Patents by Inventor Lele Cui

Lele 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).

  • Publication number: 20260164406
    Abstract: An apparatus of a user equipment (UE) configured to transmit a radio resource control (RRC) resume request to a base station using a small data transmission (SDT) preamble to initiate an SDT procedure at the UE. The UE can monitor, during the SDT procedure, a paging occasion (PO) associated with a paging early indicator (PEI). A UE can identify a plurality of fifth generation system temporary mobile subscriber identities (5G-S-TMSI) associated with the PO to enable the UE to determine when there is a matching 5G-S-TMSI of the plurality of 5G-S-TMSI that matches a 5G-S-TMSI of the UE during the SDT procedure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 6, 2024
    Publication date: June 11, 2026
    Inventors: Dongzhou Yang, Prince Siaw Attrams, Lele Cui, Gibran Ali, Sushant Vikram, Ajay Singh, Deepankar Bhattacharjee
  • Patent number: 12628143
    Abstract: A terminal may include configured to receive, from a network, multiple downlink signals. The terminal may include a processor configured to identify, from the downlink signals, at least one configuration parameter including a bandwidth part switching indicator. The processor may then identify at least one resource from a target bandwidth part indicated by the bandwidth part switching indicator. The processor may then determine a bandwidth part mismatch based on whether a signal is received using the at least one resource from the target bandwidth part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2023
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2026
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Han Pu, Lijie Zhang, Alosious Pradeep Prabhakar, Lele Cui, Kai Zhang
  • Patent number: 12627449
    Abstract: The techniques provide solutions for a user equipment (UE) and base station to switch between T1R4 and 2T4R for sounding reference signals (SRS). The UE and base station may communicate SRS using 2T4R. The UE and/or base station may detect and evaluate a signal quality trigger and/or condition relating to switching from T2R4 to T1R4. The trigger and/or condition may correspond to a channel or radio frequency (RF) quality, conflicting or problematic band combinations used in a non-standalone (NSA) scenario, whether dedicated data subscription (DDS) subscriber identity module (SIM) or non-DDS SIM is being used in a dual SIM dual active (DSDA) scenario, etc. The UE and base station may either continue using T2R4 communications or switch to T1R4 communications based on the trigger and/or evaluation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 2023
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2026
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Han Pu, Lijie Zhang, Lele Cui, Kai Zhang
  • Publication number: 20260081653
    Abstract: This application describes mechanisms to manage closed-loop antenna selection for a wireless device. The wireless device transmits sounding reference signal (SRS) resources configured by a cellular wireless network in an SRS resource set and receive SRS indicator (SRI) values to indicate antennas for subsequent uplink transmission of one or more physical layer channels by the wireless device, including a physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH), a physical uplink control channel (PUCCH), and a physical random access channel (PRACH). The wireless device supplements the closed-loop antenna selection with an open-loop antenna selection and uses the open-loop antenna selection for non-PUSCH channels when a most recently SRI value can be considered stale. SRI-based closed-loop antenna selection is extended to frequency division duplexing (FDD) bands.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 23, 2022
    Publication date: March 19, 2026
    Inventors: Lijie ZHANG, Lakshmi N. KAVURI, Lele CUI, Xiaolong TU, Zhiwei WANG
  • Publication number: 20250358715
    Abstract: Embodiments described herein relate to sharing system information (SI) updates on a wireless device that supports multiple subscriber identity modules (SIMs) and/or electronic SIMs (eSIMs). The wireless device connects to a cell of a radio access network shared between two different 5G NR cellular wireless networks managed for two different mobile network operators. The wireless device receives an SI change indication in a first broadcast control channel (BCCH) modification cycle via a first SIM or eSIM and subsequently receives updated SI values, using either the first SIM or eSIM or a second SIM or eSIM depending on connectivity states of the wireless device to the cell. Updated SI values are received via broadcast messages and/or in response to SI request messages on demand and stored in a memory shared by both the first SIM or eSIM and the second SIM or eSIM.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 1, 2022
    Publication date: November 20, 2025
    Inventors: Kai ZHANG, Lele CUI, Deepankar BHATTACHARJEE, Ajay SINGH
  • Patent number: 12464425
    Abstract: A wireless network may include a PCELL base station, an SCELL base station, and user equipment (UE) that communicate using standalone carrier aggregation. The UE may receive PCELL signals during first measurement periods, may perform first measurements on the PCELL signals, may receive SCELL signals during second measurement periods, and may perform second measurements on the SCELL signals. When a scheduled reporting time approaches, the UE may compare a duration between a most recent of the second measurement periods and the reporting time to a threshold. If the duration is less than the threshold, the UE may include the most recent second measurement in a measurement report transmitted at the scheduled reporting time. When the duration exceeds the threshold, the receiver may perform a third measurement on the SCELL signals during an unscheduled period prior to the reporting time and may include the third measurement in the measurement report.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 4, 2025
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Kai Zhang, Ajay Singh, Deepankar Bhattacharjee, Lele Cui, Lijie Zhang
  • Patent number: 12403210
    Abstract: Devices and associated methods for operating a dual-subscriber identity module (SIM) dual-standby (DSDS) user equipment device (UE) configured with a first SIM and a second SIM. The UE performs communications with a first cellular network using the first SIM and a first radio resource control (RRC) connection, and receives a request to perform a higher priority communication using the second SIM. In response to the request to perform the higher priority communication, the UE transmits a request to the first network to suspend the first RRC connection. After transmission of the request to suspend the first RRC connection, the UE receives a message from the first network to place the first RRC connection in an inactive state, and initiates a timer, wherein the timer is used to determine whether the first RRC connection remains in the inactive state or transitions to an idle state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 2, 2025
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Srirang A. Lovlekar, Sethuraman Gurumoorthy, Murtaza A. Shikari, Srinivasan Nimmala, Sree Ram Kodali, Fangli Xu, Haijing Hu, Yuqin Chen, Dawei Zhang, Longda Xing, Zhiwei Wang, Yaoqi Yan, Muthukumaran Dhanapal, Beibei Wang, Lele Cui
  • Patent number: 12376018
    Abstract: A device, system and method for a user equipment (UE) to report a network resource and capability state to a network for coordinating network resource allocations. The UE is configured to establish a first connection to a first network based on a first subscriber identity module (SIM) of the UE and further configured to establish a second connection to a second network based on a second SIM of the UE. The method includes determining an upcoming first change of a state of the UE with respect to the first connection and transmitting, to the first network, an indication of the first change of state of the UE. The method further includes changing the state of the UE with respect to the first connection.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2025
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Beibei Wang, Pengkai Zhao, Zhu Ji, Fangli Xu, Haijng Hu, Yuqin Chen, Lele Cui, Ruirui Zong, Haitong Sun, Wei Zeng, Jia Tang, Tianyan Pu, Johnson O. Sebeni, Dawei Zhang, Thanigaivelu Elangovan, Hailong Yang, Xueting Liu
  • Patent number: 12355699
    Abstract: Aspects are described for a user equipment (UE) comprising a transceiver configured to enable wireless communication with a base station; and a processor communicatively coupled to the transceiver. The processor is configured to receive a sounding reference signal (SRS) resource configuration from the base station, wherein the SRS resource configuration indicates at least a first SRS resource and a second SRS resource. The processor is further configured to transmit a first SRS via the first SRS resource to the base station using a first antenna coupled to the transceiver and transmit a second SRS via the second SRS resource to the base station using a second antenna coupled to the transceiver.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 8, 2025
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: Lijie Zhang, Lele Cui, Aiman J. Sang, Yu Wu, Yun Gao, Ying Zhang, Zhiwei Wang, Qiang Miao
  • Publication number: 20250159553
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and apparatuses disclosed herein can mitigate transmitting latency to improve the quality of a voice or the video call. These systems, methods, and apparatuses reset a transmitting latency timer upon retrieving a packet from a transmitting buffer. Thereafter, these systems, methods, and apparatuses start the count of the transmitting latency timer as the packet is being processed. And these systems, methods, and apparatuses compare the transmitting latency timer e with a transmitting latency threshold as these systems, methods, and apparatuses are processing a packet for transmission. These systems, methods, and apparatuses can drop the packet and/or can select another packet for processing in response to the transmitting latency timer exceeding the transmitting latency threshold to mitigate the transmitting latency.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 14, 2025
    Publication date: May 15, 2025
    Applicant: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Kai ZHANG, Lele CUI, Deepankar BHATTACHARJEE
  • Publication number: 20250106866
    Abstract: Methods, systems, apparatuses, and computer programs for transmission of a radio resource control (RRC) reconfiguration complete message are disclosed. In one aspect, operations are performed by a UE and can include receiving, from a base station, a first downlink control information (DCI) indicating a first uplink grant for a first physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH) transmission, wherein the first DCI includes a redundancy version (RV) corresponding to the first PUSCH transmission; determining whether the RV is self-decodable; and determining whether to transmit a RRC reconfiguration complete message using the first uplink grant for the first PUSCH transmission, based at least in part on the determination of whether the RV is self-decodable.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 21, 2024
    Publication date: March 27, 2025
    Inventors: Kai Zhang, Ajay Singh, Deepankar Bhattacharjee, Lele Cui
  • Patent number: 12238808
    Abstract: Systems and methods related to “on/off” determinations regarding the performance of physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) monitoring during connected mode discontinuous reception (CDRX) on duration windows are disclosed herein. In some cases, a radio access network (RAN) predicts whether a downlink (DL) packet for a UE will arrive at a buffer of the RAN prior to an end of a CDRX on duration window of the UE, and sends a downlink control information (DCI) with a cyclic redundancy check (CRC) scrambled by a power-saving radio network temporary identifier (PS-RNTI) (DCP) for the CDRX on duration window indicating whether or not the UE should perform PDCCH monitoring during the CDRX on duration window based on the prediction. In some cases, a UE determines a current state of DL traffic and adaptively uses DCP monitoring based on the current state of the traffic. Aggregation level adaptation by the RAN is also discussed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2025
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: Lijie Zhang, Lele Cui, Xiaolong Tu, Dongzhou Yang, Tao Tao, Lei Zhou, Zihuan Xu
  • Patent number: 12219396
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and apparatuses disclosed herein can mitigate transmitting latency to improve the quality of a voice or the video call. These systems, methods, and apparatuses reset a transmitting latency timer upon retrieving a packet from a transmitting buffer. Thereafter, these systems, methods, and apparatuses start the count of the transmitting latency timer as the packet is being processed. And these systems, methods, and apparatuses compare the transmitting latency timer e with a transmitting latency threshold as these systems, methods, and apparatuses are processing a packet for transmission. These systems, methods, and apparatuses can drop the packet and/or can select another packet for processing in response to the transmitting latency timer exceeding the transmitting latency threshold to mitigate the transmitting latency.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2025
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Kai Zhang, Lele Cui, Deepankar Bhattacharjee
  • Patent number: 12214099
    Abstract: Devices and associated methods for operating a dual-subscriber identity module (SIM) dual-standby (DSDS) user equipment device (UE) configured with a first SIM and a second SIM. The UE performs communications with a first cellular network using the first SIM and a first radio resource control (RRC) connection, and receives a request to perform a higher priority communication using the second SIM. In response to the request to perform the higher priority communication, the UE transmits a request to the first network to suspend the first RRC connection. After transmission of the request to suspend the first RRC connection, the UE receives a message from the first network to place the first RRC connection in an inactive state, and initiates a timer, wherein the timer is used to determine whether the first RRC connection remains in the inactive state or transitions to an idle state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2024
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2025
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Srirang A Lovlekar, Sethuraman Gurumoorthy, Murtaza A. Shikari, Srinivasan Nimmala, Sree Ram Kodali, Fangli Xu, Haijing Hu, Yuqin Chen, Dawei Zhang, Longda Xing, Zhiwei Wang, Yaoqi Yan, Muthukumaran Dhanapal, Beibei Wang, Lele Cui
  • Patent number: 12213067
    Abstract: This disclosure relates to techniques for multi-RAT and DSDA capable wireless devices to handle frame blanking in a wireless communication system. A wireless device may establish wireless links according to a first radio access technology and a second radio access technology. The wireless device may determine to perform transmit and receive blanking for one or more antennas of the wireless device for the first radio access technology to perform sounding reference signal transmissions for the second radio access technology based at least in part on a band combination for the wireless links. The wireless device may determine a modification to channel state feedback reporting for the first radio access technology based at least in part on the transmit and receive blanking. The wireless device may perform channel state feedback reporting using the determined modification.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2024
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2025
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Junzhen Qin, Wen Zhao, Lijie Zhang, Lele Cui, Wenping Lou, Qiang Miao, Zhiwei Wang, Ying Zhang, Deepankar Bhattacharjee, Kexin Ma, Alex Yee Kit Ho
  • Patent number: 12022573
    Abstract: This disclosure relates to techniques for performing wireless communications using a split bearer. A user equipment device may perform a recovery operation for a lost uplink packet. The recovery operation may be in response to an indication from the network or may be initiated autonomously by the device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Fangli Xu, Dawei Zhang, Deepankar Bhattacharjee, Haijing Hu, Lele Cui, Lijie Zhang, Qiang Miao, Zhiwei Wang
  • Publication number: 20240197942
    Abstract: Devices and associated methods for operating a dual-subscriber identity module (SIM) dual-standby (DSDS) user equipment device (UE) configured with a first SIM and a second SIM. The UE performs communications with a first cellular network using the first SIM and a first radio resource control (RRC) connection, and receives a request to perform a higher priority communication using the second SIM. In response to the request to perform the higher priority communication, the UE transmits a request to the first network to suspend the first RRC connection. After transmission of the request to suspend the first RRC connection, the UE receives a message from the first network to place the first RRC connection in an inactive state, and initiates a timer, wherein the timer is used to determine whether the first RRC connection remains in the inactive state or transitions to an idle state.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 6, 2024
    Publication date: June 20, 2024
    Inventors: Srirang A. Lovlekar, Sethuraman Gurumoorthy, Murtaza A. Shikari, Srinivasan Nimmala, Sree Ram Kodali, Fangli Xu, Haijing Hu, Yuqin Chen, Dawei Zhang, Longda Xing, Zhiwei Wang, Yaoqi Yan, Muthukumaran Dhanapal, Beibei Wang, Lele Cui
  • Publication number: 20240172104
    Abstract: This disclosure relates to techniques for multi-RAT and DSDA capable wireless devices to handle frame blanking in a wireless communication system. A wireless device may establish wireless links according to a first radio access technology and a second radio access technology. The wireless device may determine to perform transmit and receive blanking for one or more antennas of the wireless device for the first radio access technology to perform sounding reference signal transmissions for the second radio access technology based at least in part on a band combination for the wireless links. The wireless device may determine a modification to channel state feedback reporting for the first radio access technology based at least in part on the transmit and receive blanking. The wireless device may perform channel state feedback reporting using the determined modification.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 24, 2024
    Publication date: May 23, 2024
    Inventors: Junzhen Qin, Wen Zhao, Lijie Zhang, Lele Cui, Wenping Lou, Qiang Miao, Zhiwei Wang, Ying Zhang, Deepankar Bhattacharjee, Kexin Ma, Alex Yee Kit Ho
  • Publication number: 20240107613
    Abstract: Disclosed are methods, systems, and computer-readable medium to perform operations including: determining that a user equipment (UE) is connected to a cell of a network using a connection in a standalone (SA) mode; based on determining a bandwidth part (BWP) of the connection, accessing a physical cell identifier (PCI) list associated with the UE for a time period; based on the number of PCI values in the list and a duration of the time period, assigning, to a BWP switch timer, a timeout value; initiating the BWP switch timer; and in response to determining that the handover of the UE to the different cell of the network occurs prior to the BWP switch timer reaching the timeout value, causing the UE to switch to a LTE mode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 22, 2023
    Publication date: March 28, 2024
    Inventors: Bingyin Cui, Cheng Li, Han Pu, Lele Cui, Muthukumaran Dhanapal
  • Publication number: 20240106610
    Abstract: The techniques provide solutions for a user equipment (UE) and base station to switch between T1R4 and 2T4R for sounding reference signals (SRS). The UE and base station may communicate SRS using 2T4R. The UE and/or base station may detect and evaluate a signal quality trigger and/or condition relating to switching from T2R4 to T1R4. The trigger and/or condition may correspond to a channel or radio frequency (RF) quality, conflicting or problematic band combinations used in a non-standalone (NSA) scenario, whether dedicated data subscription (DDS) subscriber identity module (SIM) or non-DDS SIM is being used in a dual SIM dual active (DSDA) scenario, etc. The UE and base station may either continue using T2R4 communications or switch to T1R4 communications based on the trigger and/or evaluation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 19, 2023
    Publication date: March 28, 2024
    Inventors: Han Pu, Lijie Zhang, Lele Cui, Kai Zhang