Granted Patent B2

US 12,445,982 · App. 17/758,410 · Granted Oct 14, 2025

Inventors: Jie Cui (Cupertino, CA); Hong He (Cupertino, CA); Dawei Zhang (Cupertino, CA); Chunhai Yao (Beijing, CN); Chunxuan Ye (San Diego, CA); Haitong Sun (Cupertino, CA); Weidong Yang (San Diego, CA); Wei Zeng (Cupertino, CA); Yuchul Kim (Cupertino, CA); Yushu Zhang (Beijing, CN); Zhibin Wu (Cupertino, CA); Yang Tang (Cupertino, CA)

Assignee: APPLE INC.

H04W56/001H04L5/14H04W24/10

Abstract

Claims (27)

1. A method for a user equipment (UE) to perform synchronization signal block (SSB) based inter-frequency measurements, the method comprising:

configuring the UE to perform inter-frequency measurements without measurement gap (MG) within a measurement window in a time division duplex (TDD) band in a first frequency range (FR1);

applying scheduling restrictions to prioritize the inter-frequency measurements without MG on a neighboring cell over uplink transmissions to a serving cell within the measurement window, wherein the measurement window comprises an SSB measurement timing configuration (SMTC) window duration; and

applying a scheduling restriction due to a synchronization signal (SS) reference signal receive power (SS-RSRP) measurement, an SS reference signal received quality (SS-RSRQ) measurement, or an SS signal-to-noise and interference ratio (SS-SINR) measurement by the UE, wherein the UE is restricted from transmitting a physical uplink control channel (PUCCH), a physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH), or a sounding reference signal (SRS) on restricted symbols comprising all symbols within the SMTC window duration.

2. The method of claim 1 , further comprising, when performing TDD intra-band carrier aggregation, applying the scheduling restrictions corresponding to a particular serving cell to other serving cells in a same band on one or more symbols that fully or partially overlap with the restricted symbols.

3. The method of claim 1 , further comprising configuring the UE to perform the inter-frequency measurements without MG using either TDD or frequency division duplex (FDD) with a different subcarrier spacing (SCS) than that of a physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH) or a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) in the FR1.

4. The method of claim 3 , wherein the UE does not support concurrent intra-frequency measurement on the serving cell or neighboring cell and the PDCCH or the PDSCH reception from the serving cell with different numerologies, the method further comprising:

applying a scheduling restriction due to the SS-RSRP measurement, the SS-RSRQ measurement, or the SS-SINR measurement by the UE,

wherein the UE is restricted from transmitting the PUCCH, the PUSCH, or the SRS on the restricted symbols comprising all the symbols within the SMTC window duration, and

wherein the UE is restricted from receiving the PDCCH, the PDSCH, a tracking reference signal (TRS), or a channel state information reference signal (CSI-RS) for a channel quality indicator (CQI) on the restricted symbols.

5. The method of claim 4 , further comprising, when performing intra-band carrier aggregation, applying the scheduling restrictions corresponding to a particular serving cell to other serving cells in a same band on one or more symbols that fully or partially overlap with the restricted symbols.

6. The method of claim 4 , further comprising generating UE capability information for communication to a cellular network to indicate that the UE does not support simultaneousRxDataSSB-DiffNumerology.

7. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:

configuring the UE to perform the inter-frequency measurements without MG on a second frequency range (FR2);

applying a scheduling restriction due to the SS-RSRP measurement, the SS-RSRQ measurement, or the SS-SINR measurement by the UE,

wherein the UE is restricted from transmitting the PUCCH, the PUSCH, or the SRS on the restricted symbols comprising all the symbols within the SMTC window duration, and

wherein the UE is restricted from receiving a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) a physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH), a tracking reference signal (TRS), or a channel state information reference signal (CSI-RS) for a channel quality indicator (CQI) on the restricted symbols.

8. The method of claim 7 , further comprising, when performing intra-band carrier aggregation, applying the scheduling restrictions corresponding to a particular serving cell to other serving cells in a same band on one or more symbols that fully or partially overlap with the restricted symbols.

9. A method for a user equipment (UE) to perform measurement resource sharing or restriction for synchronization signal block (SSB) based inter-frequency measurement objects (MOs) without measurement gap (MG), the method comprising:

determining one of the following four conditions is met:

the SSB based inter-frequency MOs without MG fully overlapping with the SSB based intra-frequency MOs without MG;

the SSB based inter-frequency MOs without MG partially overlapping with the SSB based intra-frequency MOs without MG;

the SSB based inter-frequency MOs without MG fully overlapping with the SSB based intra-frequency MOs with MG; or

the SSB based inter-frequency MOs without MG partially overlapping with the SSB based intra-frequency MOs with MG; and

based on determining that the SSB based inter-frequency MOs without MG partially overlaps with the SSB based intra-frequency MOs with MG, configuring the measurement resource sharing or restriction.

10. The method of claim 9 , further comprising, when the SSB based inter-frequency MOs without MG partially overlaps with the SSB based intra-frequency MOs with MG, performing the SSB based inter-frequency MOs without MG outside of MG occasions.

11. The method of claim 10 , wherein outside the MG occasions, if the SSB based inter-frequency MOs without MG fully overlap with the SSB based intra-frequency MOs with MG, performing the SSB based inter-frequency MOs without MG only.

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