Patents by Inventor WEIDONG YAO

WEIDONG YAO 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: 11950208
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and circuitries are provided for performing sidelink communication. An example method indicates a frequency resource reservation in sidelink control information (SCI). The method includes identifying a transport block (TB) for transmission to a UE; determining a total number of sub-channels (NSL) in a resource pool for sidelink communication, a number of sub-channels (Lsub) of the TB, a first starting sub-channel index x1 of a first retransmission of the TB, and a second starting sub-channel index x2 of a second retransmission of the TB. The method includes determining a frequency resource indication value (FRIV) based on NSL, LSUB, x1, and x2, wherein the FRIV represents a result of a predetermined function of Lsub, x1, and x2 that generates a unique value for possible combinations of Lsub, x1, and x2. The FRIV is encoded in SCI and the SCI is transmitted to the UE.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Chunhai Yao, Chunxuan Ye, Dawei Zhang, Wei Zeng, Yushu Zhang, Hong He, Haitong Sun, Weidong Ynag, Oghenekome Oteri, Yuchul Kim, Yang Tang, Jie Cui
  • Patent number: 11943699
    Abstract: An example method for wireless communication includes: configuring a wireless device to access a wireless network using a set of at least three components carriers (CCs); dividing the at least three component carriers into groups of component carriers based on whether the component carriers share a span pattern and a starting span for monitoring a Physical Downlink Control Channel (PDCCH) of each component carrier; determining a number of non-overlapping control channel elements (CCE) to monitor for each group of component carriers; and configuring the wireless device to monitor the non-overlapping CCEs based on the determined number to monitor for each group.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 8, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Oghenekome Oteri, Chunxuan Ye, Dawei Zhang, Haitong Sun, Hong He, Wei Zeng, Weidong Yang, Yushu Zhang, Sigen Ye, Chunhai Yao
  • Patent number: 11943802
    Abstract: A technique for wireless communications in a wireless system including: receiving, from a first user device, cancellation capability information, receiving, from a second user device, unlicensed frequency transmission capability information, receiving, from the first user device, an uplink transmission over an unlicensed frequency band, determining, a need for a higher priority uplink transmission by the second user device, scheduling an uplink cancellation time for the first user device based on the cancellation capability information and unlicensed frequency transmission capability information, scheduling an uplink transmission time for the second user device based on the cancellation capability information and unlicensed frequency transmission capability information, transmitting an uplink cancellation request to the first user device based on the scheduled uplink cancellation time, and transmitting an uplink transmission time for the higher priority uplink transmission to the second user device based on t
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Oghenekome Oteri, Weidong Yang, Sigen Ye, Haitong Sun, Chunhai Yao, Yushu Zhang, Dawei Zhang, Chunxuan Ye, Wei Zeng, Hong He
  • Patent number: 11943803
    Abstract: A method for wireless communication includes: scheduling, by a wireless station, a first uplink (UL) transmission from a wireless device; determining, by the wireless station, a need for a higher priority uplink transmission that uses resources overlapping with the first UL transmission; determining, by the wireless station, a reference region, within which a UL cancellation indication (CI) is to be applied; determining, by the wireless station, a set of UL resources in the reference region for cancellation, wherein at least a subset of the UL resources in the reference region are interlaced; sending, via a downlink control channel, indication of the determined set of UL resources for cancellation (e.g., by indicating particular interlaces and/or particular Physical Resource Blocks within such interlaces that are to be canceled); and receiving, at the wireless station, the higher priority uplink transmission via at least a subset of the determined set of cancelled UL resources.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Sigen Ye, Weidong Yang, Oghenekome Oteri, Haitong Sun, Chunhai Yao, Yushu Zhang, Dawei Zhang, Chunxuan Ye, Wei Zeng, Hong He
  • Publication number: 20240097747
    Abstract: Apparatuses, systems, and methods for multi-TRP by a UE, including out of order delivery of PDSCH, PUSCH, and/or DL ACK/NACK. The UE may receive, from a base station, a configuration that may include multiple control resource set (CORESET) pools and each CORESET pool may be associated with an index value. The UE may determine that at least two DCIs of the multiple DCIs end at a common symbol and determine, based on one or more predetermined rules, when the UE may be scheduled to receive PDSCHs, transmit PUSCHs, and/or transmit ACK/NACKs from CORESETs associated with the at least two DCIs.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 29, 2023
    Publication date: March 21, 2024
    Inventors: Haitong Sun, Yushu Zhang, Wei Zeng, Dawei Zhang, Yuchul Kim, Hong He, Weidong Yang, Chunhai Yao, Chunxuan Ye, Oghenekome Oteri, Ismael Gutierrez Gonzalez, Ghaith N Hattab, Jie Cui, Yang Tang, Haijing Hu, Fangli Xu, Zhibin Wu, Yuqin Chen, Yeong-Sun Hwang
  • Publication number: 20240097746
    Abstract: Apparatuses, systems, and methods for multi-TRP by a UE, including out of order delivery of PDSCH, PUSCH, and/or DL ACK/NACK. The UE may receive, from a base station, a configuration that may include multiple control resource set (CORESET) pools and each CORESET pool may be associated with an index value. The UE may determine that at least two DCIs of the multiple DCIs end at a common symbol and determine, based on one or more predetermined rules, when the UE may be scheduled to receive PDSCHs, transmit PUSCHs, and/or transmit ACK/NACKs from CORESETs associated with the at least two DCIs.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 29, 2023
    Publication date: March 21, 2024
    Inventors: Haitong Sun, Yushu Zhang, Wei Zeng, Dawei Zhang, Yuchul Kim, Hong He, Weidong Yang, Chunhai Yao, Chunxuan Ye, Oghenekome Oteri, Ismael Gutierrez Gonzalez, Ghaith N. Hattab, Jie Cui, Yang Tang, Haijing Hu, Fangli Xu, Zhibin Wu, Yuqin Chen, Yeong-Sun Hwang
  • Publication number: 20240098644
    Abstract: Techniques are provided for Wake up signal monitoring in a radio resource control connected (RRC) mode. An example method can include a user equipment (UE) determining capability information associated with wake-up signal (WUS) monitoring, the capability information to include an indication that the UE supports WUS monitoring in a radio resource control (RRC) connected mode. The UE can transmit, to a base station, an indication of the capability. The UE can perform, while in a sleep state in which transmitting and receiving by a main radio is suspended, WUS monitoring to detect a trigger. The UE can transition from the sleep state to the awake state based on the trigger. The UE can monitor for a downlink (DL) transmission in the awake state.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 5, 2023
    Publication date: March 21, 2024
    Applicant: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Sigen Ye, Seyed Ali Akbar Fakoorian, Wei Zeng, Ankit Bhamri, Dawei Zhang, Hong He, Chunxuan Ye, Weidong Yang, Huaning Niu, Chunhai Yao, Oghenekome Oteri
  • Publication number: 20240098517
    Abstract: A first next generation Node B (gNB) is configured to establish a first backhaul communication link with a second gNB as a parent gNB, schedule at least one of a third gNB or a UE for a UL transmission to the first gNB using UL beam management parameters and UL transmission parameters, indicate to the second gNB first beam management parameters for the second gNB to use for transmitting a DL transmission to the first gNB on the first backhaul link and first DL transmission parameters for the DL transmission so that the DL transmission will be received simultaneously with the UL transmission and when the first beam management parameters and the first DL transmission parameters are determined to be used by the second gNB, receiving the DL transmission from the second gNB simultaneously with the UL transmission from the at least one of the third gNB or the UE.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 6, 2021
    Publication date: March 21, 2024
    Inventors: Seyed Ali Akbar FAKOORIAN, Chunhai YAO, Chunxuan YE, Dawei ZHANG, Haitong SUN, Hong HE, Jie CUI, Oghenekome OTERI, Sarma V. VANGALA, Wei ZENG, Weidong YANG, Yushu ZHANG
  • Publication number: 20240098645
    Abstract: Techniques are provided for Wake up signal monitoring in a radio resource control connected (RRC) mode. An example method can include a base station receiving an indication from a user equipment (UE) of a capability for wake-up signal (WUS) monitoring in a radio resource control (RRC) connected mode while in a sleep state. The base station can configure the UE with a first frequency domain resource for WUS monitoring in the RRC connected mode while in the sleep state. The base station can transmit a WUS using the first frequency domain resource and a first time domain resource, wherein a main radio of the UE is configured to transmit and receive based on the WUS. The base station can transmit a first downlink (DL) transmission.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 6, 2023
    Publication date: March 21, 2024
    Applicant: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Sigen Ye, Ankit Bhamri, Chunhai Yao, Chunxuan Ye, Dawei Zhang, Hong He, Huaning Niu, Oghenekome Oteri, Seyed Ali Akbar Fakoorian, Wei Zeng, Weidong Yang
  • Patent number: 11936407
    Abstract: A communication system provides reliable wideband communications with reduced power consumption in a user equipment (UE) receiver. A UE may include receiver circuitry to receive a radio frequency (RF) signal from a wireless network and output an analog baseband signal. The RF signal includes M copies of a duplicated signal in a frequency domain. The analog baseband signal includes the M copies of the duplicated signal uniformly offset from one another in the frequency domain by a bandwidth F and including a gap between adjacent copies. The UE further includes an anti-aliasing analog filter an analog to digital converter (ADC). The ADC samples an output of the anti-aliasing analog filter at a sampling frequency selected to obtain a digital baseband signal comprising a combined digital copy of the M copies of the duplicated signal folded over each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: Weidong Yang, Chunhai Yao, Chunxuan Ye, Dawei Zhang, Haitong Sun, Hong He, Huaning Niu, Jie Cui, Manasa Raghavan, Oghenekome Oteri, Seyed Ali Akbar Fakoorian, Sigen Ye, Wei Zeng, Yang Tang, Yingqun Yu, Yushu Zhang
  • Publication number: 20240089832
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus are provided for a UE to determine a cell global identity (CGI) of a target cell.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 27, 2023
    Publication date: March 14, 2024
    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
  • Publication number: 20240089974
    Abstract: Methods, systems, apparatuses, and computer programs for search space configuration for multi-slot physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) monitoring. In one aspect, a method can include actions of obtaining, by a base station, data indicating capabilities of user equipment (UE), wherein the obtained data includes at least data indicating sub-carrier spacing used by the UE, determining, by the base station and based on the obtained data indicating capabilities of the UE, (i) a periodicity selection parameter that indicates a subset of slot periodicities that the UE is to monitor for PDCCH and (ii) one or more other search space configuration parameters. generating, by the base station, a UE configuration command for configuring the search space that includes at least the determined periodicity selection parameter, encoding, by the base station, the generated UE configuration command for transmission to the UE, and transmitting, by the base station, the encoded command to the UE.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 1, 2021
    Publication date: March 14, 2024
    Inventors: Oghenekome Oteri, Chunxuan Ye, Dawei Zhang, Wei Zeng, Wei Zhang, Hong He, Chunhai Yao, Seyed Ali Akbar Fakoorian, Sigen Ye, Weidong Yang, Haitong Sun, Yushu Zhang
  • Patent number: 11930519
    Abstract: Measurement resources are often limited in 5G and 4G-LTE communications. As a result, SMTC and CSI-RS measurement windows will occasionally be assigned to the same resource elements of a signal frame. This results in a collision that must be resolved, since both measurements cannot be performed simultaneously. The collision can be resolved using restriction, where overlapping resource elements are assigned to either the SMTC or the CSI-RS measurements, or can be resolved using measurement sharing, where overlapping resource elements are divided among the two measurements according to a measurement sharing factor. Various factors, including priority or window periodicity may be taken into account by the measurement rules that dictate collision resolution.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Jie Cui, Chunhai Yao, Chunxuan Ye, Dawei Zhang, Haitong Sun, Hong He, Oghenekome Oteri, Wei Zeng, Weidong Yang, Yang Tang, Yuchul Kim, Yushu Zhang, Zhibin Wu
  • Patent number: 11929950
    Abstract: Methods and apparatuses are disclosed for calculating and compensating for Doppler shift in a high-speed environment. When in a high-speed environment, Doppler shifts on a transmitted radio frequency signal can become extremely large, which may make it difficult or even impossible for a receiving device to accurately decipher the signal. Therefore, embodiments of the present disclosure describe how tracking reference signals can be transmitted from multiple transmission/reception points, and processed by the UE. For example, the TRS transmitted from the TRP can be enhanced to allow for TRS information from two different TRPs. Additionally, or alternatively, a flag can be set within TRS information that identifies it as having originated from either a first TRP or a second TRP. Additionally, the UE can calculate Doppler shift information and report that information back to the base station in a report message, such as an SRS message. In this manner, the base station can precompensate for the Doppler shift.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: Haitong Sun, Wei Zeng, Yushu Zhang, Hong He, Oghenekome Oteri, Sigen Ye, Weidong Yang, Chunxuan Ye, Chunhai Yao, Dawei Zhang
  • Publication number: 20240080849
    Abstract: Example embodiments of the present disclosure relate to methods, devices, apparatuses and computer readable storage media of resource allocation for transport block (TB) transmission over multiple slots. In example embodiments, a user device receives, from a network device, an indication of at least a number of slots associated with transmission of a TB, then transmits the TB to the network device over a plurality of valid slots selected based on the indication.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 27, 2021
    Publication date: March 7, 2024
    Inventors: Chunhai YAO, Chunxuan YE, Dawei ZHANG, Hong HE, Huaning NIU, Haitong SUN, Oghenekome OTERI, Seyed Ali Akbar FAKOORIAN, Sigen YE, Weidong YANG, Wei ZENG, Yushu ZHANG
  • Publication number: 20240080169
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to methods, a terminal device, a network device, and computer program products for SCell management in wireless communication. A terminal device receives from a network device configuration information for configuring a triggering mode. The triggering mode is for triggering activation of a secondary cell of the terminal device and a transmission of a temporary reference signal in the secondary cell. Based on the configured triggering mode, the terminal device receives first triggering information on the activation of the secondary cell and second triggering information on the transmission of the temporary reference signal for performing the activation of the secondary cell. In this way, it is possible to reduce the latency of activation/de-activation procedure for SCG and secondary cells.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 31, 2021
    Publication date: March 7, 2024
    Inventors: Hong HE, Dawei ZHANG, Wei ZENG, Haitong SUN, Chunhai YAO, Yang TANG, Jie CUI, Sigen YE, Weidong YANG
  • Publication number: 20240080224
    Abstract: Some aspects of this disclosure relate to apparatuses and methods for implementing mechanisms for a network to use Doppler shift pre-compensation values for communicating Tracking Reference Signal (TRS) to a user equipment (UE) and for implementing mechanisms for triggering the UE to measure the Doppler shift pre-compensated TRS. Some aspects of this disclosure relate to a base station including a processor that determines a Doppler shift pre-compensation value associated with the UE in response to determining that the UE is moving with a speed greater than a threshold. The processor further generates an aperiodic Tracking Reference Signal (AP-TRS) or a semi persistent TRS (SP-TRS) for the UE. The AP-TRS or the SP-TRS is decoupled from a periodic TRS (P-TRS). The processor further transmits the AP-TRS or the SP-TRS to the UE. The AP-TRS or the SP-TRS can be used for time and frequency synchronization.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 7, 2021
    Publication date: March 7, 2024
    Applicant: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Haitong SUN, Dawei ZHANG, Wei ZENG, Yushu ZHANG, Hong HE, Huaning NIU, Weidong YANG, Oghenekome OTERI, Seyed Ali Akbar FAKOORIAN, Sigen YE, Chunhai YAO
  • Patent number: 11924832
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and circuitries are provided for performing sidelink communication. An example method generates SCI stage 1 and stage 2 for transmitting a transport block (TB) to a user equipment device (UE). The method includes determining the type of sidelink communication for transmitting the TB. An SCI stage 2 format is selected based on the type of sidelink communication. An SCI stage 2 payload is encoded in accordance with the selected SCI stage 2 format. The selected SCI stage 2 format value is encoded in an SCI stage 1 payload. The SCI stage 1 payload and SCI stage 2 payload are transmitted to the UE.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Chunhai Yao, Chunxuan Ye, Wei Zeng, Yushu Zhang, Oghenekome Oteri, Weidong Yang, Hong He, Haitong Sun, Yang Tang, Jie Cui, Yuchul Kim, Dawei Zhang, Jia Tang
  • Publication number: 20240072862
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to uplink transmission with repetitions. According to embodiments of the present disclosure, a user equipment (UE) comprises a transceiver configured to communicate with a network; and a processor communicatively coupled to the transceiver and configured to perform operations. The operations comprise determining first Channel State Information (CSI) and second CSI based on at least one of a previous channel and interference measurement or a latest channel and interference measurement. The operations further comprise transmitting the first CSI via the transceiver to the network with a first beam, the first CSI multiplexed with a first repetition of an uplink transmission with the first beam. The operations further comprise transmitting the second CSI via the transceiver to the network with a second beam, the second CSI multiplexed with a second repetition of the uplink transmission with the second beam.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 6, 2021
    Publication date: February 29, 2024
    Inventors: Yushu ZHANG, Chunhai YAO, Chunxuan YE, Dawei ZHANG, Haitong SUN, Hong HE, Huaning NIU, Jie CUI, Manasa RAGHAVAN, Qiming LI, Seyed Ali Akbar FAKOORIAN, Sigen YE, Wei ZENG, Weidong YANG
  • Publication number: 20240072939
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to methods, devices and computer readable storage media for hybrid automatic repeat request acknowledgement (HARQ-ACK) codebook handling. In example embodiments, a method is provided. The method comprises determining, at a terminal device, respective hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) feedback configurations of a plurality of HARQ processes, wherein each HARQ feedback configuration indicates whether HARQ feedback is enabled or disabled for a corresponding HARQ process; and generating a HARQ-ACK codebook for Physical Downlink Shared Channel (PDSCH) based on the HARQ feedback configurations of the plurality of HARQ processes; and transmitting the HARQ-ACK codebook to a network device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 31, 2021
    Publication date: February 29, 2024
    Inventors: Huaning NIU, Chunxuan YE, Dawei ZHANG, Wei ZENG, Weidong YANG, Hong HE, Sigen YE, Chunhai YAO, Oghenekome OTERI, Haitong SUN