US 12,250,052 B2
User equipment requested radio link adaptation operations
Yan Zhou, San Diego, CA (US); Konstantinos Dimou, New York, NY (US); Tao Luo, San Diego, CA (US); Raghu Narayan Challa, San Diego, CA (US); and Ruhua He, San Diego, CA (US)
Assigned to QUALCOMM Incorporated, San Diego, CA (US)
Appl. No. 17/999,611
Filed by QUALCOMM Incorporated, San Diego, CA (US)
PCT Filed Jul. 6, 2021, PCT No. PCT/US2021/040510
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Nov. 22, 2022,
PCT Pub. No. WO2022/010896, PCT Pub. Date Jan. 13, 2022.
Claims priority of application No. 20200100404 (GR), filed on Jul. 10, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2023/0198597 A1, Jun. 22, 2023
Int. Cl. H04B 7/06 (2006.01); H04B 7/08 (2006.01); H04L 1/00 (2006.01); H04W 36/06 (2009.01); H04W 36/26 (2009.01)
CPC H04B 7/0695 (2013.01) [H04B 7/088 (2013.01); H04L 1/0026 (2013.01); H04W 36/06 (2013.01); H04W 36/26 (2013.01)] 27 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
12. A method of wireless communication performed by a user equipment (UE), comprising:
detecting a change of one or more reception conditions; and
transmitting, to a base station and based at least in part on the change of the one or more reception conditions, a request for a radio link adaptation operation to update one or more of a reception beam or a transmission beam of the base station used to communicate with the UE, wherein transmitting the request for the radio link adaptation operation comprises transmitting the request using one or more medium access control control elements via one or more of:
an uplink grant received before generation of the request for the radio link adaptation operation,
a new uplink grant requested via a scheduling request transmitted based at least in part on generation of the request for the radio link adaptation operation,
a new uplink grant requested via one or more new uplink control information bits transmitted with another type of uplink control information, or
a predetermined grant activated by the UE via one or more new uplink control information bits.