US 12,137,440 B2
Beam sweeping with slot aggregation
Yakun Sun, San Jose, CA (US); Anatoliy S. Ioffe, Sunnyvale, 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 Sep. 7, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/939,742.
Application 17/939,742 is a continuation of application No. 16/671,865, filed on Nov. 1, 2019, granted, now 11,751,176.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/755,219, filed on Nov. 2, 2018.
Prior Publication US 2023/0007653 A1, Jan. 5, 2023
Int. Cl. H04W 72/0446 (2023.01); H04B 7/06 (2006.01); H04L 1/16 (2023.01); H04W 24/10 (2009.01); H04W 72/23 (2023.01); H04W 72/542 (2023.01)
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)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method, comprising:
indicating, using a first radio resource control (RRC) information element (IE), to use link aggregation;
indicating, using a second RRC IE, a number of beams to use over aggregated slots during the link aggregation;
indicating, using a third RRC IE, a bitmap of repetition of the beams;
configuring, using a fourth RRC IE, a beam pattern; and
communicating using the beam pattern.