US 11,659,625 B2
Methods to multiplex control information in accordance with multi-slot transmissions in new radio (NR) systems
Gang Xiong, Beaverton, OR (US); Yushu Zhang, Beijing (CN); and Guotong Wang, Beijing (CN)
Assigned to Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US)
Filed by Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US)
Filed on Apr. 23, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/238,933.
Application 17/238,933 is a continuation of application No. 16/443,990, filed on Jun. 18, 2019, granted, now 11,019,682.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/686,471, filed on Jun. 18, 2018.
Prior Publication US 2021/0282227 A1, Sep. 9, 2021
This patent is subject to a terminal disclaimer.
Int. Cl. H04W 88/06 (2009.01); H04W 72/04 (2023.01); H04W 72/0446 (2023.01); H04L 1/00 (2006.01); H04L 1/1812 (2023.01); H04L 5/00 (2006.01); H04W 72/12 (2023.01)
CPC H04W 88/06 (2013.01) [H04L 1/0026 (2013.01); H04L 1/1819 (2013.01); H04L 5/0055 (2013.01); H04W 72/0413 (2013.01); H04W 72/0446 (2013.01); H04W 72/1247 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An apparatus, comprising:
at least one processor configured to cause a user equipment (UE) to:
determine transmission of:
a first physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) that includes first uplink control information (UCI) of a first UCI type, and
a second PUCCH that includes second UCI of a second UCI type,
wherein candidate UCI types include: hybrid automatic repeat request acknowledgement (HARQ-ACK), scheduling request (SR), and channel state information (CSI) report,
wherein for transmission of the first PUCCH over multiple slots and transmission of the second PUCCH on a single slot, if the transmissions of the first PUCCH and the second PUCCH would overlap in the single slot of the multiple slots and a timeline criterion is satisfied, the at least one processor is further configured to:
encode, for transmission in the overlapping slot, a PUCCH of the first and second PUCCHs that includes the HARQ-ACK or SR; and
refrain from transmitting a PUCCH of the first and second PUCCHs that includes the CSI report in the overlapping slot,
wherein the timeline criterion is based on:
a first time difference between an end time of a physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH) and a start time of one of the first and second PUCCHs, and a second time difference between an end time of a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) and the start time of the one of the first and second PUCCHs.