IP Library Granted Patent US 11,412,551
Granted Patent B2
US 11,412,551 · App. 17/471,626 · Granted Aug 9, 2022

Layer resetting in two-step random-access procedures

Inventors: Ali Cagatay Cirik (Herndon, VA); Esmael Hejazi Dinan (McLean, VA); Hua Zhou (Herndon, VA); Hyoungsuk Jeon (Centreville, VA); Alireza Babaei (Fairfax, VA); Kyungmin Park (Vienna, VA); Kai Xu (Herndon, VA)
Assignee: Ofinno, LLC
H04W74/0841H04W72/1263H04W72/14H04W74/004H04W74/02H04W74/0816
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Patent No.
US 11,412,551
App. No.
17/471,626
Granted
Aug 9, 2022
Kind
B2
Abstract

A wireless device receives one or more messages including one or more configuration parameters of a cell. The one or more configuration parameters indicate physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH) resources for transmission of a message A (MsgA) payload of a two-step random-access procedure of the cell. A medium access control (MAC) layer of the wireless device is reset based on a request from a radio resource control (RRC) layer of the wireless device. The PUSCH resources are released based on the reset of the MAC layer.

Claims (29)

1. A method comprising:

receiving, by a wireless device, one or more messages comprising one or more configuration parameters of a cell, wherein the one or more configuration parameters indicate physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH) resources for transmission of a message A (MsgA) payload of a two-step random-access procedure of the cell;

resetting a medium access control (MAC) layer of the wireless device based on a request from a radio resource control (RRC) layer of the wireless device; and

clearing the PUSCH resources of the two-step random-access procedure based on:

the resetting the MAC layer; and

the configuration parameters indicating the PUSCH resources for the MsgA transmission of the two-step random-access procedure.

2. The method of claim 1 , wherein the one or more configuration parameters are for a random-access procedure of the cell.

3. The method of claim 1 , wherein the cell is an unlicensed cell.

4. The method of claim 1 , wherein the two-step random-access procedure is a contention-free two-step random-access procedure.

5. The method of claim 4 , wherein the contention-free two-step random-access procedure is not initiated for a beam failure recovery procedure of the cell.

6. The method of claim 1 , wherein the clearing the PUSCH resources comprises stopping transmitting, via a PUSCH resource of the PUSCH resources, the MsgA payload.

7. The method of claim 1 , wherein the one or more configuration parameters further indicate one or more uplink grants associated with the PUSCH resources.

8. The method of claim 7 , wherein the clearing the PUSCH resources comprises not transmitting, via an uplink grant of the one or more uplink grants, the MsgA payload.

9. The method of claim 7 , wherein the clearing the PUSCH resources comprises stopping transmitting, via an uplink grant of the one or more uplink grants, the MsgA payload.

10. The method of claim 1 , wherein the clearing the PUSCH resources comprises releasing a configuration of the PUSCH resources.

11. The method of claim 1 , wherein the PUSCH resources comprise one or more random-access channel (RACH) resources.

12. The method of claim 11 , wherein the clearing the PUSCH resources comprise discarding the one or more RACH resources based on the resetting the MAC layer.

13. The method of claim 11 , wherein a RACH resource of the one or more RACH resources comprises:

a preamble; and

a RACH occasion.

14. The method of claim 13 , further comprising transmitting the preamble via the RACH occasion.

15. The method of claim 13 , wherein the RACH resource is mapped to an uplink grant.

16. The method of claim 15 , wherein the uplink grant is one of one or more uplink grants further indicated by the one or more configuration parameters.

17. The method of claim 15 , wherein the one or more configuration parameters further indicate the mapping between the RACH resource and the uplink grant.

18. The method of claim 15 , wherein the RACH resource being mapped to the uplink grant comprises:

the RACH occasion being mapped to the uplink grant; or

the preamble being mapped to the uplink grant.

19. The method of claim 1 , wherein the one or more messages comprise one or more radio resource configuration messages.

20. The method of claim 1 , wherein the resetting the MAC layer comprises resetting a MAC entity of the wireless device.

Assignments (3)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Oct 26, 2022
From: OFINNO, LLC
To: BEIJING XIAOMI MOBILE SOFTWARE CO., LTD.
Reel/Frame 061551/0125 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Aug 4, 2022
From: CIRIK, ALI CAGATAY; DINAN, ESMAEL HEJAZI; ZHOU, HUA; JEON, HYOUNGSUK; BABAEI, ALIREZA; PARK, KYUNGMIN; XU, KAI
To: OFINNO, LLC
Reel/Frame 060722/0298 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Dec 17, 2021
From: CIRIK, ALI CAGATAY; DINAN, ESMAEL; ZHOU, HUA; JEON, HYOUNGSUK; BABAEI, ALIREZA; PARK, KYUNGMIN; XU, KAI
To: OFINNO, LLC
Reel/Frame 058418/0182 →