IP Library Granted Patent US 12,356,387
Granted Patent B2
US 12,356,387 · App. 17/792,143 · Granted Jul 8, 2025

Electronic device and method for wireless communication, and computer-readable storage medium

Inventor: Jianfei Cao (Beijing, CN)
Assignee: SONY GROUP CORPORATION
H04W72/046H04W72/231H04W72/232H04W36/0064
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Patent No.
US 12,356,387
App. No.
17/792,143
Granted
Jul 8, 2025
Kind
B2
Abstract

Provided are an electronic device and a method for wireless communication, and a computer-readable storage medium. The electronic device comprises: a processing circuit, configured to: send, by means of radio resource control signaling, configuration information of a universal transmission configuration indication state to a user equipment, wherein the universal transmission configuration indication state comprises a transmission configuration indication state of a downlink beam of a serving cell of the user equipment and a transmission configuration indication state of a downlink beam of a non-serving cell other than the serving cell; and determine activation information of a downlink beam of a target cell, wherein the user equipment is to be switched to the target cell.

Claims (24)

1. An electronic apparatus for wireless communications, comprising:

processing circuitry, configured to:

transmit, to a user equipment, via radio resource control (RRC) signaling, configuration information of a universal Transmission Configuration Indicator (TCI) state,

wherein the universal downlink TCI state comprises a single downlink TCI state information element configured to selectably identify a downlink TCI state from a set of a downlink TCI states consisting of:

a downlink TCI state of a downlink beam of a serving cell of the user equipment, and

a downlink TCI state of a downlink beam of a non-serving cell for downlink other than the serving cell, the non-serving cell for downlink being a target cell for a handover of a downlink of the user equipment; and

determine activation information of a downlink beam of the target cell,

wherein the activation information of the downlink beam of the target cell:

is determined by the electronic apparatus, and the processing circuitry is further configured to transmit a media access control-control element (MAC-CE) comprising the activation information of the downlink beam to the user equipment, wherein the transmitted activation information comprises activation information of a downlink control beam or a downlink data beam of the target cell determined by the electronic apparatus, and the transmitted activation information of the downlink control beam comprises an identifier of the target cell determined by the electronic apparatus and a corresponding TCI state identifier, or

is determined by the user equipment, and the processing circuitry is further configured to receive the activation information from the user equipment, wherein the received activation information comprises activation information of a downlink control beam or a downlink data beam of the target cell determined by the user equipment, and the received activation information of the downlink control beam comprises an identifier of the target cell determined by the user equipment and a corresponding TCI state identifier.

2. The electronic apparatus according to claim 1 ,

wherein the non-serving cell is indicated in the universal TCI state by a non-serving cell physical cell identifier or a non-serving cell physical cell identifier index,

wherein the non-serving cell is a cell in a list of cells configured for mobility measurement, and the non-serving cell physical cell identifier index is an index that identifies the non-serving cell in the list of cells.

3. The electronic apparatus according to claim 1 ,

wherein the processing circuitry is further configured to transmit acknowledgement information for the activation information received from the user equipment to the user equipment through downlink control information, or transmit an adjustment of the activation information received from the user equipment to the user equipment through a second MAC-CE.

4. A method for wireless communications, comprising:

transmitting, to a user equipment, via radio resource control (RRC) signaling, configuration information of a universal Transmission Configuration Indicator (TCI) state,

wherein the universal downlink TCI state comprises a single downlink TCI state information element configured to selectably identify a downlink TCI state from a set of a downlink TCI states consisting of:

a downlink TCI state of a downlink beam of a serving cell of the user equipment, and

a downlink TCI state of a downlink beam of anon-serving cell for downlink other than the serving cell, the non-serving cell for downlink being a target cell for a handover of a downlink of the user equipment; and

determining activation information of a downlink beam of the target cell,

wherein the activation information of the downlink beam of the target cell:

is determined by the electronic apparatus, and the method further comprises transmitting a media access control-control element (MAC-CE) comprising the activation information of the downlink beam to the user equipment, wherein the transmitted activation information comprises activation information of a downlink control beam or a downlink data beam of the target cell determined by the electronic apparatus, and the transmitted activation information of the downlink control beam comprises an identifier of the target cell determined by the electronic apparatus and a corresponding TCI state identifier, or

is determined by the user equipment, and the method further comprises receiving the activation information from the user equipment, wherein the received activation information comprises activation information of a downlink control beam or a downlink data beam of the target cell determined by the user equipment, and the received activation information of the downlink control beam comprises an identifier of the target cell determined by the user equipment and a corresponding TCI state identifier.

Assignments (2)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Jul 12, 2022
From: CAO, JIANFEI
To: SONY CORPORATION
Reel/Frame 060483/0478 →
CHANGE OF NAME Recorded Jul 12, 2022
From: SONY CORPORATION
To: SONY GROUP CORPORATION
Reel/Frame 060633/0150 →
Priority Claims (1)
CN 202010116448.5 · Feb 25, 2020 · national
Continuity (1)
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