Granted Patent B2

US 12,538,320 · App. 18/192,877 · Granted Jan 27, 2026

Inventor: Yu Yang (Dongguan, CN)

Assignee: VIVO MOBILE COMMUNICATION CO., LTD.

H04W72/23H04L5/0055H04W72/046H04W72/1263

Abstract

Claims (84)

1 . A beam indication method, performed by a terminal and comprising:

receiving first downlink control information (DCI) or a first medium access control control element (MAC CE), wherein the first DCI or the first MAC CE is used to indicate at least one piece of common beam information; wherein:

the common beam information corresponds to at least two channels, or the common beam information corresponds to at least two reference signals, or the common beam information corresponds to at least one channel and at least one reference signal;

the at least one piece of common beam information indicated by the first DCI or the first MAC CE is applicable to any one of following:

a first-type control resource set; and

a first-type control resource set and a channel or reference signal associated with the first-type control resource set; and

the method further comprises determining beam information of a second-type control resource set based on a second MAC CE.

2 . The method according to claim 1 , wherein the channel or reference signal associated with the first-type control resource set comprises at least one of:

a channel or reference signal scheduled by DCI in the first-type control resource set; or

a feedback channel corresponding to a channel scheduled by DCI in the first-type control resource set.

3 . The method according to claim 1 , wherein a control resource set in which the first DCI is located belongs to the first-type control resource set.

4 . The method according to claim 1 , wherein the receiving first DCI comprises:

determining target beam information based on an indication of a piece of DCI before the first DCI, wherein the target beam information is beam information of the second-type control resource set and a channel or reference signal associated with the second-type control resource set; and

receiving a downlink control channel in the second-type control resource set, wherein the downlink control channel comprises the first DCI.

5 . The method according to claim 1 , wherein after the receiving first DCI or a first MAC CE, the method further comprises:

transmitting first feedback information to a network-side device, wherein the first feedback information is used to indicate whether the terminal has correctly received the first DCI or the first MAC CE.

6 . The method according to claim 5 , further comprising:

determining an uplink resource for the first feedback information in a first manner, wherein the first manner comprises at least one of:

determining the uplink resource for the first feedback information based on an uplink resource that is for the first feedback information and indicated in the first DCI or the first MAC CE;

determining, based on a downlink resource in which the first DCI or the first MAC CE is located and an association relationship between uplink and downlink resources, that an uplink resource associated with the downlink resource in which the first DCI or the first MAC CE is located is the uplink resource for the first feedback information; or

determining, based on a transmission time of the first DCI or the first MAC CE and a preset timing relationship, that an uplink resource satisfying the preset timing relationship with the transmission time of the first DCI or the first MAC CE is the uplink resource for the first feedback information.

7 . The method according to claim 5 , wherein in a case that the first DCI is further used to schedule a physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH), the method further comprises:

transmitting feedback information about the PDSCH; wherein

the first feedback information and the feedback information about the PDSCH are jointly indicated in first target feedback information; or the first feedback information and the feedback information about the PDSCH are separately indicated in second target feedback information.

8 . The method according to claim 5 , wherein in a case that the first DCI is further used to schedule a physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH),

an uplink resource in which the first feedback information is located comprises at least one of

the PUSCH scheduled by the first DCI;

a PUSCH scheduled by second DCI, wherein the PUSCH scheduled by the second DCI and the PUSCH scheduled by the first DCI use a same hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) process number;

first available uplink resource after the PUSCH scheduled by the first DCI; or

first available uplink resource after the first DCI.

9 . The method according to claim 5 , further comprising at least one of:

in a case that the first feedback information is an acknowledgement, after first preset duration from a transmission time of the first feedback information, using the common beam information for a channel or reference signal corresponding to the common beam information; or

in a case that the first DCI is further used to schedule a physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH), after second preset duration from a transmission time of second DCI, using the common beam information for a channel or reference signal corresponding to the common beam information, wherein a PUSCH scheduled by the second DCI and the PUSCH scheduled by the first DCI have a same hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) process number.

10 . The method according to claim 9 , wherein in a case that a transmission time of a channel or reference signal scheduled by third DCI precedes a time at which the common beam information becomes usable, the method further comprises:

transmitting, by using first default beam information, the channel or reference signal scheduled by the third DCI, wherein the first default beam information comprises:

beam information corresponding to the transmission time of the channel or reference signal scheduled by the third DCI; or

beam information of a control resource set with a smallest identifier (ID).

11 . The method according to claim 9 , wherein in a case that a transmission time of fourth DCI precedes a time at which the common beam information becomes usable, and a transmission time of a channel or reference signal scheduled by the fourth DCI follows the time at which the common beam information becomes usable, the method further comprises:

transmitting, by using second default beam information, the channel or reference signal scheduled by the fourth DCI, wherein the second default beam information comprises:

beam information corresponding to the transmission time of the fourth DCI;

beam information of a control resource set with a smallest identifier (ID); and

the common beam information indicated by the first DCI or the first MAC CE.

12 . The method according to claim 5 , further comprising:

in a case that the first feedback information is an acknowledgement, transmitting a corresponding channel or reference signal by using the common beam information, or receiving again the first DCI or the first MAC CE indicating the at least one piece of common beam information;

or

in a case that the first feedback information is a negative acknowledgement, receiving again the first DCI or the first MAC CE indicating the at least one piece of common beam information.

13 . The method according to claim 7 , wherein in a case that the first feedback information and the feedback information about the PDSCH are jointly indicated in the first target feedback information,

if the first feedback information and the feedback information about the PDSCH are acknowledgements, the first target feedback information is an acknowledgement;

or

if at least one of the first feedback information or the feedback information about the PDSCH is a negative acknowledgement, the first target feedback information is a negative acknowledgement.

14 . The method according to claim 7 , wherein in a case that the first feedback information and the feedback information about the PDSCH are separately indicated in the second target feedback information,

the second target feedback information further comprises first indication information, wherein the first indication information is used to indicate that the second target feedback information comprises the first feedback information or the feedback information about the PDSCH;

or

the second target feedback information further comprises second indication information, wherein the second indication information is used to indicate an arrangement order or position information of the first feedback information in the second target feedback information and the feedback information about the PDSCH in the second target feedback information;

or

at least one of an uplink resource, timing information, a scrambling mode, a time/frequency domain offset, or a code division mode respectively used by the first feedback information and the feedback information about the PDSCH indicates that the second target feedback information comprises the first feedback information or the feedback information about the PDSCH;

or

in the second target feedback information, the first feedback information and the feedback information about the PDSCH are separately encoded and arranged according to a preset rule;

or

in the second target feedback information, the first feedback information and the feedback information about the PDSCH are jointly encoded, wherein a decoding result of joint encoding is able to indicate the first feedback information and the feedback information about the PDSCH that are comprised in the second target feedback information.

15 . The method according to claim 5 , wherein the transmitting first feedback information to a network-side device comprises:

transmitting the first feedback information by using current beam information, until the common beam information becomes usable;

or

transmitting the first feedback information by using the common beam information.

16 . The method according to claim 1 , wherein in a case that the first DCI is further used to schedule a physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH), the method further comprises:

receiving again the first DCI indicating the at least one piece of common beam information;

or

receiving again the PDSCH until number of times that no feedback information about the PDSCH is transmitted or number of times that negative acknowledgement feedback information about the PDSCH is transmitted reaches first preset number of times, and receiving again the first DCI indicating the at least one piece of common beam information.

17 . The method according to claim 8 , wherein in a case that the first DCI is further used to schedule the PUSCH, the method further comprises:

in a case that the terminal does not correctly receive the first DCI, or the terminal does not transmit the first feedback information on the uplink resource in which the first feedback information is located, or the terminal transmits the first feedback information being a negative acknowledgement, receiving again the first DCI indicating the at least one piece of common beam information.

18 . A network-side device, comprising: a processor, a memory, and a program or instructions stored in the memory and executable on the processor, wherein the program or instructions, when executed by the processor, cause the network-side device to perform:

transmitting first downlink control information (DCI) or a first medium access control control element (MAC CE), wherein the first DCI or the first MAC CE is used to indicate at least one piece of common beam information; wherein:

the common beam information corresponds to at least two channels, or the common beam information corresponds to at least two reference signals, or the common beam information corresponds to at least one channel and at least one reference signal;

the at least one piece of common beam information indicated by the first DCI or the first MAC CE is applicable to any one of following:

a first-type control resource set; and

a first-type control resource set and a channel or reference signal associated with the first-type control resource set; and

the program or instructions, when executed by the processor, further cause the network-side device to perform: indicating beam information of a second-type control resource set through a second MAC CE.

19 . A terminal, comprising: a processor, a memory, and a program or instructions stored in the memory and executable on the processor, wherein when the program or instructions, when executed by the processor, cause the terminal to perform:

receiving first downlink control information (DCI) or a first medium access control control element (MAC CE), wherein the first DCI or the first MAC CE is used to indicate at least one piece of common beam information; wherein;

the common beam information corresponds to at least two channels, or the common beam information corresponds to at least two reference signals, or the common beam information corresponds to at least one channel and at least one reference signal;

the at least one piece of common beam information indicated by the first DCI or the first MAC CE is applicable to any one of following:

a first-type control resource set; and

a first-type control resource set and a channel or reference signal associated with the first-type control resource set; and

the program or instructions, when executed by the processor, further cause the terminal to perform: determining beam information of a second-type control resource set based on a second MAC CE.

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