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Apple patents method for phones to request stronger signal repeats

Patent drawing from the official filing.

Apple describes a way for a phone to ask a cell tower to repeat its data transmissions if the connection is weak. The phone checks settings from the tower and sends a specific request to enable this repetition for certain types of data.

Why it mattersThis is a technical improvement to how mobile devices manage their connection, potentially helping maintain a stable link in areas with poor signal strength.

In the filing’s own words

A user equipment (UE) configured to decode, based on signals received from a base station, first configuration information, determine, based on the first configuration information, that Physical Uplink Shared Channel (PUSCH) repetition is to be enabled for a PUSCH scheduled by fallback Downlink Control (DCI) and configure transceiver circuitry to transmit, to the base station, a request to enable PUSCH repetition for the PUSCH scheduled by fallback DCI

What exactly they claim (claim 1)

1. An apparatus of a user equipment (UE), the apparatus comprising processing circuitry configured to: decode, based on signals received from a base station, first configuration information; determine, based on the first configuration information, that Physical Uplink Shared Channel (PUSCH) repetition is to be enabled for a PUSCH scheduled by fallback Downlink Control (DCI); and configure transceiver circuitry to transmit, to the base station, a request to enable PUSCH repetition for the PUSCH scheduled by fallback DCI.

Facts

Company: Apple (Apple Inc.)
Official title: Coverage Enhancement for PUSCH
Publication number: US20260323630A1
Application number: 18870498
Filed: Dec 1, 2023
Published: Oct 15, 2026
Inventors: 7
Claims: 20

Classified under

H04W 72/1268 Electricity & electronicsH04W 72/232 Electricity & electronicsH04W 72/542 Electricity & electronics

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