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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 10, 2024
Filed:
Oct. 02, 2020
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Haitong Sun, Irvine, CA (US);
Yushu Zhang, Beijing, CN;
Huaning Niu, San Jose, CA (US);
Hong He, Cupertino, CA (US);
Wei Zeng, San Diego, CA (US);
Dawei Zhang, Saratoga, CA (US);
Chunxuan Ye, San Diego, CA (US);
Oghenekome Oteri, San Diego, CA (US);
Sigen Ye, Whitehouse Station, NJ (US);
Weidong Yang, San Diego, CA (US);
Chunhai Yao, Beijing, CN;
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Abstract
A base station (BS) may receive a plurality of repetitions of a Physical Uplink Control Channel (PUCCH) from a user equipment (UE), and accumulate the received repetitions to obtain a resultant signal. The ability to accumulate repetitions enables the base station to experience a higher probability of successful recovery of the PUCCH payload bits than if decoding were based on the reception of a non-repeated transmission of the PUCCH. The base station may configure the number of repetitions, the temporal gap between the repetitions, and mode of repetition of the PUCCH. In an intra-slot mode, more than one copy may be received from each configured slot, with or without frequency hopping. In an inter-slot mode, one copy is received per configured slot. Different repetitions may be transmitted by the UE in different directions, according to a spatial consistency pattern.