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Granted Patent B2
US 12,232,152 · App. 18/495,624 · Granted Feb 18, 2025

Wideband operation in an unlicensed spectrum with plural separate frequency ranges

Inventors: Quan Kuang (Langen, DE); Hidetoshi Suzuki (Kanagawa, JP)
Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America
H04W72/53H04W24/08H04W72/0446H04W72/0453H04W72/23
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Patent No.
US 12,232,152
App. No.
18/495,624
Granted
Feb 18, 2025
Kind
B2
Abstract

The present disclosure relates to a mobile terminal and respective operation method. The mobile terminal comprises circuitry, which in operation monitors PDCCH candidates of a first search space set located in a designated first frequency range from the plurality of frequency ranges, and receives a DCI transmitted in the first search space set of the designated first frequency range. The received DCI includes an indication whether or not the mobile terminal is to skip monitoring some specific or all PDCCH candidates in at least one second search space set associated with at least one second frequency range from the plurality of frequency ranges. And only if the indication in the received DCI does not indicate to skip monitoring the specific or all PDCCH candidates, the circuitry additionally monitors the specific or all PDCCH candidates associated with the at least one second frequency range for receiving a DCI thereon.

Claims (10)

1. An integrated circuit comprising:

generation circuitry, which, in operation, controls generating a first downlink control information (DCI), the first DCI including control information indicating whether a communication apparatus skips monitoring a second DCI in respective ones of a plurality of frequency ranges; and

transmission circuitry, which, in operation, controls transmitting, to the communication apparatus, the first DCI in a first search space set and transmitting, to the communication apparatus, the second DCI in one or more second search space sets of one or more frequency ranges of the plurality of frequency ranges,

wherein the one or more frequency ranges to be not skipped are determined based on the control information.

2. The integrated circuit according to claim 1 , wherein the first search space is a type 3 common search space.

3. The integrated circuit according to claim 1 , wherein the first DCI is scrambled based on a slot format indicator (SFI)-radio network temporary identifier (RNTI) (SFI-RNTI).

4. The integrated circuit according to claim 1 , wherein the first search space set in which the first DCI is mapped is a control resource set (CORESET), the CORESET being indicated by a radio resource control (RRC) signaling.

5. The integrated circuit according to claim 1 , wherein the monitoring of the second DCI in frequency ranges other than the one or more frequency ranges is skipped.

6. The integrated circuit according to claim 1 , wherein the plurality of frequency ranges are configured prior to the transmission of the first DCI.

7. The integrated circuit according to claim 1 , wherein the plurality of frequency ranges have a same slot format which is configured by a radio resource control (RRC) signaling.

Priority Claims (1)
EP 18188359 · Aug 9, 2018 · regional
Continuity (3)
Continuation 17953207 · Sep 26, 2022
Continuation 17049434
Related Publication 20240057142A1 · Feb 15, 2024
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