IP Library Granted Patent US 11,671,204
Granted Patent B2
US 11,671,204 · App. 17/578,015 · Granted Jun 6, 2023

Wireless device control channel monitoring

Inventors: Alireza Babaei (Fairfax, VA); Esmael Hejazi Dinan (McLean, VA); Hyoungsuk Jeon (Centreville, VA); Kyungmin Park (Vienna, VA); Hua Zhou (Vienna, VA)
Assignee: Beijing Xiaomi Mobile Software Co., Ltd.
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Patent No.
US 11,671,204
App. No.
17/578,015
Granted
Jun 6, 2023
Kind
B2
Abstract

A wireless device comprises one or more processors and memory storing instructions. When executed by the one or more processors, the instructions cause the wireless device to receive messages comprising a downlink hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) round-trip-time (RTT) timer value expressed in units of symbols and a downlink discontinuous reception (DRX) retransmission timer value expressed in units of slot lengths, receive a downlink control information indicating downlink transmission of a transport block, start a downlink HARQ RTT timer with the downlink HARQ RTT timer value in response to receiving the downlink control information, start a downlink DRX retransmission timer with the downlink DRX retransmission timer value in response to the downlink HARQ RTT timer expiring and the transport block not being successfully decoded, and monitor a downlink control channel while the downlink DRX retransmission timer is running.

Claims (33)

1. A wireless device comprising: one or more processors; and memory storing instructions that, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the wireless device to:

receive one or more radio resource control messages comprising a downlink hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) round-trip-time (RTT) timer value expressed in units of symbols and a downlink discontinuous reception (DRX) retransmission timer value expressed in units of slot lengths;

receive a downlink control information indicating downlink transmission of a transport block;

start a downlink HARQ RTT timer with the downlink HARQ RTT timer value in response to receiving the downlink control information, wherein the downlink HARQ RTT timer value indicates a first number of symbols;

start a downlink DRX retransmission timer with the downlink DRX retransmission timer value in response to the downlink HARQ RTT timer expiring and the transport block not being successfully decoded, wherein the downlink DRX retransmission timer value indicates a second number of slot lengths; and

monitor a downlink control channel while the downlink DRX retransmission timer is running.

2. The wireless device of claim 1 , wherein the symbols correspond to first symbols of a downlink channel.

3. The wireless device of claim 1 , wherein the symbols correspond to second symbols of an uplink channel.

4. The wireless device of claim 1 , wherein the slot lengths correspond to first slot lengths of a downlink channel.

5. The wireless device of claim 1 , wherein the slot lengths correspond to second slot lengths of an uplink channel.

6. The wireless device of claim 1 , wherein:

the one or more radio resource control messages further comprise configuration parameters of a first cell and a second cell;

the downlink control information is received via the first cell; and the transport block is received via the second cell.

7. The wireless device of claim 1 , wherein:

the downlink control information indicates a HARQ process for the transport block; and

the downlink HARQ RTT timer and the downlink DRX retransmission timer are associated with the HARQ process.

8. The wireless device of claim 1 , wherein the downlink control information and the transport block are received in different slots.

9. The wireless device of claim 1 , wherein the downlink control information and transport block are received in a same slot.

10. The wireless device of claim 1 , wherein the one or more radio resource control messages further comprise a plurality of values indicating a time duration between a first transmission time of the transport block and a second transmission time of HARQ feedback corresponding to the transport block.

11. The wireless device of claim 1 , wherein the instructions, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the wireless device to receive a second downlink control information indicating retransmission of the transport block.

12. The wireless device of claim 2 , wherein the transport block is received via the downlink channel.

13. The wireless device of claim 2 , wherein the downlink control information and the transport block are received in different slots.

14. The wireless device of claim 3 , wherein a HARQ feedback corresponding to the transport block is transmitted via the uplink channel.

15. The wireless device of claim 4 , wherein the transport block is received via the downlink channel.

16. The wireless device of claim 5 , wherein a HARQ feedback corresponding to the transport block is transmitted via the uplink channel.

17. The wireless device of claim 7 , wherein the downlink control information and the transport block are received in different slots.

18. The wireless device of claim 7 , wherein the downlink control information and transport block are received in a same slot.

19. The wireless device of claim 10 , wherein:

the downlink control information indicates an index to a third value in the plurality of values indicating the time duration;

the transport block is received via a downlink channel in a first slot;

the HARQ feedback is transmitted in a second slot; and

a time duration between the first slot and the second slot is based on the third value.

20. The wireless device of claim 19 , wherein the third value is an integer.

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 →
CHANGE OF NAME Recorded May 20, 2022
From: OFINNO TECHNOLOGIES, LLC
To: OFINNO, LLC
Reel/Frame 059967/0331 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Apr 6, 2022
From: BABAEI, ALIREZA; DINAN, ESMAEL HEJAZI; JEON, HYOUNGSUK; PARK, KYUNGMIN; ZHOU, HUA
To: OFINNO TECHNOLOGIES, LLC
Reel/Frame 059659/0364 →
Continuity (3)
Continuation 16101309 · Aug 10, 2018
Provisional Application 62543849 · Aug 10, 2017
Related Publication 20220140950A1 · May 5, 2022