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: 20250089077
    Abstract: Disclosed are methods, systems, and computer-readable medium to perform operations for resource allocation for contiguous resource block transmission. In one aspect, the operations can include actions of identifying a set of sub-channels that are not suitable for serving as leading sub-channels for Physical Sidelink Control Channel (PSCCH) and Physical Sidelink Shared Channel (PSSCH) transmission, and excluding the identified set of sub-channels from a candidate set of resources.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 25, 2024
    Publication date: March 13, 2025
    Inventors: Chunxuan Ye, Dawei Zhang, Hong He, Huaning Niu, Jie Cui, Wei Zeng
  • Publication number: 20250089087
    Abstract: Techniques discussed herein can facilitate listen before talk procedures for clear channel assessment signaling. One example aspect is a baseband processor of a user equipment (UE), including one or more processors configured to receive system information including a region indication for clear channel assessment (CCA) procedures. The CCA procedures are associated with a listen before talk (LBT) region configuration for one of a first region, a second region, or a third region. One or more processors are configured to receive a downlink control information (DCI) in a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) message that includes a DCI CCA indication. Subsequently, the one or more processors are configured to perform an initial LBT procedure associated with the region indication and generate a random access channel (RACH) message after performing the initial LBT procedure. Finally, the one or more processors generate an uplink (UL) message according to the DCI CCA indication.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 10, 2022
    Publication date: March 13, 2025
    Inventors: Huaning Niu, Chunxuan Ye, Dawei Zhang, Hong He, Oghenekome Oteri, Sigen Ye, Wei Zeng, Yushu Zhang
  • Patent number: 12250660
    Abstract: Systems and methods used by reduced sensing user equipment (UE) (relative to a full sensing UE) are disclosed herein. A UE performing partial sensing may use knowledge of resource reservation periods for a resource pool of one or more resources to reduce sensing as compared to the full sensing case. A UE performing resource re-evaluation and/or resource pre-emption may use one or more sensing windows that are relatively smaller than windows used in the full sensing case to reduce sensing. A UE performing prioritized resource selection may use a sensing window to determine availability of resources within a prioritized resource selection window with a high reliability, thereby reducing the need to spend power on other sensing methods (which may include full sensing methods). Combinations of these embodiments are also contemplated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2025
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: Chunxuan Ye, Chunhai Yao, Dawei Zhang, Haitong Sun, Hong He, Huaning Niu, Oghenekome Oteri, Seyed Ali Akbar Fakoorian, Sigen Ye, Wei Zeng, Weidong Yang, Yushu Zhang
  • Publication number: 20250080279
    Abstract: A user equipment (UE) may be configured to process different types of uplink control information (UCI) configured for a physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) transmission, omit one or more instances of the UCI for the PUCCH transmission, wherein the omitting is performed based on an omission rule and perform the PUCCH transmission. The UE may also be configured to process UCI for a transmission over a physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH), omit one or more instances of the UCI in response to a trigger condition and transmit the UCI over the PUSCH.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 14, 2022
    Publication date: March 6, 2025
    Inventors: Weidong YANG, Chunhai YAO, Chunxuan YE, Dawei ZHANG, Haitong SUN, Hong HE, Huaning NIU, Oghenekome OTERI, Seyed Ali Akbar FAKOORIAN, Sigen YE, Wei ZENG
  • Publication number: 20250081110
    Abstract: Techniques, described herein, include solutions for enabling a user equipment (UEs) to operate in a power saving mode (PSM) by performing radio link monitoring (RLM), beam failure detection (BFD), and radio resource management (RRM) based on one or more reference signals with a decreased periodicity. The reference signals may include system synchronizations blocks (SSBs), a channel state information (CSI) m signal (CSI-RSs), or a combination thereof. A base station may be configured to operate as a master cell group (MCG) node or a secondary cell group (SCG) node and may transmit reference signals with an increased periodicity to UEs in an active mode of operation while also transmitting reference signals with a decreased periodicity to UEs in a PSM.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 10, 2022
    Publication date: March 6, 2025
    Inventors: Qiming Li, Dawei Zhang, Fangli Xu, Haijing Hu, Huaning Niu, Jie Cui, Manasa Raghaven, Xiang Chen, Yang Tang, Yuqin Chen
  • Publication number: 20250081271
    Abstract: Systems, apparatus, methods, and computer programs for fast, direct SCell activation are disclosed. In one aspect, a method can include receiving, by a UE, an RRC command that causes the UE to be configured to detect a TRS transmission of a plurality of TRS transmission bursts broadcast by an access node, disregarding, by the UE, one or more TRS transmission of the plurality of TRS transmission bursts that are received, by the UE, during processing of the received RRC command, and after processing, by the UE, of the received RRC command, decoding a TRS transmission of the plurality of TRS bursts that is received subsequent to completion of processing of the received RRC command for automatic gain control (AGC).
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 6, 2022
    Publication date: March 6, 2025
    Inventors: Qiming LI, Dawei ZHANG, Hong HE, Huaning NIU, Jie CUI, Manasa RAGHAVAN, Xiang CHEN, Yang TANG, Yushu ZHANG
  • Patent number: 12244540
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to aperiodic sounding reference signal (SRS) transmission. According to embodiments of the present disclosure, the collision of the triggered SRS resource sets (such as, the SRS resource set being triggered too early or the triggered SRS resource sets being overlapped in time and/or frequency domain) may be well handled, and the configuring and updating procedures for SRS resource may be more flexible.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2025
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Haitong Sun, Dawei Zhang, Hong He, Huaning Niu, Oghenekome Oteri, Seyed Ali Akbar Fakoorian, Wei Zeng, Yushu Zhang
  • Patent number: 12245209
    Abstract: Some aspects of this disclosure relate to apparatuses and methods for implementing downlink and uplink scheduling in communication above 52.6 GHz. For example, some aspects of this disclosure relate to a base station. The base station includes a transceiver configured to communicate over a wireless network with a user equipment (UE) and a processor communicatively coupled to the transceiver. The processor determines that the communication between the base station and the UE is in a frequency range above 52.6 GHz. In response to the determination, the processor disables a frequency main resource assignment (FDRA), modifies a Resource Block Group (RBG) size, or modifies a Resource Indication Value (RIV) determination. The processor generates a Downlink Channel Indicator (DCI) based at least on one or more of the disabled FDRA, the modified RBG size, or the modified RIV determination. The processor transmits, using the transceiver, the DCI to the UE.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2025
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Haitong Sun, Dawei Zhang, Huaning Niu, Oghenekome Oteri, Chunhai Yao, Chunxuan Ye, Hong He, Sigen Ye, Weidong Yang, Yushu Zhang, Wei Zeng
  • Patent number: 12244547
    Abstract: A user equipment (UE) is configured for half-duplex operations with a network. The UE determines that half-duplex (HD) frequency division duplex (FDD) is enabled by a network with which the UE is communicating, wherein a guard period is configured for downlink and uplink switching when the HD FDD is enabled, performs a first uplink transmission at a first time and performs a first downlink reception at a second time, wherein the 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 uplink transmission or a second different downlink reception.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2025
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Hong He, Chunxuan Ye, Dawei Zhang, Haitong Sun, Huaning Niu, Jie Cui, Oghenekome Oteri, Seyed Ali Akbar Fakoorian, Wei Zeng, Yushu Zhang
  • Patent number: 12245219
    Abstract: This disclosure relates to techniques for performing wireless communications including signaling resource allocation for multiple transport blocks (TBs) on either PUSCH or PDSCH using a single control element, such as a DCI. In various scenarios, the multiple TBs may be scheduled either at contiguous or at non-contiguous dime-domain resources. Various mechanisms are disclosed for performing signaling the resource allocation for the multiple TBs without introducing excessive signaling overhead.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2025
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Oghenekome Oteri, Chunhai Yao, Chunxuan Ye, Dawei Zhang, Haitong Sun, Hong He, Huaning Niu, Seyed Ali Akbar Fakoorian, Sigen Ye, Wei Zeng, Weidong Yang, Yushu Zhang
  • Publication number: 20250070863
    Abstract: A user equipment (UE), a base station (e.g., next generation NodeB (gNB)), or other network component can operate to configure a beam failure recovery (BFR) timing based on a time offset and a number of symbols in a BFR procedure, as well as enable beam switching and bandwidth part (BWP) switching to be correlated. A beam failure recovery request (BFRQ) can be processed or transmitted in response to a detection of a beam failure. A beam failure recovery response (BFRR) can be generated via a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) based on at least four slots after the BFRQ and a time offset for a non-terrestrial network (NTN).
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 14, 2024
    Publication date: February 27, 2025
    Inventors: Chunxuan Ye, Dawei Zhang, Haitong Sun, Hong He, Huaning Niu, Oghenekome Oteri, Seyed Ali Akbar Fakoorian, Wei Zeng, Weidong Yang, Yushu Zhang
  • Publication number: 20250071855
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus for Timing Advance (TA) validation are disclosed. In some embodiments, a method for wireless communication at a user equipment (UE) comprises receiving, from a base station, configuration information, where the configuration information specifying a configured grant (CG)-small data transfer (SDT) resource available for use by the UE and specifying a configuration for a Reference Signal Received Power (RSRP) change-based TA validation method to be met in order to perform a SDT while in the RRC inactive state, the RSRP change-based TA validation method having configured TA validation criteria that is evaluated based on two measurement windows for timing advance (TA) validation, and at least one boundary of at least one of the two measurement windows for TA validation is based on a minimum of either a Frequency Range 2 (FR2) measurement period and a scaled Discontinuous Reception (DRX) cycle period, existing at time of TA validation criteria evaluation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 7, 2022
    Publication date: February 27, 2025
    Inventors: Jie CUI, Fangli XU, Dawei ZHANG, Hong HE, Chunhai YAO, Yang TANG, Manasa RAGHAVAN, Huaning NIU, Xiang CHEN, Qiming LI
  • Publication number: 20250071694
    Abstract: A user equipment (UE) includes a set of one or more transceivers and a processor. The processor is configured to receive, from a base station and via the set of one or more transceivers, a set of one or more unified transmission control indicator (TCI) states. The processor is also configured to determine a set of power control parameters for a reference power headroom report (PHR), and to transmit the reference PHR to the base station via the set of one or more transceivers. The set of power control parameters includes a pathloss for a pathloss reference signal (PL-RS) associated with a unified TCI state of the set of one or more unified TCI states.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 4, 2022
    Publication date: February 27, 2025
    Inventors: Yushu ZHANG, Dawei ZHANG, Haitong SUN, Hong HE, Huaning NIU, Oghenekome OTERI, Wei ZENG
  • Publication number: 20250071595
    Abstract: A user equipment (UE) is configured to perform measurements during two or more measurement gaps (MGs). The UE receives a MG configuration, wherein the MG configuration includes multiple MGs and MG conflict resolution information, determines whether a conflict exists between two or more of the MGs, selects at least one of the two or more MGs that have the conflict based on the MG conflict resolution information and performs signal measurements during the selected at least one of the two or more MGs that have the conflict.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 12, 2024
    Publication date: February 27, 2025
    Inventors: Xiang CHEN, Dawei ZHANG, Huaning NIU, Jie CUI, Manasa RAGHAVAN, Qiming LI, Yang TANG
  • Publication number: 20250071589
    Abstract: This disclosure relates to techniques for performing inter radio access technology measurements without a measurement gap in a wireless communication system. A wireless device and a cellular base station may establish a wireless link according to a first radio access technology. The cellular base station may indicate to the wireless device to perform inter radio access technology measurements. The wireless device may determine that it is capable of performing the inter radio access technology measurements without a measurement gap. The wireless device may provide capability information to the cellular base station indicating that the wireless device is capable of performing the inter radio access technology measurements without a measurement gap. The wireless device may perform the inter radio access technology measurements without a measurement gap.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 6, 2022
    Publication date: February 27, 2025
    Inventors: Jie Cui, Yang Tang, Qiming Li, Manasa Raghavan, Xiang Chen, Huaning Niu, Dawei Zhang, Hong He, Yushu Zhang, Haitong Sun
  • Publication number: 20250071750
    Abstract: This disclosure relates to techniques for performing channel state information reporting for multi-transmission-reception-point operation in a wireless communication system. Channel state information configuration information may be provided to a wireless device. The channel state information configuration information may indicate channel measurement resources associated with each of multiple transmission reception points. The wireless device may perform channel state information reporting based on the channel state information configuration information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 13, 2024
    Publication date: February 27, 2025
    Inventors: Haitong Sun, Dawei Zhang, Wei Zeng, Yushu Zhang, Hong He, Chunxuan Ye, Huaning Niu, Oghenekome Oteri
  • Publication number: 20250071710
    Abstract: This disclosure relates to techniques for a wireless device to perform gradual timing adjustments in a non-terrestrial wireless communication system. According to the techniques described herein, a wireless device may establish a non-terrestrial network based wireless link with a cellular base station. The wireless device may detect a trigger for changing a gradual timing adjustment rate from a first gradual timing adjustment rate to a second gradual timing adjustment rate. The wireless device may determine a time window for which to perform gradual timing adjustment at the second gradual timing adjustment rate. The wireless device may perform gradual timing adjustment at the second gradual timing adjustment rate for the time window.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 6, 2022
    Publication date: February 27, 2025
    Inventors: Jie Cui, Yang Tang, Qiming Li, Chunxuan Ye, Manasa Raghavan, Xiang Chen, Huaning Niu, Dawei Zhang, Hong He
  • Publication number: 20250070848
    Abstract: This disclosure relates to techniques for performing beam failure recovery in a high speed single frequency network scenario in a wireless communication system. A wireless device may establish a cellular link with a cellular network according to a single frequency network scheme. The wireless device may determine one or more beam failure detection resources for each of multiple transmission reception points associated with the cellular network. The wireless device may detect beam failure for one or more of the transmission reception points using the beam failure detection resources.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 7, 2024
    Publication date: February 27, 2025
    Inventors: Haitong Sun, Dawei Zhang, Wei Zeng, Yushu Zhang, Hong He, Chunxuan Ye, Huaning Niu, Seyed Ali Akbar Fakoorian, Jie Cui
  • Publication number: 20250071768
    Abstract: A user equipment (UE) includes a set of one or more transceivers and a processor. The processor is configured to determine, at least partly from a transmission control indicator (TCI) state for multiple channels, that common physical downlink shared channels (PDSCHs) do not share a beam with dedicated PDSCHs. The processor is also configured to determine a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH)/PDSCH scheduling offset is below a threshold; select, at least partly based on the determination that common PDSCHs do not share a beam with dedicated PDSCHs and the determination the PDCCH/PDSCH scheduling offset is below the threshold, a beam for which to buffer PDSCH; and buffer PDSCH received on the beam.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 4, 2022
    Publication date: February 27, 2025
    Inventors: Yushu ZHANG, Chunxuan YE, Dawei ZHANG, Haitong SUN, Hong HE, Huaning NIU, Wei ZENG, Weidong YANG
  • Publication number: 20250071700
    Abstract: Systems and methods for operating a 5G NR. In particular, a reduced capability (RedCap) user equipment (UE) can be configured to traverse a synchronization raster to locate a cell-defining synchronization signal block (CD-SSB). The CD-SSB can be used to derive, calculate, or otherwise obtain time/frequency information of a non-cell-defining synchronization signal block (NCD-SSB) which may be monitored and/or measured by the RedCap UE in a more power efficient manner.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 5, 2022
    Publication date: February 27, 2025
    Inventors: Jie CUI, Dawei ZHANG, Hong HE, Huaning NIU, Manasa RAGHAVAN, Qiming LI, Xiang CHEN, Yang TANG