US 12,206,618 B2
Resource block determination for control channel repetitions
Wei Yang, San Diego, CA (US); Yi Huang, San Diego, CA (US); and Wanshi Chen, San Diego, CA (US)
Assigned to QUALCOMM Incorporated, San Diego, CA (US)
Filed by QUALCOMM Incorporated, San Diego, CA (US)
Filed on Sep. 23, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/483,612.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/084,471, filed on Sep. 28, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2022/0103328 A1, Mar. 31, 2022
Int. Cl. H04L 5/00 (2006.01); H04L 1/18 (2023.01); H04W 72/21 (2023.01)
CPC H04L 5/0053 (2013.01) [H04L 1/18 (2013.01); H04W 72/21 (2023.01); H04L 5/0094 (2013.01)] 30 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method for wireless communications at a user equipment (UE), comprising:
identifying a configuration for one or more repetitions of an uplink control channel transmission, the configuration indicating a first quantity of repetitions of the one or more repetitions, and each repetition of the one or more repetitions comprising a first quantity of symbols indicated by the configuration;
determining a quantity of resource blocks for each repetition of the one or more repetitions based at least in part on the first quantity of symbols;
identifying that a second quantity of symbols available to the UE to transmit a repetition of the one or more repetitions is less than the first quantity of symbols;
determining, for the repetition on the second quantity of symbols, to use the quantity of resource blocks determined based at least in part on the first quantity of symbols; and
transmitting, to a base station, the repetition on the second quantity of symbols on the quantity of resource blocks.