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US 12,349,134 · App. 17/589,966 · Granted Jul 1, 2025

Signal transmission method and apparatus and communication system

Inventors: Zhe Chen (Beijing, CN); Lei Song (Beijing, CN); Jian Zhang (Beijing, CN); Lei Zhang (Beijing, CN); Xin Wang (Beijing, CN)
Assignee: FUJITSU LIMITED
H04W72/1273H04L1/1812H04L5/0053H04W72/23H04W76/20
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Patent No.
US 12,349,134
App. No.
17/589,966
Granted
Jul 1, 2025
Kind
B2
Abstract

A signal transmission apparatus, configured in a terminal equipment, wherein the apparatus includes a generator configured to generate a first feedback signal at least according to a first set, the first set at least comprising two SPS PDSCH receptions, and the SPS PDSCH receptions in the first set corresponding to identical bandwidth parts (BWPs) or component carriers or serving cells or identical BWPs of identical serving cells, and a transmitter configured to transmit the first feedback signal.

Claims (38)

1. A signal transmission apparatus having a processor and memory, configured in a terminal equipment, wherein the apparatus comprises:

a generator configured to generate a first feedback signal at least according to a first set, the first set at least comprising two SPS PDSCH receptions, and the SPS PDSCH receptions in the first set corresponding to identical serving cells; and

a transmitter configured to transmit the first feedback signal,

wherein the first feedback signal comprises HARQ-ACK information to which the SPS PDSCH receptions in the first set correspond, and orders of the feedback information to which the SPS PDSCH receptions in the first set correspond in the first feedback signal are related to at least one of the following manners:

an ascending order of ending time-domain positions of PDSCHs to which the SPS PDSCH receptions in the first set correspond; and

an ascending order of SPS configuration IDs to which the SPS PDSCH receptions in the first set correspond.

2. The apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein the SPS PDSCH receptions refer to that the terminal equipment monitors or receives corresponding PDSCHs according to an SPS activated DCI indication and corresponding SPS configuration information.

3. The apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein the SPS PDSCH receptions in the first set correspond to identical HARQ-ACK codebooks.

4. The apparatus according to claim 3 , wherein the SPS PDSCH receptions in the first set corresponding to identical HARQ-ACK codebooks refers to:

HARQ-ACK codebook identifications of the SPS configuration to which the SPS PDSCH receptions in the first set correspond are identical; or

HARQ-ACK codebook identifications in the SPS activated DCI to which the SPS PDSCH receptions in the first set correspond are identical.

5. The apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein the HARQ-ACK information to which the SPS PDSCH receptions in the first set correspond is transmitted in identical sub-slots.

6. The apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein the generator generating a first feedback signal at least according to a first set comprises:

the generator generates the first feedback signal according to the first set and a maximum number of HARQ-ACK information bit.

7. The apparatus according to claim 6 , wherein the maximum number of HARQ-ACK information bit refers to a maximum number of HARQ-ACK information bit related to SPS in an uplink signal.

8. The apparatus according to claim 6 , wherein the maximum number of HARQ-ACK information bit is indicated by RRC signaling, or the maximum number of HARQ-ACK information bit is related to a capacity of the first feedback signal.

9. The apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein the generator generating a first feedback signal at least according to a first set comprises:

the generator generates the first feedback signal according to the first set and a maximum number of ACKs related to the HARQ-ACK information.

10. The apparatus according to claim 9 , wherein the HARQ-ACK information is HARQ-ACK information related to the SPS.

11. The apparatus according to claim 9 , wherein the maximum number of ACKs related to the HARQ-ACK information is indicated by RRC signaling, or is predefined.

12. A signal transmission apparatus having a processor and memory, configured in a terminal equipment, the signal transmission apparatus comprising:

a generator configured to generate a first feedback signal at least according to a first set, the first set at least comprising two SPS PDSCH receptions, and the SPS PDSCH receptions in the first set corresponding to identical serving cells; and

a transmitter configured to transmit the first feedback signal by using a first uplink resource, the first uplink resource being an uplink resource to which an SPS PDSCH reception in the first set corresponds, wherein the SPS PDSCH reception to which the first uplink resource corresponds is at least one of the following:

an SPS PDSCH reception with a maximum or minimum SPS configuration ID to which the SPS PDSCH receptions in the first set correspond;

an SPS PDSCH reception with an earliest or latest PDSCH starting time-domain position or the ending time-domain position to which the SPS PDSCH receptions in the first set correspond;

an SPS PDSCH reception with an earliest or latest PUCCH starting time-domain position or the ending time-domain position to which the SPS PDSCH receptions in the first set correspond;

an SPS PDSCH reception with a PUCCH satisfying a predefined timeline to which the SPS PDSCH receptions in the first set correspond;

an SPS PDSCH reception with a PUCCH capacity greater than or equal to a corresponding total payload size to which the SPS PDSCH receptions in the first set correspond; and

an SPS PDSCH reception with a largest PUCCH capacity to which the SPS PDSCH receptions in the first set correspond.

13. The apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein the transmitter transmitting the first feedback signal comprises:

the transmitter transmits the first feedback signal by using a second uplink resource, the second uplink resource belonging to a second set, and the second uplink resource being related to a size of the HARQ-ACK information bits to which the SPS PDSCH receptions in the first set correspond.

14. The apparatus according to claim 13 , wherein the transmitter transmitting the first feedback signal by using a second uplink resource comprises:

the transmitter transmits the first feedback signal by using the second uplink resource according to RRC signaling.

15. The apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein the first feedback signal comprises only HARQ-ACK information to which a PDSCH reception in the SPS PDSCH receptions in the first set corresponds, the PDSCH reception not corresponding to a PDCCH.

16. The apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein the transmitter transmitting the first feedback signal comprises:

the transmitter transmits the first feedback signal according to RRC signaling.

17. The apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein the transmitter transmitting the first feedback signal comprises:

the transmitter transmits the first feedback signal according to a reported UE capability.

Assignments (2)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Jan 5, 2026
From: FUJITSU LIMITED
To: 1FINITY INC.
Reel/Frame 074197/0244 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Feb 1, 2022
From: CHEN, ZHE; SONG, LEI; ZHANG, JIAN; ZHANG, LEI; WANG, XIN
To: FUJITSU LIMITED
Reel/Frame 058840/0990 →
Continuity (2)
Continuation PCTCN2019100868 · Aug 15, 2019
Related Publication 20220159691A1 · May 19, 2022
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