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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. 03, 2024

Filed:

Jul. 31, 2019
Applicant:

Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);

Inventors:

Wenting Chang, Beijing, CN;

Huaning Niu, San Jose, CA (US);

Salvatore Talarico, Sunnyvale, CA (US);

Qiaoyang Ye, San Jose, CA (US);

Rongrong Sun, Beijing, CN;

Assignee:

Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 4/80 (2018.01); H04L 5/00 (2006.01); H04L 27/26 (2006.01); H04W 72/044 (2023.01); H04W 72/0446 (2023.01); H04W 72/23 (2023.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 4/80 (2018.02); H04L 5/0012 (2013.01); H04L 5/0051 (2013.01); H04L 27/2614 (2013.01); H04W 72/0446 (2013.01); H04W 72/0473 (2013.01); H04W 72/23 (2023.01);
Abstract

Embodiments of the present disclosure provide for narrowband reference signals transmission. A base station is configured to: generate downlink transmissions for unlicensed Internet of things (U-IoT) communication, the downlink transmissions to include an anchor segment on a first plurality of subframes and a data segment on a second plurality of subframes, wherein the anchor segment includes a narrowband reference signal (NRS) configured to be transmitted at a first transmit power by the base station, to facilitate time or frequency tracking and cause transmission of the downlink frame for the U-IoT communication. And a user equipment is configured to receive the NRSs transmitted by the base station and process transmissions based on reception of the NRSs.


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