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US 12,273,855 · App. 17/442,095 · Granted Apr 8, 2025

Providing paging for a remote wireless device to a relay wireless device

Inventors: Fangli Xu (Beijing, CN); Dawei Zhang (Saratoga, CA); Haijing Hu (Beijing, CN); Yuqin Chen (Shenzhen, CN); Longda Xing (San Jose, CA); Srinivasan Nimmala (San Jose, CA); Srirang A. Lovlekar (Cupertino, CA); Sethuraman Gurumoorthy (San Jose, CA); Murtaza A. Shikari (Mountain View, CA); Sree Ram Kodali (Sunnyvale, CA)
Assignee: Apple Inc.
H04W68/005H04W76/10H04W76/20H04W88/085
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Patent No.
US 12,273,855
App. No.
17/442,095
Granted
Apr 8, 2025
Kind
B2
Abstract

This disclosure relates to techniques for providing paging for a remote wireless device to a relay wireless device in a wireless communication system. A cellular base station may receive an indication from a relay wireless device of a relay link between the relay wireless device and a remote wireless device. The cellular base station may provide paging information for the remote wireless device to the relay wireless device based at least in part on the indication of the relay link between the relay wireless device and the remote wireless device.

Claims (46)

1. A baseband processor comprising circuitry configured to cause a cellular base station to:

receive an indication from a relay wireless device of a relay link between the relay wireless device and a remote wireless device; and

provide paging information for the remote wireless device to the relay wireless device based at least in part on the indication of the relay link between the relay wireless device and the remote wireless device, the paging information specifying a plurality of bursts of physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) monitoring occasions forming paging occasions within a paging frame, wherein when a paging occasion information for the relay wireless device is provided from the relay wireless device to the remote wireless device, the paging information is directly transmitted, by the cellular base station, to the remote wireless device.

2. The baseband processor of claim 1 ,

wherein when a paging occasion information for the relay wireless device is provided from the relay wireless device to the remote wireless device, the paging information is directly transmitted, by the cellular base station, to the remote wireless device.

3. The baseband processor of claim 1 ,

wherein the paging information for the remote wireless device is provided during a paging occasion configured based on identification information for the remote wireless device.

4. The baseband processor of claim 1 ,

wherein the paging information for the remote wireless device is provided during a paging occasion configured based on identification information for the relay wireless device.

5. The baseband processor of claim 1 , wherein the baseband processor is further configured to cause the cellular base station to:

provide paging occasion configuration information for remote wireless devices to the relay wireless device,

wherein the paging information for the remote wireless device is provided during a paging occasion configured according to the paging occasion configuration information for remote wireless devices.

6. The baseband processor of claim 1 , wherein the paging information comprises a paging-SearchSpace configuration 4 .

7. The baseband processor of claim 1 , wherein the baseband processor is further configured to cause the cellular base station to:

provide paging information for the relay wireless device to the relay wireless device during a paging occasion configured based on identification information for the relay wireless device.

8. The baseband processor of claim 1 , wherein the baseband processor is further configured to cause the cellular base station to:

receive an indication from the relay wireless device that the relay link between the relay wireless device and the remote wireless device has been released; and

stop providing paging information for the remote wireless device to the relay wireless device based at least in part on the indication that the relay link between the relay wireless device and the remote wireless device has been released.

9. An apparatus, comprising:

a processor configured to, when executing instructions stored in a memory, perform operations comprising:

encode, for transmission to a cellular base station, an indication of a relay link between a relay wireless device and a remote wireless device; and

receive paging information for the remote wireless device to the relay wireless device based at least in part on the indication of the relay link between the relay wireless device and the remote wireless device, the paging information specifying a plurality of bursts of physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) monitoring occasions forming paging occasions within a paging frame, wherein when a paging occasion information for the relay wireless device is provided from the relay wireless device to the remote wireless device, the paging information is directly received from the cellular base station.

10. The apparatus of claim 9 ,

wherein when a paging occasion information for the relay wireless device is provided from the relay wireless device to the remote wireless device, the paging information is directly transmitted, by the cellular base station, to the remote wireless device.

11. The apparatus of claim 9 ,

wherein the paging information for the remote wireless device is provided during a paging occasion configured based on identification information for the remote wireless device.

12. The apparatus of claim 9 ,

wherein the paging information for the remote wireless device is provided during a paging occasion configured based on identification information for the relay wireless device.

13. The apparatus of claim 9 , the operations further comprising:

encode, for transmission, paging occasion configuration information for remote wireless devices to the relay wireless device,

wherein the paging information for the remote wireless device is provided during a paging occasion configured according to the paging occasion configuration information for remote wireless devices.

14. The apparatus of claim 9 , wherein the paging information comprises a paging-SearchSpace configuration.

15. A method, comprising:

at a cellular base station:

receiving an indication from a relay wireless device of a relay link between the relay wireless device and a remote wireless device; and

providing paging information for the remote wireless device to the relay wireless device based at least in part on the indication of the relay link between the relay wireless device and the remote wireless device, the paging information specifying a plurality of bursts of physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) monitoring occasions forming paging occasions within a paging frame, wherein when a paging occasion information for the relay wireless device is provided from the relay wireless device to the remote wireless device, the paging information is directly transmitted, by the cellular base station, to the remote wireless device.

16. The method of claim 15 ,

wherein when a paging occasion information for the relay wireless device is provided from the relay wireless device to the remote wireless device, the paging information is directly transmitted, by the cellular base station, to the remote wireless device.

17. The method of claim 15 ,

wherein the paging information for the remote wireless device is provided during a paging occasion configured based on identification information for the remote wireless device.

18. The method of claim 15 ,

wherein the paging information for the remote wireless device is provided during a paging occasion configured based on identification information for the relay wireless device.

19. The method of claim 15 , wherein the method further comprises:

providing paging occasion configuration information for remote wireless devices to the relay wireless device,

wherein the paging information for the remote wireless device is provided during a paging occasion configured according to the paging occasion configuration information for remote wireless devices.

20. The method of claim 15 , wherein the paging information comprises a paging-SearchSpace configuration.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Nov 2, 2021
From: XU, FANGLI; ZHANG, DAWEI; HU, HAIJING; CHEN, YUQIN; XING, LONGDA; NIMMALA, SRINIVASAN; LOVLEKAR, SRIRANG A.; GURUMOORTHY, SETHURAMAN; SHIKARI, MURTAZA A.; KODALI, SREE RAM
To: APPLE INC.
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