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Granted Patent B2
US 12,556,346 · App. 18/249,690 · Granted Feb 17, 2026

Method and apparatus for frequency domain resource allocation for downlink transmissions

Inventor: Haipeng Lei (Beijing, CN)
Assignee: LENOVO (BEIJING) LIMITED
H04L5/0094H04L5/001H04L5/0053H04W72/232
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Patent No.
US 12,556,346
App. No.
18/249,690
Granted
Feb 17, 2026
Kind
B2
Abstract

Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to frequency domain resource allocation for downlink transmissions. According to some embodiments of the disclosure, a method for wireless communication performed by a user equipment (UE) may include: receiving a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) within a control resource set (CORESET), wherein the PDCCH carries a downlink control information (DCI) format for scheduling a physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH); and receiving the PDSCH on a plurality of resource blocks (RBs) based on the DCI format, wherein the plurality of RBs are within a frequency region.

Claims (37)

1 . A method for wireless communication performed by a user equipment (UE), comprising:

receiving a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) within a control resource set (CORESET), wherein the PDCCH carries a downlink control information (DCI) format for scheduling a physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH); and

receiving the PDSCH on a plurality of resource blocks (RBs) based on the DCI format, wherein the plurality of RBs are within a frequency region.

2 . The method of claim 1 , further comprising:

receiving a radio resource control (RRC) signaling message configuring the frequency region, wherein the frequency region is shared between the UE and another UE.

3 . The method of claim 2 , wherein:

the RRC signaling message indicates a starting RB and a number of contiguous RBs of the frequency region; or

the RRC signaling message indicates a starting RB and an ending RB of the frequency region.

4 . The method of claim 3 , wherein the plurality of RBs is determined in reference to the starting RB of the frequency region.

5 . The method of claim 2 , wherein the CORESET is within the frequency region.

6 . The method of claim 2 , wherein a payload size of the DCI format is based on a total number of RBs contained within the frequency region.

7 . The method of claim 1 , further comprising:

receiving a radio resource control (RRC) signaling message configuring the CORESET, wherein the CORESET is shared between the UE and another UE.

8 . The method of claim 7 , wherein the frequency region is based on the CORESET.

9 . The method of claim 8 , wherein the CORESET is within an active bandwidth part (BWP) of the UE and an active BWP of the another UE, and the plurality of RBs is determined in reference to the lowest RB of the CORESET.

10 . The method of claim 8 , wherein the CORESET is within an initial downlink bandwidth part (BWP) of the UE and an initial downlink BWP of the another UE, and the plurality of RBs is determined in reference to the RB corresponding to the lowest resource element group (REG) of the PDCCH.

11 . The method of claim 10 , wherein a payload size of the DCI format is based on the initial downlink BWP of the UE.

12 . The method of claim 7 , wherein a payload size of the DCI format is based on a total number of contiguous RBs from the lowest RB of the CORESET to the highest RB of the CORESET.

13 . The method of claim 1 , wherein the CORESET and the frequency region are within an initial downlink bandwidth part (BWP) of the UE and an initial downlink BWP of another UE.

14 . The method of claim 13 , wherein the plurality of RBs is determined in reference to the lowest RB of the initial downlink BWP of the UE.

15 . An apparatus, comprising:

at least one non-transitory computer-readable medium having stored thereon computer-executable instructions;

at least one receiving circuitry;

at least one transmitting circuitry; and

at least one processor coupled to the at least one non-transitory computer-readable medium, the at least one receiving circuitry and the at least one transmitting circuitry,

wherein the computer-executable instructions cause the at least one processor to implement a method, the method comprising:

receiving a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) within a control resource set (CORESET), wherein the PDCCH carries a downlink control information (DCI) format for scheduling a physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH); and

receiving the PDSCH on a plurality of resource blocks (RBs) based on the DCI format, wherein the plurality of RBs are within a frequency region.

16 . The apparatus of claim 15 , further comprising:

receiving a radio resource control (RRC) signaling message configuring the frequency region, wherein the frequency region is shared between the UE and another UE.

17 . The apparatus of claim 16 , wherein:

the RRC signaling message indicates a starting RB and a number of contiguous RBs of the frequency region; or

the RRC signaling message indicates a starting RB and an ending RB of the frequency region.

18 . The apparatus of claim 16 , wherein the CORESET is within the frequency region.

19 . The apparatus of claim 15 , further comprising:

receiving a radio resource control (RRC) signaling message configuring the CORESET, wherein the CORESET is shared between the UE and another UE.

20 . The apparatus of claim 15 , wherein the CORESET and the frequency region are within an initial downlink bandwidth part (BWP) of the UE and an initial downlink BWP of another UE.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Apr 24, 2023
From: LEI, HAIPENG
To: LENOVO (BEIJING) LIMITED
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