IP Library Granted Patent US 12,666,435
Granted Patent B2
US 12,666,435 · App. 18/125,235 · Granted Jun 23, 2026

Feedback information transmitting method and apparatus and feedback information receiving method and apparatus

Inventors: Jian Zhang (Beijing, CN); Qinyan Jiang (Beijing, CN); Zhe Chen (Beijing, CN); Lei Zhang (Beijing, CN)
Assignee: 1FINITY Inc.
H04W72/23H04B7/0639H04L5/0053
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Quick Facts
Patent No.
US 12,666,435
App. No.
18/125,235
Filed
Mar 23, 2023
Granted
Jun 23, 2026
Kind
B2
Art Unit
2466
USPC
370/329
Abstract

An apparatus for transmitting feedback information, includes a receiver configured to receive downlink control information transmitted by a network device, and receive one or more physical downlink shared channels (PDSCHs) transmitted by the network device according to the downlink control information, and a transmitter configured to feed back feedback information for the physical downlink shared channels to the network device, wherein feedback information for physical downlink shared channels on a multi-PDSCH cell is included in two sub-codebooks, and one of the sub-codebooks includes feedback information for a physical downlink shared channel that is scheduled on a multi-PDSCH cell based on single-PDSCH and transport block.

Claims (148)

1 . An apparatus for transmitting feedback information, comprising:

a receiver configured to receive downlink control information transmitted by a network device, and receive one or more physical downlink shared channels (PDSCHs) transmitted by the network device according to the downlink control information (DCI); and

a transmitter configured to feed back feedback information for the physical downlink shared channels to the network device;

wherein feedback information for multiple physical downlink shared channels on a multi-PDSCH cell is included in two sub-codebooks, and one of the sub-codebooks includes feedback information for a first physical downlink shared channel that is scheduled on the multi-PDSCH cell based on single-PDSCH scheduling and based on transport block;

wherein that the physical downlink shared channel is scheduled on the multiple-PDSCH cell based on the single-PDSCH and the transport block at least refers to

DCI indicates a first row containing one SLIV (Start and Length Indicator Value) in a configured time domain resource allocation table, wherein the table includes at least a second row containing more than one SLIV and the first row.

2 . The apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein first downlink control information is used for a multi-PDSCH scheduling, second downlink control information is used for a single-PDSCH scheduling, and downlink control information formats of the first downlink control information and the second downlink control information are different.

3 . The apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein the two sub-codebooks comprise a first sub-codebook, the first sub-codebook comprising feedback information for the following physical downlink shared channel that: the physical downlink shared channel is scheduled on a single-PDSCH cell based on transport block, and, the first physical downlink shared channel is scheduled on a multi-PDSCH cell based on a single-PDSCH scheduling and based on transport block.

4 . The apparatus according to claim 3 , wherein the first sub-codebook comprises feedback information for at least one of the following on the single-PDSCH cell and/or the multi-PDSCH cell: semi-persistently scheduling physical downlink shared channel release, semi-persistently scheduling physical downlink shared channel, or downlink control information indicating that a secondary cell is dormant.

5 . The apparatus according to claim 3 , wherein the number of bits of the feedback information for the downlink control information in the first sub-codebook is

N

max

=

max

c

{

N

TB

_

max

,

c

}

;

where cell c is a cell able to generate the feedback information in the first sub-codebook, and N TB_max,c is a maximum number of transport blocks able to be supported by the cell c.

6 . The apparatus according to claim 3 , wherein the two sub-codebooks further comprise a second sub-codebook, the second sub-codebook comprising feedback information for the following physical downlink shared channel that: the physical downlink shared channel is scheduled on a single-PDSCH cell based on code block group, and/or, the physical downlink shared channel is scheduled on a multi-PDSCH cell based on a single-PDSCH scheduling and based on code block group.

7 . The apparatus according to claim 6 , wherein the number of bits of the feedback information for the downlink control information in the second sub-codebook is

N

max

=

max

c

{

N

TB

_

max

,

c

×

N

CBG

_

max

_

TB

,

c

}

;

where, cell c is a cell able to generate the feedback information in the second sub-codebook, N TB_max,c is a maximum number of transport blocks able to be supported by the cell c, and N CBG_max_TB,c is a maximum number of code block groups able to be supported by each transport block on the cell c.

8 . The apparatus according to claim 6 , wherein the two sub-codebooks further comprise a third sub-codebook, the third sub-codebook comprising feedback information for the following physical downlink shared channel that: the physical downlink shared channel is scheduled on a multi-PDSCH cell based on a multi-PDSCH scheduling.

9 . The apparatus according to claim 8 , wherein the number of bits of the feedback information for the downlink control information in the third sub-codebook is

N

max

=

max

c

{

N

c

}

;

where, cell c is a cell able to generate the feedback information in the third sub-codebook,

for a cell c that is not enabled to be transmitted based on code block group, N c =N TB_max,c ×N multi_PDSCH_max,c , and for a cell c that is enabled to be transmitted based on code block group, N c =N TB_max,c ×N CBG_max_TB,c ×N multi_PDSCH_max,c ;

where, N TB_max,c is a maximum number of transport blocks able to be supported by the cell c, N CBG_max_TB,c is a maximum number of code block groups able to be supported by each transport block on the cell c, and N multi_PDSCH_max,c is a maximum number of physical downlink shared channels on the cell c that is able to be scheduled by the downlink control information.

10 . The apparatus according to claim 3 , wherein the two sub-codebooks further comprise a second sub-codebook, the second sub-codebook comprising feedback information for the following physical downlink shared channel that: the physical downlink shared channel is scheduled on a multi-PDSCH cell based on a multi-PDSCH scheduling.

11 . The apparatus according to claim 10 , wherein the number of bits of the feedback information for the downlink control information in the second sub-codebook is

N

max

=

max

c

{

N

c

}

;

where, cell c is a cell able to generate the feedback information in the second sub-codebook,

for a multi-PDSCH cell c that is not enabled to be transmitted based on code block group, N c =N TB_max,c ×N multi_PDSCH_max,c ;

where, N TB_max,c is a maximum number of transport blocks able to be supported by the cell c, and N multi_PDSCH_max,c is a maximum number of physical downlink shared channels on the cell c that is able to be scheduled by the downlink control information.

12 . The apparatus according to claim 3 , wherein the two sub-codebooks further comprise a second sub-codebook, the second sub-codebook comprising feedback information for the following physical downlink shared channel that: a second physical downlink shared channel is scheduled based on code block group on a single-PDSCH cell.

13 . The apparatus according to claim 12 , wherein the number of bits of feedback information for one time of downlink scheduling in the second sub-codebook is

N

max

=

max

c

{

N

TB

_

max

,

c

×

N

CBG

_

max

_

TB

,

c

}

;

where, cell c is a cell that is able to generate the feedback information in the second sub-codebook, N TB_max,c is a maximum number of transport blocks that the cell c is able to support, and N CBG_max_TB,c is a maximum number of code block groups that is able to be supported by each transport block on the cell c.

14 . The apparatus according to claim 12 , wherein the two sub-codebooks further comprise a third sub-codebook, the third sub-codebook comprising feedback information for the following physical downlink shared channel that: the physical downlink shared channel is scheduled on a multi-PDSCH cell based on single-PDSCH and code block group, and/or, the physical downlink shared channel is scheduled on a multi-PDSCH cell based on multi-PDSCH.

15 . The apparatus according to claim 14 , wherein the number of bits of the feedback information for one time of downlink scheduling in the third sub-codebook is

N

max

=

max

c

{

N

c

}

;

where, cell c is a cell able to generate the feedback information in the third sub-codebook,

for a multi-PDSCH cell c that is not enabled to be transmitted based on code block group, N c =N TB_max,c ×N multi_PDSCH_max,c , for a multi-PDSCH cell c that is enabled to be transmitted based on code block group, N c =N TB_max,c ×N CBG_max TB,c ×N multi_PDSCH_max,c ;

where, N TB_max,c is a maximum number of transport blocks able to be supported by the cell c, N CBG_max_TB,c is a maximum number of code block groups able to be supported by each transport block on the cell c, and N multi_PDSCH_max,c is a maximum number of physical downlink shared channels on the cell c that is able to be scheduled by the downlink control information.

16 . An apparatus for receiving feedback information, comprising:

a transmitter configured to transmit downlink control information to a terminal equipment, and transmit one or more physical downlink shared channels to the terminal equipment; and

a receiver configured to receive feedback information for the one or more physical downlink shared channels fed back by the terminal equipment;

wherein feedback information for multiple physical downlink shared channels on a multi-PDSCH cell is included in two sub-codebooks, and one of the sub-codebooks includes feedback information for a first physical downlink shared channel that is scheduled on the multi-PDSCH cell based on a single-PDSCH scheduling and based on transport block;

wherein that the physical downlink shared channel is scheduled on the multiple-PDSCH cell based on the single-PDSCH and the transport block at least refers to

DCI indicates a first row containing one SLIV (Start and Length Indicator Value) in a configured time domain resource allocation table, wherein the table includes at least a second row containing more than one SLIV and the first row.

17 . A communication system, comprising:

a network device configured to transmit downlink control information to a terminal equipment, transmit one or more physical downlink shared channels to the terminal equipment, and receive feedback information for the one or more physical downlink shared channels fed back by the terminal equipment; and

the terminal equipment configured to receive the downlink control information transmitted by the network device, receive one or more physical downlink shared channels transmitted by the network device according to the downlink control information, and feed back feedback information for the one or more physical downlink shared channels to the network device;

wherein feedback information for multiple physical downlink shared channels on a multi-PDSCH cell is included in two sub-codebooks, and one of the sub-codebooks includes feedback information for a first physical downlink shared channel that is scheduled on the multi-PDSCH cell based on a single-PDSCH scheduling and based on transport block;

wherein that the physical downlink shared channel is scheduled on the multiple-PDSCH cell based on the single-PDSCH and the transport block at least refers to

DCI indicates a first row containing one SLIV (Start and Length Indicator Value) in a configured time domain resource allocation table, wherein the table includes at least a second row containing more than one SLIV and the first row.

Assignments (2)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Nov 3, 2025
From: FUJITSU LIMITED
To: 1FINITY INC.
Reel/Frame 073477/0445 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Mar 23, 2023
From: ZHANG, JIAN; JIANG, QINYAN; CHEN, ZHE; ZHANG, LEI
To: FUJITSU LIMITED
Reel/Frame 063073/0543 →
Continuity (2)
Continuation PCTCN2020121236 · Oct 15, 2020
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