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Granted Patent B2
US 12,356,459 · App. 17/758,789 · Granted Jul 8, 2025

Terminal and base station for indicating a resource set to be triggered to enhance system frequency utilization

Inventors: Hiroki Harada (Tokyo, JP); Shohei Yoshioka (Tokyo, JP); Shinya Kumagai (Tokyo, JP); Daisuke Kurita (Tokyo, JP); Satoshi Nagata (Tokyo, JP)
Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
H04W74/0833H04B7/06966H04L5/0048H04L12/413H04W36/0083H04W72/231H04B7/0626H04L27/2692
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Patent No.
US 12,356,459
App. No.
17/758,789
Granted
Jul 8, 2025
Kind
B2
Abstract

A terminal includes a receiving unit that receives control information transmitted on a second cell, the control information including information used to assign a resource for a downlink shared channel reception or a resource for an uplink shared channel transmission in a first cell; and a control unit that determines at least one of a measurement of a channel state information reference signal (CSI-RS), a measurement of a tracking reference signal (TRS), a transmission of a sounding reference signal (SRS), or a transmission of a physical random access channel (PRACH) is triggered, regardless of a content of information other than the information used to assign the resource included in the control information.

Claims (18)

1. A terminal comprising:

a receiver that receives control information transmitted on a second cell, the control information including information used to assign a resource for a downlink shared channel reception or a resource for an uplink shared channel transmission in a first cell; and

a processor that determines at least one of a measurement of a channel state information reference signal (CSI-RS), a measurement of a tracking reference signal (TRS), a transmission of a sounding reference signal (SRS), or a transmission of a physical random access channel (PRACH) is triggered, regardless of a content of information other than the information used to assign the resource included in the control information,

wherein a frequency band of the second cell is in a Frequency Range 1 (FR1), in a frequency range formed of the FR1 that is a low frequency band of a New Radio system and a Frequency Range 2 (FR2) that is a high frequency band of the New Radio system, and a frequency band of the first cell is higher than or equal to a frequency band of the FR2,

wherein the terminal further includes a first radio circuit for the frequency band of the first cell and a second radio circuit for the frequency band of the second cell, and

wherein, during an operation of the terminal, the second radio circuit always monitors control information, and the first radio circuit is turned off except for a timing at which there is data traffic.

2. The terminal according to claim 1 , wherein, upon detecting that the receiver does not receive the control information transmitted on the second cell, the processor determines that an operation corresponding to the first cell is not to be performed.

3. The terminal according to claim 1 , wherein the control information transmitted on the second cell includes information indicating a resource set to be triggered.

4. A radio communication system comprising:

a base station; and

a terminal,

wherein the base station includes a transmitter that transmits control information on a second cell, the control information including information used to assign a resource for a downlink shared channel reception or a resource for an uplink shared channel transmission in a first cell,

wherein the terminal includes:

a receiver that receives the control information; and

a processor that determines at least one of a measurement of a channel state information reference signal (CSI-RS), a measurement of a tracking reference signal (TRS), a transmission of a sounding reference signal (SRS), or a transmission of a physical random access channel (PRACH) is triggered, regardless of a content of information other than the information used to assign the resource included in the control information,

wherein a frequency band of the second cell is in a Frequency Range 1 (FR1), in a frequency range formed of the FR1 that is a low frequency band of a New Radio system and a Frequency Range 2 (FR2) that is a high frequency band of the New Radio system, and a frequency band of the first cell is higher than or equal to a frequency band of the FR2,

wherein the terminal further includes a first radio circuit for the frequency band of the first cell and a second radio circuit for the frequency band of the second cell, and

wherein, during an operation of the terminal, the second radio circuit always monitors control information, and the first radio circuit is turned off except for a timing at which there is data traffic.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Jul 19, 2022
From: HARADA, HIROKI; YOSHIOKA, SHOHEI; KUMAGAI, SHINYA; KURITA, DAISUKE; NAGATA, SATOSHI
To: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
Reel/Frame 060552/0721 →
Continuity (1)
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