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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 25, 2025
Filed:
Oct. 15, 2020
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Sigen Ye, Whitehouse Station, NJ (US);
Oghenekome Oteri, San Diego, CA (US);
Haitong Sun, Irvine, CA (US);
Yushu Zhang, Beijing, CN;
Weidong Yang, San Diego, CA (US);
Wei Zeng, San Diego, CA (US);
Huaning Niu, San Jose, CA (US);
Chunxuan Ye, San Diego, CA (US);
Hong He, Cupertino, CA (US);
Chunhai Yao, Beijing, CN;
Dawei Zhang, Saratoga, CA (US);
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Abstract
A base station may transmit beam indication information to one or more user equipment (UE) devices. For each of a plurality of time units (e.g., symbols) in a time interval (e.g., spanning one or more slots), the beam indication information indicates a corresponding beam that the base station will use to transmit or receive. A UE device may have knowledge of the beam in which it currently resides, e.g., by performing power measurements during a beam scan procedure. Thus, the beam indication information enables the UE to perform transmissions and/or receptions (e.g., configured transmissions and/or receptions) during the appropriate time unit(s). The beam indication information may be dynamically transmitted as part of downlink control information. This transmission may omni-directional, wide beam, or narrow beam. Various schemes of encoding the beam indication information are contemplated.