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Date of Patent:
Jan. 18, 2022

Filed:

Aug. 04, 2020
Applicant:

Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);

Inventors:

Junsung Lim, San Jose, CA (US);

Yuchul Kim, Santa Clara, CA (US);

Wei Zeng, San Diego, CA (US);

Wei Zhang, Santa Clara, CA (US);

Johnson O. Sebeni, Fremont, CA (US);

Haitong Sun, Irvine, CA (US);

Dawei Zhang, Saratoga, CA (US);

Assignee:

Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 24/10 (2009.01); H04W 52/02 (2009.01); H04W 76/28 (2018.01); H04L 1/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 24/10 (2013.01); H04L 1/0026 (2013.01); H04W 52/0216 (2013.01); H04W 76/28 (2018.02);
Abstract

A base station and mobile device (UE) may coordinate transmission of reference signals and reception of corresponding channel state information (CSI) reports. If a periodic reference signal is scheduled for transmission outside the on-duration period of the UE, even if the reference signal corresponds to a periodic CSI report scheduled to be transmitted by the UE during the on-duration period, the base station may not transmit the periodic reference signal, thereby allowing the UE not to prematurely exit a low-power state. The base station may instead transmit an aperiodic reference signal at a specified point in time later than the scheduled transmission of the periodic reference signal. The UE may receive the aperiodic reference signal and either transmit the periodic CSI report or an aperiodic CSI report in response, depending on how close to the start of the on-duration period the transmission of the periodic CSI report is scheduled.


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