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US 12,542,644 · App. 18/554,879 · Granted Feb 3, 2026

Uplink control information multiplexing method and apparatus

Inventor: Ting Fu (Beijing, CN)
Assignee: Beijing Xiaomi Mobile Software Co., Ltd.
H04L5/0055H04W72/1268H04W72/21
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Patent No.
US 12,542,644
App. No.
18/554,879
Granted
Feb 3, 2026
Kind
B2
Abstract

A method for multiplexing uplink control information (UCI) for unlicensed band transmission, is performed by a terminal device. The method includes: in response to a time-domain overlap between a configure grant-physical uplink share channel (CG-PUSCH) and a hybrid automatic repeat request acknowledgement (HARQ-ACK) carried on a physical uplink control channel (PUCCH), determining, based on a priority of the CG-PUSCH and a priority of the HARQ-ACK, a multiplexing mode for CG-UCI carried on the CG-PUSCH and the HARQ-ACK; and transmitting information to a network device based on the multiplexing mode, wherein the information transmitted includes at least one of the CG-UCI or the HARQ-ACK.

Claims (49)

1 . A method for multiplexing uplink control information (UCI) for unlicensed band transmission, performed by a terminal device, the method comprising:

in response to a time-domain overlap between a configure grant-physical uplink share channel (CG-PUSCH) and a hybrid automatic repeat request acknowledgement (HARQ-ACK) carried on a physical uplink control channel (PUCCH), determining, based on a priority of the CG-PUSCH and a priority of the HARQ-ACK, a multiplexing mode for CG-UCI carried on the CG-PUSCH and the HARQ-ACK; and

transmitting information to a network device based on the multiplexing mode, wherein the information transmitted comprises at least one of the CG-UCI or the HARQ-ACK.

2 . The method according to claim 1 , further comprising:

in response to the priority of the CG-PUSCH being different from the priority of the HARQ-ACK, determining a mode of transmitting information with a high priority and discarding or performing delay transmission on information with a low priority as the multiplexing mode.

3 . The method according to claim 1 , further comprising:

receiving a multiplexing indication parameter sent by the network device; and

determining the multiplexing mode based on at least one of a state of the multiplexing indication parameter, or the priority of the CG-PUSCH and the priority of the HARQ-ACK, wherein the state of the multiplexing indication parameter comprises an enable state and an unenable state.

4 . The method according to claim 3 , wherein the multiplexing indication parameter comprises a first multiplexing indication parameter carried in a high layer signaling, and determining the multiplexing mode comprises:

in response to the first multiplexing indication parameter being in the enable state, determining a mode of jointly encoding the CG-UCI and the HARQ-ACK, as the multiplexing mode; and

in response to the first multiplexing indication parameter being in the unenable state, determining the multiplexing mode based on the priority of the CG-PUSCH and the priority of the HARQ-ACK.

5 . The method according to claim 3 , wherein the multiplexing indication parameter comprises a first multiplexing indication parameter and a second multiplexing indication parameter carried in a high layer signaling, and determining the multiplexing mode comprises:

in response to the second multiplexing indication parameter being in the enable state, determining a mode of jointly encoding the CG-UCI and the HARQ-ACK, as the multiplexing mode;

in response to the second multiplexing indication parameter being in the unenable state, determining a state of the first multiplexing indication parameter;

in response to the first multiplexing indication parameter being in the enable state, determining the mode of jointly encoding the CG-UCI and the HARQ-ACK, as the multiplexing mode; and

in response to the first multiplexing indication parameter being in the unenable state, determining the multiplexing mode based on the priority of the CG-PUSCH and the priority of the HARQ-ACK.

6 . The method according to claim 4 , wherein determining the multiplexing mode based on the priority of the CG-PUSCH and the priority of the HARQ-ACK comprises:

in response to the priority of the CG-PUSCH being the same as the priority of the HARQ-ACK, determining a mode of transmitting the HARQ-ACK and discarding or performing delay transmission on the CG-UCI, as the multiplexing mode; and

in response to the priority of the CG-PUSCH being different from the priority of the HARQ-ACK, determining a mode of transmitting information with a high priority and discarding or performing delay transmission on information with a low priority as the multiplexing mode.

7 . A method for multiplexing uplink control information (UCI) for unlicensed band transmission, performed by a network device, the method comprising:

sending a multiplexing indication parameter to a terminal device, wherein the multiplexing indication parameter indicates the terminal device to determine a multiplexing mode based on at least one of a state of the multiplexing indication parameter, or a priority of CG-UCI carried on a configure grant-physical uplink share channel (CG-PUSCH) and a priority of a hybrid automatic repeat request acknowledgement (HARQ-ACK), in response to a time-domain overlap between the CG-PUSCH and the HARQ-ACK, wherein the state comprises an enable state and an unenable state; and

receiving information transmitted by the terminal device based on the multiplexing mode determined, wherein the information transmitted comprises at least one of the CG-UCI or the HARQ-ACK.

8 . The method according to claim 7 , further comprising:

sending the multiplexing indication parameter to the terminal device via a high layer signaling, wherein the multiplexing indication parameter comprises a first multiplexing indication parameter carried in the high layer signaling.

9 . The method according to claim 7 , further comprising:

sending the multiplexing indication parameter to the terminal device via a high layer signaling, wherein the multiplexing indication parameter comprises a first multiplexing indication parameter and a second multiplexing indication parameter carried in the high layer signaling.

10 . The method according to claim 7 , further comprising:

in response to the multiplexing mode being a mode of jointly encoding the CG-UCI and the HARQ-ACK, decoding the information received to obtain the CG-UCI and the HARQ-ACK.

11 . A terminal device, comprising:

a processor; and

a memory for storing a computer program executable by the processor,

wherein the processor is configured to:

in response to a time-domain overlap between a configure grant-physical uplink share channel (CG-PUSCH) and a hybrid automatic repeat request acknowledgement (HARQ-ACK) carried on a physical uplink control channel (PUCCH), determine, based on a priority of the CG-PUSCH and a priority of the HARQ-ACK, a multiplexing mode for multiplexing CG-uplink control information (CG-UCI) carried on the CG-PUSCH and the HARQ-ACK; and

transmit information to a network device based on the multiplexing mode, wherein the information transmitted comprises at least one of the CG-UCI or the HARQ-ACK.

12 . A network device, comprising:

a processor; and

a memory for storing a computer program executable by the processor,

wherein the processor is configured to perform the method according to claim 7 .

13 . A communication device, comprising:

an interface circuit for receiving and transmitting code instructions to a processor; and

the processor for executing the code instructions to perform the method according to claim 1 .

14 . A device for receiving HARQ feedback information, comprising:

an interface circuit for receiving and transmitting code instructions to a processor; and

the processor for executing the code instructions to perform the method according to claim 7 .

15 . A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing instructions, wherein when the instructions are executed, the method according to claim 1 is performed.

16 . A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing instructions, wherein when the instructions are executed, the method according to claim 7 is performed.

17 . The method according to claim 5 , wherein determining the multiplexing mode based on the priority of the CG-PUSCH and the priority of the HARQ-ACK comprises:

in response to the priority of the CG-PUSCH being the same as the priority of the HARQ-ACK, determining a mode of transmitting the HARQ-ACK and discarding or performing delay transmission on the CG-UCI, as the multiplexing mode; and

in response to the priority of the CG-PUSCH being different from the priority of the HARQ-ACK, determining a mode of transmitting information with a high priority and discarding or performing delay transmission on information with a low priority as the multiplexing mode.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Oct 11, 2023
From: FU, TING
To: BEIJING XIAOMI MOBILE SOFTWARE CO., LTD.
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