US 12,328,287 B2
Beam switching in intra-band non-contiguous carrier aggregation
Yang Tang, San Jose, CA (US); Jie Cui, Santa Clara, CA (US); and Yuhan Zhou, San Diego, CA (US)
Assigned to Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US)
Appl. No. 17/293,115
Filed by Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US)
PCT Filed Nov. 11, 2019, PCT No. PCT/US2019/060716
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date May 12, 2021,
PCT Pub. No. WO2020/102076, PCT Pub. Date May 22, 2020.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/760,326, filed on Nov. 13, 2018.
Prior Publication US 2022/0014341 A1, Jan. 13, 2022
Int. Cl. H04L 5/00 (2006.01)
CPC H04L 5/0098 (2013.01) [H04L 5/001 (2013.01); H04L 5/0023 (2013.01); H04L 5/0085 (2013.01)] 19 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A non-transitory computer-readable medium (CRM) having instructions, stored thereon, that when executed by one or more processors cause a user equipment (UE) to perform operations, the operations comprising:
receiving a first downlink signal on a first component carrier and a second downlink signal on a second component carrier with a first receive beam according to intra-band non-contiguous carrier aggregation;
switching to a second receive beam to receive a third downlink signal on the first component carrier and a fourth downlink signal on the second component carrier at a slot boundary or a frame boundary of the first or second component carrier; and
interrupting or causing interruption of downlink communication on the first component carrier or the second component carrier based on the switch.