US 12,089,068 B2
TCI and QCL configuration in 5G networks
Fatemeh Hamidi-Sepehr, Santa Clara, CA (US); Debdeep Chatterjee, San Jose, CA (US); Bishwarup Mondal, San Ramon, CA (US); Sergey Panteleev, Nizhny Novgoroc (RU); Toufiqul Islam, Santa Clara, CA (US); Yushu Zhang, Beijing (CN); and Alexei Vladimirovich Davydov, Nizhny Novgorod (RU)
Assigned to Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US)
Filed by Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US)
Filed on Mar. 2, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/116,496.
Application 18/116,496 is a continuation of application No. 17/259,057, granted, now 11,601,824, previously published as PCT/US2019/045511, filed on Aug. 7, 2019.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/717,347, filed on Aug. 10, 2018.
Prior Publication US 2023/0217267 A1, Jul. 6, 2023
This patent is subject to a terminal disclaimer.
Int. Cl. H04W 16/28 (2009.01); H04W 72/044 (2023.01); H04W 72/23 (2023.01); H04W 76/20 (2018.01)
CPC H04W 16/28 (2013.01) [H04W 72/046 (2013.01); H04W 72/0466 (2013.01); H04W 72/23 (2023.01); H04W 76/20 (2018.02)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An apparatus comprising:
one or more processors configured to cause a user equipment (UE) to:
decode radio resource control (RRC) signaling, the RRC signaling comprising configuration information configuring a plurality of transmission configuration indication (TCI) states;
decode a media access control (MAC) control element (CE), the MAC CE indicating multiple active TCI states of the configured plurality of TCI states;
determine one or more receive beams using the multiple active TCI states; and
decode downlink information, wherein the downlink information includes first and second portions, wherein respective first and second portions have different TCI states of the multiple active states and are received via at least one of the one or more receive beams associated with the multiple active TCI states, wherein the first and second portions of the downlink information are frequency division multiplexed with each other.