US 11,943,024 B2
Beamforming scheme switching
Yushu Zhang, Beijing (CN); Dawei Zhang, Saratoga, CA (US); Haitong Sun, Cupertino, CA (US); Rohit U. Nabar, Sunnyvale, CA (US); Wei Zeng, Saratoga, CA (US); Weidong Yang, San Diego, CA (US); and Yakun Sun, San Jose, CA (US)
Assigned to Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US)
Appl. No. 17/598,226
Filed by Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US)
PCT Filed Jun. 14, 2021, PCT No. PCT/US2021/037280
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Sep. 24, 2021,
PCT Pub. No. WO2022/031368, PCT Pub. Date Feb. 10, 2022.
Claims priority of application No. PCT/CN2020/107186 (WO), filed on Aug. 5, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2022/0302973 A1, Sep. 22, 2022
Int. Cl. H04W 8/24 (2009.01); H04B 7/06 (2006.01)
CPC H04B 7/0617 (2013.01) [H04W 8/24 (2013.01)] 7 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. One or more non-transitory computer-readable media having instructions that, when executed by one or more processors, cause a user equipment (UE) to:
determine a beamforming scheme supported by the UE, the beamforming scheme to include a channel-based beamforming scheme or a codebook-based beamforming scheme;
generate a capability report or media access control (MAC) control element (CE) to include information about the beamforming scheme supported by the UE; and
transmit the capability report or MAC CE to a gNB.