US 12,081,477 B2
Puncturing indicator of a portion of a reference signal within an unpunctured portion of the reference signal
Alexandros Manolakos, Escondido, CA (US); Sony Akkarakaran, Poway, CA (US); Guttorm Ringstad Opshaug, Redwood City, 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 Apr. 24, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/306,114.
Application 18/306,114 is a continuation of application No. 16/991,959, filed on Aug. 12, 2020, granted, now 11,695,524.
Claims priority of application No. 20190100353 (GR), filed on Aug. 13, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2023/0318774 A1, Oct. 5, 2023
Int. Cl. H04L 5/00 (2006.01); H04W 72/044 (2023.01); H04W 72/54 (2023.01)
CPC H04L 5/0048 (2013.01) [H04W 72/0466 (2013.01); H04W 72/54 (2023.01)] 30 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A user equipment (UE), comprising:
a transceiver;
a memory; and
a processor communicatively coupled to the transceiver and the memory, wherein the processor is configured to:
receive, via the transceiver, a reference signal (RS) from a non-serving cell, the RS comprising a puncturable subset and an unpuncturable subset, the puncturable subset comprising one or more resources of the RS that are allowed to be punctured, the unpuncturable subset comprising one or more resources of the RS that are prohibited from being punctured;
estimate a channel between the UE and the non-serving cell based on a measurement of the unpuncturable subset;
obtain a measurement of the puncturable subset based on the estimated channel;
determine whether or not the puncturable subset has been punctured by another physical layer signal based on the measurement of the puncturable subset;
exclude the puncturable subset when processing the RS when it is determined that the puncturable subset has been punctured; and
include the puncturable subset when processing the RS when it is determined that the puncturable subset has not been punctured.