US 11,751,176 B2
Beam sweeping with slot aggregation
Yakun Sun, San Jose, CA (US); Anatoliy S. Ioffe, Redwood City, CA (US); Ehsan Haghani, Redwood City, CA (US); and Rohit U. Nabar, Sunnyvale, CA (US)
Assigned to Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US)
Filed by Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US)
Filed on Nov. 1, 2019, as Appl. No. 16/671,865.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/755,219, filed on Nov. 2, 2018.
Prior Publication US 2020/0145998 A1, May 7, 2020
Int. Cl. H04W 72/0446 (2023.01); H04B 7/06 (2006.01); H04L 1/16 (2023.01); H04W 72/23 (2023.01); H04W 72/542 (2023.01); H04W 24/10 (2009.01)
CPC H04W 72/0446 (2013.01) [H04B 7/0617 (2013.01); H04L 1/16 (2013.01); H04W 72/23 (2023.01); H04W 72/542 (2023.01); H04W 24/10 (2013.01)] 8 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method, comprising:
at a user equipment electronic device (UE), transmitting wireless communications to a wireless network and receiving wireless communications from the wireless network using beamforming;
during operation of the UE, determining using the UE or the wireless network that a threshold for a parameter that corresponds to a change in slot aggregation has been crossed, wherein the parameter comprises rotation of the UE;
in response to a determination that the threshold for the parameter that corresponds to the change in slot aggregation has been crossed, changing aggregation of slots as aggregated slots of the wireless communications via the wireless network; and
using the UE and the wireless network, repeating a shared channel in the aggregated slots with a beam sweep of a plurality of beams of the wireless communications, the wireless network or the UE being configured to use a single field that indicates multiple transmission control information (TCI) states indicative of the plurality of beams to be used in the beam sweep over the aggregated slots.