US 12,342,283 B2
Power saving techniques for network-controlled repeaters
Ankit Bhamri, Bad Nauheim (DE); Hong He, Cupertino, CA (US); Sigen Ye, San Diego, CA (US); Chunxuan Ye, San Diego, CA (US); Wei Zeng, San Diego, CA (US); Huaning Niu, San Jose, CA (US); Oghenekome Oteri, San Diego, CA (US); Haitong Sun, Cupertino, CA (US); Dawei Zhang, Saratoga, CA (US); and Seyed Ali Akbar Fakoorian, San Diego, CA (US)
Assigned to Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US)
Filed by Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US)
Filed on Aug. 10, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/884,867.
Prior Publication US 2024/0056975 A1, Feb. 15, 2024
Int. Cl. H04W 52/02 (2009.01); H04W 56/00 (2009.01); H04W 74/0833 (2024.01); H04W 88/08 (2009.01)
CPC H04W 52/0232 (2013.01) [H04W 52/028 (2013.01); H04W 56/001 (2013.01); H04W 74/0833 (2013.01); H04W 88/08 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An apparatus, comprising:
at least one processor configured to cause a base station (BS) to:
transmit, to a network controlled repeater (NCR), configuration information to configure one or more receive (Rx) beams and corresponding time-domain resources, wherein:
the configuration information comprises at least one of a threshold amount of time or a duration of time,
the threshold amount of time corresponds to the NCR's monitoring for a physical uplink channel or signal from one or more user equipments (UEs) on the one or more Rx beams on the corresponding time-domain resources, and
the duration of time corresponds to the NCR's refraining from at least one of additional monitoring for reception of the physical uplink channel or signal from the one or more UEs or transmission of one or more synchronization signal block (SSBs) to the one or more UEs;
receive, from the NCR, a request message to adjust at least one of the threshold amount of time or duration of time; and
transmit, to the NCR, additional configuration information including at least one of an updated threshold amount of time or an updated duration of time.