US 12,143,978 B2
PDCCH enhancement for group paging
Yuchul Kim, Santa Clara, CA (US); Fangli Xu, Beijing (CN); Sarma V Vangala, Campbell, CA (US); Sethuraman Gurumoorthy, San Jose, CA (US); Yuqin Chen, Shenzhen (CN); Murtaza A Shikari, Mountain View, CA (US); Zhibin Wu, Los Altos, CA (US); Haitong Sun, Irvine, CA (US); Yushu Zhang, Beijing (CN); Wei Zeng, San Diego, CA (US); Dawei Zhang, Saratoga, CA (US); Haijing Hu, Beijing (CN); Hong He, Cupertino, CA (US); Weidong Yang, San Diego, CA (US); Oghenekome Oteri, San Diego, CA (US); Chunxuan Ye, San Diego, CA (US); Chunhai Yao, Beijing (CN); Jie Cui, San Jose, CA (US); Yang Tang, Cupertino, CA (US); and Srirang A Lovlekar, Cupertino, CA (US)
Assigned to Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US)
Appl. No. 17/439,094
Filed by Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US)
PCT Filed Feb. 12, 2020, PCT No. PCT/CN2020/074913
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Sep. 14, 2021,
PCT Pub. No. WO2021/159323, PCT Pub. Date Aug. 19, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2022/0159669 A1, May 19, 2022
Int. Cl. H04W 72/121 (2023.01); H04W 68/02 (2009.01); H04W 72/1273 (2023.01); H04W 72/23 (2023.01)
CPC H04W 72/121 (2013.01) [H04W 68/02 (2013.01); H04W 72/1273 (2013.01); H04W 72/23 (2023.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method, comprising:
receiving, by a processor of a user equipment device (UE) from a base station of a network, a group indication via at least six bits of a downlink control information (DCI), wherein each bit of the at least six bits indicates a paging indication for a particular set of UEs associated with a respective group of a plurality of groups, wherein the UE is explicitly configured with a group of the plurality of groups by the network, and wherein the UE is grouped with a set of UEs with correlated traffic arrival conditions;
determining, based on the group indication, whether the UE has a paging message; and
in response to determining that the UE has a paging message, decoding a corresponding physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH).