IP Library Granted Patent US 12,659,119
Granted Patent B2
US 12,659,119 · App. 18/379,171 · Granted Jun 16, 2026

Method and device for indicating a reference resource for quasi-co-located downlink data reception

Inventors: Qi Jiang (Shanghai, CN); Xiaobo Zhang (Shanghai, CN)
Assignee: Apogee Networks, LLC
H04L5/0053H04L5/0007H04L5/0051H04W72/232
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Patent No.
US 12,659,119
App. No.
18/379,171
Granted
Jun 16, 2026
Kind
B2
Abstract

Method and device in nodes for wireless communications. A node firstly receives a first signaling in a first time-frequency resource set, the first signaling indicating a target reference signal resource; and receives a first signal in a second time-frequency resource set; a DMRS of a channel occupied by the first signal is QCL with the target reference signal resource; a target reference signal resource set comprises K1 candidate reference signal resources, with the first signaling indicating the target reference signal resource among the K1 candidate reference signal resources; at least either of frequency-domain resources occupied by the second time-frequency resource set or time-domain resources occupied by the second time-frequency resource set are used to determine the target reference signal resource set. Present application improves the method of indicating data-scheduling beams with multiple search spaces under M-TRP being combined monitored, thus reducing the signaling overhead and optimizing the system performance.

Claims (39)

1 . A user equipment (UE), comprising:

a transmitter;

a receiver; and

a processor;

wherein the transmitter, the receiver, and the processor are configured to:

receive, in a first time-frequency resource set, downlink control information (DCI) indicating a target reference signal resource; and

receive, in a second time-frequency resource set, a physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH);

wherein a target reference signal resource set includes a plurality of candidate reference signal resources, and the DCI indicates the target reference signal resource among the plurality of candidate reference signal resources;

wherein a demodulation reference signal (DMRS) associated with the PDSCH is quasi co-located (QCL) with the target reference signal resource.

2 . The UE of claim 1 , wherein at least one of frequency-domain resources occupied by the second time-frequency resource set and time-domain resources occupied by the second time-frequency resource set is used by the UE to determine the target reference signal resource set.

3 . The UE of claim 1 , wherein the first time-frequency resource set includes at least one control resource set (CORESET), and the DCI is carried on a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) that occupies resources of the CORESET.

4 . The UE of claim 1 , wherein the DCI includes a transmission configuration indication (TCI) field, and the target reference signal resource corresponds to a TCI state or a TCI-Stateld indicated by the TCI field, and each of the plurality of candidate reference signal resources corresponds to a respective one of the TCI state or TCI-Stateld.

5 . The UE of claim 1 , wherein the first time-frequency resource set includes a first time-frequency resource subset and a second time-frequency resource subset, the first and second time-frequency resource subsets being respectively associated with a first control resource set and a second control resource set, the first and second control resource sets being respectively associated with a first search space set and a second search space set.

6 . The UE of claim 5 , wherein the first time-frequency resource subset includes a plurality of first-type control channel candidates and the second time-frequency resource subset includes a plurality of second-type control channel candidates.

7 . The UE of claim 1 , wherein the target reference signal resource set is one of a plurality of reference signal resource sets, and at least one of frequency-domain resources occupied by the second time-frequency resource set and time-domain resources occupied by the second time-frequency resource set is used to select, from among the plurality of reference signal resource sets, the target reference signal resource set.

8 . The UE of claim 1 , wherein at least one of frequency-domain resources occupied by the second time-frequency resource set and time-domain resources occupied by the second time-frequency resource set is used by the UE to determine an integer, and the integer is used to determine the target reference signal resource set.

9 . The UE of claim 8 , wherein the integer is one of:

(i) a number of resource blocks (RBs) occupied by the second time-frequency resource set in a frequency domain;

(ii) an index of an RB with a smallest index among RBs occupied by the second time-frequency resource set in the frequency domain;

(iii) an index of an RB with a largest index among RBs occupied by the second time-frequency resource set in the frequency domain; or

(iv) a number of orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) symbols occupied by the second time-frequency resource set in a time domain.

10 . The UE of claim 1 , wherein both frequency-domain resources occupied by the second time-frequency resource set and time-domain resources occupied by the second time-frequency resource set are used together by the UE to determine the target reference signal resource set.

11 . A method performed by a user equipment (UE), the method comprising:

receiving, in a first time-frequency resource set, downlink control information (DCI) indicating a target reference signal resource; and

receiving, in a second time-frequency resource set, a physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH);

wherein a target reference signal resource set includes a plurality of candidate reference signal resources, and the DCI indicates the target reference signal resource among the plurality of candidate reference signal resources;

wherein a demodulation reference signal (DMRS) associated with the PDSCH is quasi co-located (QCL) with the target reference signal resource.

12 . The method of claim 11 , wherein at least one of frequency-domain resources occupied by the second time-frequency resource set and time-domain resources occupied by the second time-frequency resource set is used by the UE to determine the target reference signal resource set.

13 . The method of claim 11 , wherein the first time-frequency resource set includes at least one control resource set (CORESET), and the DCI is carried on a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) that occupies resources of the CORESET.

14 . The method of claim 11 , wherein the DCI includes a transmission configuration indication (TCI) field, and the target reference signal resource corresponds to a TCI state or a TCI-Stateld indicated by the TCI field, and each of the plurality of candidate reference signal resources corresponds to a respective one of the TCI state or TCI-Stateld.

15 . The method of claim 11 , wherein the first time-frequency resource set includes a first time-frequency resource subset and a second time-frequency resource subset, the first and second time-frequency resource subsets being respectively associated with a first control resource set and a second control resource set, the first and second control resource sets being respectively associated with a first search space set and a second search space set.

16 . The method of claim 15 , wherein the first time-frequency resource subset includes a plurality of first-type control channel candidates and the second time-frequency resource subset includes a plurality of second-type control channel candidates.

17 . The method of claim 11 , wherein the target reference signal resource set is one of a plurality of reference signal resource sets, and at least one of frequency-domain resources occupied by the second time-frequency resource set and time-domain resources occupied by the second time-frequency resource set is used to select, from among the plurality of reference signal resource sets, the target reference signal resource set.

18 . The method of claim 11 , wherein at least one of frequency-domain resources occupied by the second time-frequency resource set and time-domain resources occupied by the second time-frequency resource set is used by the UE to determine an integer, and the integer is used to determine the target reference signal resource set.

19 . The method of claim 18 , wherein the integer is one of:

(i) a number of resource blocks (RBs) occupied by the second time-frequency resource set in a frequency domain;

(ii) an index of an RB with a smallest index among RBs occupied by the second time-frequency resource set in the frequency domain;

(iii) an index of an RB with a largest index among RBs occupied by the second time-frequency resource set in the frequency domain; or (iv) a number of orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) symbols occupied by the second time-frequency resource set in a time domain.

20 . The method of claim 11 , wherein both frequency-domain resources occupied by the second time-frequency resource set and time-domain resources occupied by the second time-frequency resource set are used together by the UE to determine the target reference signal resource set.

Assignments (3)
CHANGE OF NAME Recorded Mar 9, 2026
From: APOGEE NETWORKS, LLC
To: APOGEE 5G GLOBAL, LLC
Reel/Frame 075091/0596 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Apr 4, 2025
From: SHANGHAI LANGBO COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY COMPANY LIMITED
To: APOGEE NETWORKS, LLC
Reel/Frame 070741/0575 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Apr 17, 2024
From: JIANG, QI; ZHANG, XIAOBO
To: SHANGHAI LANGBO COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY COMPANY LIMITED
Reel/Frame 067129/0435 →
Priority Claims (1)
CN 202110428377.7 · Apr 21, 2021 · national
Continuity (2)
Continuation PCTCN2022085675 · Apr 8, 2022
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