Apple inc. (20250007592). METHODS AND APPARATUSES FOR CONTROL INFORMATION SIGNALING FOR SMART REPEATERS IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS

METHODS AND APPARATUSES FOR CONTROL INFORMATION SIGNALING FOR SMART REPEATERS IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS

Organization Name

apple inc.

Inventor(s)

Hong He of San Jose CA (US)

Chunxuan Ye of San Diego CA (US)

Dawei Zhang of Saratoga CA (US)

Haitong Sun of Cupertino CA (US)

Huaning Niu of San Jose CA (US)

Oghenekome Oteri of San Jose CA (US)

Seyed Ali Akbar Fakoorian of San Diego CA (US)

Sigen Ye of San Diego CA (US)

Wei Zeng of Saratoga CA (US)

Weidong Yang of San Diego CA (US)

Yushu Zhang of Beijing (CN)

METHODS AND APPARATUSES FOR CONTROL INFORMATION SIGNALING FOR SMART REPEATERS IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS

This abstract first appeared for US patent application 20250007592 titled 'METHODS AND APPARATUSES FOR CONTROL INFORMATION SIGNALING FOR SMART REPEATERS IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS

Original Abstract Submitted

systems and methods for the use of smart repeater (smr) control information from a base station to an smr to control aspects of smr operation are disclosed herein. the smr control information may control the operation of to either or both of an smr synchronization signal block (ssb) beam sweep or an smr channel state information reference signal (csi-rs) beam sweep. an smr may report, to a base station, smr capability information; receive, from the base station, smr control information corresponding to the smr capability information that includes a first portion configuring an ssb beam sweep and/or a second portion configuring a csi-rs beam sweep; and perform, based on the smr control information, one or both of the smr ssb beam sweep and the smr csi-rs beam sweep. systems and methods for signaling the smr control information between the smr and the base station are also provided.