US 12,021,642 B2
Non-dropping rule for mini-slot based repetition
Yan Zhou, San Diego, CA (US); Mostafa Khoshnevisan, San Diego, CA (US); Jing Sun, San Diego, CA (US); Xiaoxia Zhang, San Diego, CA (US); Tao Luo, San Diego, CA (US); Peter Gaal, San Diego, CA (US); and Juan Montojo, San Diego, CA (US)
Assigned to QUALCOMM Incorporated, San Diego, CA (US)
Filed by QUALCOMM Incorporated, San Diego, CA (US)
Filed on Sep. 30, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/957,576.
Application 17/957,576 is a division of application No. 17/186,343, filed on Feb. 26, 2021.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/992,852, filed on Mar. 20, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2023/0023538 A1, Jan. 26, 2023
Int. Cl. H04L 5/00 (2006.01); H04L 1/1812 (2023.01); H04L 1/1867 (2023.01); H04W 72/0446 (2023.01); H04W 72/23 (2023.01); H04W 72/56 (2023.01); H04W 76/30 (2018.01)
CPC H04L 1/1896 (2013.01) [H04L 1/1819 (2013.01); H04W 72/0446 (2013.01); H04W 72/23 (2023.01); H04W 72/56 (2023.01); H04W 76/30 (2018.02)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method of wireless communication, the method comprising, at a wireless communication device:
identifying a plurality of time domain resource allocation (TDRA) candidate occasions, each TDRA candidate occasion occurring within a different respective one of a plurality of mini-slots, each of the plurality of mini-slots carrying a different respective one of a plurality of downlink channel repetitions;
maintaining, in a TDRA table, TDRA entries including location information of the plurality of TDRA candidate occasions associated with the plurality of downlink channel repetitions, when at least one of the plurality of downlink channel repetitions is not decoded;
extending the TDRA table such that a first part of the extended TDRA table comprises a TDRA entry associated with a first downlink channel repetition and a second part of the extended TDRA table comprises a composite TDRA entry determined based on a combination of the plurality of downlink channel repetitions including at least the first downlink channel repetition and a second downlink channel repetition; and
determining an acknowledgment/negative-acknowledgment (ACK/NACK) bit position to associate with the composite TDRA entry based on a starting symbol of the composite TDRA entry and an entry length of the composite TDRA entry.