IP Library Granted Patent US 12707486
Granted Patent B2
US 12707486 · App. 17/593,605 · Granted Aug 11, 2026

User equipment (UE) and method for reporting to the network an indication that a single physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) group having a plurality of component carriers (CC) using more than four numerologies across the CCs is supported

Inventors: Haitong Sun (Cupertino, CA); Amir Aminzadeh Gohari (Sunnyvale, CA); Amir Farajidana (Sunnyvale, CA); Dawei Zhang (Saratoga, CA); Hong He (San Jose, CA); Leilei Song (Sunnyvale, CA); Mariam Motamed (Redwood City, CA); Ruoheng Liu (San Diego, CA); Wei Zeng (Saratoga, CA); Wenshu Zhang (San Diego, CA); Yushu Zhang (Beijing, CN)
Assignee: Apple Inc.
H04W72/51H04L5/001H04L27/26025H04L27/2646H04W36/1446H04W72/0453H04W72/21H04L5/0044
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Quick Facts
Patent No.
US 12707486
App. No.
17/593,605
Granted
Aug 11, 2026
Kind
B2
Abstract

A user equipment (UE) may report physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) group capabilities to a network. The UE receives a request from a network for radio access capability information and reports whether a single PUCCH group having a plurality of component carriers (CC) using more than two numerologies across the CCs is supported. The UE may also receive a request from a network for radio access capability information and report whether a PUCCH group having a plurality of CC across multiple frequency bands is supported, wherein the report is configured per band combination (BC). The UE may also receive a request from a network for radio access capability information and report support for a PUCCH location configuration for a PUCCH group having a plurality of CC across multiple frequency bands, the PUCCH location configuration indicating which bands in a band combination (BC) may be used for the PUCCH.

Claims (35)

1 . One or more processors configured to perform operations comprising:

receiving a request from a network for radio access capability information; and

reporting to the network an indication that a single physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) group having a plurality of component carriers (CC) using more than four numerologies across the CCs is supported, without indicating that that a single PUCCH group with three numerologies across the CCs is supported.

2 . The one or more processors of claim 1 , wherein the report is configured per band combination (BC).

3 . The one or more processors of claim 1 , wherein the operations further comprise:

reporting to the network whether a single PUCCH group including an unlicensed band together with a licensed band is supported.

4 . The one or more processors of claim 1 , wherein the operations further comprise:

reporting to the network whether more than one timing advance group (TAG) within a single PUCCH group is supported.

5 . The one or more processors of claim 1 , wherein the operations further comprise:

reporting to the network whether a PUCCH group configuration is supported for release 15 (Rel-15).

6 . The one or more processors of claim 1 , wherein the report is configured per user equipment (UE).

7 . The one or more processors of claim 1 , wherein the report is configured per feature set (FS).

8 . A method, comprising:

at a user equipment (UE):

receiving a request from a network for radio access capability information; and

reporting to the network an indication that a single physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) group having a plurality of component carriers (CC) using more than four numerologies across the CCs is supported, without indicating that that a single PUCCH group with three numerologies across the CCs is supported.

9 . The method of claim 8 , wherein the report is configured per band combination (BC).

10 . The method of claim 8 , further comprising:

reporting to the network whether a single PUCCH group including an unlicensed band together with a licensed band is supported.

11 . The method of claim 8 , further comprising:

reporting to the network whether more than one timing advance group (TAG) within a single PUCCH group is supported.

12 . The method of claim 8 , further comprising:

reporting to the network whether a PUCCH group configuration is supported for release 15 (Rel-15).

13 . The method of claim 8 , wherein the report is configured per UE.

14 . The method of claim 8 , wherein the report is configured per feature set (FS).

15 . An apparatus comprising processing circuitry coupled to a memory, the processing circuitry configured to perform operation, comprising:

receiving a request from a network for radio access capability information; and

reporting to the network an indication that a single physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) group having a plurality of component carriers (CC) using more than four numerologies across the CCs is supported, without indicating that that a single PUCCH group with three numerologies across the CCs is supported.

16 . The apparatus of claim 15 , wherein the report is configured per band combination (BC), per user equipment (UE) or per feature set (FS).

17 . The apparatus of claim 15 , wherein the operations further comprising:

reporting to the network whether a single PUCCH group including an unlicensed band together with a licensed band is supported.

18 . The apparatus of claim 15 , wherein the operations further comprising:

reporting to the network whether more than one timing advance group (TAG) within a single PUCCH group is supported.

19 . The apparatus of claim 15 , wherein the operations further comprising:

reporting to the network whether a PUCCH group configuration is supported for release 15 (Rel-15).