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).

  • Patent number: 12212399
    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: Grant
    Filed: May 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2025
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    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: 20250031205
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and circuitries are provided for supporting blind retransmission. In one example, a method includes determining one or more communication parameters for use in communicating with a user equipment (UE) based on whether hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) feedback is enabled for the UE; and using at least one of the one or more communication parameters when HARQ feedback is determined to be enabled.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 4, 2024
    Publication date: January 23, 2025
    Inventors: Chunhai Yao, Chunxuan Ye, Dawei Zhang, Haijing Hu, Haitong Sun, Hong He, Huaning Niu, Oghenekome Oteri, Sarma V. Vangala, Sigen Ye, Wei Zeng, Weidong Yang, Yushu Zhang, Zhu Ji
  • Patent number: 12200644
    Abstract: A user equipment (UE) may monitor a downlink frequency position to detect a synchronization block (SSB) from a cellular base station. When monitoring the downlink frequency position, the UE may be configured to use at least one step size in calculating a SSB frequency position. The UE may determine a subcarrier spacing (SCS) used by the cellular base station in response to monitoring the downlink frequency position, and the subcarrier spacing for one or more SSB transmissions may be determined at least in part based on the step size used in calculating the SSB frequency position. The UE may then utilize the determined subcarrier spacing of the one or more SSB transmissions in communicating with the cellular base station.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2025
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Hong He, Chunhai Yao, Chunxuan Ye, Dawei Zhang, Haitong Sun, Oghenekome Oteri, Seyed Ali Akbar Fakoorian, Wei Zeng, Weidong Yang, Huaning Niu, Yushu Zhang, Jie Cui, Sigen Ye
  • Patent number: 12200699
    Abstract: A base station maps physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) candidates and PDCCH transmissions for multi-transmission reception point (TRP) operation. The base station determines that a control resource set (CORESET) is to be shared by at least a first TRP and a second TRP corresponding to a cell of a network, performs resource element group (REG) bundle to virtual REG bundle mapping on a per TRP basis, wherein multiple REG bundles are indexed on the per TRP basis, performs virtual REG bundle interleaving across the first TRP and the second TRP, performs control channel element (CCE) to interleaved REG bundle mapping and transmits downlink control information (DCI) using the CORESET, wherein the CORESET is configured based on, at least, the CCE to interleaved REG bundle mapping.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2025
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Hong He, Chunhai Yao, Chunxuan Ye, Dawei Zhang, Haitong Sun, Huaning Niu, Oghenekome Oteri, Seyed Ali Akbar Fakoorian, Sigen Ye, Wei Zeng, Weidong Yang, Yushu Zhang
  • Patent number: 12200626
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to uplink multi-panel transmission. According to embodiments of the present disclosure, a processor of a user equipment (UE) is configured to determine whether a total transmission power of a plurality of uplink transmissions to be performed on a plurality of panels of the UE exceeds a maximum transmission power of the UE, each of the plurality of uplink transmissions being associated with a respective one of the plurality of panels and the plurality of uplink transmissions overlapping in a time domain. The operations further comprise performing power control for the uplink multi-panel transmission.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2025
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Hong He, Chunxuan Ye, Dawei Zhang, Haitong Sun, Huaning Niu, Jie Cui, Oghenekome Oteri, Seyed Ali Akbar Fakoorian, Sigen Ye, Wei Zeng
  • Patent number: 12200622
    Abstract: A user equipment (UE) configured to determine a resource selection window which identifies a first set (e.g., a total set) of candidate resources. The UE may then remove one or more candidate resources from the first set of candidate resources in response to receiving sidelink control information (SCI) from a pedestrian UE with a reservation of the one or more first candidate resources. After removal of these candidate resources from the initial or first set based on their presumed unavailability, the result may be a second set of candidate resources, which may be a subset of the initial or first set for use in communicating with a third UE. The UE may also be configured to remove candidate resources based on a reference signal receive power (RSRP) threshold which can also be adjusted based on a maximum value or a highest priority of the pedestrian UE's data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2025
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Chunxuan Ye, Chunhai Yao, Dawei Zhang, Haitong Sun, Hong He, Huaning Niu, Jia Tang, Oghenekome Oteri, Sigen Ye, Wei Zeng, Weidong Yang, Yushu Zhang
  • Patent number: 12200557
    Abstract: Apparatuses, systems, and methods for enhancement in NTN mobility. A cellular base station may serve as a source base station of a handover procedure from the source base station to a target non-terrestrial network (NTN) base station. The cellular base station may configure a parameter associated with the target NTN base station in a handover command, the parameter being related to NTN mobility, and send the handover command to a wireless device for use by the wireless device during the handover procedure. The wireless device may receive the handover command from the cellular base station, and perform the handover procedure using the parameter associated with the target NTN base station.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2025
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: Jie Cui, Chunxuan Ye, Dawei Zhang, Hong He, Huaning Niu, Manasa Raghavan, Qiming Li, Sarma V. Vangala, Xiang Chen, Yang Tang
  • Patent number: 12199912
    Abstract: The present application relates to devices and components including apparatus, systems, and methods of scheduling transmission of synchronization signal blocks (SSB) at a first subcarrier spacing (SCS) with uplink and downlink transmissions at a second SCS that is higher than the first SCS.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2025
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: Oghenekome Oteri, Chunhai Yao, Chunxuan Ye, Dawei Zhang, Haitong Sun, Hong He, Huaning Niu, Seyed Ali Akbar Fakoorian, Wei Zeng
  • Publication number: 20250015866
    Abstract: Inter-cell beam management and inter-cell multiple transmission and reception point (multi-TRP) operation may include decoding a cell-specific reference signal (CRS) pattern list configuration received from a base station. The CRS pattern list configuration may include one or more CRS pattern lists. Each of the one or more CRS pattern lists correspond to one or more cells of a plurality of cells configured by the base station. Beam management associated with the plurality of cells may be performed based on the CRS pattern list configuration.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 5, 2021
    Publication date: January 9, 2025
    Inventors: Yushu Zhang, Chunxuan Ye, Dawei Zhang, Haitong Sun, Hong He, Huaning Niu, Seyed Ali Akbar Fakoorian, Wei Zeng
  • Patent number: 12192923
    Abstract: The present application relates to devices and components including apparatus, systems, and methods of scheduling transmission of synchronization signal blocks (SSBs) at a subcarrier spacing (SCS) of 480 or 960 kHz.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2025
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: Huaning Niu, Chunxuan Ye, Dawei Zhang, Haitong Sun, Hong He, Oghenekome Oteri, Seyed Ali Akbar Fakoorian, Sigen Ye, Wei Zeng, Weidong Yang, Yushu Zhang
  • Patent number: 12192805
    Abstract: The present application relates to devices and components including apparatus, systems, and methods to provide reception assisted access and interference management for a communication network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2025
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Huaning Niu, Yushu Zhang, Dawei Zhang, Haitong Sun, Hong He, Oghenekome Oteri, Seyed Ali Akbar Fakoorian, Wei Zeng
  • Patent number: 12192933
    Abstract: The present application relates to devices and components including apparatus, systems, and methods for carrier aggregation operations in wireless communication systems.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2025
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: Jie Cui, Dawei Zhang, Haitong Sun, Hong He, Huaning Niu, Manasa Raghavan, Qiming Li, Xiang Chen, Yang Tang, Yushu Zhang
  • Patent number: 12193053
    Abstract: This disclosure relates to techniques for performing wireless communications including channel access procedures for a user equipment (UE) and a base station. Techniques for signaling channel access types, use of channel access, and other channel access parameters are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2025
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Huaning Niu, Seyed Ali Akbar Fakoorian, Hong He, Yushu Zhang, Wei Zeng, Dawei Zhang, Weidong Yang, Oghenekome Oteri, Chunxuan Ye, Haitong Sun, Sigen Ye
  • Patent number: 12192144
    Abstract: A user equipment (UE) may establish communication with a plurality of transmission reception points (TRPs) and determine one or more beam failures associated with a first or second TRP based on reference signals received from the first and second TRPs. The UE may then transmit a scheduling request requesting resources for indicating the beam failures associated with the first TRP or second TRPs. Upon receiving a response to the scheduling request allocating resources, the UE may then transmit, using allocated resources, a beam failure indication of the first one or more beam failures associated with the first TRP or second TRP. After receiving a beam failure response from the first or second TRP, the UE may then communicate with the first TRP and the second TRP using one or more new beams based on the beam failure indication and the beam failure response.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2025
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Yushu Zhang, Chunxuan Ye, Dawei Zhang, Haitong Sun, Huaning Niu, Oghenekome Oteri, Seyed Ali Akbar Fakoorian, Sigen Ye, Wei Zeng
  • Publication number: 20250007653
    Abstract: A method for wireless communications, including receiving first semi-persistent scheduling (SPS) information indicating a set of receiving occasions; receiving second SPS information for transmitting hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) information for the set of receiving occasions; determining SPS HARQ transmitting occasion based on the received second SPS information; monitoring for transmissions during one or more receiving occasions; determining HARQ feedback value for the one or more receiving occasions based on the monitoring; determining that the SPS HARQ transmitting occasion can be skipped based on the HARQ feedback value; identifying a first transmitting occasion for transmitting other information to the wireless node; determining that the SPS HARQ transmitting occasion overlaps the first transmitting occasion; determining SPS HARQ feedback information based on the determination that the that the SPS HARQ transmitting occasion overlaps the first transmitting occasion; and multiplexing the SPS HAR
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 10, 2021
    Publication date: January 2, 2025
    Inventors: Weidong Yang, Seyed Ali Akbar Fakoorian, Chunhai Yao, Yushu Zhang, Huaning Niu, Haitong Sun, Hong He, Sigen Ye, Wei Zeng, Dawei Zhang, Oghenekome Oteri, Chunxuan Ye
  • Publication number: 20250008538
    Abstract: Embodiments are disclosed for capability reporting for antenna switching, AS, sound reference signals, SRS. A user equipment (UE) can transmit a capability report for AS SRS that includes a plurality of receive antenna (e.g., six or eight receive antenna), and receive SRS instructions based on the capability report. The UE can transmit a first temporary capability reduction for a duration, and transmit a first SRS according to the first temporary capability reduction and the SRS instructions, while maintaining phase continuity. To maintain phase continuity, the UE can calibrate one or more SRS ports participating in the AS SRS to transmit with substantially a same transmit power. The UE can determine that a second SRS overlaps an other transmission in a time domain, determine that the other transmission has an absolute priority over the second SRS, and transmit the other transmission but not the second SRS.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 5, 2021
    Publication date: January 2, 2025
    Applicant: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: Haitong SUN, Chunxuan YE, Dawei ZHANG, Hong HE, Huaning NIU, Sigen YE, Wei ZENG, Yushu ZHANG
  • Publication number: 20250007592
    Abstract: Systems and methods for the use of smart repeater (SMR) control information from a base station to an SMR to control aspects of SMR operation are disclosed herein. The SMR control information may control the operation of to either or both of an SMR synchronization signal block (SSB) beam sweep or an SMR channel state information reference signal (CSI-RS) beam sweep. An SMR may report, to a base station, SMR capability information; receive, from the base station, SMR control information corresponding to the SMR capability information that includes a first portion configuring an SSB beam sweep and/or a second portion configuring a CSI-RS beam sweep; and perform, based on the SMR control information, one or both of the SMR SSB beam sweep and the SMR CSI-RS beam sweep. Systems and methods for signaling the SMR control information between the SMR and the base station are also provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 25, 2021
    Publication date: January 2, 2025
    Inventors: Hong He, Chunxuan Ye, Dawei Zhang, Haitong Sun, Huaning Niu, Oghenekome Oteri, Seyed Ali Akbar Fakoorian, Sigen Ye, Wei Zeng, Weidong Yang, Yushu Zhang
  • Patent number: 12185256
    Abstract: In at least one embodiment, a user equipment (UE) may receive a control signal from a base station to update a target pathloss reference signal from an existing pathloss reference signal. In at least one embodiment, the UE may obtain a plurality of samples of the target pathloss reference signal. In at least one embodiment, the UE may determine, based on obtaining the plurality of samples of the target pathloss reference signal, that the UE is unable to update the target pathloss reference signal. In at least one embodiment, the UE may adjust the uplink transmission power of the UE based on the existing pathloss reference signal or to a maximum transmit power based on said determining that the UE is unable to be updated to the target pathloss reference signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Jie Cui, Dawei Zhang, Yushu Zhang, Yang Tang, Qiming Li, Manasa Raghavan, Huaning Niu, Hong He, Haitong Sun
  • Patent number: 12185300
    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: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Haitong Sun, Dawei Zhang, Wei Zeng, Yushu Zhang, Hong He, Chunxuan Ye, Huaning Niu, Oghenekome Oteri
  • Patent number: 12184428
    Abstract: Disclosed are embodiments supporting multi-PDSCH transmission with multiple PUCCH resources by signaling the PDSCH-to-HARQ_feedback timing indicator, K1; identifying the PDSCH set associated with a PUCCH; constructing a Type 1 HARQ-ACK codebook; and constructing a Type 2 HARQ-ACK codebook.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2024
    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