Patents by Inventor Huan NIU

Huan NIU 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: 20250254664
    Abstract: This disclosure relates to techniques for a wireless device to perform measurements of satellite reference signals in a non-terrestrial wireless communication system. According to the techniques described herein, a wireless device may establish communication with a cellular base station. The wireless device and network may exchange configuration information and/or capability information related to measurements of satellite reference signals. The wireless device and network may determine scaling factor or otherwise achieve a common understanding of the measurements.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 22, 2022
    Publication date: August 7, 2025
    Inventors: Jie Cui, Qiming Li, Dawei Zhang, Hong He, Yang Tang, Xiang Chen, Huaning Niu, Chunxuan Ye
  • Publication number: 20250254676
    Abstract: The present application relates to devices and components including apparatus, systems, and methods for supporting user equipment (UE)-assisted beam management.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 31, 2024
    Publication date: August 7, 2025
    Applicant: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Haitong Sun, Dawei Zhang, Huaning Niu, Wei Zeng, Hong He, Chunxuan Ye, Ankit Bhamri
  • Patent number: 12382323
    Abstract: A terminal may include a transmitter that transmits, to a base station, a terminal capability indicating support for a first type of measurement configuration or a second type of measurement configuration. The terminal may include a receiver that receives, from the base station, network configuration information representative of a mapping between the first type of measurement configuration and the second type of measurement configuration. The terminal may include a processor that, based on the mapping, transforms the first type of measurement configuration to the second type of measurement configuration or transforms the second type of measurement configuration to the first type of measurement configuration. The network configuration information may be based on an independent frequency range (FR) measurement and a network preference included in the terminal capability.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 5, 2025
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Qiming Li, Dawei Zhang, Huaning Niu, Jie Cui, Manasa Raghavan, Xiang Chen, Yang Tang, Yushu Zhang
  • Patent number: 12381685
    Abstract: Provided is a method for a user equipment (UE). The UE obtains, from a network device, a first configuration information. The first configuration information indicates a first resource set for an aperiodic Sounding Reference Signal (AP-SRS). The first resource set for the AP-SRS includes a first list of slot offsets. The UE decodes a second configuration information from the network device. The second configuration information indicates a reference slot and a first slot offset of the first list of slot offsets. The UE generates the AP-SRS for transmission to the network device based on the reference slot and the first slot offset.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 5, 2024
    Date of Patent: August 5, 2025
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Haitong Sun, Chunxuan Ye, Dawei Zhang, Hong He, Huaning Niu, Jie Cui, Oghenekome Oteri, Seyed Ali Akbar Fakoorian, Wei Zeng, Yushu Zhang
  • Patent number: 12381687
    Abstract: The present application relates to devices and components including apparatus, systems, and methods for physical uplink shared channel transmissions with repetitions on different transmit beams with phase tracking reference signals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2024
    Date of Patent: August 5, 2025
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Yushu Zhang, Wei Zeng, Haitong Sun, Dawei Zhang, Hong He, Chunxuan Ye, Sigen Ye, Weidong Yang, Huaning Niu
  • Patent number: 12381683
    Abstract: A user equipment (UE) configured to establish a connection to a fifth generation (5G) new radio (NR) network, wherein the connection is configured to utilize cyclic prefix (CP)—orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) waveform and demodulation reference signal (DMRS) type 1, receive a DMRS port indication configured to indicate one or more DMRS ports assigned to the UE, wherein single symbol DMRS type 1 is configured to support up to 8 DMRS ports and two symbol DMRS type 1 is configured to support up to 16 DMRS ports and perform a transmission operation or a reception operation using the one or more DMRS ports assigned to the UE.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 5, 2025
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Haitong Sun, Chunxuan Ye, Dawei Zhang, Hong He, Huaning Niu, Seyed Ali Akbar Fakoorian, Wei Zeng
  • Patent number: 12375959
    Abstract: A user equipment (UE) is configured to report information to a base station that is used to configure multi-transmission and reception point (TRP) operation. The UE receives a multi-TRP configuration from the base station, wherein the multi-TRP configuration configures the UE with a primary TRP (P-TRP) and a secondary TRP (S-TRP), receives a measurement configuration from the base station, wherein the measurement configuration configures the UE to perform measurements associated with the P-TRP and the S-TRP, performs measurements associated with the P-TRP and the S-TRP based on the measurement configuration and transmits a measurement report including the measurements to the base station.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2025
    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, Yang Tang, Yushu Zhang
  • Patent number: 12375134
    Abstract: Techniques, described herein, include solutions for managing uplink control information (UCI) transmission for a channel state information (CSI) report resulting from measurements of CSI measurement resources. In response to the CSI report exceeding allocated uplink resources of a UCI transmission, a compressed CSI report can be generated by performing an uplink control information (UCI) omission to omit parameters of the CSI report based on components comprising frequency domain (FD) components and time domain (TD) components of the MIMO codebook configuration. The UCI transmission can be generated with the compressed CSI report.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2025
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Weidong Yang, Chunhai Yao, Chunxuan Ye, Dawei Zhang, Haitong Sun, Hong He, Huaning Niu, Oghenekome Oteri, Seyed Ali Akbar Fakoorian, Wei Zeng, Yushu Zhang
  • Patent number: 12369152
    Abstract: The present application relates to devices and components including apparatus, systems, and methods to perform SRS transmission when a UE supports SRS Tx antenna port switching. In an example, a determination is made about whether a scheduled SRS transmission impacts a scheduled DL reception given the SRS Tx antenna port switching. If so, the SRS transmission and/or the DL reception are changed. In a further example, the UE can supports an SRS TA capability in conjunction with the SRS Tx antenna port switching capability. In this example, SRS TA can be applied to a scheduled SRS transmission.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 22, 2025
    Inventors: Jie Cui, Qiming Li, Dawei Zhang, Haitong Sun, Hong He, Huaning Niu, Manasa Raghavan, Xiang Chen, Yang Tang, Yushu Zhang
  • Patent number: 12368567
    Abstract: A user equipment (UE) is configured to determine that half-duplex frequency division duplex (HD-FDD) is enabled by a network with which the UE is communicating, identify a collision between a cell-specific downlink reception and a cell-specific uplink transmission and implement a HD-FDD collision handling technique. A UE may also be configured to determine that half-duplex frequency division duplex (HD-FDD) is enabled by a network with which the UE is communicating, perform a first cell-specific uplink transmission at a first time and perform a first cell-specific downlink reception at a second time, wherein a guard period represents a time duration between the first time and the second time during which the UE is not to perform a second different cell-specific uplink transmission or a second different cell-specific downlink reception.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 22, 2025
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Hong He, Chunxuan Ye, Dawei Zhang, Haitong Sun, Huaning Niu, Seyed Ali Akbar Fakoorian, Sigen Ye, Wei Zeng, Weidong Yang, Yushu Zhang
  • Patent number: 12369060
    Abstract: Methods, apparatuses, and systems are disclosed for configuring measurement timings in connection with UEs that are capable of signaling whether a measurement gap (MG) is needed to measure a target frequency carrier. For example, a measurement period may be determined for the target frequency carrier based on the UE indicating that it supports per-frequency range (FR) MGs, and determining that the FR of the target frequency carrier does not include any current serving cell(s). If the UE indicates that no MG is needed to measure the target frequency carrier, then the measurement period may be based on an SMTC, and may be further based on a predefined effective measurement gap repetition period (MGRP). If the UE indicates that a MG is needed, then the measurement period may be based on the SMTC, and may be further based on the effective MGRP or a per-UE MGRP.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 22, 2025
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Jie Cui, Dawei Zhang, Hong He, Huaning Niu, Manasa Raghavan, Qiming Li, Xiang Chen, Yang Tang
  • Patent number: 12369131
    Abstract: Systems and method for using control information to control the relay of signaling between a base station and a user equipment (UE) using a smart repeater (SMR) and/or reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) are disclosed herein. In embodiments, a first phase is used by the SMR with a first SS burst from a base station to identify a trained Rx beam to use with the base station, and a second phase receives a second SS burst from the base station and forwards it to a UE using a beam sweep such that the UE is enabled to provide feedback of one SSB of the second SS burst. In other embodiments, an SMR or an RIS is controlled to enable the use of an SS burst to perform a full check of all beam-wise routes between the base station and the UE, enabling feedback of a corresponding SSB selection by the UE.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 22, 2025
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: Huaning Niu, Chunxuan Ye, Dawei Zhang, Oghenekome Oteri, Sigen Ye, Wei Zeng, Weidong Yang, Yushu Zhang
  • Patent number: 12368621
    Abstract: The present application relates to devices and components including apparatus, systems, and methods for reference signal indication for idle or inactive user equipments.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 22, 2025
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Sigen Ye, Huaning Niu, Hongbo Yan, Shengshan Cui, Wei Zeng, Oghenekome Oteri, Weidong Yang, Dawei Zhang, Hong He, Haitong Sun
  • Publication number: 20250233630
    Abstract: A user equipment (UE) is configured for multi-panel physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH) transmission using multiple antenna panels. The UE may send a UE capability message to a base station to indicate a plurality of channel state information (CSI) report schemes supported by the UE. The UE processes a signal from the base station to configure the UE for a selected CSI report scheme of the plurality of CSI report schemes. The UE determines whether one or more condition associated with the selected CSI report scheme is satisfied. The UE transmits, to the base station, CSI in one or more PUSCH from one or more of the multiple antenna panels based on whether the one or more condition associated with the selected CSI report scheme is satisfied.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 23, 2023
    Publication date: July 17, 2025
    Inventors: Yushu Zhang, Dawei Zhang, Weidong Yang, Chunxuan Ye, Seyed Ali Akbar Fakoorian, Huaning Niu, Hong He, Haitong Sun, Wei Zeng
  • Patent number: 12363746
    Abstract: Techniques discussed herein can facilitate inter-cell interference mitigation. One example aspect is a user equipment (UE), configured to receive a network assistance indication associated with an interfering signal, where the interfering signal interferes with a physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH) transmission. A time resource allocation of the interfering signal is different than a time resource allocation of the PDSCH transmission. The UE is further configured to determine an interference and noise covariance estimation mechanism based on the network assistance indication then perform interference and noise covariance estimation based on the noise covariance estimation mechanism. The UE is further configured to perform mitigation of the interfering signal using a mitigation mechanism based on the interference and noise covariance estimation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 15, 2025
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Yushu Zhang, Manasa Raghavan, Dawei Zhang, Haitong Sun, Huaning Niu, Jie Cui, Qiming Li, Rajarajan Balraj, Xiang Chen, Yang Tang
  • Patent number: 12362894
    Abstract: A user equipment (UE) is configured to simultaneously connect to a primary cell (PCell) serving a primary component carrier (PCC), a primary secondary cell (PSCell) serving a primary secondary component carrier (PSCC) and at least one secondary cell (SCell) serving a secondary component carrier (SCC), wherein the PSCell is in a deactivated state. The UE receives a radio resource management (RRM) measurement configuration comprising a PCC measurement object (MO) configuration, a PSCC MO configuration, and an SCC MO configuration, determines a PCC MO carrier specific scaling factor (CSSF), a PSCC MO CSSF, and an SCC MO CSSF and applies each respective CSSF to a measurement period corresponding to each of the PCC MO, the PSCC MO, and the SCC MO.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 15, 2025
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Qiming Li, Dawei Zhang, Huaning Niu, Jie Cui, Manasa Raghavan, Xiang Chen, Yang Tang, Yushu Zhang
  • Patent number: 12363648
    Abstract: The present application relates to devices and components including apparatus, systems, and methods for providing a power headroom report with respect to repetitions of uplink data transmissions with different beams in wireless communication systems.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 15, 2025
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Yushu Zhang, Chunxuan Ye, Dawei Zhang, Haitong Sun, Hong He, Huaning Niu, Sigen Ye, Wei Zeng, Weidong Yang
  • Patent number: 12362876
    Abstract: This disclosure relates to techniques for a user equipment device (UE) performing a quasi-colocation (QCL) update in a wireless communication system. The UE may receive an indication to change a spatial relationship for transmission/reception. The UE may receive aperiodic reference signals for use in beam tracking according to the new spatial relationship. The UE may also receive provide aperiodic reference signals for time, frequency, and/or phase tracking. Thus, the UE may change to the new spatial relationship and use the aperiodic reference signals to quickly complete initial tracking operations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 15, 2025
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Yushu Zhang, Chunhai Yao, Chunxuan Ye, Dawei Zhang, Haitong Sun, Hong He, Huaning Niu, Oghenekome Oteri, Seyed Ali Akbar Fakoorian, Sigen Ye, Wei Zeng, Weidong Yang
  • Patent number: 12349199
    Abstract: Disclosed are methods and apparatus for determining time-domain PRACH resources in wireless communication. A New Radio (NR) Physical Random Access Channel (PRACH) configuration comprising an indication of a time-domain PRACH resource type to determine when the UE is allowed to transmit a PRACH preamble and a type of preamble format may be received. Additionally, a PRACH resource based on the received PRACH configuration to transmit the PRACH preamble, wherein the PRACH resource includes RACH resource occasions (ROs) with gaps in between may be determined. Thereafter, a PRACH procedure may be initiated by transmitting the PRACH preamble on a RO based on the determined PRACH resource to a base station (BS).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 1, 2025
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Hong He, Chunxuan Ye, Huaning Niu, Jie Cui, Dawei Zhang, Haitong Sun, Oghenekome Oteri, Sigen Ye, Wei Zeng, Weidong Yang, Yushu Zhang
  • Patent number: 12349121
    Abstract: A method and apparatus of a device that determines an occurrence of the DL SPS or the UL CG to determine a periodicity of a packet generation is described. In an exemplary embodiment, the method receives a configuration for a downlink (DL) Semi-Persistent Scheduling (SPS) or an uplink (UL) Configured Grant (CG). The configuration includes an indication of non-integer periodicity of the DL SPS or the UL CG. Additionally, the method determines an occurrence of the DL SPS or the UL CG based on the received configuration for the DL SPS or the UL CG to determine a periodicity of a packet generation. Thereafter, the method transmits or receives data based on the configuration for the DL SPS or the UL CG.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 1, 2025
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Weidong Yang, Chunhai Yao, Chunxuan Ye, Dawei Zhang, Fangli Xu, Haijing Hu, Oghenekome Oteri, Haitong Sun, Hong He, Huaning Niu, Sarma V. Vangala, Seyed Ali Akbar Fakoorian, Sigen Ye, Wei Zeng, Yushu Zhang