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Granted Patent B2
US 12,732,307 · App. 18/571,466 · Granted Sep 8, 2026

Method, device and computer storage medium of communication

Inventors: Xiaohong Zhang (Beijing, CN); Yukai Gao (Beijing, CN); Gang Wang (Beijing, CN)
Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
H04L1/1671H04W72/04H04W72/21
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Patent No.
US 12,732,307
App. No.
18/571,466
Granted
Sep 8, 2026
Kind
B2
Abstract

Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to methods, devices and computer readable media for communication. A terminal device receives, from a network device, an indication on whether one of a first mode and a second mode of PUCCH carrier switching is enabled, the first mode being based on a dynamic configuration in DCI, the second mode being based on an RRC configuration; and in accordance with a determination that the one of the first mode and the second mode is enabled, perform the PUCCH carrier switching for a PUCCH transmission to be processed. In this way, PUCCH carrier switching may be flexibly configured.

Claims (21)

1 . A method of communication performed by a terminal device, comprising:

receiving, from a network device, a first configuration for semi-persistent scheduling (SPS) hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) deferral;

determining that a first physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) transmission is overlapped with a second PUCCH transmission in a time domain, and the first PUCCH transmission is overlapped with a downlink symbol, wherein the first PUCCH transmission is with HARQ-acknowledgement (HARQ-ACK) information for SPS physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH) receptions;

determining a third PUCCH transmission associated with the HARQ-ACK information for the SPS PDSCH receptions based on the first configuration; and

transmitting the third PUCCH transmission with the HARQ-ACK information for the SPS PDSCH receptions on a primary cell in a case where PUCCH cell switching based on a dynamic indication is enabled.

2 . A method of communication performed by a network device, comprising:

transmitting, to a terminal device, a first configuration for semi-persistent scheduling (SPS) hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) deferral, wherein a first physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) transmission is overlapped with a second PUCCH transmission in a time domain, the first PUCCH transmission is overlapped with a downlink symbol, the first PUCCH transmission is with HARQ-acknowledgement (HARQ-ACK) information for SPS physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH) receptions, the first configuration is configured for use

for determination of a third PUCCH transmission associated with the HARQ-ACK information for the SPS PDSCH receptions; and

receiving the third PUCCH transmission with the HARQ-ACK information for the SPS PDSCH receptions on a primary cell in a case where PUCCH cell switching based on a dynamic indication is enabled.

3 . A terminal device, comprising:

a receiver; and

at least one processor configured to cause the terminal device to:

control the receiver to receive, from a network device, a first configuration for semi-persistent scheduling (SPS) hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) deferral;

determine that a first physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) transmission is overlapped with a second PUCCH transmission in a time domain, and the first PUCCH transmission is overlapped with a downlink symbol, wherein the first PUCCH transmission is with HARQ-acknowledgement (HARQ-ACK) information for SPS physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH) receptions;

determine a third PUCCH transmission associated with the HARQ-ACK information for the SPS PDSCH receptions based on the first configuration; and

transmit the third PUCCH transmission with the HARQ-ACK information for the SPS PDSCH receptions on a primary cell in a case where PUCCH cell switching based on a dynamic indication is enabled.

4 . A network device, comprising:

a transmitter; and

at least one processor configured to cause the network device to:

control the transmitter to transmit, to a terminal device, a first configuration for semi-persistent scheduling (SPS) hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) deferral, wherein a first physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) transmission is overlapped with a second PUCCH transmission in a time domain, the first PUCCH transmission is overlapped with a downlink symbol, the first PUCCH transmission is with HARQ-acknowledgement (HARQ-ACK) information for SPS physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH) receptions, the first configuration is used for determination of a third PUCCH transmission associated with the HARQ-ACK information for the SPS PDSCH receptions; and

receive the third PUCCH transmission with the HARQ-ACK information for the SPS PDSCH receptions on a primary cell in a case where PUCCH cell switching based on a dynamic indication is enabled.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Dec 18, 2023
From: ZHANG, XIAOHONG; GAO, YUKAI; WANG, GANG
To: NEC CORPORATION
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Continuity (1)
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