IP Library Granted Patent US 12,562,827
Granted Patent B2
US 12,562,827 · App. 17/593,410 · Granted Feb 24, 2026

Determining default beam and QCL collision handling

Inventors: Yushu Zhang (Beijing, CN); Chunhai Yao (Beijing, CN); Chunxuan Ye (San Diego, CA); Dawei Zhang (Saratoga, CA); Haitong Sun (Cupertino, CA); Sigen Ye (Whitehouse Station, NJ); Wei Zeng (Saratoga, CA); Weidong Yang (San Diego, CA)
Assignee: Apple Inc.
H04B17/347H04L5/0053
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Patent No.
US 12,562,827
App. No.
17/593,410
Granted
Feb 24, 2026
Kind
B2
Abstract

Embodiments include a computer readable storage medium, a user equipment, a method and an integrated circuit that perform operations. The operations include receiving a plurality of control resource sets (CORESETs), selecting a CORESET, wherein the CORESET includes one or more active transmission configuration indicator (TCI) states and determining a default beam or a pathloss reference signal (RS) based on a TCI state. Further operations include receiving a beam indication for a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH), wherein the PDCCH is received via one or more CORESETS, each having a plurality of TCIs, determining if the PDCCH collides with a second signal and determining whether to (a) drop the PDCCH or the second signal or (b) base a quasi co-location (QCL) of one of the PDCCH or the second signal on a QCL of the other one of the second signal or the PDCCH.

Claims (30)

1 . A non-transitory computer readable storage medium comprising a set of instructions, wherein the set of instructions when executed by a processor cause the processor of a user equipment (UE) to perform operations, comprising:

receiving a plurality of control resource sets (CORESETs), wherein each CORESET includes one or more active transmission configuration indicator (TCI) states;

selecting a CORESET from the plurality of CORESETs;

determining whether there are multiple active TCI states associated with the selected CORESET;

when there are multiple active TCI states, selecting one active TCI state to determine a pathloss reference signal (RS) for a physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH) transmission based on at least an explicit indication provided by a network and receiving DCI format 0_0 triggering the PUSCH transmission on a serving cell;

and

determining the pathloss RS for the PUSCH transmission based on the one active TCI state from the one or more TCI states.

2 . The non-transitory computer readable storage medium of claim 1 , wherein the explicit indication provided by a next generation NodeB (gNB) of a 5G new radio (NR) network via higher layer signaling.

3 . The non-transitory computer readable storage medium of claim 1 , wherein the operations further comprise:

determining if any of the plurality of CORESETs are configured with only one active TCI state.

4 . The non-transitory computer readable storage medium of claim 3 , wherein when one of the plurality of CORESETs is configured with only one active TCI state, a default beam is determined based on the one TCI state.

5 . The non-transitory computer readable storage medium of claim 1 , wherein a default beam is determined based on a TCI state from the multiple active TCI states that has the lowest ID.

6 . A user equipment (UE), comprising:

a transceiver configured to receive a plurality of control resource sets (CORESETs); and

a processor configured to:

select a CORESET from the plurality of CORESETs, wherein the CORESET includes one or more active transmission configuration indicator (TCI) states;

determine whether there are multiple active TCI states associated with the selected CORESET;

when there are multiple active TCI states, selecting one active TCI state to determine a pathloss reference signal (RS) for a physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH) transmission based on at least an explicit indication provided by a network and receiving DCI format 0_0 triggering the PUSCH transmission on a serving cell; and

determine the pathloss RS for the PUSCH transmission based on the one active TCI state from the one or more TCI states.

7 . A method, comprising:

processing a plurality of control resource sets (CORESETs);

selecting a CORESET from the plurality of CORESETs, wherein each CORESET includes one or more active transmission configuration indicator (TCI) states;

determining whether there are multiple active TCI states associated with the selected CORESET;

when there are multiple active TCI states, selecting one active TCI state to determine a pathloss reference signal (RS) for a physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH) transmission based on at least an explicit indication provided by a network and receiving DCI format 0_0 triggering the PUSCH transmission on a serving cell; and

determining the pathloss RS for the PUSCH transmission based on the one active TCI state from the one or more TCI states.

8 . The method of claim 7 , wherein the explicit indication is provided by a next generation NodeB (gNB) of a 5G new radio (NR) network via higher layer signaling.

9 . The method of claim 7 , wherein the operations further comprise:

determining if any of the plurality of CORESETs are configured with only one active TCI state.

10 . The method of claim 9 , wherein when one of the plurality of CORESETs is configured with one active TCI state, a default beam is determined based on the one active TCI state.

11 . The method of claim 7 , wherein a default beam is determined based on a TCI state from a plurality of active TCI states that has the lowest ID for a physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH) transmission.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Nov 18, 2021
From: ZHANG, YUSHU; YAO, CHUNHAI; YE, CHUNXUAN; ZHANG, DAWEI; SUN, HAITONG; YE, SIGEN; ZENG, WEI; YANG, WEIDONG
To: APPLE INC.
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