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Granted Patent B2
US 12,375,220 · App. 17/759,874 · Granted Jul 29, 2025

Radio (NR) multicast broadcast service (MBS)

Inventors: Chunhai Yao (Beijing, CN); Chunxuan Ye (San Diego, CA); Dawei Zhang (Saratoga, CA); Fangli Xu (Beijing, CN); Haitong Sun (Cupertino, CA); Hong He (San Jose, CA); Oghenekome Oteri (San Diego, CA); Sigen Ye (San Diego, CA); Wei Zeng (Saratoga, CA); Weidong Yang (San Diego, CA); Yushu Zhang (Beijing, CN)
Assignee: Apple Inc.
H04L1/1861H04L1/1825H04W72/21H04W72/30
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Patent No.
US 12,375,220
App. No.
17/759,874
Granted
Jul 29, 2025
Kind
B2
Abstract

A user equipment (UE) is configured to receive physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) configuration information associated with PUCCH resource allocation for negative acknowledgement (NACK)-only based hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ)-acknowledgement (ACK) feedback for multicast broadcast service (MBS), receive a signal from a base station and transmit HARQ-ACK feedback to the base station in response to the signal.

Claims (36)

1. A processor of a user equipment (UE) configured to perform operations comprising:

receiving physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) configuration information associated with PUCCH resource allocation for negative acknowledgement (NACK)-only based hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ)-acknowledgement (ACK) feedback for multicast broadcast service (MBS), wherein the PUCCH configuration information comprises a PUCCH configuration list to be shared between NACK-only based HARQ-ACK feedback operations for MBS at the UE and ACK/NACK based HARQ-ACK feedback operations for MBS at the UE, wherein the PUCCH configuration list is a radio resource control (RRC) parameter;

receiving a signal from a base station; and

generating, for transmission to the base station, HARQ-ACK feedback in response to the signal.

2. The processor of claim 1 , wherein the PUCCH resource allocation is specific to the UE.

3. The processor of claim 1 , wherein PUCCH resources for NACK-only based HARQ-ACK feedback for MBS is shared with PUCCH resources for unicast services.

4. The processor of claim 1 , wherein the PUCCH resource allocation is common to a group of UEs.

5. The processor of claim 4 , wherein the group of UEs is configured with PUCCH resources for NACK-only based HARQ-ACK feedback within an uplink common frequency resource (CFR).

6. The processor of claim 4 , the operations further comprising:

selecting a PUCCH resource for NACK-only HARQ-ACK feedback based on an association between an order of HARQ-ACK bits, one or more MBS sessions and a set of PUCCH resources within a PUCCH resource pool.

7. The processor of claim 1 , the operations further comprising:

receiving downlink control information (DCI) comprising a PUCCH resource indication (PRI);

comparing a number of HARQ-ACK bits to be transmitted in response to the signal to a maximum value;

when the number of HARQ-ACK bits to be transmitted in response to the signal is less than or equal to the maximum value, ignoring the PRI; and

when the number of HARQ-ACK bits to be transmitted in response to the signal is greater than the maximum value, selecting a PUCCH resource for transmitting the HARQ-ACK feedback in response to the signal based on the PRI.

8. The processor of claim 1 , the operations further comprising:

comparing a number of HARQ-ACK bits to be transmitted in response to the signal to a maximum value;

when the number of HARQ-ACK bits to be transmitted in response to the signal is less than or equal to the maximum value, the HARQ-ACK feedback transmitted in response to the signal is NACK-only based HARQ-ACK feedback; and

when the number of HARQ-ACK bits to be transmitted in response to the signal is greater than the maximum value, the HARQ-ACK feedback transmitted in response to the signal is ACK/NACK based HARQ-ACK feedback.

9. The processor of claim 1 , the operations further comprising:

receiving downlink control information (DCI) comprising a downlink assignment index (DAI) parameter; and

selecting a PUCCH resource for NACK-only HARQ-ACK feedback based on association between an order of HARQ-ACK bits, one or more MBS sessions and a set of PUCCH resources within a PUCCH resource pool, wherein the order of HARQ-ACK bits is calculated based on the DAI.

10. A processor of a base station configured to perform operations comprising:

receiving user equipment (UE) capability information from a UE, the UE capability information indicating that the UE supports negative acknowledgement (NACK)-only based hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ)-acknowledgement (ACK) feedback for multicast broadcast service (MBS);

configuring the UE with a first set of PUCCH resources for NACK-only based HARQ-ACK feedback;

configuring the UE with a second set of PUCCH resources for ACK/NACK based HARQ-ACK feedback; and

receiving HARQ-ACK feedback from the UE.

11. The processor of claim 10 , wherein the first set of PUCCH resources for NACK-only based HARQ-ACK feedback are to be shared by a group of UEs that include at least the UE.

12. The processor of claim 11 , wherein each PUCCH resource within the first set of PUCCH resources is configured to carry two HARQ-ACK bits.

13. The processor of claim 11 , wherein the first set of PUCCH resources comprises a number of PUCCH resources based on a number of MBS sessions provided by the base station.

14. The processor of claim 11 , wherein the base station provides multiple MBS sessions and each MBS session is associated with a radio network temporary identifier (RNTI).

15. The processor of claim 14 , wherein an association between the RNTI, an order of HARQ-ACK bits and a single PUCCH resource provides a basis for each UE within the group of UEs to select a PUCCH resource for NACK-only based HARQ-ACK feedback.

16. A method, comprising:

receiving physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) configuration information associated with PUCCH resource allocation for negative acknowledgement (NACK)-only based hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ)-acknowledgement (ACK) feedback for multicast broadcast service (MBS), wherein the PUCCH configuration information comprises a PUCCH configuration list to be shared between NACK-only based HARQ-ACK feedback operations for MBS at a user equipment (UE) and ACK/NACK based HARQ-ACK feedback operations for MBS at the UE, wherein the PUCCH configuration list is a radio resource control (RRC) parameter;

receiving a signal from a base station; and

transmitting HARQ-ACK feedback to the base station in response to the signal.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Aug 1, 2022
From: YAO, CHUNHAI; YE, CHUNXUAN; ZHANG, DAWEI; XU, FANGLI; SUN, HAITONG; HE, HONG; OTERI, OGHENEKOME; YE, SIGEN; ZENG, WEI; YANG, WEIDONG; ZHANG, YUSHU
To: APPLE INC.
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