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Granted Patent B2
US 12,388,611 · App. 17/574,374 · Granted Aug 12, 2025

Joint optimization of bandwidth part, search space and connected mode discontinuous reception operation in 5G new radio

Inventors: Yang Li (Plano, TX); Yuchul Kim (Santa Clara, CA); Zhu Ji (San Jose, CA); Beibei Wang (Cupertino, CA); Jia Tang (San Jose, CA); Wei Zeng (San Diego, CA); Dawei Zhang (Saratoga, CA); Johnson O. Sebeni (Fremont, CA)
Assignee: Apple Inc.
H04L5/0092H04L1/1819H04W24/08H04W56/001H04W72/23H04W76/28
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Patent No.
US 12,388,611
App. No.
17/574,374
Granted
Aug 12, 2025
Kind
B2
Abstract

Apparatuses, systems, and methods for a user equipment device (UE) to perform a method using a status change of a timer associated with a connected mode discontinuous reception (CDRX) communication session with a base station to trigger a switch from using a first bandwidth part (BWP) to a second BWP as the active BWP for the CDRX communication session. The timer may be an on-duration timer, an inactivity timer, or a retransmission timer. The UE may also alter a monitoring schedule of a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) in response to detecting the status change of the timer. The second BWP may have a wider or narrower bandwidth than the first BWP, depending on the type of timer and the type of status change.

Claims (48)

1. A method, comprising:

by a user equipment device (UE):

transmitting an uplink message to a base station over a physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH) associated with a first hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) process; and

receiving, over a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH), a downlink control information (DCI) message with format 0_1 and associated with the uplink message, wherein the DCI message does not include a resource allocation and includes a bit field indicating that the HARQ process is complete,

wherein the DCI message includes a cyclic redundancy check (CRC) scrambled by a configured scheduling radio network temporary identifier (CS-RNTI).

2. The method of claim 1 ,

wherein the bit field comprises a new data indicator (NDI) toggled with zero resource allocation to indicate that the HARQ process is complete.

3. The method of claim 1 ,

wherein the DCI message is received from the base station.

4. The method of claim 1 ,

wherein the base station comprises a next generation node B (gNB).

5. The method of claim 1 , the method further comprising:

monitoring the PDCCH to receive the DCI message based on a UE-specific search space set,

wherein the UE-specific search space set is configured by a searchSpaceType indicator in a PDCCH-Config message.

6. The method of claim 1 ,

wherein the uplink message is transmitted and the DCI message is received using a 5 th Generation New Radio (5G NR) radio access technology (RAT).

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

an antenna;

a radio coupled to the antenna; and

a processing element coupled to the radio;

wherein the UE is configured to:

transmit an uplink message to a base station over a physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH) associated with a first hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) process; and

receive, over a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH), a downlink control information (DCI) message with format 0_1 and associated with the uplink message, wherein the DCI message does not include a resource allocation and includes a bit field indicating that the HARQ process is complete,

wherein the DCI message includes a cyclic redundancy check (CRC) scrambled by a configured scheduling radio network temporary identifier (CS-RNTI).

8. The UE of claim 7 ,

wherein the bit field comprises a new data indicator (NDI) toggled with zero resource allocation to indicate that the HARQ process is complete.

9. The UE of claim 7 ,

wherein the base station comprises a next generation node B (gNB).

10. The UE of claim 7 , wherein the UE is further configured to:

monitor the PDCCH to receive the DCI message based on a UE-specific search space set,

wherein the UE-specific search space set is configured by a searchSpaceType indicator in a PDCCH-Config message.

11. The UE of claim 7 ,

wherein the uplink message is transmitted and the DCI message is received using a 5 th Generation New Radio (5G NR) radio access technology (RAT).

12. The UE of claim 7 ,

wherein the DCI message is received from the base station.

13. A non-transitory memory medium comprising program instructions that, when executed by a processor, cause a user equipment device (UE) to:

transmit an uplink message to a base station over a physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH) associated with a first hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) process; and

receive, over a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH), a downlink control information (DCI) message with format 0_1 and associated with the uplink message, wherein the DCI message does not include a resource allocation and includes a bit field indicating that the HARQ process is complete,

wherein the DCI message includes a cyclic redundancy check (CRC) scrambled by a configured scheduling radio network temporary identifier (CS-RNTI).

14. The non-transitory memory medium of claim 13 ,

wherein the bit field comprises a new data indicator (NDI) toggled with zero resource allocation to indicate that the HARQ process is complete.

15. The non-transitory memory medium of claim 13 , wherein the program instructions are further executable to cause the UE to:

monitor the PDCCH to receive the DCI message based on a UE-specific search space set,

wherein the UE-specific search space set is configured by a searchSpaceType indicator in a PDCCH-Config message.

16. The non-transitory memory medium of claim 13 ,

wherein the uplink message is transmitted and the DCI message is received using a 5 th Generation New Radio (5G NR) radio access technology (RAT).

17. The non-transitory memory medium of claim 13 ,

wherein the DCI message is received from the base station.

Continuity (3)
Continuation 16590742 · Oct 2, 2019
Provisional Application 62779392 · Dec 13, 2018
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