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US 12,598,605 · App. 18/227,564 · Granted Apr 7, 2026

Wireless communication method and device

Inventor: Zuomin Wu (Dongguan, CN)
Assignee: GUANGDONG OPPO MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATIONS CORP., LTD.
H04W72/1263H04L1/1812H04W72/20
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Patent No.
US 12,598,605
App. No.
18/227,564
Granted
Apr 7, 2026
Kind
B2
Abstract

The present disclosure provides a wireless communication method and device. The method includes: receiving, by a first device, first control information, the first control information being used to schedule transmission of S physical channels, at least one of the S physical channels corresponding to a first physical channel group or a first feedback bit group, the first physical channel group or the first feedback bit group corresponding to a first Hybrid Automatic Repeat reQuest-Acknowledgement (HARQ-ACK) codebook, the first HARQ-ACK codebook corresponding to a first feedback resource, the first control information corresponding to a first control information format, and transmission of a maximum number M of physical channels being schedulable by the first control information format, M≥2, and 1 ≤S≤M; and transmitting, by the first device, the first HARQ-ACK codebook via the first feedback resource.

Claims (60)

1 . A wireless communication method, comprising:

receiving, by a first device, first control information transmitted by a second device, the first control information being used to schedule transmission of S physical channels, at least one of the S physical channels corresponding to a first physical channel group or a first feedback bit group, the first physical channel group or the first feedback bit group corresponding to a first Hybrid Automatic Repeat reQuest-Acknowledgement (HARQ-ACK) codebook, the first HARQ-ACK codebook corresponding to a first feedback resource, the first control information corresponding to a first control information format, and transmission of a maximum number M of physical channels being schedulable by the first control information format, where M is a positive integer greater than or equal to 2, and S is a positive integer greater than or equal to 1 and smaller than or equal to M; and

transmitting, by the first device, the first HARQ-ACK codebook via the first feedback resource;

wherein the first feedback bit group comprises a fixed number N pieces of feedback information, N is configured by the second device, where N is a positive integer greater than or equal to 1; and/or N is a positive integer smaller than M;

when S is smaller than or equal to N, feedback bit positions of the first S physical channels in feedback bit positions of the first feedback bit group are feedback bit positions of the S physical channels, and/or

when S is greater than N, a feedback bit position of one physical channel in feedback bit positions of the first feedback bit group is a feedback bit position of at least two of the S physical channels adopting bunding feedback.

2 . The method according to claim 1 , wherein the first physical channel group comprises N physical channels, where N is a positive integer greater than or equal to 1; and/or N is a positive integer smaller than or equal to M.

3 . The method according to claim 1 , wherein the first device is configured with a spatial division bundling feedback mode, and each of the N physical channels corresponds to 1 bit of feedback information.

4 . The method according to claim 2 , wherein S is greater than (K−1)*N and smaller than or equal to K*N, where K is a positive integer; and

a feedback bit position of one physical channel in feedback bit positions corresponding to the first physical channel group is a feedback bit position of K of the S physical channels adopting bundling feedback, or

a feedback bit position of one physical channel in feedback bit positions of the first feedback bit group is a feedback bit position of K of the S physical channels adopting bundling feedback.

5 . The method according to claim 2 , wherein M is greater than N; and

a feedback bit position of one physical channel in feedback bit positions corresponding to the first physical channel group is a feedback bit position of at least two of the M physical channels adopting bundling feedback, or

a feedback bit position of one physical channel in feedback bit positions of the first feedback bit group is a feedback bit position of at least two of the M physical channels adopting bundling feedback.

6 . The method according to claim 2 , wherein

a feedback bit position of one physical channel in feedback bit positions corresponding to the first physical channel group is a feedback bit position of Ceil (M/N) of the M physical channels adopting bundling feedback; or

a feedback bit position of one physical channel in feedback bit positions of the first feedback bit group is a feedback bit position of Ceil (M/N) of the M physical channels adopting bundling feedback, where Ceil ( ) represents a rounding up operation.

7 . The method according to claim 1 , wherein the at least two physical channels are K physical channels, where a value of K is predefined, or determined according to a predefined rule, or configured by the second device.

8 . The method according to claim 1 , wherein when feedback information of all of the at least two physical channels is ACK, feedback information of the at least two physical channels is ACK; and/or when feedback information of any of the at least two physical channels is NACK, feedback information of the at least two physical channels is NACK.

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

receiving, by the first device, second control information transmitted by the second device, the second control information not being used to schedule transmission of a physical channel;

and the second control information corresponding to a second feedback bit group and the second feedback bit group corresponding to the first HARQ-ACK codebook, and/or the second control information corresponding to the first control information format and the second control information corresponding to the first HARQ-ACK codebook.

10 . The method according to claim 9 , wherein the second control information is used to release a semi-persistent scheduling configuration, or the second control information is used to activate or deactivate a dormant state of a secondary cell.

11 . The method according to claim 1 , wherein the first control information comprises first scheduling count information; and the first scheduling count information indicates:

an order position of the first physical channel group in physical channel groups transmitted by the second device within a HARQ feedback window; or

an order position of the first feedback bit group in feedback bit groups within a HARQ feedback window; or

an order position of the first control information in control information transmitted by the second device within a HARQ feedback window.

12 . The method according to claim 1 , wherein the first control information comprises first scheduling total number information; and the first scheduling total number information indicates:

a total number of physical channel groups that are transmitted until the first physical channel group within a HARQ feedback window;

a total number of corresponding feedback bit groups that are counted until the first feedback bit group within a HARQ feedback window; or

a total number of pieces of control information that are transmitted by the second device until the first control information within a HARQ feedback window.

13 . The method according to claim 1 , wherein the first control information comprises first group identification indication information, the first group identification indication information indicates a first group, and wherein

all of the S physical channels correspond to the first group; or at least one of the S physical channels corresponds to the first group.

14 . The method according to claim 13 , wherein the first control information further comprises first scheduling count information; and the first scheduling count information indicates:

an order position of the first physical channel group in physical channel groups that are transmitted within a HARQ feedback window and correspond to the first group;

an order position of the first feedback bit group in feedback bit groups that are transmitted within a HARQ feedback window and correspond to the first group; or

an order position of the first control information in control information that is transmitted by the second device within a HARQ feedback window and corresponds to the first group.

15 . The method according to claim 13 , wherein the first control information further comprises first scheduling total number information; and the first scheduling total number information indicates:

a total number of physical channel groups that are transmitted until the first physical channel group within a HARQ feedback window and correspond to the first group;

a total number of feedback bit groups that are counted until the first feedback bit group within a HARQ feedback window and correspond to the first group; or

a total number of pieces of control information that are transmitted by the second device until the first control information within a HARQ feedback window and correspond to the first group.

16 . The method according to claim 13 , wherein the first control information further comprises second scheduling total number information; and the second scheduling total number information indicates a total number of physical channel groups that are transmitted until the first control information within a HARQ feedback window and correspond to a second group, and the second group and the first group are different groups.

17 . The method according to claim 11 , wherein the first scheduling count information comprises Counter-Downlink Assignment Index (C-DAI) information and/or Counter-Sidelink Assignment Index (C-SAI) information.

18 . The method according to claim 12 , wherein the first scheduling total information comprises Total-Downlink Assignment Index (T-DAI) information and/or Total-Sidelink Assignment Index (T-SAI) information.

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

receiving, by the first device, third control information transmitted by the second device, the third control information corresponding to a second control information format, and the second control information format being different from the first control information format, or a maximum number of physical channels of which transmission is schedulable by the second control information format not being M; and

determining, by the first device, that the third control information corresponds to a second HARQ-ACK codebook, the second HARQ-ACK codebook being different from the first HARQ-ACK codebook.

20 . The method according to claim 1 , wherein an interpretation method of an information field in the first control information is determined according to a high-layer parameter configured by a network device, or predetermined, or associated with the first control information format, or associated with the maximum number of physical channels scheduled by the first control information.

21 . The method according to claim 1 , wherein the at least one of the S physical channels comprises all of the S physical channels; or the at least one of the S physical channels comprises a first one of the S physical channels, a time interval between the first physical channel and the first feedback resource satisfying a processing timing.

22 . The method according to claim 21 , wherein the time interval between the first physical channel and the first feedback resource satisfying the processing timing comprises: a time interval between an end position of the first physical channel and a start position of the first feedback resource satisfying a processing timing, or a time interval between an end position of the first physical channel and a start position of the first feedback resource being greater than or equal to a predetermined value.

23 . The method according to claim 1 , wherein a time domain position of the first feedback resource is determined according to a first value in a HARQ feedback timing set, and wherein

the HARQ feedback timing set comprises at least two values and HARQ feedback timing indication information included in the first control information indicates the first value; or

the HARQ feedback timing set comprises only the first value, and the first control information includes no HARQ feedback timing indication information.

24 . The method according to claim 23 , wherein the first value is K1, where K1 is greater than or equal to 0, and a time slot in which the first feedback resource is located is determined based on one of the following:

when an end position of the last one of the S physical channels is in time slot n, the first feedback resource is located in time slot n+K1;

when an end position of the first one of the S physical channels is in time slot n, the first feedback resource is located in time slot n+K1; or

when an end position of the first control information is in time slot n, the first feedback resource is located in time slot n+K1.

25 . The method according to claim 1 , wherein at least two of the M physical channels correspond to different Transport Blocks (TBs); or

when S is greater than or equal to 2, at least two of the S physical channels correspond to different TBs.

26 . A first device, comprising: a processor and a memory, wherein the memory has a computer program stored thereon, and the processor is configured to invoke and execute the computer program stored in the memory to perform the method according to claim 1 .

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Jul 28, 2023
From: WU, ZUOMIN
To: GUANGDONG OPPO MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATIONS CORP., LTD.
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Continuity (2)
Continuation PCTCN2021074732 · Feb 1, 2021
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