US 11,751,175 B2
Facilitating semi-static transmission configuration indicator (TCI) configuration
Iyab Issam Sakhnini, San Diego, CA (US); Peter Gaal, San Diego, CA (US); Tao Luo, San Diego, CA (US); Wanshi Chen, San Diego, CA (US); Qiang Wu, San Diego, CA (US); Yuchul Kim, San Diego, CA (US); Wooseok Nam, San Diego, CA (US); Juan Montojo, San Diego, CA (US); Jelena Damnjanovic, Del Mar, CA (US); Hwan Joon Kwon, San Diego, CA (US); and Mahmoud Taherzadeh Boroujeni, San Diego, CA (US)
Assigned to QUALCOMM Incorporated, San Diego, CA (US)
Filed by QUALCOMM Incorporated, San Diego, CA (US)
Filed on May 13, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/320,121.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/025,125, filed on May 14, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2021/0360601 A1, Nov. 18, 2021
Int. Cl. H04W 72/044 (2023.01); H04W 72/23 (2023.01)
CPC H04W 72/044 (2013.01) [H04W 72/23 (2023.01)] 30 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method of wireless communication at a user equipment (UE), comprising:
receiving, from a base station, a first downlink message including a first transmission configuration indicator (TCI) state indicator indicating a first TCI state for a first channel;
receiving a second downlink message including a second TCI state indicator indicating a second TCI state for a second channel;
initiating a timer after receiving the first downlink message including the first TCI state indicator; and
receiving, after the timer expires, subsequent downlink messages using respective TCI states until at least a third downlink message including a TCI state change indication is received, wherein receiving the subsequent downlink messages includes:
receiving first channel downlink messages using the first TCI state, and
receiving second channel downlink messages using the second TCI state.