US 11,811,700 B2
Methods and apparatus for providing soft and blind combining for PUSCH acknowledgement (ACK) processing
Sabih Guzelgoz, San Jose, CA (US); Hong Jik Kim, San Jose, CA (US); Tejas Maheshbhai Bhatt, Sunnyvale, CA (US); and Fariba Heidari, San Jose, CA (US)
Assigned to Marvell Asia Pte, Ltd, Singapore (SG)
Filed by Marvell Asia Pte, Ltd., Singapore (SG)
Filed on Nov. 10, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/523,810.
Application 17/523,810 is a continuation of application No. 16/583,243, filed on Sep. 25, 2019, granted, now 11,177,926.
Application 16/583,243 is a continuation of application No. 15/378,750, filed on Dec. 14, 2016, granted, now 10,469,233, issued on Nov. 5, 2019.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/267,221, filed on Dec. 14, 2015.
Prior Publication US 2022/0069964 A1, Mar. 3, 2022
This patent is subject to a terminal disclaimer.
Int. Cl. H04L 5/00 (2006.01); H04L 25/06 (2006.01); H04L 1/00 (2006.01); H04L 1/1607 (2023.01); H04W 72/121 (2023.01); H04W 72/1268 (2023.01)
CPC H04L 5/0055 (2013.01) [H04L 1/0026 (2013.01); H04L 1/0035 (2013.01); H04L 1/1664 (2013.01); H04L 5/0057 (2013.01); H04L 25/067 (2013.01); H04W 72/121 (2013.01); H04W 72/1268 (2013.01)] 32 Claims
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1. A method for providing acknowledgement (ACK) bits, comprising:
receiving an uplink transmission containing ACK information via a physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH) from a user equipment (“UE”) by an uplink frond end (ULFE);
processing scrambling sequences and a network parameter, the processing scrambling sequences including soft-combining possible ACK scrambling sequences independent from identifying value of the network parameter; and
generating an ACK value decoded via one hypothetical soft-combined ACK bit stream from the possible ACK scrambling sequences in response to the network parameter.