Granted Patent B2

US 12,396,002 · App. 17/985,082 · Granted Aug 19, 2025

Inventors: Zhanping Yin (Vancouver, WA); Tomoki Yoshimura (Camas, WA)

Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha

H04W72/23H04W16/28

Abstract

Claims (8)

1. A network controlled repeater (NCR) comprising:

receiving circuitry configured to:

receive a radio resource control (RRC) configuration from a gNodeB (gNB) on a control link for a configured grant (CG), including resource allocation with beam indication, and uplink (UL) forwarding delay information; and

determine that the CG is a type 1 by receiving the ConfiguredGrantConfig-ncr including rrc-ConfiguredUplinkGrant-ncr.

2. A communication method of a network controlled repeater (NCR), comprising:

receiving a radio resource control (RRC) configuration from a gNodeB (gNB) on a control link for a configured grant (CG), including resource allocation with beam indication, and uplink (UL) forwarding delay information;

determining that the CG is a type 1 by receiving the ConfiguredGrantConfig-ncr including rrc-ConfiguredUplinkGrant-ncr; and

using the RRC configurations in transmissions.

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