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Granted Patent B2
US 12,317,211 · App. 18/638,224 · Granted May 27, 2025

Maintenance of multiple timing advance groups

Inventors: Ali Cagatay Cirik (Chantilly, VA); Gautham Prasad (Herndon, VA); Esmael Hejazi Dinan (McLean, VA); Hua Zhou (Vienna, VA)
Assignee: Ofinno, LLC
H04W56/0045H04L1/1812H04W72/11H04W72/1273H04W72/232H04W76/20
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Patent No.
US 12,317,211
App. No.
18/638,224
Granted
May 27, 2025
Kind
B2
Abstract

A wireless device may receive one or more messages indicating at least two timing advance groups (TAGs) for a cell, wherein each TAG of the at least two TAGs is associated with a respective transmission configuration indicator (TCI) state. A wireless device may receive downlink control information (DCI). The DCI may indicate a semi-persistent scheduling (SPS) deactivation and an uplink resource of a hybrid automatic repeat request acknowledgement (HARQ-ACK) feedback. The wireless device may indicate, to a physical layer of the wireless device, a positive acknowledgement for the SPS deactivation in response to a time alignment timer of a TAG, among the at least two TAGs and associated with a TCI state used for transmitting the HARQ-ACK feedback, being running. The wireless device may transmit, via the cell and based on the TCI state, the HARQ-ACK feedback comprising the positive acknowledgement.

Claims (58)

1. A wireless device comprising:

one or more processors; and

memory storing instructions that, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the wireless device to:

receive one or more messages indicating at least two timing advance groups (TAGs) for a cell, wherein each TAG of the at least two TAGs is associated with a respective transmission configuration indicator (TCI) state;

receive downlink control information (DCI) indicating:

a semi-persistent scheduling (SPS) deactivation; and

an uplink resource of a hybrid automatic repeat request acknowledgement (HARQ-ACK) feedback;

indicate, to a physical layer of the wireless device, a positive acknowledgement for the SPS deactivation in response to a time alignment timer of a TAG, among the at least two TAGs and associated with a TCI state used for transmitting the HARQ-ACK feedback, being running; and

transmit, via the cell and based on the TCI state, the HARQ-ACK feedback comprising the positive acknowledgement.

2. The wireless device of claim 1 , wherein the one or more messages are one or more radio resource control (RRC) messages.

3. The wireless device of claim 1 , wherein the one or more messages further indicate one or more configured downlink assignments for SPS physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH) receptions.

4. The wireless device of claim 3 , further comprising clearing the one or more configured downlink assignments for SPS PDSCH receptions based on the receiving the DCI indicating the SPS deactivation.

5. The wireless device of claim 1 , wherein the HARQ-ACK feedback is transmitted based on a timing advance value associated with the TAG.

6. The wireless device of claim 1 , wherein:

the time alignment timer of the TAG is a first time alignment timer of a first TAG of the at least two TAGs; and

the indicating the positive acknowledgement to the physical layer is:

in response to the first time alignment timer of the first TAG being running; and

regardless of whether a second time alignment timer of a second TAG of the at least two TAGs is running or not running.

7. The wireless device of claim 1 , wherein the one or more messages indicate:

a first control resource set (coreset) pool index for one or more first coresets of the cell; and

a second coreset pool index for one or more second coresets of the cell.

8. A method comprising:

receiving, by a wireless device, one or more messages indicating at least two timing advance groups (TAGs) for a cell, wherein each TAG of the at least two TAGs is associated with a respective transmission configuration indicator (TCI) state;

receiving downlink control information (DCI) indicating:

a semi-persistent scheduling (SPS) deactivation; and

an uplink resource of a hybrid automatic repeat request acknowledgement (HARQ-ACK) feedback;

indicating, to a physical layer of the wireless device, a positive acknowledgement for the SPS deactivation in response to a time alignment timer of a TAG, among the at least two TAGs and associated with a TCI state used for transmitting the HARQ-ACK feedback, being running; and

transmitting, via the cell and based on the TCI state, the HARQ-ACK feedback comprising the positive acknowledgement.

9. The method of claim 8 , wherein the one or more messages are one or more radio resource control (RRC) messages.

10. The method of claim 8 , wherein the one or more messages further indicate one or more configured downlink assignments for SPS physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH) receptions.

11. The method of claim 10 , further comprising clearing the one or more configured downlink assignments for SPS PDSCH receptions based on the receiving the DCI indicating the SPS deactivation.

12. The method of claim 8 , wherein the HARQ-ACK feedback is transmitted based on a timing advance value associated with the TAG.

13. The method of claim 8 , wherein:

the time alignment timer of the TAG is a first time alignment timer of a first TAG of the at least two TAGs; and

the indicating the positive acknowledgement to the physical layer is:

in response to the first time alignment timer of the first TAG being running; and

regardless of whether a second time alignment timer of a second TAG of the at least two TAGs is running or not running.

14. The method of claim 8 , wherein the one or more messages indicate:

a first control resource set (coreset) pool index for one or more first coresets of the cell; and

a second coreset pool index for one or more second coresets of the cell.

15. A non-transitory computer-readable medium comprising instructions that, when executed by one or more processors of a wireless device, cause the wireless device to:

receive one or more messages indicating at least two timing advance groups (TAGs) for a cell, wherein each TAG of the at least two TAGs is associated with a respective transmission configuration indicator (TCI) state;

receive downlink control information (DCI) indicating:

a semi-persistent scheduling (SPS) deactivation; and

an uplink resource of a hybrid automatic repeat request acknowledgement (HARQ-ACK) feedback;

indicate, to a physical layer of the wireless device, a positive acknowledgement for the SPS deactivation in response to a time alignment timer of a TAG, among the at least two TAGs and associated with a TCI state used for transmitting the HARQ-ACK feedback, being running; and

transmit, via the cell and based on the TCI state, the HARQ-ACK feedback comprising the positive acknowledgement.

16. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 15 , wherein the one or more messages are one or more radio resource control (RRC) messages.

17. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 15 , wherein the one or more messages further indicate one or more configured downlink assignments for SPS physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH) receptions.

18. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 15 , wherein the HARQ-ACK feedback is transmitted based on a timing advance value associated with the TAG.

19. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 15 , wherein:

the time alignment timer of the TAG is a first time alignment timer of a first TAG of the at least two TAGs; and

the indicating the positive acknowledgement to the physical layer is:

in response to the first time alignment timer of the first TAG being running; and

regardless of whether a second time alignment timer of a second TAG of the at least two TAGs is running or not running.

20. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 15 , wherein the one or more messages indicate:

a first control resource set (coreset) pool index for one or more first coresets of the cell; and

a second coreset pool index for one or more second coresets of the cell.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded May 1, 2024
From: CIRIK, ALI CAGATAY; PRASAD, GAUTHAM; DINAN, ESMAEL HEJAZI; ZHOU, HUA
To: OFINNO, LLC
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Continuity (3)
Continuation PCTUS2023019527 · Apr 24, 2023
Provisional Application 63334985 · Apr 26, 2022
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