US 11,722,183 B2
Electronic device, communication method and storage medium
Jianfei Cao, Beijing (CN)
Assigned to SONY CORPORATION, Tokyo (JP)
Appl. No. 17/269,539
Filed by Sony Corporation, Tokyo (JP)
PCT Filed Sep. 23, 2019, PCT No. PCT/CN2019/107275
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Feb. 19, 2021,
PCT Pub. No. WO2020/063532, PCT Pub. Date Apr. 2, 2020.
Claims priority of application No. 201811127677.6 (CN), filed on Sep. 27, 2018.
Prior Publication US 2021/0184733 A1, Jun. 17, 2021
Int. Cl. H04B 7/0408 (2017.01); H04W 76/27 (2018.01); H04B 7/06 (2006.01); H04W 72/044 (2023.01); H04W 80/02 (2009.01); H04W 72/23 (2023.01); H04W 72/53 (2023.01)
CPC H04B 7/0408 (2013.01) [H04B 7/0608 (2013.01); H04W 72/046 (2013.01); H04W 72/23 (2023.01); H04W 72/53 (2023.01); H04W 76/27 (2018.02); H04W 80/02 (2013.01)] 14 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An electronic device configured as a base station and comprising:
processing circuitry configured to:
receive a beam report received from a user equipment,
select, based on the beam report received from the user equipment, a plurality of transmitting beams to be used for downlink transmission with a user equipment from a set of transmitting beams; and
control to send, to the user equipment, Downlink Control Information (DCI) that indicates a plurality of transmission configuration indication (TCI) state IDs that are encoded into a single TCI field,
wherein the plurality of TCI state IDs that are encoded into the single TCI field indicates the plurality of transmitting beams that has been selected by the electronic device configured as the base station from the set of transmitting beam.