Granted Patent B2

US 12,604,221 · App. 18/059,285 · Granted Apr 14, 2026

Inventors: Xiaoying Ma (Shenzhen, CN); Qiujin Guo (Shenzhen, CN); Jun Xu (Shenzhen, CN); Mengzhu Chen (Shenzhen, CN); Xuan Ma (Shenzhen, CN); Focai Peng (Shenzhen, CN)

Assignee: ZTE Corporation

H04W24/08H04W72/0446H04W72/23H04W76/28

Abstract

Claims (30)

1 . A method for wireless communication, comprising:

receiving, by a wireless device, in different downlink control informations (DCIs) in a first slot, indications of skipping monitoring modes for a plurality of control channels for a control channel skipping period, wherein the wireless device does not expect that the indications of skipping monitoring modes are inconsistent, wherein inconsistent indications of skipping monitoring modes are at least one of:

(i) a first DCI that indicates a first skipping time period and a second DCI that indicates a second skipping time period, or

(ii) a first DCI that indicates a first skipping monitoring mode in which the wireless device does not skip control channel monitoring and a second DCI that indicates a second skipping monitoring mode in which the wireless device does a skipping of the control channel monitoring;

determining, by a wireless device, a skipping monitoring mode for the plurality of control channels based on at least one of the indications received in the different DCIs; and

performing, by the wireless device, the skipping control channel monitoring mode at a second slot after the first slot in which the different DCIs are received.

2 . The method of claim 1 , wherein the DCI is received in a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH).

3 . The method of claim 2 , wherein the DCI configures a PDCCH skipping indicator value, and wherein a field in the DCI is used to indicate an index of the PDCCH skipping indicator value.

4 . The method of claim 1 , wherein the wireless device performs the skipping control channel monitoring mode in at least one of the following:

a BWP which triggered the skipping control channel monitoring mode;

each serving cell configured for the wireless device;

each serving cell in a same MAC-entity which receives a trigger for the skipping control channel monitoring mode;

a primary cell (PCell) or primary secondary cell (PSCell); or

a serving cell which receives a trigger for the skipping control channel monitoring mode.

5 . The method of claim 1 , wherein the DCI indicates a time in which the wireless device stops monitoring the plurality of control channels during the control channel skipping period.

6 . The method of claim 1 , wherein a skipping indicator value (SIV) is used to indicate a start and duration of a control channel skipping time, and wherein the SIV is associated with at least one of the following: a start position of the control channel skipping, a duration of the control channel skipping, or a total duration time of the SIV.

7 . The method of claim 1 , wherein a field in each DCI comprises a respective indication of skipping monitoring mode, and wherein the wireless device determines the skipping monitoring mode indicated in a higher priority DCI format if the wireless device receives the inconsistent indications from different DCIs in the first slot.

8 . The method of claim 1 , further comprising stopping, by the wireless device, the skipping control channel monitoring in at least one of the following situations:

after a discontinuous reception (DRX)-on duration timer or DRX-inactivity timer expires;

the wireless device is outside of an active time; or

after a BWP-inactivity timer expires.

9 . The method of claim 1 , further comprising:

reporting, by the wireless device, a preferred control channel skipping period to a network device.

10 . The method of claim 1 , wherein the skipping control channel monitoring mode comprises performing a skipping control channel monitoring.

11 . An apparatus for wireless communication, comprising a memory and processor electronics, wherein the processor electronics executes instructions stored on the memory to cause a wireless device to:

receive, in different downlink control informations (DCIs) in a first slot, indications of skipping monitoring modes for a plurality of control channels for a control channel skipping period, wherein the wireless device does not expect that the indications of skipping monitoring modes are inconsistent, wherein inconsistent indications of skipping monitoring modes are at least one of:

(i) a first DCI that indicates a first skipping time period and a second DCI that indicates a second skipping time period, or

ii) a first DCI that indicates a first skipping monitoring mode in which the wireless device does not skip control channel monitoring and a second DCI that indicates a second skipping monitoring mode in which the wireless device does a skipping of the control channel monitoring;

determine a skipping monitoring mode for the plurality of control channels based on at least one of the indications received in the different DCIs; and

perform the skipping control channel monitoring mode at a second slot after the first slot in which the different DCIs are is received.

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