Apple had 30 patents in space economy during Q4 2023. Apple Inc’s patents filed in Q4 2023 focus on techniques for ensuring proper timing and synchronization of transmissions in wireless communications networks, including terrestrial and non-terrestrial networks. The patents also discuss a user equipment (UE) that determines uplink (UL) slots, receives scaling factors and offsets from base stations, and calculates new time gaps for transmission. Additionally, the patents cover devices and methods for enhanced downlink coverage in random access channel procedures, as well as methods and user interfaces for establishing communications. GlobalData’s report on Apple gives a 360-degreee view of the company including its patenting strategy. Buy the report here.
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Apple grant share with space economy as a theme is 13% in Q4 2023. Grant share is based on the ratio of number of grants to total number of patents.
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Application: Timing advance (TA) maintenance in non-terrestrial networks (NTN) (Patent ID: US20230422195A1)
The patent filed by Apple Inc. discusses techniques to ensure proper timing and synchronization of transmissions in a wireless communications network that includes both terrestrial and non-terrestrial networks. The user equipment (UE) is equipped to maintain a timing advance (TA) value for uplink (UL) transmissions, considering propagation delays between the UE, non-terrestrial network, and terrestrial network. The TA maintenance involves factors such as network broadcasts, RACH procedures, control messages, timing drift rates, and beam switching.
The patent claims detail the functionalities of the UE device, baseband (BB) circuitry, and base station in implementing the described techniques. The UE device's processors determine TA values, timing drift rates, and update them based on received information from the non-terrestrial network. The BB circuitry performs similar functions and determines timing drift rates based on common timing drift rates broadcast to UEs in the satellite's coverage area. The base station, on the other hand, receives UL signals from UEs, determines timing drift rates for maintaining TAs over time, and communicates this information back to the UEs. Additionally, the base station can determine TA commands, common TA values, and common timing drift rates to be broadcast to multiple UEs within the satellite's coverage area for adjusting transmission times of UL signals accordingly.
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