US 12,255,744 B2
User equipment-coordination set hybrid automatic repeat request
Jibing Wang, San Jose, CA (US); and Erik Richard Stauffer, Sunnyvale, CA (US)
Assigned to Google LLC, Mountain View, CA (US)
Appl. No. 17/759,150
Filed by Google LLC, Mountain View, CA (US)
PCT Filed Jan. 19, 2021, PCT No. PCT/US2021/013872
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Jul. 20, 2022,
PCT Pub. No. WO2021/154526, PCT Pub. Date Aug. 5, 2021.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/967,701, filed on Jan. 30, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2023/0042623 A1, Feb. 9, 2023
Int. Cl. H04L 1/18 (2023.01); H04L 1/1829 (2023.01); H04W 72/23 (2023.01)
CPC H04L 1/1854 (2013.01) [H04W 72/23 (2023.01)] 18 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method for reporting hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) capabilities by a user equipment (UE) configured as a coordinating user equipment for a user equipment-coordination set (UECS) in a wireless communications network, the method comprising the coordinating user equipment:
receiving, from each of multiple user equipments in the UECS, a respective UE capability report message;
consolidating the received UE capability report messages and capabilities of the coordinating user equipment to generate a UECS capability report message including capability information based on HARQ capabilities of the multiple UEs within the UECS;
encoding the generated UECS capability report message to produce I/Q samples for a joint-transmission of the UECS capability report message to a base station;
forwarding the I/Q samples to the multiple user equipments for directing the multiple user equipments to jointly transmit the encoded UECS capability report message;
jointly transmitting the UECS capability report message to a base station with at least one other user equipment of the UECS; and
receiving, from the base station, a HARQ configuration message based on the UECS capability report message.