US 11,817,933 B2
5G new radio beam refinement procedure
Jia Tang, San Jose, CA (US); Beibei Wang, San Jose, CA (US); Dawei Zhang, Saratoga, CA (US); Haitong Sun, Irvine, CA (US); Johnson O. Sebeni, Fremont, CA (US); Pengkai Zhao, San Jose, CA (US); Ping Wang, San Jose, CA (US); Wei Zeng, Sang Diego, CA (US); Yang Li, Santa Clara, CA (US); and Zhu Ji, San Jose, CA (US)
Assigned to Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US)
Filed by Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US)
Filed on Jul. 26, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/873,934.
Application 17/873,934 is a continuation of application No. 17/202,185, filed on Mar. 15, 2021, granted, now 11,405,095.
Application 17/202,185 is a continuation of application No. 16/736,557, filed on Jan. 7, 2020, granted, now 10,951,301, issued on Mar. 16, 2021.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/790,536, filed on Jan. 10, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2022/0368403 A1, Nov. 17, 2022
This patent is subject to a terminal disclaimer.
Int. Cl. H04B 7/08 (2006.01); H04B 7/06 (2006.01); H04W 36/06 (2009.01); H04W 36/36 (2009.01); H04W 36/30 (2009.01); H04W 36/32 (2009.01)
CPC H04B 7/088 (2013.01) [H04B 7/0632 (2013.01); H04W 36/06 (2013.01); H04W 36/36 (2013.01); H04W 36/30 (2013.01); H04W 36/32 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A base station, comprising:
at least one antenna;
at least one radio coupled to the at least one antenna; and
a processing element coupled to the at least one radio;
wherein the processing element is configured to cause the base station to:
receive, from a user equipment (UE), an indication of a timing offset, wherein the indication of the timing offset specifies a first timing offset category among a plurality of timing offset categories, and wherein the timing offset is between an aperiodic channel state information (CSI) reference signal (CSI-RS) and an associated measurement report;
transmit, to the UE, instructions to perform a beam quality measurement procedure and report a result of the beam quality measurement procedure based on the indication; and
receive, from the UE, the result of the beam quality measurement procedure.