US 11,902,993 B2
Pruning rules for DCI repetition
Mostafa Khoshnevisan, San Diego, CA (US); Xiaoxia Zhang, San Diego, CA (US); Jing Sun, San Diego, CA (US); and Tao Luo, San Diego, CA (US)
Assigned to QUALCOMM Incorporated, San Diego, CA (US)
Filed by QUALCOMM Incorporated, San Diego, CA (US)
Filed on Jan. 5, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/647,124.
Application 17/647,124 is a continuation of application No. 16/712,949, filed on Dec. 12, 2019, granted, now 11,229,045.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/780,124, filed on Dec. 14, 2018.
Prior Publication US 2022/0132552 A1, Apr. 28, 2022
This patent is subject to a terminal disclaimer.
Int. Cl. H04W 72/23 (2023.01); H04W 72/044 (2023.01)
CPC H04W 72/23 (2023.01) [H04W 72/044 (2013.01)] 19 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method for wireless communications by a user equipment (UE), comprising:
detecting at least first downlink control information (DCI) and second DCI that both indicate same or similar scheduling information for a common uplink data transmission or a downlink data transmission;
selecting, based at least in part on determining the second DCI is a repetition of the first DCI, at least one of the first or second DCI to use for determining scheduling parameters to use for the uplink data transmission, or for reception of the downlink data transmission, or for an uplink control information (UCI) transmission to provide feedback for the downlink data transmission; and
utilizing the scheduling parameters to at least one of process the DL data transmission or send the uplink data transmission or UCI transmission.