US 11,743,864 B2
Techniques for unlinking physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) candidates due to PDCCH candidate dropping in deployments featuring PDCCH repetition
Yitao Chen, 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); Wooseok Nam, San Diego, CA (US); and Peter Gaal, San Diego, CA (US)
Assigned to QUALCOMM Incorporated, San Diego, CA (US)
Filed by QUALCOMM Incorporated, San Diego, CA (US)
Filed on Mar. 25, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/213,165.
Prior Publication US 2022/0312380 A1, Sep. 29, 2022
Int. Cl. H04W 72/02 (2009.01); H04W 72/12 (2023.01); H04W 72/04 (2023.01); H04W 24/08 (2009.01); H04W 72/0446 (2023.01); H04W 72/0453 (2023.01); H04W 72/1273 (2023.01); H04W 72/23 (2023.01); H04W 72/50 (2023.01); H04W 72/566 (2023.01)
CPC H04W 72/02 (2013.01) [H04W 24/08 (2013.01); H04W 72/0446 (2013.01); H04W 72/0453 (2013.01); H04W 72/1273 (2013.01); H04W 72/23 (2023.01); H04W 72/535 (2023.01); H04W 72/566 (2023.01)] 26 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An apparatus for wireless communication at a user equipment (UE), comprising:
a first interface configured to:
obtain an indication of a set of linked physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) candidates, the set of linked PDCCH candidates comprising a first PDCCH candidate and a second PDCCH candidate that are associated with a same PDCCH information; and
a processing system configured to:
select the second PDCCH candidate for monitoring according to a resource conflict associated with the first PDCCH candidate;
update, in accordance with selecting the second PDCCH candidate for monitoring according to the resource conflict associated with the first PDCCH candidate, the set of linked PDCCH candidates to obtain an updated set of linked PDCCH candidates;
select one of the first PDCCH candidate or the second PDCCH candidate as a reference for the set of linked PDCCH candidates in connection with selecting the second PDCCH candidate for monitoring, wherein selecting one of the first PDCCH candidate or the second PDCCH candidate as the reference for the set of linked PDCCH candidates comprises selecting the reference for the updated set of linked PDCCH candidates; and
monitor the second PDCCH candidate in accordance with the selected reference.