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Granted Patent B2
US 10,901,478 · App. 16/673,630 · Granted Jan 26, 2021

Performing a power saving operation based on a received power saving signal and power saving signal configuration

Inventors: Wooseok Nam (San Diego, CA); Tao Luo (San Diego, CA); Wanshi Chen (San Diego, CA); Peter Pui Lok Ang (San Diego, CA); Heechoon Lee (San Diego, CA); Juan Montojo (San Diego, CA); Olufunmilola Omolade Awoniyi-Oteri (San Diego, CA); Hung Dinh Ly (San Diego, CA)
Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
G06F1/3209G06F1/325G06F1/1626
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Patent No.
US 10,901,478
App. No.
16/673,630
Granted
Jan 26, 2021
Kind
B2
Abstract

Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may receive one or more power saving signals based at least in part on a selected power saving signal configuration of a set of power saving signal configurations, wherein the UE stores information identifying the set of power saving signal configurations; and perform a power saving operation based at least in part on the one or more power saving signals. In some aspects, a base station may determine one or more power saving signal configurations, of a set of power saving signal configurations, to be used to transmit one or more power saving signals; and transmit the one or more power saving signals using the one or more power saving signal configurations. Numerous other aspects are provided.

Claims (82)

1. A method of wireless communication performed by a user equipment (UE), comprising:

receiving one or more power saving signals based at least in part on a power saving signal configuration

wherein the UE stores information identifying the power saving signal configuration, and

wherein receiving the one or more power saving signals further comprises:

performing blind decoding based at least in part on the power saving signal configuration to identify the one or more power saving signals; and

performing a power saving operation based at least in part on the one or more power saving signals.

2. The method of claim 1 , wherein the power saving signal configuration is configured on a per application, a per service, or a per UE basis.

3. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:

transmitting a request for the power saving signal configuration.

4. The method of claim 1 , wherein the UE stores information identifying a set of power saving signal configurations including the power saving signal configuration,

wherein the method further comprises:

determining the power saving signal configuration from among the set of Power saving signal configurations.

5. The method of claim 1 , wherein the power saving signal configuration is determined based at least in part on a parameter configured by a base station.

6. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:

receiving information indicating the power saving signal configuration.

7. The method of claim 1 , wherein the power saving signal configuration is used for one or more of a particular time resource, a particular frequency resource, or a particular beam.

8. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:

determining a monitoring configuration for the one or more power saving signals based at least in part on a parameter or measurement of the UE.

9. The method of claim 1 , wherein the one or more power saving signals are associated with a group of UEs including the UE.

10. The method of claim 1 , wherein the power saving signal configuration indicates a power saving signal type of the one or more power saving signals.

11. The method of claim 1 , wherein the power saving signal configuration indicates, for the one or more power saving signals, at least one of:

a channel coding scheme,

whether a cyclic redundancy check is used,

a control channel element aggregation level,

a number of symbols,

a bandwidth,

a resource element density,

a number of repetitions, or

a beam-sweeping configuration.

12. The method of claim 1 , wherein the one or more power saving signals include at least one of:

a wakeup signal,

a go-to-sleep signal, or

information indicating a parameter or status change relating to power consumption.

13. A method of wireless communication performed by a base station, comprising:

determining one or more power saving signal configurations to be used to transmit one or more power saving signals; and

transmitting the one or more power saving signals using the one or more power saving signal configurations,

wherein the one or more power saving signals are to be identified using blind decoding based at least in part on the one or more power saving signal configurations.

14. The method of claim 13 , wherein determining the one or more power saving signal configurations is based on at least one of:

a channel condition of a user equipment (UE) to receive the one or more power saving signals,

a mobility state of the UE, or

a measurement report transmitted by the UE.

15. The method of claim 13 , further comprising:

transmitting information identifying the one or more power saving signal configurations.

16. The method of claim 13 , wherein transmitting the one or more power saving signals further comprises:

transmitting the one or more power saving signals on multiple occasions or using multiple configurations.

17. The method of claim 13 , wherein the one or more power saving signals are for a group of UEs.

18. The method of claim 17 , wherein determining the one or more power saving signal configurations is based at least in part on respective requirements of UEs of the group of UEs.

19. The method of claim 13 , wherein the one or more power saving signal configurations are configured on a per application, a per service, or a per user equipment basis.

20. The method of claim 13 , wherein determining the one or more power saving signal configurations is based at least in part on one or more requests for the one or more power saving signal configurations.

21. The method of claim 13 , further comprising:

providing information indicating a parameter to be used to identify the one or more power saving signal configurations.

22. The method of claim 13 , wherein the one or more power saving signal configurations are to be used for one or more of a particular time resource, a particular frequency resource, or a particular beam.

23. The method of claim 13 , wherein the one or more power saving signals are associated with at least one of a group of user equipment, a group of applications, or group of services.

24. The method of claim 13 , wherein the one or more power saving signal configurations indicate a power saving signal type of the one or more power saving signals.

25. The method of claim 13 , wherein the one or more power saving signal configurations indicate, for the one or more power saving signals, at least one of:

a channel coding scheme,

whether a cyclic redundancy check is to be used,

a control channel element aggregation level,

a number of symbols,

a bandwidth,

a resource element density,

a number of repetitions, or

a beam-sweeping configuration.

26. The method of claim 13 , wherein the one or more power saving signals include at least one of:

a wakeup signal,

a go-to-sleep signal, or

information indicating a parameter or status change relating to power consumption.

27. A user equipment (UE) for wireless communication, comprising:

a memory; and

one or more processors operatively coupled to the memory, the memory and the one or more processors configured to:

receive one or more power saving signals based at least in part on a power saving signal configuration,

wherein the UE stores information identifying the power saving signal configuration, and

wherein the one or more power saving signals is received by performing blind decoding based at least in part on the power saving signal configuration to identify the one or more power saving signals; and

perform a power saving operation based at least in part on the one or more power saving signals.

28. The UE of claim 27 , wherein the power saving signal configuration is configured on a per application, a per service, or a per UE basis.

29. The UE of claim 27 , wherein the power saving signal configuration is used for one or more of a particular time resource, a particular frequency resource, or a particular beam.

30. A base station for wireless communication, comprising:

a memory; and

one or more processors operatively coupled to the memory, the memory and the one or more processors configured to:

determine one or more power saving signal configurations to be used to transmit one or more power saving signals; and

transmit the one or more power saving signals using the one or more power saving signal configurations,

wherein the one or more power saving signals are to be identified using blind decoding based at least in part on the one or more power saving signal configurations.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Jan 31, 2020
From: NAM, WOOSEOK; LUO, TAO; CHEN, WANSHI; ANG, PETER PUI LOK; LEE, HEECHOON; MONTOJO, JUAN; AWONIYI-OTERI, OLUFUNMILOLA OMOLADE; LY, HUNG DINH
To: QUALCOMM INCORPORATED
Reel/Frame 051683/0912 →
Continuity (2)
Provisional Application 62760815 · Nov 13, 2018
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