IP Library Granted Patent US 11,297,642
Granted Patent B2
US 11,297,642 · App. 16/678,766 · Granted Apr 5, 2022

Method and apparatus for uplink transmission

Inventors: Heng-Li Chin (Taipei, TW); Chia-Hung Wei (Hsinchu, TW); Wan-Chen Lin (Hualien, TW); Yu-Hsin Cheng (Hsinchu, TW); Chie-Ming Chou (Hsinchu, TW)
Assignee: Hannibal IP LLC
H04W72/14H04L1/0003H04L1/1812H04W72/0446H04W72/10
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Patent No.
US 11,297,642
App. No.
16/678,766
Granted
Apr 5, 2022
Kind
B2
Abstract

A method for uplink transmission performed by a UE is provided. The method includes: receiving a first configured grant configuration that allocates a first PUSCH duration; receiving a second configured grant configuration that allocates a second PUSCH duration, wherein the second PUSCH duration overlaps with the first PUSCH duration; obtaining a first HARQ process ID for the first PUSCH duration, then determining whether a first configured grant timer associated with the first HARQ process ID is running; obtaining a second HARQ process ID for the second PUSCH duration, then determining whether a second configured grant timer associated with the second HARQ process ID is running; and selecting one of the first PUSCH duration and the second PUSCH duration for an uplink transmission based on whether the first configured grant timer is running and whether the second configured grant timer is running.

Claims (30)

1. A user equipment (UE) comprising:

one or more non-transitory computer-readable media having computer-executable instructions embodied thereon; and

at least one processor coupled to the one or more non-transitory computer-readable media, the at least one processor configured to execute the computer-executable instructions to:

receive a plurality of configured grant configurations that allocate a group of Physical Uplink Shared Channel (PUSCH) durations in a bandwidth part (BWP), wherein all the PUSCH durations in the group overlap in a time domain;

identify a set of one or more PUSCH durations from the group of PUSCH durations, each PUSCH duration in the identified set of one or more PUCSH durations usable for transmitting a medium access control (MAC) protocol data unit (PDU) generated from available data;

select a specific PUSCH duration from the identified set of one or more PUSCH durations as a prioritized PUSCH duration; and

perform uplink transmission on the prioritized PUSCH duration.

2. The UE of claim 1 , wherein identifying the set of one or more PUSCH durations comprises determining that a configured grant timer associated with a Hybrid Automatic Repeat reQuest (HARD) process of each PUSCH duration from the identified set of one or more PUSCH durations is not running.

3. The UE of claim 1 , wherein:

a number of PUSCH durations in the identified set of one or more PUSCH durations is greater than 1; and

the prioritized PUSCH duration corresponds to a configured grant configuration having a highest priority among configured grant configurations corresponding to the identified set of one or more PUSCH durations.

4. The UE of claim 1 , wherein a number of PUSCH durations in the identified set of one or more PUSCH durations is 1.

5. The UE of claim 1 , wherein the at least one processor is further configured to execute the computer-executable instructions to:

stop a configured grant timer associated with a Hybrid Automatic Repeat reQuest (HARD) process for a deprioritized PUSCH duration,

wherein the deprioritized PUSCH duration is different from the prioritized PUSCH duration and is in the group of PUSCH durations.

6. The UE of claim 5 , wherein the configured grant timer is stopped after transmission on the deprioritized PUSCH duration has started.

7. A method for uplink transmission performed by a user equipment (UE), the method comprising:

receiving a plurality of configured grant configurations that allocate a group of Physical Uplink Shared Channel (PUSCH) durations in a bandwidth part (BWP), wherein all the PUSCH durations in the group overlap in a time domain;

identifying a set of one or more PUSCH durations from the group of PUSCH durations, each PUSCH duration in the identified set of one or more PUCSH durations usable for transmitting a medium access control (MAC) protocol data unit (PDU) generated from available data;

selecting a specific PUSCH duration from the identified set of one or more PUSCH durations as a prioritized PUSCH duration; and

performing uplink transmission on the prioritized PUSCH duration.

8. The method of claim 7 , wherein identifying the set of one or more PUSCH durations comprises determining that a configured grant timer associated with a Hybrid Automatic Repeat reQuest (HARQ) process of each PUSCH duration from the identified set of one or more PUSCH durations is not running.

9. The method of claim 7 , wherein:

a number of PUSCH durations in the identified set of one or more PUSCH durations is greater than 1; and

the prioritized PUSCH duration corresponds to a configured grant configuration having a highest priority among configured grant configurations corresponding to the identified set of one or more PUSCH durations.

10. The method of claim 7 , wherein a number of PUSCH durations in the identified set of one or more PUSCH durations is 1.

11. The method of claim 7 , further comprising:

stopping a configured grant timer associated with a Hybrid Automatic Repeat reQuest (HARQ) process for a deprioritized PUSCH duration,

wherein the deprioritized PUSCH duration is different from the prioritized PUSCH duration and is in the group of PUSCH durations.

12. The method of claim 11 , wherein the configured grant timer is stopped after transmission on the deprioritized PUSCH duration has started.

Assignments (2)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Sep 15, 2021
From: FG INNOVATION COMPANY LTD.
To: HANNIBAL IP LLC
Reel/Frame 057487/0504 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Nov 8, 2019
From: CHIN, HENG-LI; WEI, CHIA-HUNG; LIN, WAN-CHEN; CHENG, YU-HSIN; CHOU, CHIE-MING
To: FG INNOVATION COMPANY LIMITED
Reel/Frame 050961/0268 →
Continuity (2)
Provisional Application 62758038 · Nov 9, 2018
Related Publication 20200154469A1 · May 14, 2020
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