US 12,238,551 B2
Network operations to reduce PDCCH monitoring
Hong He, San Jose, CA (US); Chunhai Yao, Beijing (CN); Chunxuan Ye, San Diego, CA (US); Dawei Zhang, Saratoga, CA (US); Haitong Sun, Cupertino, CA (US); Jie Cui, San Jose, CA (US); Oghenekome Oteri, San Diego, CA (US); Seyed Ali Akbar Fakoorian, San Diego, CA (US); Sigen Ye, Whitehouse Station, NJ (US); Wei Zeng, Saratoga, CA (US); Weidong Yang, San Diego, CA (US); Yang Tang, San Jose, CA (US); and Yushu Zhang, Beijing (CN)
Assigned to Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US)
Appl. No. 17/593,583
Filed by Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US)
PCT Filed Oct. 5, 2020, PCT No. PCT/CN2020/119809
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Sep. 21, 2021,
PCT Pub. No. WO2022/073149, PCT Pub. Date Apr. 14, 2022.
Prior Publication US 2022/0312239 A1, Sep. 29, 2022
Int. Cl. H04W 24/08 (2009.01); H04L 1/00 (2006.01); H04W 72/0446 (2023.01); H04W 72/23 (2023.01); H04W 72/51 (2023.01)
CPC H04W 24/08 (2013.01) [H04L 1/0038 (2013.01); H04W 72/0446 (2013.01); H04W 72/23 (2023.01); H04W 72/51 (2023.01)] 16 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. One or more processors configured to perform operations comprising:
receiving, from a user equipment (UE), a reduced physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) monitoring capability for at least one group of search space sets (SSS) of a PDCCH;
determining a reduced monitoring capability (MO) configuration for the UE based on the reported reduced PDCCH monitoring capability,
wherein transmitting the reduced MO configuration includes configuring first and second monitoring profiles for the UE, the first monitoring profile relating to a higher power consumption and the second monitoring profile relating to a lower power consumption, wherein the second monitoring profile includes a reduced number of blind decodes per slot relative to a reference number of blind decodes; and
transmitting the reduced MO configuration to the UE, wherein the received reduced PDCCH monitoring capability includes reduced capabilities for a first SSS group comprising common search spaces (CSSs) and a second SSS group comprising UE-specific search spaces (USS).