IP Library Granted Patent US 12672133
Granted Patent B2
US 12672133 · App. 18/511,071 · Granted Jun 30, 2026

Method, device, and system for uplink signaling transmission

Inventors: Xiaoying Ma (Shenzhen, CN); Mengzhu Chen (Shenzhen, CN); Yuzhou Xu (Shenzhen, CN); Jun Xu (Shenzhen, CN); Jiajun Xu (Shenzhen, CN); Hong Tang (Shenzhen, CN)
Assignee: ZTE CORPORATION
H04W72/1268H04L1/1812H04W28/0278H04W72/566H04W76/28
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Patent No.
US 12672133
App. No.
18/511,071
Granted
Jun 30, 2026
Kind
B2
Abstract

In wireless communication, a configuration of uplink (“UL”) signaling transmissions can be through a specific window or pattern. The UL transmission can be concentrated in a time period to save power. Specifically, an active time is determined as a time period for UL signals. Non-active time may include different types of UL signals. The active time may be configured and enabled under different conditions.

Claims (28)

1 . A method for wireless communication, comprising:

receiving a configuration message for active time configuration from a base station, wherein the active time configuration comprises an uplink (“UL”) active time configuration, the UL active time configuration comprises at least one of a duration, an offset, a cycle value, a cycle number, a pattern, a timer, a start parameter, or an end parameter, and an UL active time is determined by at least a cycle which comprises M sub cycles, each of the sub cycles has one duration and a cycle value; and

transmitting UL signaling during an active time.

2 . The method of claim 1 , further comprising:

transmitting a second type of UL signaling during a time other than the active time, wherein the UL signaling other than the second type is transmitted only during the active time.

3 . The method of claim 2 , wherein the second type of UL signaling includes at least one of a physical uplink shared channel (“PUSCH”) scheduled by a Medium Access Control (“MAC”) Random Access Response (“RAR”) or scheduled by MAC fallbackRAR or for MsgA PUSCH transmission, a physical random access channel (“PRACH”) preamble, a certain type of SRS, a certain type of CSI report, hybrid automatic repeat request (“HARQ”), a certain type of PUSCH, a different type of a physical uplink control channel (“PUCCH”), or UL signaling with high priority.

4 . The method of claim 1 , wherein the transmitting is from a user equipment (“UE”) to the base station and the receiving the configuration message is at the UE from the base station.

5 . The method of claim 4 , wherein the active time comprises an UL active time or a downlink (“DL”) active time.

6 . The method of claim 5 , wherein the DL active time comprises at least one of a discontinuous reception (“DRX”) active time when DRX is configured, a time duration when drx-ondurationTimer is running, a time duration when drx-inacitivity Timer is running, a time duration when a PDCCH skipping is not activated, a time duration when a default search space set group (“SSSG”) is used, or a time during a monitoring of a physical downlink control channel (“PDCCH”) by a user equipment (“UE”).

7 . The method of claim 1 , wherein the UL active time is determined by at least one cycle, a M duration, and a M offset, further wherein at least one of the M duration appears at least one of the M offsets.

8 . The method of claim 1 , wherein the offset indicates a minimum time duration between a reference point and a beginning of the UL active time.

9 . The method of claim 1 , further comprising:

transmitting a first type of UL signaling during an UL active time, wherein the first type of UL signaling includes at least one of a scheduling request (“SR”), a buffer status report (“BSR”), a PUSCH, a sounding reference signal (“SRS”), Channel-state information (“CSI”) report, or a first type PUCCH.

10 . The method of claim 4 , wherein the UL active time continues during a time period when a timer has not expired, wherein the timer can be retriggered upon a condition, wherein the condition is based on at least one of a physical uplink shared channel (“PUSCH”), downlink control information (“DCI”) signal, a scheduling request (“SR”) signal, a buffer status report (“BSR”), or a physical downlink control channel (“PDCCH”) signal.

11 . The method of claim 4 , wherein the UL active time is triggered or enabled when a condition satisfied, wherein the condition is associated with at least one of a radio resource control (“RRC”) signal, a MAC control element (“CE”) signal, a layer one (“L1”) signal, a discontinuous reception (“DRX”) active time, PDCCH monitoring behavior, a UE capability, a DRX configuration, a secondary cell (“SCell”) dormancy indication, a cross slot scheduling indication, or a timer.

12 . The method of claim 11 , wherein the condition is satisfied when receiving a downlink control information (“DCI”) indicating a physical downlink control channel (“PDCCH”) skipping, or receiving a DCI indicates activation of an UL active time, or after a timer expires.

13 . The method of claim 4 , wherein the UL active time is determined by an UL active time configuration, further wherein the UL active time configuration is associated with at least one of a layer one (“L 1 ”) signaling, a high layer signaling, a discontinuous reception (“DRX”) parameter, a traffic parameter, a time division duplex (“TDD”) pattern, a configured grant (“CG”) configuration, a search space set configuration, a physical downlink control channel (“PDCCH”) skipping duration, a timer, a UE assistance information, a UE capability, an UL signaling, a pattern, a physical downlink shared channel (“PDSCH”) decoding procedure time, a minimum scheduling offset, or a physical uplink shared channel (“PUSCH”) preparation procedure time.

14 . The method of claim 13 , wherein the UL active time is determined by the UL active time configuration, further wherein the UL active time configuration is associated with a traffic parameter which comprises a periodicity and the cycle of the UL active time is the same as periodicity of the traffic.

15 . The method of claim 13 , wherein the UL active time is determined by the UL active time configuration, further wherein the UL active time configuration is associated with at least a search space set configuration and a cycle of the UL active time is equal to periodicity of the search space set.

16 . The method of claim 1 , wherein the transmission of the UL signaling is not restricted in active time if a condition satisfied, wherein the condition is associated with at least one of a UE assistance information, a buffer status report (“BSR”), a scheduling request (“SR”), a priority information, a physical random access channel (“PRACH”), a beam failure, a high layer signaling, or downlink control information (“DCI”).

17 . A method for wireless communication, comprising:

transmitting a configuration message for active time configuration from a base station to a user equipment (“UE”), wherein the active time configuration comprises an uplink (“UL”) active time configuration, the UL active time configuration comprises at least one of a duration, an offset, a cycle value, a cycle number, a pattern, a timer, a start parameter, or an end parameter, and an UL active time is determined by at least a cycle which comprises M sub cycles, each of the sub cycles has one duration and a cycle value; and

receiving uplink UL signaling during an active time.

18 . A wireless communications apparatus comprising:

a memory operable to store computer-readable instructions; and

a processor circuitry operable to read the computer-readable instructions, the processor circuitry when executing the computer-readable instructions is configured to:

receive a configuration message for active time configuration from a base station, wherein the active time configuration comprises an uplink (“UL”) active time configuration, the UL active time configuration comprises at least one of a duration, an offset, a cycle value, a cycle number, a pattern, a timer, a start parameter, or an end parameter, and an UL active time is determined by at least a cycle which comprises M sub cycles, each of the sub cycles has one duration and a cycle value; and

transmit UL signaling during an active time.