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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Sep. 08, 2020

Filed:

Aug. 10, 2018
Applicant:

Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);

Inventors:

Feng Zhou, Beijing, CN;

Yushu Zhang, Beijing, CN;

Xiaowen Zhang, Shanghai, CN;

Wenting Chang, Beijing, CN;

Qian Li, Beaverton, OR (US);

Assignee:

Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04B 7/0456 (2017.01); H04B 7/026 (2017.01); H04L 5/00 (2006.01); H04W 72/08 (2009.01); H04B 7/0417 (2017.01); H04B 7/022 (2017.01); H04W 72/14 (2009.01); H04B 7/06 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04B 7/046 (2013.01); H04B 7/022 (2013.01); H04B 7/026 (2013.01); H04B 7/0417 (2013.01); H04B 7/0456 (2013.01); H04L 5/0051 (2013.01); H04W 72/085 (2013.01); H04B 7/0615 (2013.01); H04B 7/0626 (2013.01); H04W 72/14 (2013.01);
Abstract

Embodiments of a Generation Node-B (gNB) and methods of communication are disclosed herein. The gNB may be configured with logical nodes including a gNB central unit (gNB-CU) and a gNB distributed unit (gNB-DU). The gNB-CUmay determine a first precoding matrix and a second precoding matrix for a precoding of one or more data streams for transmission on a plurality of antennas coupled to the gNB-DU. The precoding may be in accordance with a split functionality between the gNB-CU and the gNB-DU that includes: precoding by the gNB-CU with the first precoding matrix, and precoding by the gNB-DU with the second precoding matrix.


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