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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 14, 2025
Filed:
Aug. 06, 2020
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Chunhai Yao, Beijing, CN;
Chunxuan Ye, Beijing, CA;
Dawei Zhang, Cupertino, CA (US);
Haijing Hu, Cupertino, CA (US);
Haitong Sun, Cupertino, CA (US);
Hong He, Cupertino, CA (US);
Oghenekome Oteri, Cupertino, CA (US);
Sarma V. Vangala, Cupertino, CA (US);
Sigen Ye, Cupertino, CA (US);
Wei Zeng, Cupertino, CA (US);
Weidong Yang, Cupertino, CA (US);
Yushu Zhang, Cupertino, CA (US);
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Abstract
A base station that determines a slot for uplink reception for a non-terrestrial network link between a base station and a user equipment is described. In exemplary embodiments, the base station determines a timing advance based on at least a random access preamble reception and determines an uplink offset based on the timing advance. The base station may further determine a candidate slot for an uplink reception based on at least the offset. In addition, the base station may determine if the candidate slot is available for the uplink reception. The base station may use the candidate slot for the uplink reception when the candidate uplink slot is available and may use the next available slot for the uplink reception when the candidate uplink slot is not available.