Patents by Inventor Hong He

Hong He 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).

  • Time domain resource allocation for mobile communication
    Patent number: 11025456
    Abstract: Systems, apparatuses, methods, and computer-readable media are provided for time domain resource allocations in wireless communications systems. Disclosed embodiments include time-domain symbol determination and/or indication using a combination of higher layer and downlink control information signaling for physical downlink shared channel and physical uplink shared channel; time domain resource allocations for mini-slot operations; rules for postponing and dropping for multiple mini-slot transmission; and collision handling of sounding reference signals with semi-statically or semi-persistently configured uplink transmissions. Other embodiments may be described and/or claimed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 1, 2021
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Debdeep Chatterjee, Sergey Panteleev, Gang Xiong, Ajit Nimbalker, Hong He
  • Transmission of Uplink Control Information in Wireless Systems
    Publication number: 20210160830
    Abstract: Future LTE systems will support massive carrier aggregation that necessitates transmission of a large number of acknowledgement signals (HARQ-ACKs) in response to downlink data transmitted over multiple component carriers. Described herein are methods and apparatus for efficiently transmitting HARQ-ACK and periodic channel state information (P-CSI) bits over the PUCCH (physical uplink control channel).
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 6, 2021
    Publication date: May 27, 2021
    Inventors: Hong He, Seunghee Han, Alexei Vladimirovich Davydov, Gang Xiong
  • 5G NR FR2 Beam Management Enhancements
    Publication number: 20210160964
    Abstract: Apparatuses, systems, and methods for a user equipment device (UE) to perform methods for Fifth Generation New Radio (5G NR) frequency range two (FR2) based communications beam management. The UE may configure, via communications with a base station, serving the UE, a group ID for PUCCH resources within a group of PUCCHs, e.g., for FR2 based communications. The UE may receive, from the base station, an update to one or more PUCCH resources within the group of PUCCHs via a medium access control (MAC) control element (CE) that may include one of a resource ID indicating an update to a PUCCH resource or the group ID to update the group of PUCCH resources. The UE may update, based on the MAC-CE, the one or more PUCCH resources within the group of PUCCHs.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 15, 2020
    Publication date: May 27, 2021
    Inventors: Haitong Sun, Dawei Zhang, Hong He, Jia Tang, Pengkai Zhao, Tianyan Pu, Wei Zeng, Wei Zhang, Yuchul Kim, Yushu Zhang
  • Periodic channel state information reporting for time division duplex (TDD) carrier aggregation systems
    Patent number: 11019522
    Abstract: Technology for a user equipment (UE) operable to report periodic channel state information (CSI) to an eNodeB is disclosed. The UE can determine a reporting period (Npd) of a serving cell of the UE. The UE can determine a Time-Division Duplex (TDD) uplink-downlink (UL-DL) configuration of a primary cell of the UE. The UE can encode multiple periodic CSI reports for transmission to the eNodeB using a physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) on the primary cell according to the reporting period Npd.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 2, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 25, 2021
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: Seunghee Han, Hong He, Jong-Kae Fwu, Alexei Davydov, Ilya Bolotin
  • User equipment (UE), evolved node-b (eNB) and methods for dynamic hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ)
    Patent number: 11013063
    Abstract: Embodiments of a User Equipment (UE), Evolved Node-B (eNB) and methods for communication are generally described herein. The UE may receive downlink control information (DCI) that schedules a transport block (TB) that includes multiple code blocks. The UE may determine a transport block size (TBS) based on the DCI. The UE may attempt to decode the code blocks. The UE may, if the TBS is greater than a predetermined threshold: bundle the code blocks into code block groups for hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) acknowledgement; and transmit a HARQ bit per code block group. The UE may, if the TBS is less than or equal to the threshold, transmit a HARQ bit that indicates whether a decode failure has occurred for at least one of the code blocks of the TB.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 9, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 18, 2021
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Hwan-Joon Kwon, Gang Xiong, Hong He
  • Resource set configurations using automatic repeat request information
    Patent number: 11012197
    Abstract: An apparatus is configured to be employed within a user equipment (UE) device. The apparatus comprises baseband circuitry which includes a radio frequency (RF) interface and one or more processors. The one or more processors are configured to identify a plurality of monitoring occasions for a set of flexible control resource sets (CORESET); determine bit ordering for the plurality of monitoring occasions; generate hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) feedback based on the received downlink transmission; and incorporate the ordered plurality of monitoring occasions into the HARQ feedback.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 18, 2021
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Hong He, Gang Xiong, Debdeep Chatterjee, Joonyoung Cho, Yushu Zhang
  • Wireless Device Power Saving for Multi-TRP Transmissions
    Publication number: 20210144808
    Abstract: Apparatuses, systems, and methods for performing multi-TRP transmissions using techniques for reducing wireless device power consumption. A wireless device may select a downlink signal buffering method for a communication slot. The downlink signal buffering method may be selected from a single antenna panel signal buffering method or a multi-antenna panel signal buffering method. One or more beams for which to perform downlink signal buffering for the communication slot may be selected based at least in part on the downlink signal buffering method selected. Downlink signals may be received from one or more cellular base stations during the communication slot using the selected one or more beams. The downlink signals received using the selected one or more beams may be buffered by the wireless device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 6, 2020
    Publication date: May 13, 2021
    Inventors: Yushu Zhang, Dawei Zhang, Haijing Hu, Yang Tang, Wei Zeng, Haitong Sun, Hong He, Yuchul Kim, Chunhai Yao, Weidong Yang, Chunxuan Ye, Jie Cui, Oghenekome Oteri, Fangli Xu
  • System and method for fast single-DCI and multi-DCI mode switching
    Publication number: 20210143936
    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: Application
    Filed: November 6, 2020
    Publication date: May 13, 2021
    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
  • Mechanisms to handle DL (downlink) control and data channels with different numerologies in NR (new radio)
    Patent number: 11006425
    Abstract: Techniques discussed herein can facilitate handling of DL (Downlink) control and data channels having different numerologies in NR (New Radio). One example embodiment comprises an apparatus employable by a UE (User Equipment) configured to generate a report comprising capability information associated with the UE, wherein the capability information indicates whether the UE supports multiplexing of multiple numerologies within a common symbol in a FDM (Frequency Division Multiplexing)-based manner; process first higher layer signaling that configures one or more control resource sets of a NR (New Radio) PDCCH (Physical Downlink Control Channel), wherein the one or more control resource sets are associated with one or more numerologies in accordance with the UE capability information; and demodulate a NR PDSCH (Physical Downlink Shared Channel) from a resource distinct from resources of the NR PDCCH.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 2, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 11, 2021
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Gang Xiong, Yongjun Kwak, Hong He, Seunghee Han, Qian Li
  • ACK/NACK feedback method in wireless communication system
    Patent number: 11006412
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention disclose an ACK/NACK feedback method in a wireless communication system, including: determining, by a UE, number of public sub-frames, all of which are uplink sub-frame in PCC and any SCC sub-frames of any radio frame in frame structure configurations according to the frame structure configurations of the PCC and any SCC; selecting, by the UE, a configuration, uplink sub-frames of which merely include sub-frames corresponding to the determined number of public sub-frames from existing seven kinds of frame structure configurations; and feeding back, by the UE, to a eNB ACK/NACK information corresponding to PDSCH in the SCC on the PCC adopting a timing relationship between the PDSCH and the ACK/NACK corresponding to the selected configuration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 11, 2021
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hong He, Yingyang Li, Chengjun Sun
  • Multiplexing physical uplink control channels in a slot for a new radio (NR) system
    Patent number: 11006397
    Abstract: Technology for a UE is disclosed. The UE can identify that a resource for a PUCCH transmission with HARQ-ACK information and/or a resource for a PUCCH associated with a SR overlap in time with two resources for respective PUCCH transmissions with two CSI reports. The UE can select a resource for a PUCCH transmission with a CSI report having a higher priority from the two resources for respective PUCCH transmissions with the two CSI reports. The UE can multiplex the HARQ-ACK information and/or the SR in the selected resource for the PUCCH transmission with the CSI report having the higher priority. The UE can encode the multiplexed HARQ-ACK information and the SR and the CSI report for transmission on the selected resource for the PUCCH transmission to a NR base station. The UE can drop the CSI report and the PUCCH resource having a lower priority.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 11, 2021
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: Gang Xiong, Hong He, Yushu Zhang
  • Methods to determine a hybrid automatic repeat request acknowledgement (HARQ-ACK) codebook in new radio (NR) systems
    Patent number: 10999761
    Abstract: Embodiments of a User Equipment (UE), Next Generation Node-B (gNB) and methods of communication are generally described herein. The UE may receive radio resource control (RRC) signaling that configures reception of a plurality of physical downlink shared channels (PDSCHs) in a frame. The frame may comprise multiple slots, including one or more downlink slots and one or more uplink slots. The UE may determine a subset of the PDSCHs, such that for each of the PDSCHs of the subset, corresponding consecutive slots do not overlap the uplink slots. The UE may set a number of bits of a hybrid automatic repeat request acknowledgement (HARQ-ACK) codebook equal to a number of PDSCHs in the determined subset.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 4, 2021
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Hong He, Gang Xiong, Debdeep Chatterjee, Yushu Zhang
  • Signaling for resource allocation and scheduling in 5G-NR integrated access and backhaul
    Patent number: 10992358
    Abstract: Embodiments of apparatus and methods for signaling for resource allocation and scheduling in 5G-NR integrated access and backhaul are generally described herein. In some embodiments, User Equipment configured for reporting a channel quality indicator (CQI) index in a channel state information (CSI) reference resource assumes a physical resource block (PRB) bundling size of two PRBs to derive the CQI index.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 27, 2021
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Alexander Sirotkin, Alexei Davydov, Andrey Chervyakov, Anthony Lee, Avik Sengupta, Bharat Shrestha, Candy Yiu, Chang Hong Shan, Dae Won Lee, Dawei Ying, Debdeep Chatterjee, Farid Adrangi, Gang Xiong, Geng Wu, Gregory Morozov, Hassan Ghozlan, Hong He, Honglei Miao, Hua Li, Jaemin Han, Jeongho Jeon, Jie Cui, Jing Zhu, Joey Chou, Joonbeom Kim, Joonyoung Cho, Kathiravetpillai Sivanesan, Lu Lu, May Wu, Naveen Palle, Puneet Jain, Qian Li, Richard C. Burbidge, Robert Zaus, Rui Huang, Satish Chandra Jha, Seau S. Lim, Sergey Panteleev, Song Noh, Yaser M. Fouad, Yi Guo, Yizhi Yao, Yongjun Kwak, Youn Hyoung Heo, Yuhan Zhou, Yujian Zhang, Yushu Zhang
  • Determination of new radio (NR) physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) resource for hybrid automatic repeat request acknowledgement (HARQ-ACK) feedback
    Patent number: 10985876
    Abstract: An apparatus configured to be employed in a user equipment (UE) associated with a new radio (NR) system is disclosed. The apparatus comprises a processing circuit configured to determine an NR-physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) resource to be utilized by the UE, for a transmission of a hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ)-acknowledge (ACK) feedback message to a gNodeB, wherein the determined NR-PUCCH resource comprises a HARQ-PUCCH resource. In some embodiments, the HARQ-ACK feedback message comprises a feedback message generated at the UE in response to processing a downlink (DL) data transmission signal comprising data received from the gNodeB. In some embodiments, the processing circuit is further configured to generate a transmission of the HARQ-ACK feedback message using the determined HARQ-PUCCH resource.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 20, 2021
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Gang Xiong, Hong He, Debdeep Chatterjee, Joonyoung Cho, Seung Hee Han
  • DOWNLINK CONTROL SIGNALING SEGMENTATION
    Publication number: 20210112528
    Abstract: Technology for a Next Generation NodeB (gNB) operable to encode downlink control information (DCI) for transmission to a user equipment (UE) is disclosed. The gNB can identify DCI for transmission from the gNB. The gNB can determine that a size of the DCI exceeds a defined threshold. The gNB can divide the DCI into one or more DCI segments. Each DCI segment can include header information to enable the one or more DCI segments to be assembled at the UE. The gNB can encode the one or more DCI segments of the DCI for transmission from the gNB to the UE.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 31, 2018
    Publication date: April 15, 2021
    Inventors: Dae Won Lee, Gang Xiong, Hong He, Seunghee Han
  • CONTROL SIGNALING FOR UPLINK MULTIPLE INPUT MULTIPLE OUTPUT, CHANNEL STATE INFORMATION REFERENCE SIGNAL CONFIGURATION AND SOUNDING REFERENCE SIGNAL CONFIGURATION
    Publication number: 20210105753
    Abstract: Systems, apparatuses, methods, and computer-readable media are provided for time domain resource allocations in wireless communications systems. Disclosed embodiments include time-domain symbol determination and/or indication using a combination of higher layer and downlink control information signaling for physical downlink shared channel and physical uplink shared channel; time domain resource allocations for mini-slot operations; rules for postponing and dropping for multiple mini-slot transmission; and collision handling of sounding reference signals with semi-statically or semi-persistently configured uplink transmissions. Other embodiments may be described and/or claimed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 25, 2020
    Publication date: April 8, 2021
    Applicant: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Yushu ZHANG, Alexei DAVYDOV, Guotong WANG, Gang XIONG, Hong HE
  • Downlink Signal Reception with Antenna Panel Switching
    Publication number: 20210099223
    Abstract: Apparatuses, systems, and methods for performing downlink signal reception with antenna panel switching in a wireless communication system. A cellular base station may receive an indication of an antenna panel activation delay from a wireless device. The cellular base station may select a scheduling offset for a transmission to the wireless device based at least in part on the antenna panel activation delay. The scheduling offset may be selected to be at least the length of the antenna panel activation delay if it is expected that the wireless device may perform antenna panel activation to receive the transmission. The cellular base station may schedule the transmission to the wireless device using the selected scheduling offset, and may perform the transmission to the wireless device at the selected scheduling offset after scheduling the transmission to the wireless device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 25, 2020
    Publication date: April 1, 2021
    Inventors: Yushu Zhang, Dawei Zhang, Haitong Sun, Wei Zeng, Hong He, Yuchul Kim, Chunhai Yao, Haijing Hu
  • Secondary Cell Link Recovery Request Transmission
    Publication number: 20210100056
    Abstract: Embodiments are presented herein of apparatuses, systems, and methods for a user equipment device (UE) to transmit an indication of a link failure on a secondary cell. The indication may be transmitted on resources selected based on one or more conditions. One or more priority rules may be used to resolve collisions. The UE may further make an assumption of a beam or beams to use for communications with the secondary cell following the link failure and prior to receiving an indication from the network of a selected beam.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 16, 2020
    Publication date: April 1, 2021
    Inventors: Yushu Zhang, Dawei Zhang, Haijing Hu, Haitong Sun, Hong He, Wei Zeng, Yakun Sun, Yuchul Kim
  • Framework for Two-Step Random Access Channel Procedure in Wireless Communications
    Publication number: 20210100039
    Abstract: A device may wirelessly transmit a physical RACH, and a first message on a physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH), in a first step of a 2-step random access channel (RACH) procedure. The device may receive a second message on a physical downlink shared channel in response to successful detection of the first message, in a second step of the 2-step RACH procedure. When detection of the first message is unsuccessful, the device may be instructed to fall back to a 4-step RACH procedure. The device may be configured with one or more first message transmit opportunities (PO), one of which may include one or more PUSCH resource units (PRUs). Some of the communication parameters of the device may be configured to be common for each PO, while other communication parameters may be configured per PRU. Respective new Radio Network Temporary ID values may be defined for the first message and second message.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 16, 2020
    Publication date: April 1, 2021
    Inventors: Yushu Zhang, Wei Zeng, Yuqin Chen, Dawei Zhang, Fangli Xu, Haijing Hu, Haitong Sun, Hong He, Yakun Sun, Yuchul Kim
  • Downlink Control for Multi-TRP Transmissions
    Publication number: 20210100022
    Abstract: Apparatuses, systems, and methods for providing downlink control for multi-TRP transmission. A cellular base station may provide a downlink control information transmission to a wireless device scheduling downlink transmissions to the wireless device from multiple transmission reception points. The downlink control information may include information that can be used by the wireless device to determine any or all of physical resource block bundling sizes, frequency domain resource allocations, modulation and coding schemes, redundancy versions, phase tracking reference signal configurations, and any of various other possible types of configuration information for the downlink transmissions. The wireless device may receive the downlink transmissions from the plurality of transmission reception points in accordance with the downlink control information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 17, 2020
    Publication date: April 1, 2021
    Inventors: Yushu Zhang, Haitong Sun, Wei Zeng, Hong He, Yuchul Kim, Dawei Zhang, Haijing Hu, Yakun Sun