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Granted Patent B2
US 12,295,008 · App. 17/852,080 · Granted May 6, 2025

Method for resource signaling design and configuration

Inventors: Zhen He (Shenzhen, CN); Bo Gao (Shenzhen, CN); Yu Pan (Shenzhen, CN); Zhaohua Lu (Shenzhen, CN); Wenjun Yan (Shenzhen, CN)
Assignee: ZTE Corporation
H04W72/23H04W72/53H04W72/542
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Patent No.
US 12,295,008
App. No.
17/852,080
Granted
May 6, 2025
Kind
B2
Abstract

A wireless communication method for use in a wireless terminal is disclosed. The wireless communication method comprises prioritizing a reception of a first resource when at least one event occurs, wherein the first resource and a second resource overlap in at least one time unit.

Claims (72)

1. A wireless communication method for use in a wireless terminal, the wireless communication method comprising:

prioritizing a reception of a first resource when at least one event occurs,

wherein the first resource and a second resource overlap in at least one time unit, and

wherein the at least one event comprises at least one of:

the second resource is not configured with a transmission configuration indicator, TCI, state,

the second resource is configured with a plurality of TCI states and is not indicated to one of the plurality of TCI states by an activation command,

an offset between a physical downlink control channel, PDCCH, scheduling the second resource and the second resource is smaller than a threshold,

the second resource does not overlap with at least one of a data resource or a reference signal, RS, resource, wherein the data resource or the RS resource is indicated having a TCI state,

first information associated with the first resource is the same as the first information associated with the second resource, or

second information associated with the first resource is the same as the second information associated with the second resource,

wherein the first information comprises at least one of a panel index or a set, and

wherein the second information comprises at least one of a control resource set, CORESET, group, a component carrier, CC or a CC group.

2. The wireless communication method of claim 1 , wherein the prioritizing the reception of the first resource comprises at least one of:

receiving only the first resource, or

not receiving the second resource.

3. The wireless communication method of claim 1 , wherein the first information associated with the first resource comprises the first information associated with a TCI state applicable to the first resource, and

wherein the first information associated with the second resource comprises the first information associated with a TCI state applicable to the second resource.

4. The wireless communication method of claim 3 , wherein the TCI state applicable to the first resource comprises a TCI state activated by a media access control control element, MAC-CE, for the first resource, and

wherein the TCI state applicable to the second resource comprises at least one of a TCI state activated by an MAC-CE for the second resource, a TCI state indicated by downlink control information, DCI, for the second resource, a default TCI of the second resource, or a TCI state configured by a radio resource control, RRC, signaling for the second resource.

5. The wireless communication method of claim 1 , wherein the first information associated with the first resource comprises the first information associated with a quasi-co-location, QCL, RS applicable to the first resource, and

wherein the first information associated with the second resource comprises the first information associated with a QCL RS applicable to the second resource.

6. The wireless communication method of claim 5 , wherein the QCL RS applicable to the first resource comprises at least one of:

a synchronization signal block, SSB, or a channel state information reference signal, CSI-RS, in a TCI state applicable to the first resource,

an SSB identified in an initial access procedure for the first resource,

an SSB or a CSI-RS identified, for the first resource, in a random access procedure initiated by a reconfiguration with a synchronization procedure, or

an SSB identified, for the first resource, in the most recent random access procedure which is not initiated by a PDCCH order triggering a contention-free random access procedure.

7. The wireless communication method of claim 5 , wherein the QCL RS applicable to the second resource comprises at least one of:

a synchronization signal block, SSB, or a CSI-RS in a TCI state applicable to the second resource,

an SSB identified in an initial access procedure for the second resource,

an SSB or a CSI-RS identified, for the second resource, in a random access procedure initiated by a reconfiguration with a synchronization procedure, or

an SSB identified, for the second resource, in the most recent random access procedure which is not initiated by a PDCCH order triggering a contention-free random access procedure.

8. The wireless communication method of claim 1 , wherein the first information associated with the first resource comprises the first information associated with the second information associated with the first resource, and

wherein the first information associated with the second resource comprises the first information associated with the second information associated with the second resource.

9. The wireless communication method of claim 1 , wherein the first information associated with the first resource comprises the first information associated with third information associated with a QCL RS associated with the first resource,

wherein the first information associated with the second resource comprises the first information associated with the third information associated with a QCL RS associated with the second resource, and

wherein the third information comprises at least one of a random access channel, RACH, occasion or a preamble.

10. The wireless communication method of claim 1 , wherein the second information associated with the second resource comprises at least one of the second information associated with a CORESET associated with the second resource, a CORESET scheduling the second resource or the second information associated with a default CORESET of the second resource.

11. The wireless communication method of claim 1 , wherein the first information associated with the first resource comprises the first information associated with the second information associated with the first resource,

wherein the first information associated with the second resource comprises the first information associated with the second information associated with a CORESET associated with the second resource, and

wherein the CORESET associated with the second resource comprises at least one of a default CORESET of the second resource or a CORESET scheduling the second resource.

12. The wireless communication method of claim 1 , wherein the first information is determined according to at least one of an initial procedure or a random access procedure identifying the QCL RS.

13. The wireless communication method of claim 1 , wherein the first resource comprises at least one of a control resource, a CORESET, or a PDCCH.

14. The wireless communication method of claim 1 , wherein the second resource comprises at least one of a control resource, a CORESET, a PDCCH, a data resource, a physical shared channel, PDSCH, an RS resource, an RS, a CSI-RS resource or a CSI-RS.

15. A wireless terminal, comprising:

a processor configured to prioritize a reception of a first resource when at least one event occurs,

wherein the first resource and a second resource overlap in at least one time unit, and

wherein the at least one event comprises at least one of:

the second resource is not configured with a transmission configuration indicator, TCI, state,

the second resource is configured with a plurality of TCI states and is not indicated to one of the plurality of TCI states by an activation command,

an offset between a physical downlink control channel, PDCCH, scheduling the second resource and the second resource is smaller than a threshold,

the second resource does not overlap with at least one of a data resource or a reference signal, RS, resource, wherein the data resource or the RS resource is indicated having a TCI state,

first information associated with the first resource is the same as the first information associated with the second resource, or

second information associated with the first resource is the same as the second information associated with the second resource,

wherein the first information comprises at least one of a panel index or a set, and

wherein the second information comprises at least one of a control resource set, CORESET, group, a component carrier, CC or a CC group.

16. The wireless terminal of claim 15 , wherein the processor is further configured to:

receive only the first resource, or

not receive the second resource.

17. The wireless terminal of claim 15 , wherein the first information associated with the first resource comprises the first information associated with a TCI state applicable to the first resource, and

wherein the first information associated with the second resource comprises the first information associated with a TCI state applicable to the second resource.

18. A non-transitory computer program product comprising a computer-readable program medium code stored thereupon, the code, when executed by a processor, causing the processor to implement a wireless communication method comprising:

prioritizing a reception of a first resource when at least one event occurs,

wherein the first resource and a second resource overlap in at least one time unit, and

wherein the at least one event comprises at least one of:

the second resource is not configured with a transmission configuration indicator, TCI, state,

the second resource is configured with a plurality of TCI states and is not indicated to one of the plurality of TCI states by an activation command,

an offset between a physical downlink control channel, PDCCH, scheduling the second resource and the second resource is smaller than a threshold,

the second resource does not overlap with at least one of a data resource or a reference signal, RS, resource, wherein the data resource or the RS resource is indicated having a TCI state,

first information associated with the first resource is the same as the first information associated with the second resource, or

second information associated with the first resource is the same as the second information associated with the second resource,

wherein the first information comprises at least one of a panel index or a set, and

wherein the second information comprises at least one of a control resource set, CORESET, group, a component carrier, CC or a CC group.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Jun 28, 2022
From: HE, ZHEN; GAO, BO; PAN, YU; LU, ZHAOHUA; YAN, WENJUN
To: ZTE CORPORATION
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Continuity (2)
Continuation PCTCN2020106273 · Jul 31, 2020
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