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US 12,634,905 · App. 17/320,584 · Granted May 19, 2026

Configuration of wireless resources for transmission

Inventors: Ali Cirik (Herndon, VA); Esmael Dinan (McLean, VA); Yunjung Yi (Vienna, VA); Hua Zhou (Herndon, VA); Jonghyun Park (Vienna, VA)
Assignee: Comcast Cable Communications, LLC
H04W72/0453H04L1/0073H04L5/0048H04L5/0053H04L5/0094H04L25/0224H04W72/23H04L1/1671H04L5/001H04L5/0023H04L5/0055H04L5/0057H04L27/0006
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Patent No.
US 12,634,905
App. No.
17/320,584
Granted
May 19, 2026
Kind
B2
Abstract

A base station and/or a wireless device may communicate via wireless resources. The wireless device may be configured to transmit a message via a plurality of channel resources, wherein each of the plurality of channel resources may be associated with a different transmission and/or reception device and/or associated with a different wireless resource. The wireless device may be configured to transmit a message via the same channel resource based on an activation message indicating: a plurality of different transmission and/or reception devices, and/or a plurality of different wireless resources.

Claims (69)

1 . A method comprising:

receiving, by a wireless device, one or more radio resource control (RRC) messages indicating:

a first physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) resource,

a second PUCCH resource,

a one-to-one mapping between the second PUCCH resource and the first PUCCH resource for uplink signal repetitions;

receiving an activation command indicating spatial relations for the first PUCCH resource and the second PUCCH resource; and

transmitting, based on the one or more RRC messages indicating the one-to-one mapping, via the first PUCCH resource and the second PUCCH resource, and using a plurality of spatial domain transmission filters associated with the spatial relations, repetitions of an uplink signal.

2 . The method of claim 1 , wherein the receiving the activation command comprises receiving a medium access control (MAC) activation command indicating:

the first PUCCH resource;

the second PUCCH resource;

a first spatial relation of the spatial relations; and

a second spatial relation of the spatial relations; and

wherein the transmitting comprises transmitting, via the first PUCCH resource, repetitions of a second uplink signal using at least a first spatial domain transmission filter associated with the first spatial relation and a second spatial domain transmission filter associated with the second spatial relation.

3 . The method of claim 1 , wherein the uplink signal comprises at least one of:

a channel state information (CSI) report;

a scheduling request (SR); or

a hybrid automatic repeat request acknowledgement (HARQ-ACK).

4 . The method of claim 1 , wherein the activation command indicates a spatial relation, of the spatial relations, associated with each of the first and second PUCCH resources.

5 . The method of claim 1 , wherein the transmitting the repetitions of the uplink signal comprises:

transmitting, via the first PUCCH resource and using a first spatial domain transmission filter associated with a first spatial relation of the spatial relations, the uplink signal; and

transmitting, via the second PUCCH resource and using a second spatial domain transmission filter associated with a second spatial relation of the spatial relations, a repetition of the uplink signal.

6 . The method of claim 1 , wherein the one or more RRC messages comprise an indication whether to use, for uplink signals, a plurality of spatial domain transmission filters or a single spatial domain transmission filter.

7 . The method of claim 1 , further comprising receiving at least one transport block, wherein the uplink signal comprises a hybrid automatic repeat request acknowledgement (HARQ-ACK) of the at least one transport block.

8 . The method of claim 1 , further comprising:

receiving a downlink control information (DCI) indicating the first PUCCH resource,

wherein the transmitting the repetitions of the uplink signal comprises:

based on the one or more RRC messages indicating the one-to-one mapping between the second PUCCH resource and the first PUCCH resource and based on the DCI indicating the first PUCCH resource, selecting the second PUCCH resource; and

transmitting, based on the selecting the second PUCCH resource, the repetitions of the uplink signal via the first PUCCH resource and the second PUCCH resource.

9 . A method comprising:

receiving, by a wireless device, a medium access control (MAC) activation command indicating:

a first physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) resource;

a second PUCCH resource;

a one-to-one mapping between the first PUCCH resource and the second PUCCH resource for uplink signal repetitions;

a first spatial relation; and

a second spatial relation;

activating, based on the MAC activation command, the first spatial relation and the second spatial relation for the first and second PUCCH resources; and

transmitting, based on the MAC activation command indicating the one-to-one mapping and via the first PUCCH resource and the second PUCCH resource, repetitions of an uplink signal using at least a first spatial domain transmission filter associated with the first spatial relation and a second spatial domain transmission filter associated with the second spatial relation.

10 . The method of claim 9 , wherein the uplink signal comprises at least one of:

a channel state information (CSI) report;

a scheduling request (SR); or

a hybrid automatic repeat request acknowledgement (HARQ-ACK).

11 . The method of claim 9 , wherein the MAC activation command further comprises an indication of whether a field comprising the second spatial relation is present in the MAC activation command, and wherein the activating the first spatial relation and the second spatial relation is based on the indication indicating that the field is present.

12 . The method of claim 9 , further comprising receiving an indication whether to use, for the repetitions of the uplink signal, a plurality of spatial domain transmission filters or a single spatial domain transmission filter.

13 . The method of claim 9 , further comprising receiving at least one transport block, wherein the uplink signal comprises a hybrid automatic repeat request acknowledgement (HARQ-ACK) of the at least one transport block.

14 . The method of claim 9 , further comprising receiving one or more radio resource control configuration parameters indicating:

a PUCCH resource index for each of the first and second PUCCH resources;

a first spatial relation index for the first spatial relation; and

a second spatial relation index for the second spatial relation.

15 . A method comprising:

receiving, by a wireless device, one or more radio resource control (RRC) messages indicating:

a first physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) resource,

a second PUCCH resource, and

a one-to-one mapping between the second PUCCH resource and the first PUCCH resource for uplink signal repetitions;

receiving an activation command indicating:

a first spatial relation associated with the first PUCCH resource; and

a second spatial relation associated with the second PUCCH resource;

transmitting, via the first PUCCH resource and using a first spatial domain transmission filter associated with the first spatial relation, an uplink signal; and

transmitting, based on the one or more RRC messages indicating the one-to-one mapping, via the second PUCCH resource, and using a second spatial domain transmission filter associated with the second spatial relation, a repetition of the uplink signal.

16 . The method of claim 15 , wherein the receiving the activation command comprises receiving a medium access control (MAC) activation command comprising:

a first field indicating the first PUCCH resource;

a second field indicating the first spatial relation; and

a third field indicating the second spatial relation.

17 . The method of claim 15 , wherein the uplink signal comprises at least one of:

a channel state information (CSI) report;

a scheduling request (SR); or

a hybrid automatic repeat request acknowledgement (HARQ-ACK).

18 . The method of claim 15 , further comprising receiving a second activation command indicating, for each of the first and second PUCCH resources, at least two spatial relations.

19 . The method of claim 15 , further comprising receiving at least one transport block, wherein the uplink signal comprises a hybrid automatic repeat request acknowledgement (HARQ-ACK) of the at least one transport block.

20 . The method of claim 15 , wherein the one or more RRC messages comprise an indication whether to use, for uplink signals, a plurality of spatial domain transmission filters or a single spatial domain transmission filter.

Assignments (2)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Mar 22, 2022
From: CIRIK, ALI; DINAN, ESMAEL; YI, YUNJUNG; ZHOU, HUA; PARK, JONGHYUN
To: COMCAST CABLE COMMUNICATIONS, LLC
Reel/Frame 059334/0960 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Mar 22, 2022
From: CIRIK, ALI; DINAN, ESMAEL; YI, YUNJUNG; ZHOU, HUA; PARK, JONGHYUN
To: COMCAST CABLE COMMUNICATIONS, LLC
Reel/Frame 059334/0968 →
Continuity (2)
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