US 12,255,770 B2
Network operations for DL TCI configuration
Haitong Sun, Cupertino, CA (US); Chunhai Yao, Beijing (CN); Chunxuan Ye, San Diego, CA (US); Dawei Zhang, Saratoga, CA (US); Hong He, San Jose, CA (US); Jie Cui, San Jose, CA (US); Oghenekome Oteri, 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. 17/593,454
Filed by Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US)
PCT Filed Aug. 5, 2020, PCT No. PCT/CN2020/106979
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Sep. 19, 2021,
PCT Pub. No. WO2022/027280, PCT Pub. Date Feb. 10, 2022.
Prior Publication US 2022/0303177 A1, Sep. 22, 2022
Int. Cl. H04L 41/0803 (2022.01); H04B 7/06 (2006.01); H04W 72/044 (2023.01)
CPC H04L 41/0803 (2013.01) [H04B 7/068 (2013.01); H04W 72/044 (2013.01)] 13 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A base station, comprising:
one or more processors configured to:
configure, for a user equipment (UE), a group of control resource sets (CORESETs), the CORESET group including a plurality of CORESETs, wherein configuring the CORESET group comprises configuring N CORESET groups, wherein a CORESET belongs to more than one of the N CORSET groups and wherein each of the N CORESET groups comprise a different set of CORESETs;
signal, to the UE, the CORESET group including the plurality of CORESETs; and
indicate, to the UE, a transmission configuration indicator (TCI) state change for one or more of the plurality of CORESETs in the CORESET group via a medium access control (MAC) control element (CE); and
a transceiver communicatively connected to the one or more processors.