US 11,996,927 B2
Beam measurement timing in a wireless communications system
Liangping Ma, San Diego, CA (US); Xiao Feng Wang, San Diego, CA (US); Ayan Sengupta, San Diego, CA (US); Peter Gaal, San Diego, CA (US); Alberto Rico Alvarino, San Diego, CA (US); Bharat Shrestha, San Diego, CA (US); Umesh Phuyal, San Diego, CA (US); Jun Ma, San Diego, CA (US); and Dan Zhang, San Diego, CA (US)
Assigned to QUALCOMM Incorporated, San Diego, CA (US)
Filed by QUALCOMM Incorporated, San Diego, CA (US)
Filed on Jul. 29, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/389,210.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/059,941, filed on Jul. 31, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2022/0038169 A1, Feb. 3, 2022
Int. Cl. H04B 7/08 (2006.01); H04W 24/08 (2009.01); H04W 24/10 (2009.01); H04W 72/0446 (2023.01); H04W 72/1263 (2023.01)
CPC H04B 7/088 (2013.01) [H04W 24/08 (2013.01); H04W 24/10 (2013.01); H04W 72/0446 (2013.01); H04W 72/1263 (2013.01)] 28 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An apparatus for wireless communication, comprising:
one or more processors; and
one or more memories comprising instructions executable by the one or more processors to cause the apparatus to:
receive a configuration indicating a pattern of one or more durations for at least one of: reference signal monitoring associated with a plurality of beams or tuning a radio of a user equipment (UE) for the reference signal monitoring, each beam of the plurality of beams associated with a respective one of a plurality of bandwidth parts of a radio frequency spectrum according to a beam frequency mapping;
monitor, based at least in part on the pattern indicated by the configuration, one or more reference signals including a first reference signal in a bandwidth part of the plurality of bandwidth parts that is associated with a beam of the plurality of beams according to the beam frequency mapping, wherein, to monitor the one or more reference signals, the instructions are executable by the one or more processors cause the apparatus to tune the radio of the UE, during a first portion of a duration of the indicated pattern, from a second bandwidth part to the bandwidth part that is associated with the beam and monitor the first reference signal, during a second portion of the duration after the first portion, in the bandwidth part that is associated with the beam; and
perform communications based at least in part on a channel quality metric for the beam, said channel quality metric for the beam being based at least in part on the monitoring of the first reference signal in the bandwidth part.