Patents by Inventor Tarik Tabet

Tarik Tabet 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: 20250113283
    Abstract: Techniques described herein include solutions for wireless local area network (WLAN) cellular aggregation (WCA). A user equipment (UE) may be configured to communicate with one or more base stations using both a direct cellular link and a multi-hop WLAN link. The multi-hop WLAN link may utilize a WLAN terminal as a relay. The WLAN terminal may communicate with the UE via a WLAN connection, and communicate with a base station via a cellular connection. The WLAN terminal may utilize endpoint mapping information when forwarding packets from the base station to the UE in downlink (DL), or from the UE to the base station in uplink (UL). The endpoint mapping information may be configured before the WCA transmissions and stored in a memory of the WLAN terminal, or may be indicated dynamically in a packet header of each WCA transmission.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 29, 2023
    Publication date: April 3, 2025
    Inventors: Panagiotis Botsinis, Alperen Gundogan, Amr Abdelrahman Yousef A. Mostafa, Christian Hofmann, Sameh M. Eldessoki, Tarik Tabet, Xipeng Zhu
  • Publication number: 20250113253
    Abstract: Apparatuses, systems, and methods for split-bearer enhancements during dual-connectivity operation, e.g., in 5G NR systems and beyond (e.g., NextG, 6G, and so forth). A base station may set up a split-bearer for a UE operating in dual-connectivity and connected to the base station and one or more corresponding base stations, including setting up a ratio of a split of data to be delivered to the UE via the base station and the one or more corresponding base stations. The base station may transmit, based on the ratio of the split, a first portion of the data destined for the UE to the UE and a second portion of the data destined for the UE to the one or more corresponding base stations. The base station may adjust, based on one or more split-bearer quality reports received from the UE, the ratio of the split.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 28, 2023
    Publication date: April 3, 2025
    Inventors: Christian Hofmann, Sameh M. Eldessoki, Tarik Tabet, Panagiotis Botsinis, Alperen Gundogan, Amr Abdelrahman Yousef A. Mostafa
  • Publication number: 20250113271
    Abstract: One or more processors are configured to execute instructions that cause a UE to perform operations. The operations include offloading a task to a first network node. The operations include determining a computation requirement forecast, wherein the computation requirement forecast indicates a computation requirement of the task at an upcoming time. The operations include transmitting the computation requirement forecast to the first network node. The operations include performing a handover procedure from the first network node to a second network node.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 17, 2024
    Publication date: April 3, 2025
    Inventors: Alperen Gundogan, Amr Abdelrahman Yousef Abdelrahman Mostafa, Christian Hofmann, Panagiotis Botsinis, Said Medjkouh, Sameh M. Eldessoki, Seyedamirhossein Hosseini, Tarik Tabet
  • Publication number: 20250097759
    Abstract: The present application relates to devices and components including apparatus, systems, and methods for employing subnetworks to communicate with cellular networks.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 15, 2024
    Publication date: March 20, 2025
    Applicant: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Christian Hofmann, Ahmed Mohamed Ibrahim Hassan, Dimitrios Alanis, Milan Zivkovic, Nikolai Bijovski Ribakov, Panagiotis Botsinis, Sameh M. Eldessoki, Tarik Tabet
  • Publication number: 20250097936
    Abstract: The present application relates to devices and components including apparatus, systems, and methods for employing subnetworks to communicate with cellular networks.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 15, 2024
    Publication date: March 20, 2025
    Applicant: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Christian Hofmann, Ahmed Mohamed Ibrahim Hassan, Dimitrios Alanis, Milan Zivkovic, Nikolai Bijovski Ribakov, Panagiotis Botsinis, Sameh M. Eldessoki, Tarik Tabet
  • Patent number: 12244413
    Abstract: A user equipment device (UE) may communicate according to a new device category satisfying specified QoS (quality of service) requirements while also satisfying specified link budget requirements, and additional optimization requirements. The UE may use physical channels and procedures (e.g. it may receive and decode control channels) in a manner compatible with and not infringing on the operation of other UEs operating in the same network, while allowing the network more flexibility to assign resources. Specifically, resources for EPDCCH on UE-specific SS and EPDCCH on common SS may be shared. That is, the resources for two search spaces may be overlaid partially or in full, giving the network more flexibility in allocating resources. Furthermore the DCI formats for MPDCCH may be extended to devices operating according to the new device category, which enables the coverage enhancement of MTC for these devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2025
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Awais M. Hussain, Tarik Tabet, Lydi Smaini, Moustafa M. Elsayed
  • Patent number: 12245142
    Abstract: The present application relates to devices and components including apparatus, systems, and methods for integrated access and backhaul donor indications in wireless networks. In some embodiments, a radio access network node may generate system information to transmit these indications to user equipments in wireless cells.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2025
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Sarma V. Vangala, Fangli Xu, Dawei Zhang, Haijing Hu, Longda Xing, Murtaza A. Shikari, Srinivasan Nimmala, Tarik Tabet
  • Patent number: 12245083
    Abstract: A user equipment (UE) device may communicate according to a new device category satisfying specified QoS (quality of service) requirements while also satisfying specified link budget requirements, and/or additional optimization requirements. The UE device may communicate with a cellular base station according to a first mode of operation associated with the new device category, and may switch to communicating with the cellular base station according to a second mode of operation associated with a second (pre-existing) device category in response to the link budget requirements exceeding a specified value and the quality of service requirements not being sensitive.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 17, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2025
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Tarik Tabet, Awais M. Hussain, Lydi Smaini, Moustafa M. Elsayed, Syed Aon Mujtaba, Matthias Sauer, Ronald W. Dimpflmaier, Bernd W. Adler, Christian W. Mucke
  • Patent number: 12224920
    Abstract: A method for managing a QoE for a UE in a communications network is provided. The method includes determining, based at least on data received in a communications session, one or more parameters affecting the QoE. The method includes determining weights corresponding to the one or more parameters. The method includes computing an expected QoE for the UE based on the determined weights corresponding to the one or more parameters. The method includes determining that the expected QoE satisfies a threshold. The method includes transmitting, to one or more network nodes in the communications network, the determined weights corresponding to the one or more parameters. The method also includes adjusting the communications session at the UE.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2025
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Sarma V. Vangala, Seyedamirhossein Hosseini, Sreevalsan Vallath, Tarik Tabet
  • Patent number: 12185160
    Abstract: This disclosure relates to techniques for reducing latency in a high-propagation-delay wireless communication system. A user equipment device (UE) may transmit to abase station (BS) a first buffer status report (BSR) indicating an amount of uplink data buffered by the UE for transmission to the BS, and may subsequently transmit to the BS a first BSR update message indicating that an additional amount of uplink data has been buffered by the UE subsequent to transmission of the first BSR. The first BSR update message may be transmitted prior to expiration of a timer authorizing transmission of a second BSR following the first BSR. The UE may receive from the BS an uplink grant allocating resources for transmission of at least a portion of the uplink data buffered by the UE. The uplink grant may have a size based on the first BSR and the first BSR update message.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Sarma V Vangala, Tarik Tabet, Chunxuan Ye, Dawei Zhang, Fangli Xu, Haijing Hu, Murtaza A Shikari, Naveen Kumar R Palle Venkata, Ralf Rossbach, Sreevalsan Vallath, Srinivasan Nimmala, Wei Zeng
  • Publication number: 20240414222
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and processors are provided for supporting a distributed computing framework. In one example, a wireless communication device is configured to act as a distributed computing control node (ContN), the wireless communication device including a memory and a processor coupled to the memory. The processor is configured to, when executing instructions stored in the memory, cause the device to receive respective registration messages from respective wireless communication devices. The registration messages include registration information indicating whether a respective wireless communication device acts as an offload node (OffN) for distributed computing or a compute node (CompN) for distributed computing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 7, 2023
    Publication date: December 12, 2024
    Inventors: Vishwanth Kamala Govindaraju, Sriram Subramanian, Said Medjkouh, Sanjeevi Balasubramanian, Shiva Krishna Narra, Tarik Tabet, Alosious Pradeep Prabhakar, Sameh M Eldessoki, Panagiotis Botsinis, Milan Zivkovic, Amr Abdelrahman Yousef A. Mostafa, Christian Hofmann
  • Patent number: 12156255
    Abstract: A user equipment (UE) device may perform random access to a base station in the context where propagation delay between the base station and the UE device is large. The UE device randomly selects a random access preamble from an available set of preambles. The UE device selects a time slot for transmission of the random access preamble based on a configured correspondence between allowable time slots and subsets of the available set. The UE device transmits the random access preamble to a base station in the selected time slot, with timing advance to compensate for a common delay. Thus, the base station, knowing the configured correspondence, is able to determine the time slot in which the random access preamble was transmitted. The UE device receives a random access response that has been addressed with a Random Access Radio Network Temporary Identifier (RA-RNTI).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Sarma V. Vangala, Tarik Tabet, Chunxuan Ye, Dawei Zhang, Fangli Xu, Haijing Hu, Murtaza A Shikari, Naveen Kumar R Palle Venkata, Rafael L Rivera-Barreto, Ralf Rossbach, Sreevalsan Vallath, Srinivasan Nimmala, Wei Zeng, Yuqin Chen, Zhibin Wu
  • Patent number: 12127148
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and computer-readable mediums are configured to perform operations including detecting a plurality of synchronization signal blocks (SSBs) that are transmitted for a physical broadcast channel (PBCH), each of the SSBs having a SSB index comprising a set of bit values; detecting, from the plurality of SSBs, a first SSB received at a first time and a second SSB received at a second time that is different from the first time; decoding, for a first SSB of the plurality, first bit values of a first SSB index representing the first SSB and of a second SSB index representing the second SSB; determining, based on the first time and the second time, a receive time gap between the first SSB and the second SSB; and determining, based on the receive time gap and the first bit values of the first SSB index and the second SSB index, at least a second bit value of the first second SSB index representing the first SSB and the second SSB representing the second SSB.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Panagiotis Botsinis, Sameh M. Eldessoki, Christian Hofmann, Rafael L Rivera-Barreto, Tarik Tabet
  • Publication number: 20240314608
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and circuitries are provided for coordinated measurement scheme for wireless communication devices in a subnetwork. In one aspect, a management node collects cell strength measurement data from reference devices in the subnetwork and broadcasts the cell strength measurement data to the subnetwork for use by the wireless communication devices within the subnetwork in generating cell strength measurement results. In another aspect, wireless network devices in the subnetwork receive cell strength measurement data generated by reference devices in the subnetwork and use a the received cell strength measurement data to generate a cells strength measurement result.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 17, 2023
    Publication date: September 19, 2024
    Inventors: Dimitrios Alanis, Ahmed Mohamed Ibrahim Hassan, Sameh M Eldessoki, Christian Hofmann, Panagiotis Botsinis, Nikolai Bijovski Ribakov, Said Medjkouh, Tarik Tabet
  • Publication number: 20240284357
    Abstract: Techniques discussed herein can facilitate enhanced radio resource management measurements for wireless technology including New Radio (NR). One example aspect is a baseband processor of a user equipment (UE), including one or more processors configured to receive a measurement link information state link information. The one or more processors are further configured to determine, from the measurement link information, a number of synchronization signal block based measurement timing configurations (SMTCs) (Y) per Rx beam of a number of receive (Rx) beams (N); generate at least one of a subset number of Rx beams (NUE) of the number of Rx beams based on the measurement link information, or an increased number of SMTCs (YUE) of the number of SMTCs corresponding to the number of Rx beams; and perform radio resource management (RRM) measurements according to one or more of the subset number of Rx beams or the increased number of SMTCs.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 5, 2022
    Publication date: August 22, 2024
    Inventors: Jie Cui, Panagiotis Botsinis, Sameh M Eldessoki, Tarik Tabet, Christian Hofmann, Manasa Raghavan, Qiming Li, Yang Tang
  • Publication number: 20240275540
    Abstract: A user equipment (UE) is configured to receive configuration information comprising multiple configuration sets, receive a paging message from a base station, the paging message configured to initiate a mobile terminating connection between the UE and the base station, identify a first configuration set assigned to the UE from the multiple configuration sets based on the paging message and exchange data with a network using the first configuration set, wherein exchanging data with network comprises at least one of receiving downlink data and transmitting uplink data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 13, 2023
    Publication date: August 15, 2024
    Inventors: Amr Abdelrahman Yousef A. MOSTAFA, Christian HOFMANN, Panagiotis BOTSINIS, Sameh M. ELDESSOKI, Tarik TABET
  • Publication number: 20240275541
    Abstract: A user equipment (UE) is configured to receive configuration information comprising multiple configuration sets, receive a paging message from a base station, the paging message configured to initiate a mobile terminating connection between the UE and the base station, identify a first configuration set assigned to the UE from the multiple configuration sets based on the paging message and exchange data with a network using the first configuration set, wherein exchanging data with network comprises at least one of receiving downlink data and transmitting uplink data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 28, 2023
    Publication date: August 15, 2024
    Inventors: Amr Abdelrahman Yousef A. MOSTAFA, Christian HOFMANN, Panagiotis BOTSINIS, Sameh M. ELDESSOKI, Tarik TABET
  • Patent number: 12052764
    Abstract: This disclosure relates to techniques for reducing latency in a high-propagation-delay wireless communication system. A base station may receive from user equipment device (UE) a random access initiation message, having a characteristic that is configured to indicate to the base station a requested size of a subsequent uplink grant to be provided by the base station for transmission of uplink data by the UE. For example, the characteristic may include a predetermined preamble included in the random access initiation message, such that a requested grant size is indicated by which preamble the UE selects from a plurality of possible preambles. As another example, the characteristic may include which RACH occasion is selected by the UE to transmit the random access initiation message. In response, the base station may allocate resources for use by the UE based on the characteristic.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Sarma V Vangala, Tarik Tabet, Chunxuan Ye, Dawei Zhang, Fangli Xu, Haijing Hu, Murtaza A Shikari, Naveen Kumar R Palle Venkata, Ralf Rossbach, Sreevalsan Vallath, Srinivasan Nimmala, Wei Zeng
  • Patent number: 12052763
    Abstract: This disclosure relates to techniques for reducing latency in a high-propagation-delay wireless communication system. A user equipment device (UE) may transmit to a base station a random access initiation message, having a characteristic that is configured to indicate to the base station a requested size of a subsequent uplink grant to be provided by the base station for transmission of uplink data by the UE. For example, the characteristic may include a predetermined preamble included in the random access initiation message, such that a requested grant size is indicated by which preamble the UE selects from a plurality of possible preambles. As another example, the characteristic may include which RACH occasion is selected by the UE to transmit the random access initiation message. In response, the base station may allocate resources for use by the UE based on the characteristic.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Sarma V Vangala, Tarik Tabet, Chunxuan Ye, Dawei Zhang, Fangli Xu, Haijing Hu, Murtaza A Shikari, Naveen Kumar R Palle Venkata, Ralf Rossbach, Sreevalsan Vallath, Srinivasan Nimmala, Wei Zeng
  • Patent number: 12052717
    Abstract: This disclosure relates to techniques for reducing latency in a high-propagation-delay wireless communication system. A base station (BS) may receive from a user equipment (UE) a first buffer status report (BSR) indicating an amount of uplink data buffered by the UE for transmission to the BS, and may subsequently receive a first BSR update message indicating that an additional amount of uplink data has been buffered by the UE subsequent to transmission of the first BSR. The first BSR update message may be received prior to expiration of a timer authorizing transmission of a second BSR following the first BSR. In response, the BS may allocate resources for transmission to the UE, based on the first BSR and the first BSR update message. The BS may provide an uplink grant identifying the allocated resources.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Sarma V Vangala, Tarik Tabet, Chunxuan Ye, Dawei Zhang, Fangli Xu, Haijing Hu, Murtaza A Shikari, Naveen Kumar R Palle Venkata, Ralf Rossbach, Sreevalsan Vallath, Srinivasan Nimmala, Wei Zeng