US 12,328,676 B2
Transmitting wake-up signals for paging operations
Fangli Xu, Beijing (CN); Chunhai Yao, Beijing (CN); Clive E Rodgers, Palo Alto, CA (US); Dawei Zhang, Saratoga, CA (US); Haijing Hu, Los Gatos, CA (US); Haitong Sun, Saratoga, CA (US); Longda Xing, San Jose, CA (US); Murtaza A Shikari, Mountain View, CA (US); Sarma V Vangala, Campbell, CA (US); Sethuraman Gurumoorthy, San Ramon, CA (US); Srirang A Lovlekar, Fremont, CA (US); Wei Zeng, Saratoga, CA (US); Yuchul Kim, San Jose, CA (US); Yuqin Chen, Beijing (CN); Yushu Zhang, Beijing (CN); and Zhibin Wu, Los Altos, CA (US)
Assigned to Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US)
Filed by Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US)
Filed on Oct. 17, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/488,088.
Application 18/488,088 is a continuation of application No. 17/593,661, granted, now 11,812,384, previously published as PCT/CN2020/103745, filed on Jul. 23, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2024/0049137 A1, Feb. 8, 2024
Int. Cl. H04W 52/02 (2009.01); H04W 56/00 (2009.01); H04W 68/00 (2009.01)
CPC H04W 52/0232 (2013.01) [H04W 52/0274 (2013.01); H04W 56/001 (2013.01); H04W 68/005 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
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1. A method performed by a base station, comprising:
configuring a wake-up signal (WUS) that is to be transmitted to a plurality of user equipment (UE) operating in a paging discontinuous reception (DRX) cycle, wherein a first group of UEs are associated with a first paging occasion (PO) and a second group of UEs are associated with a second PO, wherein the WUS indicates whether the first group of UEs are to wake-up or remain asleep during the first PO and whether the second group of UEs are to wake-up or remain asleep during the second PO, wherein the WUS comprises a first common indication indicating whether the first group of UEs and the second group of UEs are to wake-up or remain asleep for the respective first PO or second PO, wherein the first PO and the second PO each comprise a plurality of POs and wherein the WUS further comprises a second common indication of a number of consecutive first POs and second POs to which the first common indication applies; and
transmitting the WUS to the plurality of UEs.