US 12,323,369 B2
Search space alignment for control channel monitoring
Jing Sun, San Diego, CA (US); Tao Luo, San Diego, CA (US); Xiaoxia Zhang, San Diego, CA (US); and Wooseok Nam, San Diego, CA (US)
Assigned to QUALCOMM Incorporated, San Diego, CA (US)
Filed by QUALCOMM Incorporated, San Diego, CA (US)
Filed on May 4, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/662,030.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/186,597, filed on May 10, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2022/0360420 A1, Nov. 10, 2022
Int. Cl. H04W 72/04 (2023.01); H04L 5/00 (2006.01); H04W 28/02 (2009.01); H04W 72/044 (2023.01); H04W 72/0453 (2023.01); H04W 72/542 (2023.01)
CPC H04L 5/0098 (2013.01) [H04W 28/0236 (2013.01); H04W 72/0453 (2013.01); H04W 72/046 (2013.01); H04W 72/542 (2023.01)] 30 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An apparatus for wireless communication, comprising:
memory comprising executable instructions; and
one or more processors coupled to the memory, the one or more processors being configured, individually or collectively, to execute the executable instructions and cause the apparatus to:
receive an indication of a second set of monitoring occasions associated with a user equipment (UE)-specific search space (USS),
align, in response to receiving the indication of the second set of monitoring occasions associated with the USS, a first set of monitoring occasions associated with a common search space (CSS) with the second set of monitoring occasions associated with the USS,
monitor for signals from a network entity via at least one of the CSS or the USS in the aligned first and second set of monitoring occasions, and
communicate with a network entity based on reception of at least one of the signals in the aligned first and second set of monitoring occasions.