US 12,464,538 B2
Group-based PDCCH overbooking and dropping
Wooseok Nam, San Diego, CA (US); Jing Sun, San Diego, CA (US); and Tao Luo, San Diego, CA (US)
Assigned to QUALCOMM Incorporated, San Diego, CA (US)
Filed by QUALCOMM Incorporated, San Diego, CA (US)
Filed on Nov. 3, 2022, as Appl. No. 18/052,436.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/276,514, filed on Nov. 5, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2023/0141557 A1, May 11, 2023
Int. Cl. H04W 72/232 (2023.01); H04W 72/0446 (2023.01); H04W 72/56 (2023.01); H04W 74/0833 (2024.01)
CPC H04W 72/232 (2023.01) [H04W 72/0446 (2013.01); H04W 72/56 (2023.01); H04W 74/0833 (2013.01)] 26 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method for wireless communications by a user equipment (UE), the method comprising:
obtaining a configuration of at least one slot group, wherein the slot group includes a plurality of consecutive slots within a subframe;
obtaining a configuration of one or more groups of search space (SS) sets including at least a first group of SS sets, each group of SS sets including one or more SS sets, and each group of SS sets being associated with a priority level;
determining, based on the configuration of the one or more groups of SS sets, a total number of slots configured for physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) monitoring in the slot group;
determining the total number of slots configured for PDCCH monitoring for the slot group is larger than a maximum number of monitored slots for the UE for the slot group; and
in response to the determination that the total number of slots configured for PDCCH monitoring in the slot group is larger than the maximum number of monitored slots for the UE for the slot group, dropping the first group of the one or more groups of SS sets, wherein the first group of SS sets is selected based on the associated priority level of the first group of SS sets relative to the associated priority levels other groups of the one or more groups of SS set.