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US 12,592,796 · App. 17/421,919 · Granted Mar 31, 2026

User terminal and radio communication method

Inventors: Kazuki Takeda (Tokyo, JP); Satoshi Nagata (Tokyo, JP); Shaozhen Guo (Beijing, CN); Lihui Wang (Beijing, CN); Xiaolin Hou (Beijing, CN)
Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
H04L1/1887H04L1/1812H04L1/1861H04L1/1864H04L1/1854
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Patent No.
US 12,592,796
App. No.
17/421,919
Granted
Mar 31, 2026
Kind
B2
Abstract

A user terminal includes: a control section that determines a set of one or more candidate occasions for reception of a downlink shared channel available in a time unit, based on a Hybrid Automatic Repeat reQuest-ACKnowledge (HARQ-ACK) timing value using a same or different time unit between a plurality of services and a format of the time unit; and a transmitting section that transmits a codebook being determined based on the set of the one or more candidate occasions.

Claims (19)

1 . A terminal comprising:

a transmitter that transmits capability information indicating support of granularity of a Hybrid Automatic Repeat reQuest-ACKnowledge (HARQ-ACK) timing value of a sub-slot unit;

a receiver that receives a UE-specific Radio Resource Control (RRC) parameter indicating the granularity; and

a processor that controls, when a number of symbols of a sub-slot indicating the granularity is configured to 2 symbols by the UE-specific RRC parameter, to transmit, in a slot, a plurality of uplink control channels (PUCCHs), each of the PUCCHs being transmitted in a sub-slot with the number of symbols and including a respective HARQ-ACK codebook associated with the granularity, which is configured to 2 symbols, of the HARQ-ACK timing value.

2 . A radio communication method for a terminal, comprising:

transmitting capability information indicating support of granularity of a Hybrid Automatic Repeat reQuest-ACKnowledge (HARQ-ACK) timing value of a sub-slot unit;

receiving a UE-specific Radio Resource Control (RRC) parameter indicating the granularity; and

controlling, when a number of symbols of a sub-slot indicating the granularity is configured to 2 symbols by the UE-specific RRC parameter, to transmit, in a slot, a plurality of uplink control channels (PUCCHs), each of the PUCCHs being transmitted in a sub-slot with the number of symbols and including a respective HARQ-ACK codebook associated with the granularity, which is configured to 2 symbols, of the HARQ-ACK timing value.

3 . A base station comprising:

a receiver that receives capability information indicating support of granularity of a Hybrid Automatic Repeat reQuest-ACKnowledge (HARQ-ACK) timing value of a sub-slot unit;

a transmitter that transmits a UE-specific Radio Resource Control (RRC) parameter indicating the granularity; and

a processor that controls, when a number of symbols of a sub-slot indicating the granularity is configured to 2 symbols by the UE-specific RRC parameter, to receive, in a slot, a plurality of uplink control channels (PUCCHs), each of the PUCCHs being transmitted in a sub-slot with the number of symbols and including a respective HARQ-ACK codebook associated with the granularity, which is configured to 2 symbols, of the HARQ-ACK timing value.

4 . A system comprising a terminal and a base station, wherein

the terminal comprises:

a transmitter that transmits capability information indicating support of granularity of a Hybrid Automatic Repeat reQuest-ACKnowledge (HARQ-ACK) timing value of a sub-slot unit;

a receiver that receives a UE-specific Radio Resource Control (RRC) parameter indicating the granularity; and

a processor that controls, when a number of symbols of a sub-slot indicating the granularity is configured to 2 symbols by the UE-specific RRC parameter, to transmit, in a slot, a plurality of uplink control channels (PUCCHs), each of the PUCCHs being transmitted in a sub-slot with the number of symbols and including a respective HARQ-ACK codebook associated with the granularity, which is configured to 2 symbols, of the HARQ-ACK timing value; and

the base station comprises:

a transmitter that transmits the UE-specific RRC parameter.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Jul 14, 2021
From: TAKEDA, KAZUKI; NAGATA, SATOSHI; GUO, SHAOZHEN; WANG, LIHUI; HOU, XIAOLIN
To: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
Reel/Frame 056849/0396 →
Continuity (1)
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