readable storage medium, a device, an integrated circuit and a method that perform operations related to a first user equipment (UE) configured with a sidelink (SL) connection with a second UE. The operations include generating an SL counter check request including at least a first count for data transmissions from the first UE to the second UE as determined by the first UE. The operations further include transmitting the request to the second UE and receiving a counter check response to the request, the response comprising at least a second count for data transmissions from the first UE to the second UE as determined by the second UE. The operations further include determining a first difference between the first count and the second count and, when the first difference exceeds a threshold, releasing the SL connection with the second UE.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 8, 2020
    Publication date: October 26, 2023
    Inventors: Yuqin CHEN, Birgit BREINING, Dawei ZHANG, Fangli XU, Haijing HU, Longda XING, Rama Diwakara Rao NOOLU, Sethuraman GURUMOORTHY, Shu GUO, Srirang A. LOVLEKAR, Zhibin WU
  • Patent number: 11785540
    Abstract: Apparatuses, systems, and methods are provided for managing UE upgrade requests using UE assistance information (UAI), including network controlled upgrade support, UE initiated upgrade requests, and/or budget based upgrade requests.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 8, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2023
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: Sethuraman Gurumoorthy, Birgit Breining, Dawei Zhang, Fangli Xu, Haijing Hu, Longda Xing, Rama Diwakara Rao Noolu, Srirang A. Lovlekar, Yuqin Chen, Zhibin Wu
  • Publication number: 20230254918
    Abstract: A technique for determining that a wireless device supports using multiple subscriber identity module (SIM) cards to establish multiple connections to wireless networks, generating a multi-SIM capability message, and transmitting the multi-SIM capability message to a first wireless network. In another aspect, a technique for a wireless system to receive a multi-SIM capability message from a wireless device, determine a connection configuration of the wireless device based on the received multi-SIM capability message, and transmit an indication of the configured connection to the wireless device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 22, 2020
    Publication date: August 10, 2023
    Inventors: Sethuraman Gurumoorthy, Fangli Xu, Adesh Kumar, Birgit Breining, Dawei Zhang, Haijing Hu, Longda Xing, Naveen Kumar R. Palle Venkata, Srirang A. Lovlekar, Yuqin Chen, Zhibin Wu
  • Publication number: 20230239791
    Abstract: A method for power saving, comprising: establishing a radio resource control (RRC) connection with a wireless device, transmitting, to the wireless device, configuration information indicating a discontinuous reception (DRX) cycle time, a DRX on time period, and an offset time, transmitting an enhanced wake-up signal (EWUS) monitoring occasion for a DRX cycle, the EWUS monitoring occasion based on the offset time and the DRX on time period, determining that the wireless device can skip monitoring one or more future EWUS monitoring occasions, transmitting, during a first DRX cycle, a EWUS for the wireless device during the EWUS monitoring occasion associated with the first DRX cycle, the EWUS indicating that the wireless device can skip the one or more future EWUS monitoring occasions, and skipping transmitting the EWUS to the wireless device during the one or more future EWUS monitoring occasions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 14, 2020
    Publication date: July 27, 2023
    Inventors: Sethuraman Gurumoorthy, Fangli Xu, Adesh Kumar, Birgit Breining, Dawei Zhang, Haijing Hu, Longda Xing, Naveen Kumar R. Palle Venkata, Sarma V. Vangala, Sigen Ye, Srirang A. Lovlekar, Wei Zeng, Yuqin Chen, Zhibin Wu
  • Publication number: 20230239795
    Abstract: A technique for power saving, comprising establishing a radio resource control (RRC) connection with a wireless system, entering an RRC connected mode based on the established RRC connection, receiving, from the wireless system, configuration information indicating a discontinuous reception (DRX) cycle time, a DRX on time period, and an offset time, determining an enhanced wake-up signal (EWUS) monitoring occasion for a DRX cycle based on the offset time and the DRX on time period, monitoring, during a first DRX cycle, for an EWUS during the EWUS monitoring occasion associated with the first DRX cycle, receiving, from the wireless system, the EWUS during the EWUS monitoring occasion, determining that the EWUS indicates that the wireless device skip one or more future EWUS monitoring occasions, and skipping monitoring for the EWUS based on the indicated skipped one or more future EWUS monitoring occasions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 14, 2020
    Publication date: July 27, 2023
    Inventors: Sethuraman Gurumoorthy, Fangli Xu, Adesh Kumar, Birgit Breining, Dawei Zhang, Haijing Hu, Longda Xing, Naveen Kumar R. Palle Venkata, Sarma V. Vangala, Sigen Ye, Srirang A. Lovlekar, Wei Zeng, Yuqin Chen, Zhibin Wu
  • Patent number: 11696121
    Abstract: Briefly, in accordance with one or more embodiments, an apparatus of a user equipment (UE), comprises one or more baseband processors to derive a dynamic scrambling key, and a memory to store the dynamic scrambling key and a temporary UE identifier (temporary UE ID) assigned to the UE. The one or more baseband processors monitor a paging request for a scrambled UE identifier (UE ID) to determine if the paging request is intended for the UE by unscrambling the scrambled UE ID with the dynamic scrambling key to produce the temporary UE ID. The paging request is intended for the UE if the temporary UE ID produced by unscrambling the scrambled UE ID matches the temporary UE ID stored in the memory. A new dynamic scrambling key may be derived each time the UE returns to a radio resource control idle (RRC_IDLE) state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 3, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2023
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Sudeep M. Vamanan, Robert Zaus, Birgit Breining, Chen Ho Chin, Hyung-Nam Choi
  • Publication number: 20230180218
    Abstract: Determining RRC processing delays for multi-subscriber identify module (MSIM) user equipments (UEs) may include decoding a capabilities message from a UE that indicates the UE is an MSIM UE that includes at least a first SIM and a second SIM. A communication for the first SIM of the UE may be encoded. The communication may be configured to cause the UE to perform a radio resource control (RRC) procedure. A transmission request received from the UE may be decoded. The transmission request may be associated with the RRC procedure. In response to receiving the transmission request, an uplink (UL) gram may be scheduled for the first SIM of the UE.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 14, 2021
    Publication date: June 8, 2023
    Inventors: Srirang A. Lovlekar, Ahmed Mohamed Ibrahim Hassan, Amr Mostafa, Birgit Breining, Fangli Xu, Haijing Hu, Naveen Kumar R Palle Venkata, Sethuraman Gurumoorthy, Yuqin Chen
  • Publication number: 20230180336
    Abstract: Coordinated leaving for a UE having a first SIM and a second SIM may include decoding, at a baseband processor, an RRC reconfiguration message associated with the first SIM received from a first network. A communication corresponding to the second SIM received from a second network is decoded while the baseband processor is processing the received RRC reconfiguration message. The communication received from the second network is determined to comprise a higher priority than the RRC reconfiguration procedure. Based on determining, a UAI message corresponding to the first SIM is encoded by the baseband processor for transmission to the first network. The UM message is configured to inform the first network of coordinated leaving and abortion of the RRC reconfiguration procedure. The first SIM is transitioned to an idle mode. An RRC request corresponding to the second SIM is encoded by the baseband processor for transmission to the second network.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 14, 2021
    Publication date: June 8, 2023
    Inventors: Srirang A. Lovlekar, Ahmed Mohamed Ibrahim Hassan, Amr Mostafa, Birgit Breining, Fangli Xu, Haijing Hu, Naveen Kumar R Palle Venkata, Sethuraman Gurumoorthy, Yuqin Chen
  • Publication number: 20220361132
    Abstract: Devices and associated methods for operating a dual-subscriber identity module (SIM) dual-standby (DSDS) user equipment device (UE) configured with a first SIM and a second SIM. The UE transmits a connection request message to a base station over a first network using the first SIM, where the connection request message includes one or more capability indications of the UE. The UE receives a connection accept message from the base station, where the connection accept message includes one or more network capability indications corresponding to respective UE capability indications of the one or more UE capability indications. The UE performs communications with the base station according to the one or more network capability indications.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 31, 2021
    Publication date: November 10, 2022
    Inventors: Sethuraman Gurumoorthy, Srirang A. Lovlekar, Fangli Xu, Haijing Hu, Naveen Kumar R. Palle Venkata, Sarma V. Vangala, Yuqin Chen, Zhibin Wu, Longda Xing, Rama Diwakara Rao Noolu, Birgit Breining
  • Publication number: 20220312312
    Abstract: Apparatuses, systems, and methods are provided for managing UE upgrade requests using UE assistance information (UAI), including network controlled upgrade support, UE initiated upgrade requests, and/or budget based upgrade requests.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 8, 2020
    Publication date: September 29, 2022
    Inventors: Sethuraman Gurumoorthy, Birgit Breining, Dawei Zhang, Fangli Xu, Haijing Hu, Longda Xing, Rama Diwakara Rao Noolu, Srirang A. Lovlekar, Yuqin Chen, Zhibin Wu