Granted Patent B2

US 12,289,618 · App. 17/916,850 · Granted Apr 29, 2025

Inventors: Yushu Zhang (Beijing, CN); Chunhai Yao (Beijing, CN); Chunxuan Ye (San Diego, CA); Dawei Zhang (Saratoga, CA); Fangli Xu (Beijing, CN); Haijing Hu (Beijing, CN); Haitong Sun (Cupertino, CA); Hong He (Cupertino, CA); Jie Cui (San Jose, CA); Oghenekome Oteri (San Diego, CA); Wei Zeng (San Diego, CA); Weidong Yang (San Diego, CA); Yang Tang (San Jose, CA); Yuchul Kim (San Jose, CA); Yuqin Chen (Shenzhen, CN)

Assignee: Apple Inc.

H04W16/28H04L5/0051H04W80/02

Abstract

Claims (83)

1. A user equipment device (UE), comprising:

at least one antenna;

at least one radio, wherein the at least one radio is configured to perform cellular communication using at least one radio access technology (RAT);

one or more processors coupled to the at least one radio, wherein the one or more processors and the at least one radio are configured to perform voice and/or data communications;

wherein the one or more processors are configured to cause the UE to:

receive, from a base station, a first uplink beam configuration for a group of component carriers;

communicate, with the base station, using the first uplink beam configuration for the group of component carriers; and

receive, from the base station, a second uplink beam configuration for the group of component carriers, wherein the second uplink beam configuration includes a medium access control (MAC) control element (CE) that updates a pathloss reference signal (PRS) for the group of component carriers.

2. The UE of claim 1 ,

wherein the group of component carriers is configured via radio resource control signaling between the UE and the base station.

3. The UE of claim 1 ,

wherein the group of component carriers is the same as a group of component carriers for a spatial relation update, and wherein the MAC CE further updates spatial relation for aperiodic or semi-persistent sounding reference signals for the group of component carriers.

4. The UE of claim 3 ,

wherein the MAC CE includes one bit indicating whether the MAC CE applies to the group of component carriers or to a specific component carrier within the group of component carriers.

5. The UE of claim 3 ,

wherein the MAC CE applies to the group of component carriers, and wherein the group of component carriers is indicated by a serving cell index indicated by the MAC CE.

6. The UE of claim 3 ,

wherein the MAC CE further includes an indication of a serving cell, and wherein the one or more processors are further configured to cause the UE to update a spatial relation for a sounding reference signal resource set for the serving cell indicated by the MAC CE.

7. The UE of claim 3 ,

wherein the MAC CE further includes at least one of:

a sounding reference signal resource set identifier;

a serving cell identifier;

a serving cell group identifier;

a bandwidth part identifier; or

a resource for spatial relation indication.

8. The UE of claim 1 ,

wherein the MAC CE further includes at least one of:

a PRS identifier (ID);

a sounding reference signal (SRS) resource indicator;

a serving cell index; or

a serving cell group index.

9. The UE of claim 1 ,

wherein the MAC CE further includes at least one of:

a PRS identifier (ID);

a sounding reference signal (SRS) resource set index;

a serving cell index; or

a serving cell group index.

10. An apparatus, comprising:

a memory; and

at least one processor in communication with the memory, wherein the at least one processor is configured to:

receive, from a base station, an uplink beam configuration for a group of component carriers;

generate instructions to communicate, with the base station, using the uplink beam configuration for the group of component carriers; and

receive, from the base station, an updated uplink beam configuration for the group of component carriers, wherein the updated uplink beam configuration includes a medium access control (MAC) control element (CE) that updates a pathloss reference signal (PRS) for the group of component carriers and a spatial relation for aperiodic or semi-persistent sounding reference signals for the group of component carriers.

11. The apparatus of claim 10 ,

wherein the uplink beam configuration includes a control resource set (CORESET) reserved for beam failure recovery in one component carrier within the group of component carriers, wherein the MAC CE includes a transmission control indicator (TCI) indication for the CORESET reserved for beam failure recovery, and wherein the at least one processor is further configured to:

ignore the TCI indication for the CORESET reserved for beam failure recovery and update corresponding CORESETs in other component carriers of the group of component carriers based on the TCI indication;

ignore the MAC CE; or

treat the MAC CE as an error case.

12. The apparatus of claim 11 ,

wherein the MAC CE includes one bit indicating whether the MAC CE applies to the group of component carriers or to a specific component carrier within the group of component carriers.

13. The apparatus of claim 12 ,

wherein the MAC CE applies to the group of component carriers, wherein the group of component carriers is indicated by a serving cell index indicated by the MAC CE; and wherein the MAC CE further includes an indication of a serving cell.

14. The apparatus of claim 13 ,

wherein the at least one processor is further configured to update a transmission control indicator (TCI) for a physical downlink control channel (PDSCH) for the serving cell indicated by the MAC CE.

15. The apparatus of claim 12 ,

wherein the MAC CE indicates multiple transmission control indicator (TCI) states to support multiple transmission and reception point (multi-TRP) operation.

16. The apparatus of claim 12 ,

wherein the MAC CE indicates a higher layer index, and wherein the at least one processor is further configured to:

update a transmission control indicator (TCI) state for control resource sets (CORESETs) with the indicated higher layer index; and

not update CORESETs that do not have higher layer index configured.

17. A non-transitory computer readable memory medium storing program instructions executable by processing circuitry to cause a user equipment device (UE) to:

receive, from a base station, a first uplink beam configuration for a group of component carriers;

communicate, with the base station, using the first uplink beam configuration for the group of component carriers; and

receive, from the base station, a second uplink beam configuration for the group of component carriers, wherein the second uplink beam configuration includes a medium access control (MAC) control element (CE) that updates a pathloss reference signal (PRS) for the group of component carriers and a spatial relation for aperiodic or semi-persistent sounding reference signals for the group of component carriers.

18. The non-transitory computer readable memory medium of claim 17 ,

wherein the MAC CE further includes at least one of:

a sounding reference signal resource set identifier;

a serving cell identifier;

a serving cell group identifier;

a bandwidth part identifier; or

a resource for spatial relation indication.

19. The non-transitory computer readable memory medium of claim 17 ,

wherein the MAC CE further includes at least one of:

a PRS identifier (ID);

a sounding reference signal (SRS) resource indicator;

a serving cell index; or

a serving cell group index.

20. The non-transitory computer readable memory medium of claim 17 ,

wherein the MAC CE further includes at least one of:

a PRS identifier (ID);

a sounding reference signal (SRS) resource set index;

a serving cell index; or

a serving cell group index.

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