IP Library Granted Patent US 11,490,334
Granted Patent B2
US 11,490,334 · App. 16/575,611 · Granted Nov 1, 2022

Power saving in a wireless communication system

Inventors: Hua Zhou (Herndon, VA); Esmael Dinan (McLean, VA); Hyoungsuk Jeon (Centreville, VA); Ali Cirik (Herndon, VA); Alireza Babaei (Fairfax, VA); Kyungmin Park (Herndon, VA); Kai Xu (Herndon, VA)
Assignee: Ofinno, LLC
H04W52/0235H04L1/1614H04W24/08H04W52/0229H04W72/042H04W76/28H04W80/02
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Patent No.
US 11,490,334
App. No.
16/575,611
Granted
Nov 1, 2022
Kind
B2
Abstract

A wireless device receives one or more radio resource control message comprising configuration parameters of a plurality of cells. An activation command indicating activation of a plurality of secondary cells (SCells) of the plurality of cells is received. A first downlink control information (DCI), comprising a power saving indication bitmap, is received. Each bit of the power saving indication bitmap indicates whether to monitor a downlink control channel on a corresponding activated SCell of the plurality of SCells. The wireless device starts monitoring a downlink control channel of an activated SCell of the activated SCells, in response to a bit, of the power saving indication bitmap, corresponding to the activated SCell, indicating monitoring the downlink control channel. A second DCI is received via the downlink control channel.

Claims (31)

1. A method comprising:

receiving, by a wireless device, one or more radio resource control messages comprising configuration parameters of a plurality of secondary cells (SCells);

receiving an SCell activation medium access control control element (MAC CE) indicating activation of one or more SCells of the plurality of SCells;

monitoring a first downlink control channel of a first downlink bandwidth part of a first SCell of the one or more SCells;

receiving a first downlink control information (DCI) comprising a power saving indication bitmap, wherein:

each bit of the power saving indication bitmap corresponds to an SCell, of the plurality of SCells, in an ascending order of SCell indexes; and

a value of each bit indicates whether the wireless device monitors a downlink control channel on a downlink bandwidth part of the corresponding SCell; and

stopping monitoring the first downlink control channel of the first downlink bandwidth part of the first SCell, with the first SCell maintained as activated, in response to:

the SCell activation MAC CE indicating activation of the first SCell; and

a first bit, of the power saving indication bitmap received in the first DCI, corresponding to the first SCell and indicating not to monitor the first downlink control channel.

2. The method of claim 1 , wherein the first DCI is received via a primary cell.

3. The method of claim 2 , wherein the first DCI is received via a power saving channel on the primary cell.

4. The method of claim 3 , wherein the configuration parameters indicate one or more configuration parameters of the power saving channel, the one or more configuration parameters comprising:

a search space for monitoring the power saving channel;

a control resource set for monitoring the power saving channel; and

a radio network temporary identifier for monitoring the power saving channel.

5. The method of claim 4 , wherein the one or more configuration parameters further comprise one or more resource configuration parameters of reference signals for monitoring the power saving channel.

6. The method of claim 5 , further comprising monitoring the power saving channel, for receiving the first DCI, based on the one or more resource configuration parameters of the reference signals.

7. The method of claim 6 , wherein the monitoring the power saving channel further comprises monitoring the power saving channel with spatial domain parameters determined based on reception of the reference signals.

8. The method of claim 7 , wherein the spatial domain parameters are used for reception of the reference signals in response to the reference signals being configured for the power saving channel.

9. The method of claim 3 , further comprising not monitoring the power saving channel on the first SCell.

10. The method of claim 1 , wherein the first SCell maintained as activated comprises maintaining an active state of the first downlink bandwidth part comprises by not switching the first downlink bandwidth part.

11. The method of claim 10 , wherein the maintaining the active state of the first downlink bandwidth part comprises performing channel state information measurement on the first downlink bandwidth part of the first SCell.

12. The method of claim 1 , wherein the configuration parameters indicate that the first SCell, activated by the SCell activation MAC CE, is self-scheduled.

13. The method of claim 1 , further comprising activating a bandwidth part of each of the plurality of SCells before the receiving the first DCI.

14. The method of claim 1 , wherein the first DCI does not indicate an active bandwidth part switching on the first SCell.

15. The method of claim 1 , wherein the plurality of SCells comprise:

one or more SCells; and

a plurality of deactivated SCells.

16. The method of claim 1 , wherein the first downlink control channel is monitored discontinuously in response to a discontinuous reception operation being configured on the first SCell.

17. The method of claim 1 , wherein the power saving indication bitmap further indicates whether the wireless device monitors a second downlink control channel on a primary cell.

Assignments (2)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Dec 4, 2023
From: OFINNO, LLC
To: HONOR DEVICE CO., LTD.
Reel/Frame 065749/0288 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Feb 10, 2020
From: ZHOU, HUA; DINAN, ESMAEL HEJAZI; CIRIK, ALI; BABAEI, ALIREZA; JEON, HYOUNGSUK; PARK, KYUNGMIN; XU, KAI
To: OFINNO, LLC
Reel/Frame 051770/0235 →
Continuity (3)
Provisional Application 62734536 · Sep 21, 2018
Provisional Application 62733303 · Sep 19, 2018
Related Publication 20200092814A1 · Mar 19, 2020
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