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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 19, 2026
Filed:
Oct. 16, 2020
Applicant:
Nec Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Assignee:
NEC CORPORATION, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 72/20 (2023.01); H04L 5/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 72/20 (2023.01); H04L 5/0055 (2013.01);
Abstract
Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to methods for communication, terminal devices, network devices and computer readable media. In the method, a terminal device determines a transmission configuration indicator (TCI) state for a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) candidate, based on at least one of: an index of the PDCCH candidate, and an index of a control channel element (CCE) of the PDCCH candidate. The terminal device monitors the PDCCH candidate based on the TCI state. As a result, the complexity of the terminal device for blind detection or decoding is able to be reduced.