IP Library Granted Patent US 12,213,110
Granted Patent B2
US 12,213,110 · App. 17/440,138 · Granted Jan 28, 2025

Control resource set/system information block 1 transmission with mixed numerology

Inventors: Huaning Niu (San Jose, CA); Chunhai Yao (Beijing, CN); Dawei Zhang (Saratoga, CA); Haitong Sun (Cupertino, CA); Hong He (San Jose, CA); Oghenekome Oteri (San Diego, CA); Seyed Ali Akbar Fakoorian (San Diego, CA); Sigen Ye (Whitehouse Station, NJ); Wei Zeng (Saratoga, CA); Weidong Yang (San Diego, CA); Yushu Zhang (Beijing, CN)
Assignee: Apple Inc.
H04W72/0446H04W72/23H04W74/0816
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Patent No.
US 12,213,110
App. No.
17/440,138
Granted
Jan 28, 2025
Kind
B2
Abstract

The present application relates to devices and components including apparatus, systems, and methods to provide repetition of system information block type 1 in a plurality of slots.

Claims (33)

1. One or more non-transitory computer-readable media having instructions that, when executed, cause processing circuitry to:

determine a number of slots in which to repeat a system information block type 1 (SIB1) transmission to be coherently combined;

generate, for transmission to a user equipment (UE), an indication of the number of slots in which the SIB1 transmission is to be repeated and coherently combined;

generate a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) for transmission based on a control resource set (CORESET) 0 in a first portion of a plurality of slots, the PDCCH to schedule the SIB1 transmission in the number of slots; and

generate, for transmission to the UE, the SIB1 transmission in each of the plurality of slots equal to the number of slots.

2. The one or more non-transitory computer-readable media of claim 1 , wherein to generate the indication of the number of slots includes to generate two bits in a PDCCH transmission that indicates the number of slots.

3. The one or more non-transitory computer-readable media of claim 2 , wherein the PDCCH transmission is in downlink control information (DCI) format 1-0.

4. The one or more non-transitory computer-readable media of claim 1 , wherein the plurality of slots are treated as a SIB1 group, and wherein uplink (UL) transmissions are not allowed during the transmission of the SIB1 group.

5. The one or more non-transitory computer-readable media of claim 1 , wherein the instructions, further cause the processing circuitry to:

derive CORESET 0 transmission slots with a number of slots per synchronization signal/physical broadcast channel block (SSB) being greater than 2; and

generate, for transmission to the UE, an indication of the derived CORESET 0 transmission slots.

6. The one or more non-transitory computer-readable media of claim 5 , wherein to derive the CORESET 0 transmission slots includes to calculate an index of slot n 0 via the equation n 0 =(O·2 μ +└i·M┘)mod N slot frame,μ , where O indicates which frames are going to be used within a subframe to distributing time domain, μ∈{0,1} based on a subcarrier spacing (SCS) for physical downlink receptions in a CORESET, I is a candidate SSB index, M is the number of slots per SSB and is greater than 2, and N slot frame,μ is a number of slots per frame for u.

7. The one or more non-transitory computer-readable media of claim 1 , wherein the SIB1 transmission in each of the plurality of slots is to be at a frequency of greater than 52.6 gigahertz (GHz).

8. The one or more non-transitory computer-readable media of claim 1 , wherein to generate the SIB1 transmission in each of the plurality of slots includes to:

perform listen before talk (LBT) operations for each of the plurality of slots; and

generate the SIB1 transmission for transmission in each of the plurality of slots based on the LBT operations being successful.

9. One or more non-transitory computer-readable media having instructions that, when executed, cause processing circuitry to:

identify two bits within a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) transmission that indicates a number of slots in which a system information block type 1 (SIB1) is to be repeated;

identify received slots including the SIB 1 based on the two bits; and

coherently combine one or more of the received slots to determine information included in the SIB1.

10. The one or more non-transitory computer-readable media of claim 9 , wherein to coherently combine the one or more of the received slots to determine the information includes to combine an amount of the one or more of the received slots needed to adequately determine the information included in the SIB1.

11. The one or more non-transitory computer-readable media of claim 9 , wherein the received slots are treated as a SIB1 group with no uplink (UL) transmissions allowed between the received slots.

12. The one or more non-transitory computer-readable media of claim 9 , wherein the instructions, when executed, further cause the processing circuitry to identify an indication of control resource set (CORESET) 0 transmission slots, the CORESET 0 transmission slots having a number of slots per synchronization signal/physical broadcast channel block (SSB) greater than 2.

13. The one or more non-transitory computer-readable media of claim 9 , wherein the received slots are within frequency range 3 (FR3).

14. An apparatus comprising:

processing circuitry to:

derive control resource set (CORESET) 0 transmission slots for system information block type 1 (SIB1) transmissions with a number of slots per synchronization signal/physical broadcast channel block (SSB) being greater than 2 to be stored as an indication of the CORESET transmission slots 0, wherein to derive the CORESET 0 transmission slots includes to calculate an index of slot n 0 via the equation n 0 =(O·2 μ +└i·M┘)mod N slot frame,μ , where O indicates which frames are going to be used within a subframe to distributing time domain, μ∈{0,1} based on a subcarrier spacing (SCS) for physical downlink receptions in a CORESET, I is a candidate SSB index, M is the number of slots per SSB and is greater than 2, and N slot frame,μ is a number slot of slots per frame for μ; and

generate, for transmission to a user equipment (UE), the indication of the CORESET 0 transmission slots via a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) transmission; and

interface circuitry coupled with the processing circuitry, the interface circuitry to communicatively couple the processing circuitry with a component of a device.

15. The apparatus of claim 14 , wherein the derived CORESET 0 transmission slots for SIB1 transmissions are to be utilized for frequencies greater than 52.6 gigahertz (GHz).

16. The apparatus of claim 14 , wherein the processing circuitry is further to:

determine a number of slots in which to repeat a SIB1 transmission within the CORESET 0 transmission slots; and

generate, for transmission to the UE, an indication of the number of slots in which the SIB1 transmission is to be repeated and coherently combined.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Sep 16, 2021
From: NIU, HUANING; YAO, CHUNHAI; ZHANG, DAWEI; SUN, HAITONG; HE, HONG; OTERI, OGHENEKOME; FAKOORIAN, SEYED ALI AKBAR; YE, SIGEN; ZENG, WEI; YANG, WEIDONG; ZHANG, YUSHU
To: APPLE INC.
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Continuity (1)
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