Granted Patent B2

US 12,376,113 · App. 17/799,603 · Granted Jul 29, 2025

Inventors: Weidong Yang (San Diego, CA); Amir Farajidana (Sunnyvale, CA); Chunhai Yao (Beijing, CN); Chunxuan Ye (San Diego, CA); Dawei Zhang (Saratoga, CA); Haitong Sun (Cupertino, CA); Hong He (San Jose, CA); Jie Cui (San Jose, CA); Oghenekome Oteri (San Diego, CA); Ruoheng Liu (San Diego, CA); Wei Zeng (Saratoga, CA); Yang Tang (San Jose, CA); Yuchul Kim (San Jose, CA); Yushu Zhang (Beijing, CN)

Assignee: APPLE INC.

H04W72/21H04L1/08H04L5/0012H04W72/0453

Abstract

Claims (77)

1. A method, comprising:

receiving a frequency domain resource allocation indicating a transmission frequency and an offset frequency;

identifying a dataset having symbols using a Physical Uplink Shared Channel (PUSCH) transmission scheme;

identifying that the PUSCH transmission scheme indicates usage of intra-repetition frequency hopping;

determining whether the symbols are non-segmented;

in response to determining that the symbols are segmented, disabling the intra-repetition frequency hopping;

in response to determining that the symbols are non-segmented, determining whether a length of the symbols meets a symbol length threshold;

in response to determining that the length meets the symbol length threshold, dividing the symbols into a first divided portion and a second divided portion for the intra-repetition frequency hopping;

transmitting the first divided portion of symbols in a transmission repetition using the transmission frequency; and

transmitting the second divided portion of symbols in the transmission repetition using the offset frequency.

2. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:

identifying a second dataset using an intra-repetition frequency hopping PUSCH transmission scheme;

determining that the second dataset includes segmented symbols;

disabling the intra-repetition frequency hopping; and

transmitting the second dataset using the transmission frequency indicated by the frequency domain resource allocation.

3. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:

identifying a second dataset having a first portion of symbols and a second portion of symbols using an inter-slot frequency hopping PUSCH transmission scheme;

determining that the first portion and the second portion are segmented;

transmitting the first portion in a first transmission slot using the transmission frequency; and

transmitting the second portion in a second transmission slot using the offset frequency.

4. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:

identifying a second dataset having a first portion of symbols and a second portion of symbols using an inter-slot frequency hopping PUSCH transmission scheme;

determining that the first portion and the second portion are non-segmented;

transmitting the first portion in a first transmission slot using the transmission frequency; and

transmitting the second portion in a second transmission slot using the offset frequency.

5. The method of claim 1 , wherein transmitting using the offset frequency further comprises:

modifying the transmission frequency by translating the transmission frequency using the offset frequency.

6. The method of claim 1 , wherein the frequency domain resource allocation indicates a first range of frequencies corresponding to the transmission frequency and a second range of frequencies corresponding to the offset frequency.

7. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:

alternating between the transmission frequency and the offset frequency to transmit additional PUSCH data.

8. A wireless communication system, comprising:

a transceiver; and

at least one processor coupled to the transceiver, wherein the at least one processor is configured to:

receive a frequency domain resource allocation indicating a transmission frequency and an offset frequency;

identify a dataset having symbols using a Physical Uplink Shared Channel (PUSCH) transmission scheme;

identify that the PUSCH transmission scheme indicates usage of intra-repetition frequency hopping;

determine whether the symbols are non-segmented;

in response to determining that the symbols are segmented, disable the intra-repetition frequency hopping;

in response to determining that the symbols are non-segmented, determine whether a length of the symbols meets a symbol length threshold;

in response to determining that the length meets the symbol length threshold, divide the symbols into a first divided portion and a second divided portion for the intra-repetition frequency hopping;

transmit, via the transceiver, the first divided portion of symbols in a first transmission repetition using the transmission frequency; and

transmit, via the transceiver, the second divided portion of symbols in a second transmission repetition using the offset frequency.

9. The wireless communication system of claim 8 , wherein the at least one processor is further configured to:

identify a second dataset using an intra-repetition frequency hopping PUSCH transmission scheme;

determine that the second dataset includes segmented symbols;

disable the intra-repetition frequency hopping; and

transmit the second dataset using the transmission frequency indicated by the frequency domain resource allocation.

10. The wireless communication system of claim 8 , wherein the at least one processor is further configured to:

identify a second dataset having a first portion of symbols and a second portion of symbols using an inter-slot frequency hopping PUSCH transmission scheme;

determine that the first portion and the second portion are segmented;

transmit the first portion in a first transmission slot using the transmission frequency; and

transmit the second portion in a second transmission slot using the offset frequency.

11. The wireless communication system of claim 8 , wherein the at least one processor is further configured to:

identify a second dataset having a first portion of symbols and a second portion of symbols using an inter-slot frequency hopping PUSCH transmission scheme;

determine that the first portion and the second portion are non-segmented;

transmit the first portion in a first transmission slot using the transmission frequency; and

transmit the second portion in a second transmission slot using the offset frequency.

12. The wireless communication system of claim 8 , wherein to transmit using the offset frequency, the at least one processor is further configured to:

modify the transmission frequency by translating the transmission frequency using the offset frequency.

13. The wireless communication system of claim 8 , wherein the frequency domain resource allocation indicates a first range of frequencies corresponding to the transmission frequency and a second range of frequencies corresponding to the offset frequency.

14. The wireless communication system of claim 8 , wherein the at least one processor is further configured to:

alternate between the transmission frequency and the offset frequency to transmit additional PUSCH data.

15. A method, comprising:

transmitting, from a base station to a user equipment (UE), a frequency domain resource allocation indicating a transmission frequency and an offset frequency corresponding to a Physical Uplink Shared Channel (PUSCH) transmission scheme that divides a dataset having symbols into portions for frequency hopping when the symbols are non-segmented and when, in response to the symbols being non-segmented, a length of the symbols meets a symbol length threshold;

receiving, at the base station and from the UE, a first divided portion of symbols from a transmitted dataset using the transmission frequency; and

receiving, at the base station and from the UE, a second divided portion of symbols from the transmitted dataset using the offset frequency.

16. The method of claim 15 , wherein the frequency hopping is an intra-repetition frequency hopping PUSCH transmission scheme, the method further comprising:

receiving the first divided portion of symbols in a transmission repetition using the transmission frequency; and

receiving the second divided portion of symbols in the transmission repetition using the offset frequency.

17. The method of claim 15 , wherein the frequency hopping is an intra-repetition frequency hopping PUSCH transmission scheme, the method further comprising:

receiving a second dataset via the transmission frequency in response to a disabled intra-repetition frequency hopping PUSCH transmission scheme based on segmented symbols of the second dataset being segmented.

18. The method of claim 15 , further comprising:

receiving the first divided portion of symbols in a first transmission repetition using the transmission frequency; and

receiving the second divided portion of symbols in a second transmission repetition using the offset frequency.

19. The method of claim 15 , wherein the frequency domain resource allocation indicates a first range of frequencies corresponding to the transmission frequency and a second range of frequencies corresponding to the offset frequency.

20. The method of claim 15 , further comprising:

receiving additional PUSCH data from alternating UE transmissions using the transmission frequency and the offset frequency.

Continuity (1)

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