US 12,206,603 B2
Methods and apparatus for multiple component carrier physical downlink shared channel scheduling in wireless communication
Hong He, Cupertino, CA (US); Dawei Zhang, Beijing (CN); Wei Zeng, Cupertino, CA (US); Chunhai Yao, Cupertino, CA (US); Haitong Sun, Cupertino, CA (US); Yuchul Kim, Cupertino, CA (US); Yushu Zhang, Cupertino, CA (US); Chunxuan Ye, Cupertino, CA (US); Oghenekome Oteri, Cupertino, CA (US); Weidong Yang, Cupertino, CA (US); Yang Tang, Cupertino, CA (US); Jie Cui, Cupertino, CA (US); Zhibin Wu, Cupertino, CA (US); and Haijing Hu, Cupertino, CA (US)
Assigned to Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US)
Appl. No. 17/598,203
Filed by Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US)
PCT Filed Feb. 12, 2020, PCT No. PCT/CN2020/074902
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Sep. 24, 2021,
PCT Pub. No. WO2021/159317, PCT Pub. Date Aug. 19, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2022/0376847 A1, Nov. 24, 2022
Int. Cl. H04W 72/00 (2023.01); H04L 5/00 (2006.01); H04W 72/0453 (2023.01); H04W 72/23 (2023.01)
CPC H04L 5/001 (2013.01) [H04W 72/0453 (2013.01); H04W 72/23 (2023.01)] 20 Claims
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1. A non-transitory machine-readable medium having executable instructions to cause one or more processing units to perform a method to determine a physical downlink shared channel scheduling resource for a user equipment device and a base station, the method comprising:
grouping a plurality of component carriers from a pool of available component carriers associated with a wireless link established between the user equipment device and the base station into a plurality of groups of component carriers, wherein at least one of the plurality of component carriers is included in two of the plurality of groups of component carriers;
selecting a group of component carriers among the plurality of groups of component carriers;
forming a virtual component carrier from the selected group of the component carriers; and
determining a physical downlink shared channel scheduling resource based on at least the virtual component carrier.