US 12,245,212 B2
Bandwidth part switching
Liangping Ma, San Diego, CA (US); Xiao Feng Wang, San Diego, CA (US); Alberto Rico Alvarino, San Diego, CA (US); Ayan Sengupta, San Diego, CA (US); Bharat Shrestha, San Diego, CA (US); Jun Ma, San Diego, CA (US); Peter Pui Lok Ang, San Diego, CA (US); and Qiang Wu, San Diego, CA (US)
Assigned to QUALCOMM Incorporated, San Diego, CA (US)
Filed by QUALCOMM Incorporated, San Diego, CA (US)
Filed on Jun. 29, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/304,955.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/047,515, filed on Jul. 2, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2022/0007346 A1, Jan. 6, 2022
Int. Cl. H04W 72/044 (2023.01)
CPC H04W 72/046 (2013.01) 69 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An apparatus for wireless communication at a user equipment, comprising:
one or more memories; and
one or more processors, coupled to the one or more memories, which are configured, individually or in any combination, to:
receive a bandwidth part configuration that indicates multiple bandwidth parts associated with multiple beams and a type of beam switching associated with the multiple bandwidth parts, and an association between a first bandwidth part of the multiple bandwidth parts and a first beam of the multiple beams and an association between a second bandwidth part of the multiple bandwidth parts and a second beam of the multiple beams,
wherein a number of bandwidth parts that the user equipment may switch to is greater than four, and
wherein each bandwidth part, of the multiple bandwidth parts, is associated with a respective bandwidth part identifier;
receive a beam switch time configuration that indicates a beam switch time associated with a switch, by the user equipment, from the first beam to the second beam as an active beam, wherein the beam switch time is determined based at least in part on an antenna type associated with the user equipment; and
switch, based at least in part on the bandwidth part configuration and the beam switch time configuration, from the first bandwidth part as an active bandwidth part to the second bandwidth part as the active bandwidth part,
wherein the type of beam switching indicates an intra-beam bandwidth part switch when the first beam and the second beam are a same beam, and
wherein the type of beam switching indicates an inter-beam bandwidth part switch when the second beam is different from the first beam.