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US 12,526,808 · App. 18/106,246 · Granted Jan 13, 2026

Information processing method and apparatus, and user equipment

Inventors: Na Li (Guangdong, CN); Xiaodong Shen (Guangdong, CN)
Assignee: VIVO MOBILE COMMUNICATION CO., LTD.
H04W72/21H04W72/563H04W72/0446
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Patent No.
US 12,526,808
App. No.
18/106,246
Granted
Jan 13, 2026
Kind
B2
Abstract

An information processing method and apparatus, and user equipment. The method includes: in a case that a time domain resource of an uplink data channel overlaps that of at least one uplink control channel, processing at least one piece of UCI according to first target information, where the at least one piece of UCI is UCI carried on the at least one uplink control channel or includes UCI carried on the uplink data channel and UCI carried on the at least one uplink control channel, and the first target information includes at least one of the following: priority information, type information of information carried on the uplink data channel, or type information of the UCI carried on the at least one uplink control channel.

Claims (84)

1 . An information processing method, wherein the method comprises:

in a case that a time domain resource of an uplink data channel overlaps that of at least one uplink control channel, processing, by user equipment (UE), at least one piece of uplink control information (UCI) according to first target information, wherein

the at least one piece of UCI is UCI carried on the at least one uplink control channel, and the first target information comprises at least one of the following: priority information, type information of information carried on the uplink data channel, or type information of the UCI carried on the at least one uplink control channel, wherein the priority information is used to indicate a priority of the uplink data channel and a priority of the at least one uplink control channel;

the UCI carried on the at least one uplink control channel comprises at least one of the following types of information: first hybrid automatic repeat request-acknowledgment (HARQ-ACK) information, second HARQ-ACK information, first channel state information (CSI), second CSI, or a scheduling request (SR), wherein the first HARQ-ACK information is HARQ-ACK information carried on a high-priority uplink control channel, the second HARQ-ACK information is HARQ-ACK information carried on a low-priority uplink control channel, the first CSI is a first part of a CSI report, and the second CSI is a second part of the CSI report; and

the information carried on the uplink data channel comprises any one of the following types of information: aperiodic channel state information (A-CSI), semi-persistent channel state information (SP-CSI), an uplink shared channel (UL-SCH), and second target information, wherein the second target information comprises A-CSI and a UL-SCH;

wherein the first target information comprises the priority information and the type information of the UCI carried on the at least one uplink control channel, and the processing, by UE, at least one piece of uplink control information (UCI) according to first target information comprises:

if the priority of the uplink data channel is higher than the priority of the at least one uplink control channel and the UCI carried on the at least one uplink control channel comprises target CSI, dropping, by the UE, the target CSI, and transmitting the uplink data channel;

or

if the priority of the uplink data channel is higher than the priority of the at least one uplink control channel and the UCI carried on the at least one uplink control channel comprises target CSI and the second HARQ-ACK information,

dropping, by the UE, the target CSI, and multiplexing the second HARQ-ACK information on the uplink data channel,

wherein the target CSI comprises the first CSI and the second CSI;

or

wherein the first target information comprises the priority information and the type information of the UCI carried on the at least one uplink control channel, and the processing, by UE, at least one piece of uplink control information (UCI) according to first target information comprises:

if the priority of the uplink data channel is lower than the priority of the at least one uplink control channel and the UCI carried on the at least one uplink control channel comprises the first HARQ-ACK information, multiplexing, by the UE, the first HARQ-ACK information on the uplink data channel;

or

if the priority of the uplink data channel is lower than a priority of a part of the at least one uplink control channel and is equal to a priority of the other part of the at least one uplink control channel, and the UCI carried on the at least one uplink control channel comprises the first HARQ-ACK information and fourth target information, multiplexing, by the UE, the first HARQ-ACK information and the fourth target information on the uplink data channel, wherein the fourth target information is target CSI, wherein

the target CSI is the first CSI, or the target CSI comprises the first CSI and the second CSI.

2 . The method according to claim 1 , wherein

the processing, by UE, at least one piece of uplink control information (UCI) according to first target information further comprises:

if the priority of the uplink data channel is higher than the priority of the at least one uplink control channel and the UCI carried on the at least one uplink control channel comprises the second HARQ-ACK information,

multiplexing, by the UE, the second HARQ-ACK information on the uplink data channel; or

performing, by the UE, compression processing on the second HARQ-ACK information; or

processing, by the UE, the second HARQ-ACK information according to third target information, wherein the third target information is target indication information or target time information, the target indication information is used to indicate whether the second HARQ-ACK information is allowed to be multiplexed on the uplink data channel, and the target time information is used to indicate a transmission time of uplink grant information corresponding to the uplink data channel and a receiving time of DCI corresponding to the second HARQ-ACK information;

wherein the multiplexing, by the UE, the second HARQ-ACK information on the uplink data channel comprises:

if the number of bits of the second HARQ-ACK information is less than or equal to the preset number of bits, multiplexing, by the UE, the second HARQ-ACK information on the uplink data channel;

or

multiplexing, by the UE, HARQ-ACK information of the preset number of bits in the second HARQ-ACK information on the uplink data channel, and dropping HARQ-ACK information of the another number of bits in the second HARQ-ACK information;

wherein the method further comprises:

if the number of bits of the second HARQ-ACK information is greater than the preset number of bits, dropping, by the UE, the second HARQ-ACK information; or

multiplexing, by the UE, HARQ-ACK information of the preset number of bits in the second HARQ-ACK information on the uplink data channel, and dropping the remaining second HARQ-ACK information;

or,

wherein the performing, by the UE, compression processing on the second HARQ-ACK information comprises:

if the number of bits of the second HARQ-ACK information is greater than the preset number of bits,

performing, by the UE, compression processing on the second HARQ-ACK information until the number of bits of the second HARQ-ACK information obtained after the compression processing is less than or equal to the preset number of bits, and multiplexing the second HARQ-ACK information obtained after the compression processing on the uplink data channel; or

performing, by the UE, compression processing on the second HARQ-ACK information, and in a case that the number of bits of the compressed second HARQ-ACK information is less than or equal to the preset number of bits, multiplexing the second HARQ-ACK information obtained after the compression processing on the uplink data channel; otherwise, dropping the second HARQ-ACK information;

or,

wherein the third target information is the target time information; and

processing, by the UE, the second HARQ-ACK information according to third target information comprises:

if the receiving time of the DCI corresponding to the second HARQ-ACK information is earlier than or equal to the transmission time of the uplink grant information corresponding to the uplink data channel, multiplexing, by the UE, the second HARQ-ACK information on the uplink data channel;

or

if the receiving time of the DCI corresponding to the second HARQ-ACK information is later than the transmission time of the uplink grant information corresponding to the uplink data channel,

dropping, by the UE, the second HARQ-ACK information; or

multiplexing, by the UE, a target part of HARQ-ACK information on the uplink data channel, and dropping the remaining part of HARQ-ACK information, wherein the target part of HARQ-ACK information is a part of HARQ-ACK information that is in the second HARQ-ACK information and whose receiving time of corresponding DCI is earlier than or equal to the transmission time of the uplink grant information corresponding to the uplink data channel, and the remaining part of HARQ-ACK information is HARQ-ACK information other than the target part of HARQ-ACK information in the second HARQ-ACK information.

3 . An information processing method, wherein the method comprises:

in a case that a time domain resource of an uplink data channel overlaps that of at least one uplink control channel, processing, by user equipment (UE), at least one piece of uplink control information (UCI) according to first target information, wherein

the at least one piece of UCI is UCI carried on the at least one uplink control channel, and the first target information comprises at least one of the following: priority information, type information of information carried on the uplink data channel, or type information of the UCI carried on the at least one uplink control channel, wherein the priority information is used to indicate a priority of the uplink data channel and a priority of the at least one uplink control channel;

the UCI carried on the at least one uplink control channel comprises at least one of the following types of information: first hybrid automatic repeat request-acknowledgment (HARQ-ACK) information, second HARQ-ACK information, first channel state information (CSI), second CSI, or a scheduling request (SR), wherein the first HARQ-ACK information is HARQ-ACK information carried on a high-priority uplink control channel, the second HARQ-ACK information is HARQ-ACK information carried on a low-priority uplink control channel, the first CSI is a first part of a CSI report, and the second CSI is a second part of the CSI report; and

the information carried on the uplink data channel comprises any one of the following types of information: aperiodic channel state information (A-CSI), semi-persistent channel state information (SP-CSI), an uplink shared channel (UL-SCH), and second target information, wherein the second target information comprises A-CSI and a UL-SCH;

wherein the first target information comprises the priority information, the type information of the information carried on the uplink data channel, and the type information of the UCI carried on the at least one uplink control channel; and

the processing, by UE, at least one piece of uplink control information (UCI) according to first target information comprises:

if the priority of the uplink data channel is lower than the priority of the at least one uplink control channel, the uplink data channel carries the A-CSI/the SP-CSI, and the UCI carried on the at least one uplink control channel comprises the first HARQ-ACK information, multiplexing, by the UE, the first HARQ-ACK information on the uplink data channel.

4 . An information processing method, wherein the method comprises:

in a case that a time domain resource of an uplink data channel overlaps that of at least one uplink control channel, processing, by user equipment (UE), at least one piece of uplink control information (UCI) according to first target information, wherein

the at least one piece of UCI is UCI carried on the at least one uplink control channel, or the at least one piece of UCI comprises UCI carried on the uplink data channel and UCI carried on the at least one uplink control channel, and the first target information comprises at least one of the following: priority information, type information of information carried on the uplink data channel, or type information of the UCI carried on the at least one uplink control channel, wherein the priority information is used to indicate a priority of the uplink data channel and a priority of the at least one uplink control channel;

the UCI carried on the at least one uplink control channel comprises at least one of the following types of information: first hybrid automatic repeat request-acknowledgment (HARQ-ACK) information, second HARQ-ACK information, first channel state information (CSI), second CSI, or a scheduling request (SR), wherein the first HARQ-ACK information is HARQ-ACK information carried on a high-priority uplink control channel, the second HARQ-ACK information is HARQ-ACK information carried on a low-priority uplink control channel, the first CSI is a first part of a CSI report, and the second CSI is a second part of the CSI report; and

the information carried on the uplink data channel comprises any one of the following types of information: aperiodic channel state information (A-CSI), semi-persistent channel state information (SP-CSI), an uplink shared channel (UL-SCH), and second target information, wherein the second target information comprises A-CSI and a UL-SCH;

wherein the at least one piece of UCI is the UCI carried on the at least one uplink control channel, and the first target information comprises the type information of the UCI carried on the at least one uplink control channel; and the processing, by UE, at least one piece of uplink control information (UCI) according to first target information comprises:

if the UCI carried on the at least one uplink control channel comprises the first CSI, the second CSI, the first HARQ-ACK information, and the second HARQ-ACK information, dropping, by the UE, the first CSI and the second CSI, and multiplexing the first HARQ-ACK information and the second HARQ-ACK information on the uplink data channel; or

wherein the at least one piece of UCI is the UCI carried on the at least one uplink control channel, and the first target information comprises the type information of the information carried on the uplink data channel and the type information of the UCI carried on the at least one uplink control channel; and

the processing, by UE, at least one piece of uplink control information (UCI) according to first target information comprises:

if the uplink data channel carries the A-CSI/the SP-CSI and the UCI carried on the at least one uplink control channel comprises the first HARQ-ACK information and the second HARQ-ACK information, dropping, by the UE, the second HARQ-ACK information, and multiplexing the first HARQ-ACK information on the uplink data channel;

or

if the uplink data channel carries the A-CSI/the SP-CSI, the UCI carried on the at least one uplink control channel comprises the first HARQ-ACK information and the second HARQ-ACK information, and the A-CSI/the SP-CSI comprises two parts of CSI, dropping, by the UE, the second HARQ-ACK information, and multiplexing the first HARQ-ACK information on the uplink data channel;

or

if the uplink data channel carries the A-CSI/the SP-CSI, the UCI carried on the at least one uplink control channel comprises the first HARQ-ACK information and the second HARQ-ACK information, and the A-CSI/the SP-CSI comprises the first CSI and does not comprise the second CSI, multiplexing, by the UE, the first HARQ-ACK information and the second HARQ-ACK information on the uplink data channel;

or

wherein the at least one piece of UCI comprises the UCI carried on the uplink data channel and the UCI carried on the at least one uplink control channel, and the first target information comprises the type information of the information carried on the uplink data channel and the type information of the UCI carried on the at least one uplink control channel; and the processing, by UE, at least one piece of uplink control information (UCI) according to first target information comprises:

if the uplink data channel carries the A-CSI/the SP-CSI, the UCI carried on the at least one uplink control channel comprises the first HARQ-ACK information and the second HARQ-ACK information, and the A-CSI/the SP-CSI comprises two parts of CSI, dropping, by the UE, a second part of CSI in the A-CSI/the SP-CSI, and multiplexing the first HARQ-ACK information and the second HARQ-ACK information on the uplink data channel.

5 . The method according to claim 3 , wherein

the processing, by UE, at least one piece of uplink control information (UCI) according to first target information further comprises:

if the priority of the uplink data channel is higher than the priority of the at least one uplink control channel, the uplink data channel carries the A-CSI/the SP-CSI, and the UCI carried on the at least one uplink control channel comprises the second HARQ-ACK information,

multiplexing, by the UE, the second HARQ-ACK information on the uplink data channel; or

processing, by the UE, the second HARQ-ACK information according to target indication information, wherein the target indication information is used to indicate whether the second HARQ-ACK information is allowed to be multiplexed on the uplink data channel.

6 . The method according to claim 3 , wherein

the processing, by UE, at least one piece of uplink control information (UCI) according to first target information further comprises:

if the priority of the uplink data channel is higher than the priority of the at least one uplink control channel, the uplink data channel carries the UL-SCH, and the UCI carried on the at least one uplink control channel comprises the SR,

dropping, by the UE, the SR, and transmitting the uplink data channel; or

multiplexing, by the UE, the SR on the uplink data channel.

7 . An information processing apparatus, wherein the information processing apparatus comprises a memory, a processor and a computer program stored in the memory and executable by the processor, wherein the computer program, when executed by the processor, causes the processor to implement the method according to claim 1 .

8 . A non-transitory readable storage medium, wherein the readable storage medium stores a program, which, when executed by a processor, causes the processor to implement the method according to claim 1 .

9 . An information processing apparatus, wherein the information processing apparatus comprises a memory, a processor and a computer program stored in the memory and executable by the processor, wherein the computer program, when executed by the processor, causes the processor to implement the method according to claim 4 .

10 . An information processing apparatus, wherein the information processing apparatus comprises a memory, a processor and a computer program stored in the memory and executable by the processor, wherein the computer program, when executed by the processor, causes the processor to implement the method according to claim 3 .

11 . A non-transitory readable storage medium, wherein the readable storage medium stores a program, which, when executed by a processor, causes the processor to implement the method according to claim 4 .

12 . A non-transitory readable storage medium, wherein the readable storage medium stores a program, which, when executed by a processor, causes the processor to implement the method according to claim 3 .

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Feb 7, 2023
From: LI, NA; SHEN, XIAODONG
To: VIVO MOBILE COMMUNICATION CO., LTD.
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Priority Claims (1)
CN 202010791261.5 · Aug 7, 2020 · national
Continuity (2)
Continuation PCTCN2021110256 · Aug 3, 2021
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