Patents by Inventor Zhu Ji

Zhu Ji 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: 20190373554
    Abstract: A device and method for power saving between a scheduling request and a grant. A user equipment (UE) establishes a connection to a network, the UE and the network may be configured with a Connected Discontinuous Reception (C-DRX) functionality, the C-DRX functionality including a cycle with at least one onDuration. The UE transmits, during a first subframe a scheduling request (SR) to the network, the SR corresponds to data that is to be transmitted by the UE. The UE determines a second subframe for the UE to enter an active mode of processing for a reception of a grant, the second subframe is subsequent to the first subframe and prior to a next onDuration. The UE initiates an active mode of processing for the reception of the grant during the second subframe.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 30, 2018
    Publication date: December 5, 2019
    Inventors: Beibei Wang, Johnson O. Sebeni, Zhu Ji, Jia Tang, Xiantao Sun, Yu-Lin Wang, Yang Li, Wei Zhang, Tianyan Pu
  • Publication number: 20190373668
    Abstract: A device and method for power optimization for a user equipment (UE) without neighbor cell measurement configuration. The UE may be configured with Connected Discontinuous Reception (C-DRX) functionality including a cycle with an onDuration. The UE may be configured with carrier aggregation (CA) in the unlicensed spectrum including a reference signal (DRS) monitoring timing configuration (DMTC) occasion that occurs outside of the onDuration. The UE determines at least one subframe of the onDuration for the UE to utilize an active mode of processing related to performing measurements corresponding to a cell utilizing the unlicensed spectrum. The UE determines to utilize a sleep mode of processing related to performing the measurements during the DMTC occasion based on detecting a first downlink signal transmitted by the cell during the at least one subframe of the onDuration.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 31, 2018
    Publication date: December 5, 2019
    Inventors: Beibei Wang, Johnson O. Sebeni, Zhu Ji, Jia Tang, Yang Li, Tianyan Pu
  • Publication number: 20190373555
    Abstract: A method and user equipment for transmission slot blank. The method includes, at the user equipment (“UE”), establishing a voice call, determining whether the voice call currently comprises a silence period, blanking at least two slots of a control frame according to a predetermined pattern, wherein the predetermined pattern includes at least one slot that is not blanked between the at least two slots that are blanked, and transmitting the control frame.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 30, 2018
    Publication date: December 5, 2019
    Inventors: Jia TANG, Zhu JI, Yu-Lin WANG, Wei ZHANG
  • Patent number: 10485048
    Abstract: Apparatuses, systems, and methods for a wireless device to perform substantially concurrent communications with a next generation network node and a legacy network node. The wireless device may be configured to stablish a first wireless link with a first cell according to a RAT, where the first cell operates in a first system bandwidth and establish a second wireless link with a second cell according to a RAT, where the second cell operates in a second system bandwidth. Further, the wireless device may be configured to perform uplink activity for both the first RAT and the second RAT by TDM uplink data for the first RAT and uplink data for the second RAT if uplink activity is scheduled according to both the first RAT and the second RAT.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2019
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Wei Zeng, Haijing Hu, Yuchul Kim, Dawei Zhang, Xiangying Yang, Zhu Ji, Yang Li, Beibei Wang, Jia Tang, Sami M. Almalfouh, Johnson O. Sebeni, Wei Zhang, Tianyan Pu, Vijay Venkataraman, Christian W. Mucke
  • Publication number: 20190350048
    Abstract: This disclosure relates to performing cellular communication using a control information monitoring framework. A wireless device may monitor a control channel for control information according to a first periodic pattern. According to the first periodic pattern, the wireless device may monitor the control channel in a specified slot during each period of the first periodic pattern. Each period of the first periodic pattern may include multiple slots. The wireless device may receive control information during a first slot. The first slot may be a specified slot according to the first periodic pattern. The control information received during the first slot may schedule a data communication. The wireless device may monitor the control channel for control information in at least one slot that is not specified according to the first periodic pattern based at least in part on receiving control information during a specified slot according to the first periodic pattern.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 28, 2019
    Publication date: November 14, 2019
    Inventors: Yuchul Kim, Junsung Lim, Wei Zeng, Haitong Sun, Wei Zhang, Galib A. Mohiuddin, Sami M. Almalfouh, Yang Li, Zhu Ji, Tianyan Pu, Dawei Zhang, Johnson O. Sebeni
  • Publication number: 20190335535
    Abstract: This disclosure relates to techniques for supporting message mapping via time and/or frequency indexing. For example, these techniques may be applied to device-to-device wireless communication. For example, device to device discovery may use message mapping via frequency indexing. A portion of the payload of a message, such as a discovery message, may be offloaded to a frequency and/or time index. A receiving device may determine the offloaded portion of the payload based on the frequency and/or time (e.g., subcarrier and/or slot) used to transmit the message.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 23, 2019
    Publication date: October 31, 2019
    Inventors: Yang Li, Li Su, Zhu Ji, Tianyan Pu
  • Patent number: 10447414
    Abstract: A user of a device desires that geographic position information of the device be kept private. A network may track a geographic position of a device using timing advance (TA) data and also a passive attacker may attempt to track the geographic position of the device by observing base station TA commands. In embodiments provided herein, a device diminishes or obfuscates geographic position information by using a timing change value while not disturbing synchronization of uplink signals from multiple devices arriving at a base station. To resist an averaging solution by an observer, the device in some embodiments adjusts the timing change value based on an internal timer. In an emergency call situation, the method permits the base station to obtain geographic position information based on TA procedures.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2019
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Elliot S. Briggs, Zhu Ji, Johnson O. Sebeni
  • Publication number: 20190313350
    Abstract: Apparatuses, systems, and methods for performing timing synchronization between a base station and a user equipment device within an unlicensed spectrum band. In some scenarios, beamforming tracking may also be performed. Upon determining that a transmission medium within the unlicensed spectrum band is available for transmission, a base station may transmit a plurality of synchronization signal blocks (SSBs), or a plurality of copies of one SSB, with associated remaining minimum system information (RMSI) blocks, within a single time instance within a SSB burst window. The SSBs may be transmitted at different frequency positions and according to distinct beamforming configurations. The SSBs and RMSI blocks may be configured such that a receiving user equipment device may determine the time-domain, and optionally the frequency-domain, position of the SSB and RMSI within the SSB burst window, to allow timing synchronization and optionally beamforming tracking.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 2, 2019
    Publication date: October 10, 2019
    Inventors: Wei Zhang, Wei Zeng, Tianyan Pu, Haitong Sun, Jia Tang, Dawei Zhang, Sami M. Almalfouh, Zhu Ji, Johnson O. Sebeni
  • Publication number: 20190306793
    Abstract: This disclosure relates to techniques for opportunistically depowering receiver chains of a wireless device. Based on control information, a device may determine whether the current number of active receiver chains can be reduced while maintaining a target achievable code rate for a period of data reception associated with the control information. Additionally, the device may generate and use a lookup table to determine whether to depower receiver chains, and which receiver chains to depower.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 17, 2019
    Publication date: October 3, 2019
    Inventors: Tianyan Pu, Sai Sravan Bharadwaj Karri, Wei Zhang, Swaminathan Balakrishnan, Xiantao Sun, Beibei Wang, Manish G. Vemulapalli, Jia Tang, Sami M. Almalfouh, Zhu Ji, Sachin J. Sane
  • Publication number: 20190306856
    Abstract: Apparatuses, systems, and methods to dynamically indicate preference for self-contained slots and slot duration by a user equipment device (UE) in communication with a base station (e.g., a gNB) using a 5G NR radio access technology. A UE may determine to send an indication to a gNB indicating a preference for self-contained slots and slot duration for downlink and/or uplink communications utilizing one or more of the physical downlink control channel (PDCCH), the physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH), and/or acknowledgement messaging (ACK/NACK) for downlink communications, and utilizing one or more of the physical uplink control channel (PUCCH), the PDCCH, and/or the physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH) for uplink communications. The configuration of self-contained slots and slot duration for uplink and/or downlink may be based on one or more of average packet size, average packet rate, traffic type and UE processing capabilities.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 19, 2019
    Publication date: October 3, 2019
    Inventors: Zhu Ji, Yang Li, Yuchul Kim, Johnson O. Sebeni, Sami M. Almalfouh, Wei Zeng, Dawei Zhang
  • Patent number: 10432292
    Abstract: Adaptive multiplexing and transmit/receive diversity. A wireless device may include multiple antennas. A first set of antennas may be used for communication. One or more trigger conditions may be determined, and additional antennas may be activated for measurement. Based on the measurement(s), a second set of antennas may be selected and used for communication.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2019
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Jia Tang, Zhu Ji, Yang Li, Johnson O. Sebeni, Yu-Lin Wang, Sulabh Khandelwal, Beibei Wang, Zheng Zhang
  • Patent number: 10419193
    Abstract: A method performed by a user equipment that includes receiving a redundancy version (RV) of control information during a transmission time interval (TTI) from a network to which the user equipment has established a connection, wherein the control information comprises a plurality of RVs, determining a first value corresponding to the TTI, determining a second value based on a connectivity parameter measurement of the connection and determining whether to perform a decode operation on the RV based on a comparison of the first value and the second value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2019
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Junsung Lim, Zhu Ji, Jia Tang, Johnson O. Sebeni
  • Publication number: 20190281652
    Abstract: Apparatuses, systems, and methods for a base station to perform a method construct dynamic hierarchical sub-configurations of bandwidth parts (BWPs) for use in a connected mode discontinuous reception (CDRX) communication session with a user equipment (UE) device. The base station may configure a first BWP at a baseband frequency associated with the CDRX communication session as a default BWP, a second BWP with a wider bandwidth than the first BWP as a transmission BWP, and one or more third BWPs as resting BWPs. The transmission BWP and the one or more resting BWPs may be configured to periodically override the default BWP as the active BWP for a predetermined number of CDRX cycles. The transmission BWP may be utilized, when activated to perform data transmission by UE device, and the one or more resting BWPs may be utilized, when activated, for performing channel measurements.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 7, 2019
    Publication date: September 12, 2019
    Inventors: Wei Zhang, Yuchul Kim, Junsung Lim, Haitong Sun, Wei Zeng, Sami M. Almalfouh, Yang Li, Zhu Ji, Dawei Zhang, Johnson O. Sebeni
  • Publication number: 20190281504
    Abstract: This disclosure relates to techniques for a wireless device to indicate a preferred bandwidth part and duty cycle in a cellular communication system. A wireless device and a cellular base station may establish a radio resource control connection. The wireless device may transmit an indication of a preferred bandwidth part, or a preferred communication duty cycle, or both, to the cellular base station. The cellular base station may select a bandwidth part, or communication duty cycle, or both, based at least in part on the indication provided by the wireless device, and may transmit an indication of the selected bandwidth part, communication duty cycle, or both, to the wireless device. The cellular base station and the wireless device may perform cellular communication using the selected bandwidth part, communication duty cycle, or both.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 27, 2019
    Publication date: September 12, 2019
    Inventors: Yi Su, Yuchul Kim, Pengkai Zhao, Wei Zhang, Sami M. Almalfouh, Wei Zeng, Haitong Sun, Dawei Zhang, Yu Zhang, Tianyan Pu, Zhu Ji, Johnson O. Sebeni, Yang Li
  • Publication number: 20190281545
    Abstract: Apparatuses, systems, and methods for a wireless device to perform a method including a user equipment device (UE) exchanging communications with a base station to determine one or more scheduling profiles, such as one or more scheduling-power profiles, where a scheduling-power profile may specify one or more parameters associated with UE communication behavior, e.g., one or more constraints on UE communication behavior and/or slot scheduling of UE communications. In addition, the method may include the UE receiving a slot configuration schedule from the base station. The slot configuration schedule may be based on at least one scheduling-power profile of the one or more scheduling-power profiles. Further, the method may include the UE performing communications with the base station based on the at least one scheduling-power profile.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 7, 2019
    Publication date: September 12, 2019
    Inventors: Yuchul Kim, Wei Zhang, Sami M. Almalfouh, Junsung Lim, Haitong Sun, Wei Zeng, Dawei Zhang, Zhu Ji, Yang Li, Johnson O. Sebeni
  • Publication number: 20190281598
    Abstract: This disclosure relates to techniques for a wireless device to indicate a preferred bandwidth part and duty cycle in a cellular communication system. A wireless device and a cellular base station may establish a radio resource control connection. The wireless device may transmit an indication of a preferred bandwidth part, or a preferred communication duty cycle, or both, to the cellular base station. The cellular base station may select a bandwidth part, or communication duty cycle, or both, based at least in part on the indication provided by the wireless device, and may transmit an indication of the selected bandwidth part, communication duty cycle, or both, to the wireless device. The cellular base station and the wireless device may perform cellular communication using the selected bandwidth part, communication duty cycle, or both.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 9, 2018
    Publication date: September 12, 2019
    Inventors: Sami M. Almalfouh, Yuchul Kim, Wei Zhang, Tianyan Pu, Zhu Ji, Dawei Zhang, Wei Zeng, Johnson O. Sebeni, Yang Li
  • Patent number: 10341956
    Abstract: This disclosure relates to techniques for opportunistically depowering receiver chains of a wireless device. Based on control information, a device may determine whether the current number of active receiver chains can be reduced while maintaining a target achievable code rate for a period of data reception associated with the control information. Additionally, the device may generate and use a lookup table to determine whether to depower receiver chains, and which receiver chains to depower.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2019
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Tianyan Pu, Sai Sravan Bharadwaj Karri, Wei Zhang, Swaminathan Balakrishnan, Xiantao Sun, Beibei Wang, Manish G. Vemulapalli, Jia Tang, Sami M. Almalfouh, Zhu Ji, Sachin J. Sane
  • Publication number: 20190181942
    Abstract: Adaptive multiplexing and transmit/receive diversity. A wireless device may include multiple antennas. A first set of antennas may be used for communication. One or more trigger conditions may be determined, and additional antennas may be activated for measurement. Based on the measurement(s), a second set of antennas may be selected and used for communication.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 31, 2018
    Publication date: June 13, 2019
    Inventors: Jia Tang, Zhu Ji, Yang Li, Johnson O. Sebeni, Yu-Lin Wang, Sulabh Khandelwal, Beibei Wang, Zheng Zhang
  • Patent number: 10305627
    Abstract: A wireless communication system is presented for adaptive uplink (UL) link adaptation (LA). The adaptive UL LA can include multiple outer loops, for which multiple block error rate (BLER) filtering is performed. Each of the multiple BLER filtering can be performed on groups or sub-groups of subframes, in which each group has the same or similar coding characteristics. For example, one group in TD-LTE could be subframes with sounding reference signal (SRS) and another group could be subframes without SRS. Each of the multiple BLER filtering can use the same or different BLER algorithm, BLER target and/or BLER parameters.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2019
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Si Li, Zhu Ji, Srinivasan Vasudevan
  • Publication number: 20190150133
    Abstract: Apparatuses, systems, and methods for a wireless device to perform user equipment (UE) initiated beam management procedures with a base station or gNB. A wireless device in communication with a 5G base station may detect degradation in the pair of transmit and receive beams between the gNB and the device. The device may select a preferred beam management procedure and indicate the preference to the gNB.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 28, 2018
    Publication date: May 16, 2019
    Inventors: Yang Li, Haitong Sun, Zhu Ji, Yuchul Kim, Beibei Wang, Wei Zhang, Wei Zeng, Jia Tang, Tianyan Pu, Sami M. Almalfouh, Johnson O. Sebeni, Dawei Zhang