Granted Patent B2

US 12,500,721 · App. 18/019,134 · Granted Dec 16, 2025

Inventors: Chenxi Zhu (Fairfax, VA); Bingchao Liu (Beijing, CN); Wei Ling (Beijing, CN); Yi Zhang (Beijing, CN); Lingling Xiao (Beijing, CN)

Assignee: Lenovo (Beijing) Limited

H04L5/0051H04W16/28H04W72/1268H04W72/23

Abstract

Claims (26)

1 . A user equipment (UE), comprising:

at least one memory; and

at least one processor coupled with the at least one memory and configured to cause the UE to:

receive a radio resource control (RRC) message configuring sounding reference signal (SRS) resource sets for a set of resource groups with resource group identifiers, or a set of antenna panels with panel identifiers, or both, wherein:

SRS resources of the SRS resource sets in different resource groups of the set of resource groups, or in different antenna panels of the set of antenna panels, or both are transmitted one at a time; and

receive downlink control information (DCI) scheduling a physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH) transmission, wherein the DCI comprises an uplink transmission configuration indicator (TCI) field and a SRS resource indicator (RI) field, the uplink TCI field indicates a spatial domain transmission filter, and the SRS RI field indicates panel or resource group information comprising a panel or resource group of the UE for the PUSCH transmission, wherein, in response to the uplink TCI field indicating a first SRS resource, the first SRS resource and a second SRS resource indicated by the SRS RI field correspond to the same resource group of the set of resource groups, or the same antenna panel of the set of antenna panels, or both.

2 . The UE of claim 1 , wherein the at least one processor is configured to cause the UE to transmit the PUSCH transmission using the spatial domain transmission filter from the panel or resource group.

3 . The UE of claim 1 , wherein the at least one processor is configured to cause the UE to derive the panel or resource group information from the SRS RI field.

4 . The UE of claim 3 , wherein deriving the panel or resource group information comprises deriving the panel or resource group information from a SRS resource indicated by the SRS RI field.

5 . A base station, comprising:

at least one memory; and

at least one processor coupled with the at least one memory and configured to cause the base station to:

transmit, to a user equipment (UE), a radio resource control (RRC) message configuring sounding reference signal (SRS) resource sets for a set of resource groups with resource group identifiers, or a set of antenna panels with panel identifiers, or both, wherein:

SRS resources of the SRS resource sets in different resource groups of the set of resource groups, or in different antenna panels of the set of antenna panels, or both are transmitted one at a time; and

transmit downlink control information (DCI) scheduling a physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH) transmission, wherein the DCI comprises an uplink transmission configuration indicator (TCI) field and a SRS resource indicator (RI) field, the uplink TCI field indicates a spatial domain transmission filter, and the SRS RI field indicates panel or resource group information comprising a panel or resource group of the UE for the PUSCH transmission, wherein, in response to the uplink TCI field indicating a first SRS resource, the first SRS resource and a second SRS resource indicated by the SRS RI field correspond to the same resource group of the set of resource groups, or the same antenna panel of the set of antenna panels, or both.

6 . The base station of claim 5 , wherein the at least one processor is configured to cause the base station to receive the PUSCH transmission using the spatial domain transmission filter from the panel or resource group.

7 . The base station of claim 5 , wherein the panel or resource group information is derived from the SRS RI field.

8 . The base station of claim 5 , wherein the panel or resource group information is derived from a SRS resource indicated by the SRS RI field.

9 . A user equipment (UE), comprising:

at least one memory; and

at least one processor coupled with the at least one memory and configured to cause the UE to:

receive a radio resource control (RRC) message configuring a physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) resource or a PUCCH resource group, wherein either the PUCCH resource or the PUCCH resource group comprises a resource group identifier, or a panel identifier, or both; and

receive downlink control information (DCI) scheduling a physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH) transmission, wherein the DCI comprises an uplink transmission configuration indicator (TCI) field and a sounding reference signal (SRS) resource indicator (RI) field, the uplink TCI field indicates a spatial domain transmission filter, and the SRS RI field indicates panel or resource group information comprising a panel or resource group of the UE for the PUSCH transmission, wherein, in response to the uplink TCI field indicating a first SRS resource, the first SRS resource and a second SRS resource indicated by the SRS RI field correspond to the same resource group of a set of resource groups, or the same antenna panel of a set of antenna panels, or both.

10 . The UE of claim 9 , wherein the at least one processor is configured to cause the UE to receive PUCCH transmission triggering information.

11 . The UE of claim 10 , wherein the PUSCH transmission triggering information comprises one or more of radio resource control (RRC) information, a medium access control control element (MAC CE), or DCI.

12 . The UE of claim 11 , wherein the at least one processor is configured to cause the UE to transmit the PUCCH transmission from a resource group corresponding to the resource group identifier, or a panel corresponding to the panel identifier, or both, wherein the PUCCH transmission is transmitted using a transmission spatial filter configured by RRC signaling and activated by the MAC CE.

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