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US 12,244,544 · App. 17/787,691 · Granted Mar 4, 2025

Cross-division duplex signaling

Inventors: Wei Zeng (Cupertino, CA); Dawei Zhang (Cupertino, CA); Seyed Ali Akbar Fakoorian (Cupertino, CA); Yushu Zhang (Beijing, CN); Haitong Sun (Cupertino, CA); Hong He (Cupertino, CA); Chunhai Yao (Beijing, CN); Sigen Ye (Cupertino, CA); Chunxuan Ye (Cupertino, CA); Weidong Yang (Cupertino, CA); Oghenekome Oteri (Cupertino, CA)
Assignee: Apple Inc.
H04L5/1438H04L5/14H04L5/1469
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Patent No.
US 12,244,544
App. No.
17/787,691
Granted
Mar 4, 2025
Kind
B2
Abstract

Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for signaling cross-division duplex configurations. One of the methods includes identifying, by a first device and for a first link with a second device, a switch in a first bandwidth part to a second bandwidth part for the first link, the first link associated with a second link having a third bandwidth part; determining, by the first device, whether a bandwidth band between the second bandwidth part and the third bandwidth part satisfies a threshold guard band; and selectively determining to maintain the third bandwidth part for the second link or to switch the third bandwidth part to a fourth bandwidth part for the second link using a result of the determination whether the bandwidth band between the second bandwidth part and the third bandwidth part satisfies the threshold guard band.

Claims (30)

1. A method comprising:

identifying, by a first device and for a first link with a second device, a switch in a first bandwidth part to a second bandwidth part for the first link, the first link associated with a second link having a third bandwidth part, the identifying comprising identifying the switch from a first division duplex type to a second division duplex type;

based at least on identifying the switch from the first division duplex type to the second division duplex type, determining, by the first device, whether a bandwidth band between the second bandwidth part and the third bandwidth part satisfies a threshold guard band; and

determining to maintain the third bandwidth part for the second link in response to determining that the bandwidth band between the second bandwidth part and the third bandwidth part satisfies the threshold guard band.

2. The method of claim 1 , wherein determining that the bandwidth band between the second bandwidth part and the third bandwidth part satisfies the threshold guard band comprises determining that the bandwidth band between the second bandwidth part and the third bandwidth part is greater than, equal to, or greater than or equal to the threshold guard band.

3. The method of claim 1 , comprising:

determining, by the first device, that a second bandwidth band between a fourth bandwidth part and a fifth bandwidth part does not satisfy the threshold guard band; and

determining to switch the fifth bandwidth part to a sixth bandwidth part for a third link with another device in response to determining that the second bandwidth band between the fourth bandwidth part and the fifth bandwidth part does not satisfy the threshold guard band.

4. The method of claim 3 , wherein determining that the bandwidth band between the fourth bandwidth part and the fifth bandwidth part does not satisfy the threshold guard band comprises determining that the bandwidth band between the fourth bandwidth part and the fifth bandwidth part is less than, equal to, or less than or equal to the threshold guard band.

5. The method of claim 1 , wherein identifying the switch uses a bandwidth part mapping that indicates which bandwidth parts are associated.

6. The method of claim 1 , wherein identifying the switch from the first division duplex type to the second division duplex type comprises identifying the switch from time-division duplex to frequency-division duplex.

7. The method of claim 1 , wherein identifying the switch from the first division duplex type to the second division duplex type comprises identifying the switch from frequency-division duplex to time-division duplex.

8. The method of claim 1 , wherein the first device comprises a next generation node B and the second device comprises a user equipment.

9. The method of claim 1 , wherein the first link comprises a downlink and the second link comprises an uplink.

10. The method of claim 1 , wherein the first link comprises an uplink and the second link comprises a downlink.

11. A non-transitory computer storage medium encoded with instructions that, when executed by one or more baseband processors, cause the one or more baseband processors to perform operations comprising:

identifying, for a first link between a first device that includes the one or more baseband processors and a second device, a switch in a first bandwidth part to a second bandwidth part for the first link, the first link associated with a second link having a third bandwidth part, the identifying comprising identifying the switch from a first division duplex type to a second division duplex type;

based at least on identifying the switch from the first division duplex type to the second division duplex type, determining whether a bandwidth band between the second bandwidth part and the third bandwidth part satisfies a threshold guard band; and

determining to maintain the third bandwidth part for the second link in response to determining that the bandwidth band between the second bandwidth part and the third bandwidth part satisfies the threshold guard band.

12. An apparatus comprising one or more baseband processors configured to perform operations comprising:

identifying, for a first link between a first device that includes the one or more baseband processors and a second device, a switch in a first bandwidth part to a second bandwidth part for the first link, the first link associated with a second link having a third bandwidth part, the identifying comprising identifying the switch from a first division duplex type to a second division duplex type;

based at least on identifying the switch from the first division duplex type to the second division duplex type, determining whether a bandwidth band between the second bandwidth part and the third bandwidth part satisfies a threshold guard band; and

determining to maintain the third bandwidth part for the second link in response to determining that whether the bandwidth band between the second bandwidth part and the third bandwidth part satisfies the threshold guard band.

13. The apparatus of claim 12 , wherein determining that the bandwidth band between the second bandwidth part and the third bandwidth part satisfies the threshold guard band comprises determining that the bandwidth band between the second bandwidth part and the third bandwidth part is greater than, equal to, or greater than or equal to the threshold guard band.

14. The apparatus of claim 12 , the operations comprising:

determining, by the first device, that a second bandwidth band between a fourth bandwidth part and a fifth bandwidth part does not satisfy the threshold guard band; and

determining to switch the fifth bandwidth part to a sixth bandwidth part for a third link with another device in response to determining that the second bandwidth band between the fourth bandwidth part and the fifth bandwidth part does not satisfy the threshold guard band.

15. The apparatus of claim 14 , wherein determining that the bandwidth band between the fourth bandwidth part and the fifth bandwidth part does not satisfy the threshold guard band comprises determining that the bandwidth band between the fourth bandwidth part and the fifth bandwidth part is less than, equal to, or less than or equal to the threshold guard band.

16. The apparatus of claim 12 , wherein identifying the switch from the first division duplex type to the second division duplex type comprises identifying the switch from time-division duplex to frequency-division duplex.

17. The apparatus of claim 12 , wherein identifying the switch from the first division duplex type to the second division duplex type comprises identifying the switch from frequency-division duplex to time-division duplex.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Jul 11, 2022
From: ZENG, WEI; ZHANG, DAWEI; FAKOORIAN, SEYED ALI AKBAR; ZHANG, YUSHU; SUN, HAITONG; HE, HONG; YAO, CHUNHAI; YE, SIGEN; YE, CHUNXUAN; YANG, WEIDONG; OTERI, OGHENEKOME
To: APPLE INC.
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Priority Claims (1)
WO PCT/CN2021/116250 · Sep 2, 2021 · international
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