Patents by Inventor Jie Cui
Jie Cui 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).
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Publication number: 20250119197Abstract: A base station includes a transceiver and a processor. The processor is configured to transmit a first synchronization signal block (SSB) burst including a first set of SSBs. The first set of SSBs is transmitted via the transceiver on a first set of beams having a first beam pattern. The processor is also configured to signal, via the transceiver, a change in beam pattern for transmitted SSBs. The change in beam pattern is signaled before or during transmission of a second SSB burst. The processor is further configured to transmit the second SSB burst. The second SSB burst includes a second set of SSBs transmitted via the transceiver on a second set of beams having a second beam pattern. The second set of beams has a different number of beams than the first set of beams, and the second set of SSBs has a different number of SSBs than the first set of SSBs.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 18, 2022Publication date: April 10, 2025Inventors: Yushu ZHANG, Wei ZENG, Haitong SUN, Dawei ZHANG, Jie CUI, Sigen YE, Huaning NIU, Qiming LI
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Publication number: 20250119199Abstract: Systems, methods, and circuitries are disclosed for avoiding slot decoding failure due to beam switching of a common beam. In one example, a baseband processor for a user equipment (UE) is configured to cause the UE to perform various operations. The operations include receiving a data transmission on a plurality of component carriers (CCs) carrying corresponding symbols on a common beam; receiving a beam switch command from the network node, wherein the beam switch command is configured to cause the UE to switch a receiving (RX) beam at an end boundary of a first symbol of the data transmission; identifying one or more symbols for restricted scheduling in one or more CCs of the plurality of CCs based on the beam switching on the first symbol; and ignoring the one or more symbols identified for restricted scheduling for decoding of the data transmission.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 11, 2022Publication date: April 10, 2025Inventors: Jie Cui, Yang Tang, Manasa Raghavan, Qiming Li, Xiang Chen, Huaning Niu, Dawei Zhang, Hong He
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Patent number: 12273176Abstract: A user equipment (UE) is configured to establish a connection to a base station, wherein the base station configures the UE with a first beam corresponding to a first transmission reception point (TRP) and a second beam corresponding to a second TRP, wherein the first and second beam are in frequency range 2 (FR2) and wherein the UE does not support simultaneous reception of multiple beams in FR2, detect a beam failure during a beam failure detection (BFD) evaluation period, identify one or more candidate beams during a candidate beam detection (CBD) evaluation period and transmit a beam failure recovery (BFR) request to the base station.Type: GrantFiled: September 24, 2021Date of Patent: April 8, 2025Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Manasa Raghavan, Jie Cui, Qiming Li, Yushu Zhang, Yang Tang, Haitong Sun, Huaning Niu, Xiang Chen, Dawei Zhang
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Patent number: 12273898Abstract: Techniques described herein may include a special scheduling cell (sSCell) provided for dynamic spectrum sharing (DSS). The sSCell may schedule a primary cell of a master cell group (MCG) or a primary cell of a secondary cell group (SCG). The primary cell may be referred to as a special cell or SpCell. The sSCell may be activated and/or deactivated, enter in or exit from a state of dormancy, and radio link monitoring (RLM), beam failure recovery (BFR), and cell grouping parameters may be provided. Techniques described herein include configuring a UE-specific search space (USS) with non-fallback downlink control information (DCI), USS with fallback DCI, and overall search space for DSS enhancement.Type: GrantFiled: April 5, 2021Date of Patent: April 8, 2025Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Haitong Sun, Dawei Zhang, Wei Zeng, Yushu Zhang, Hong He, Chunxuan Ye, Huaning Niu, Jie Cui, Wei Zhang
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Patent number: 12273889Abstract: A user equipment (UE), or other network component can operate to configure different sets of resources including different sequence lengths for an uplink (UL) transmission via a UL channel. A first length or at least one of different second lengths can be selected to configure the UL transmission based on one or more conditions, which can include a coexisting radio access technology (RAT), a UE capability, an occupied channel bandwidth (OCB), the type of UL transmission or the like. The UL transmission can be based on at least one of: the first or the second sequence length such as for an initial access procedure based on the coexisting RAT and the OCB, for example.Type: GrantFiled: May 15, 2020Date of Patent: April 8, 2025Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Chunhai Yao, Hong He, Chunxuan Ye, Dawei Zhang, Haitong Sun, Jie Cui, Oghenekome Oteri, Sigen Ye, Wei Zeng, Weidong Yang, Yang Tang, Yushu Zhang
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Patent number: 12273827Abstract: The present disclosure relates to devices, apparatuses, and methods for enhanced PHR reporting in support of UE antenna scaling. A wireless device, which comprises at least one antenna array each comprising a plurality of antenna elements may perform antenna scaling by activating or deactivating at least one of the plurality of antenna elements (with corresponding RF chains) of one or more antenna arrays. The wireless device may generate a power headroom (PHR) report based at least on a difference between beamforming gains obtained after the antenna scaling and before the antenna scaling. The wireless device may then send the PHR report to a base station in communication with the wireless device.Type: GrantFiled: September 24, 2021Date of Patent: April 8, 2025Assignee: APPLE INC.Inventors: Xiang Chen, Anatoliy S Ioffe, Dawei Zhang, Fucheng Wang, Huaning Niu, Jie Cui, Manasa Raghavan, Qiming Li, Yang Tang
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Patent number: 12273906Abstract: A cellular base station (BS) which transmits more flexible downlink control information (DCI) to the UE, and a UE capable of receiving and processing a received DCI message. The DCI message may have a DCI format of 0_1 or 0_2 and further may comprise an UL-SCH set to 0, a CSI request field of all 0s and an SRS request field having a nonzero value. The DCI message may indicate to the UE that the UE should: 1) transmit an aperiodic SRS corresponding to SRS request; and 2) that the UE should not transmit on the PUSCH. The DCI may include existing fields that specify either a slot offset or beam information useable when transmitting the aperiodic SRS. The base station may also generate a DCI message with an SRS trigger that is targeted to a plurality of UEs in a group, or a plurality of groups of UEs, for greater efficiency.Type: GrantFiled: October 12, 2020Date of Patent: April 8, 2025Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Haitong Sun, Yushu Zhang, Huaning Niu, Hong He, Wei Zeng, Chunxuan Ye, Oghenekome Oteri, Sigen Ye, Dawei Zhang, Chunhai Yao, Jie Cui, Yang Tang
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Patent number: 12273741Abstract: Methods and apparatus are provided for a UE to determine a UL spatial relation for an UL transmission in response to an unknown UL spatial relation switch. The UE may determine whether the UL spatial relation is based on an SRS transmission in UL, a CSI-RS in DL, or an SSB in the DL. If the UL spatial relation is based on the SRS transmission, the UE may select the UL spatial relation for the UL transmission corresponding to a Tx beam of the SRS transmission. If the UL spatial relation is based on the CSI-RS or the SSB, the UE may select the UL spatial relation for the UL transmission based on whether the unknown UL spatial relation switch is due to a corresponding resource for beam training not being configured by a communication network or a corresponding beam information being expired.Type: GrantFiled: December 15, 2020Date of Patent: April 8, 2025Assignee: APPLE INC.Inventors: Jie Cui, Yang Tang, Dawei Zhang, Hong He, Chunhai Yao, Chunxuan Ye, Haitong Sun, Weidong Yang, Wei Zeng, Yuchul Kim, Yushu Zhang, Zhibin Wu, Oghenekome Oteri
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Patent number: 12269139Abstract: An intelligent production line for turning tool bit cavities and an application method are provided, which solve the problem that a production line in the prior art has low working efficiency. The intelligent production line has the beneficial effects of a compact arrangement structure, higher safety and improved working efficiency. The intelligent production line for turning tool bit cavities includes a robot. Material tables and at least one machining center are arranged around the robot. A transfer station used for transferring materials is arranged between the machining center and the robot. A protective fence is arranged between a position above the material tables and the robot, and between the transfer station and the robot. The robot is provided with a mechanical arm including a base plate. The base plate is provided with at least one clamping jaw and fixed with a laser detecting unit for detecting the materials.Type: GrantFiled: August 17, 2021Date of Patent: April 8, 2025Assignees: Qingdao University of Technology, Ningbo Sanhan Alloy Material Co., Ltd.Inventors: Changhe Li, Haogang Li, Liang Luo, Weixi Ji, Binhui Wan, Shuo Yin, Huajun Cao, Bingheng Lu, Lizhi Tang, Xin Cui, Mingzheng Liu, Yanbin Zhang, Jie Xu, Huiming Luo, Haizhou Xu, Min Yang, Huaping Hong, Teng Gao, Yuying Yang, Wuxing Ma, Shuai Chen
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Patent number: 12267882Abstract: Reporting potential impacts of sounding reference signal-switching (SRS-switching) to a base station may include determining that SRS-switching is to be performed by a UE. Based on determining that SRS-switching is to be performed, potential impacts to one or more of a plurality of radio access technologies (RATs) caused by performing SRS-switching while sharing radio frequency (RF) front-ends (RFFE) between at least a subset of the plurality of RATS may be processed. The potential impacts may comprise at least one of transmit-blanking (Tx-blanking) and receive-blanking (Rx-blanking) associated with one or more of the subset of RATs. A communication that indicates the potential impacts of SRS-switching may be encoded for transmission to a base station. The base station may also provide priority configurations for determining how to handle Tx-blanking, Rx-blanking, and SRS-skipping associated with SRS-switching.Type: GrantFiled: October 15, 2020Date of Patent: April 1, 2025Assignee: APPLE INC.Inventors: Pengkai Zhao, Dawei Zhang, Edmund J. Stocks, Fangli Xu, Haijing Hu, Haitong Sun, Jie Cui, Madhusudan Chaudhary, Rajesh Ambati, Thanigaivelu Elangovan, Wei Zeng, Wen Zhao, Yang Tang
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Patent number: 12263519Abstract: A push-bending forming device for titanium alloy tubes is provided, which includes a die main body, a plurality of filling balls, a differential temperature assembly and a punch. The filling balls are configured to be filled in a tube blank, and are made of a metal material, with a heat-resistance temperature over 500° C. A diameter of the filling ball is less than an inner diameter of the tube blank. The punch includes a first pushing part and a second pushing part. A push-bending forming method using such device is also provided.Type: GrantFiled: July 25, 2024Date of Patent: April 1, 2025Assignee: Nanchang Hangkong UniversityInventors: Xuefeng Xu, Liming Wei, Chenge Wan, Jie Xiao, Feng Cui, Yubin Fan, Jun Xie, Xiang Zeng, Zhengang Yuan, Hongyu Gan
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Patent number: 12267713Abstract: Systems and methods are described for configuring cell identification requirements for a user equipment (UE). The systems and methods can include at least determining a number of measurement objects (MOs) that collide with a target MO for the UE, determining a scaling factor to be used for an inter-frequency cell identification requirement, and transmitting to the UE an indication of the scaling factor.Type: GrantFiled: September 22, 2023Date of Patent: April 1, 2025Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Qiming Li, Jie Cui, Rui Huang, Yang Tang
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Patent number: 12267897Abstract: Embodiments include methods, apparatuses, storage media, and systems for measurement gap (MG) configuration in an E-UTRA (Evolved Universal Terrestrial Radio Access)-New radio dual connectivity (EN-DC) network, and other new radio (NR) related networks. Various embodiments describe how to configure a measurement gap (MG) based on various conditions in a network, which may include, but are not limited to, different MG types, operating frequencies and modes in the network, timing advancing, and how to determine a starting point of the configured MG to utilize the MG and perform certain measurements adequately.Type: GrantFiled: August 7, 2019Date of Patent: April 1, 2025Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Jie Cui, Yang Tang
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Patent number: 12267853Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. To monitor a PDCCH for CA, a UE may receive PDCCH candidates in a plurality of configured component carriers (CCs). In response to a determination that a maximum number of virtual CCs that the UE is capable of monitoring for PDCCH is smaller than a number of the plurality of configured CCs, the UE groups the plurality of configured CCs into CC groups based at least in part on SCS numerologies and PDCCH monitoring configurations corresponding to span patterns within a slot of a DL subframe. The UE determines a maximum number of blind decoding operations and non-overlapped CCEs for each of the CC groups. The UE then monitors at least a first portion of the PDCCH candidates based on the maximum number of blind decoding operations and non-overlapped CCEs for each of the CC groups.Type: GrantFiled: March 22, 2024Date of Patent: April 1, 2025Assignee: APPLE INC.Inventors: Hong He, Chunhai Yao, Dawei Zhang, Haitong Sun, Jie Cui, Oghenekome Oteri, Wei Zeng, Weidong Yang, Yang Tang
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Publication number: 20250105615Abstract: A residual current circuit breaker and a system including the residual current circuit breaker are provided. The residual current circuit breaker includes: a first switch connected in series between a power supply of the residual current circuit breaker and a load; a second switch connected in series between a standby power supply and the load; and a control means that controls to open the first switch and close the second switch in response to a residual current of a main loop of the residual current circuit breaker exceeding a predetermined threshold, wherein a voltage of the standby power supply is higher than a lowest value of a voltage required for the load to operate and lower than a highest value of a safe voltage, and wherein the first switch and the second switch are mutually exclusive.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 22, 2023Publication date: March 27, 2025Applicant: Schneider Electric (China) Co, Ltd.Inventors: Jiawei Liu, Jiamin Chen, Lei Zhou, Hui Chen, Xinwei Cui, Jie Feng, Han Wang, Chunchao Hu
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Publication number: 20250106719Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: December 6, 2024Publication date: March 27, 2025Inventors: Jie Cui, Chunxuan Ye, Dawei Zhang, Hong He, Huaning Niu, Manasa Raghavan, Qiming LI, Sarma V. VANGALA, Xiang CHEN, Yang TANG
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Publication number: 20250103775Abstract: A multi-objective optimized evaluation method of anti-seismic performance of a slope reinforced by a pile-anchor system is provided. The method includes: training an initial three-dimensional slope numerical calculation model to obtain an target three-dimensional slope numerical calculation model; determining numerical values to be imported into the target three-dimensional slope numerical calculation model according to deformation differences, to obtain a model analysis result; obtaining a simulation operation result according to a reinforcement scheme working condition table of the pile-anchor system; based on the model analysis result and the simulation operation result, evaluating anti-seismic reinforcing performance of the pile-anchor system to obtain comprehensive evaluation values, and then optimizing and evaluating the reinforcement schemes of an overall slope to be reinforced.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 19, 2024Publication date: March 27, 2025Inventors: Lei XUE, Longfei LI, Chao XU, Songfeng GUO, Hongyan LIU, Mengyang ZHAI, Xiaolin HUANG, Yuan CUI, Qiang SUN, Guoliang LI, Bowen ZHENG, Zhiqing LI, Jie GUO, Haijun ZHAO, Xueliang WANG
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Publication number: 20250106786Abstract: A user equipment including a transceiver and a processor is configured to receive, from a base station and via the transceiver, a set of resource indicators identifying a set of beams and a configuration for reporting a duty cycle for transmission in an uplink direction for at least one resource indicator of the set of resource indicators. The processor is also configured to, at least one of periodically or based on an event reported by a body proximity sensor (BPS), determine the duty cycle for transmission in the uplink direction for the at least one resource indicator of the set of resource indicators; and transmit, to the base station via using the transceiver, the determined duty cycle and the corresponding at least one resource indicator of the set of resource indicators according to the received configuration for reporting the duty cycle.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 5, 2022Publication date: March 27, 2025Inventors: Huaning NIU, Dawei ZHANG, Jie CUI, Manasa RAGHAVAN, Qiming LI, Xiang CHEN, Yang TANG, Yushu ZHANG
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Publication number: 20250105949Abstract: A computer readable storage medium, a user equipment, a method and an integrated circuit that are used to perform operations. Operations include receiving, from a network, a plurality of Physical Downlink Shared Channel (PDSCH) transmissions in slots of a hybrid automatic repeating request acknowledgement (HARQ-ACK) window, decoding each of the PDSCH transmissions in the slots of the HARQ window, determining a HARQ-ACK feedback for each PDSCH transmission in the HARQ-ACK window, bundling the HARQ-ACK feedback for at least two of the PDSCH transmissions and reporting the bundled HARQ-ACK feedback for the HARQ window to the network.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 9, 2024Publication date: March 27, 2025Inventors: Hong HE, Dawei ZHANG, Fangli XU, Jie CUI, Oghenekome OTERI, Wei ZENG, Weidong YANG, Yang TANG, Zhibin WU
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Patent number: 12262395Abstract: Embodiments are presented herein of apparatuses, systems, and methods for a vehicle-to-everything (V2X) capable wireless device configured to perform sidelink cellular communications. The wireless device performs sidelink communications using a two-stage sidelink control information (SCI) protocol including Stage 1 SCI messaging carried on a physical sidelink control channel (PSCCH), and Stage 2 SCI messaging carried on a physical sidelink shared channel (PSSCH). The SCI messaging may be encoded using polar codes. Channel interleaving is utilized on the SCI to interleave the SCI between two or more layers of a MIMO transmission system. Scrambling for Stage 2 SCI messaging is performed based on the result of a cyclic redundancy check (CRC) performed on Stage 1 SCI messaging. Collisions between sidelink HARQ feedback to be transmitted to a base station and other transmissions are avoided based on a priority analysis of the sidelink HARQ feedback.Type: GrantFiled: August 24, 2023Date of Patent: March 25, 2025Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Chunxuan Ye, Weidong Yang, Oghenekome Oteri, Chunhai Yao, Dawei Zhang, Haitong Sun, Hong He, Jie Cui, Wei Zeng, Yang Tang, Yuchul Kim, Yushu Zhang