IP Library Granted Patent US 11,012,197
Granted Patent B2
US 11,012,197 · App. 16/245,552 · Granted May 18, 2021

Resource set configurations using automatic repeat request information

Inventors: Hong He (Sunnyvale, CA); Gang Xiong (Portland, OR); Debdeep Chatterjee (San Jose, CA); Joonyoung Cho (Portland, OR); Yushu Zhang (Beijing, CN)
Assignee: Apple Inc.
H04L1/1819H04L1/0061H04L5/001H04L5/0055H04L5/0064H04L5/0094H04L65/1016H04L65/1063H04L65/80H04W24/08H04W68/02H04W72/042H04W76/11H04L5/0023H04W84/042
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Patent No.
US 11,012,197
App. No.
16/245,552
Granted
May 18, 2021
Kind
B2
Abstract

An apparatus is configured to be employed within a user equipment (UE) device. The apparatus comprises baseband circuitry which includes a radio frequency (RF) interface and one or more processors. The one or more processors are configured to identify a plurality of monitoring occasions for a set of flexible control resource sets (CORESET); determine bit ordering for the plurality of monitoring occasions; generate hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) feedback based on the received downlink transmission; and incorporate the ordered plurality of monitoring occasions into the HARQ feedback.

Claims (21)

1. An apparatus for a user equipment (UE) device, comprising baseband circuitry having:

a radio frequency (RF) interface configured to provide a physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) for transmission to a next Generation NodeB (gNB);

one or more processors configured to:

identify a plurality of monitoring occasions for a set of flexible control resource sets (CORESETs);

determine bit ordering for the plurality of monitoring occasions based on one or more monitoring factors, wherein the one or more monitoring factors include two or more of a time index, a CC index, an active BWP index and a CORESET index, and wherein the two or more monitoring factors are prioritized in order by the time index, the CC index, the active BWP index and the CORESET index; and

generate hybrid automatic repeat request-acknowledge (HARQ-ACK) bits based on the determined bit ordering for the PUCCH.

2. The apparatus of claim 1 , wherein the first set is associated with one or more bandwidth parts (BWPs).

3. The apparatus of claim 1 , wherein the set is associated with a plurality of component carriers (CCs).

4. The apparatus of claim 1 , wherein the plurality of monitoring occasions are physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) monitoring occasions.

5. The apparatus of claim 1 , wherein the RF interface is configured to receive a HARQ downlink transmission from the gNB.

6. The apparatus of claim 1 , wherein the plurality of monitoring occasions are for PDCCH with a downlink control information (DCI) format with a cyclical redundancy code (CRC).

7. The apparatus of claim 6 , wherein the CRC is scrambled by a cell-radio network temporary identifier (C-RNTI) used for a downlink assignment.

8. The apparatus of claim 1 , where the one or more processors are configured to derive PUCCH resources from a resource subset based on a starting control channel element (CCE) index and an associated aggregation level.

9. The apparatus of claim 1 , wherein the one or more processors are configured to generate a PUCCH resource from the plurality of monitoring occasions within a monitoring window based on a predefined rule or configured by higher layers.

10. One or more non-transitory computer-readable media having instructions that, when executed by a processor, cause a user equipment (UE) device to:

determine a plurality of monitoring occasions for a set of control resource sets (CORESETs) for a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH);

select one or more monitoring parameters for the plurality of monitoring occasions and the set of CORESETs; and

select an ordering approach for the plurality of monitoring occasions and the set of CORESETs based on the selected one or more monitoring parameters,

wherein the one or more monitoring parameters include two or more of a time index, a CC index, an active BWP index and a CORESET index, and wherein the two or more monitoring parameters are prioritized in order by the time index, the CC index, the active BWP index and the CORESET index.

11. The non-transitory computer-readable media of claim 10 , wherein the instructions, when executed by the processor, further cause the UE device to generate hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) feedback including the plurality of monitoring occasions.

12. The non-transitory computer-readable media of claim 10 , wherein the set of CORESETs is associated with a plurality of component carriers (CCs) or a plurality of bandwidth parts (BWPs).

Assignments (3)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Feb 14, 2020
From: INTEL CORPORATION
To: APPLE INC.
Reel/Frame 052414/0001 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded May 29, 2019
From: BENNA, MANUEL; RUSANOV, ANDRII
To: VARIAN MEDICAL SYSTEMS PARTICLE THERAPY GMBH
Reel/Frame 049311/0103 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded May 29, 2019
From: ANFEROV, VLADIMIR
To: VARIAN MEDICAL SYSTEMS, INC
Reel/Frame 049311/0114 →
Continuity (2)
Provisional Application 62616752 · Jan 12, 2018
Related Publication 20190149275A1 · May 16, 2019