# US 11,121,897 B2 · System and method for PUCCH transmission scheme > Agents: this data is available as JSON from the patentgrep API and MCP server — see https://patentgrep.com/llms.txt - Number: US 11,121,897 B2 - Document ID: US11121897B2 - Status: Granted - Kind: B2 - Application number: 16/125,506 - Filed: 2018-09-07 - Published: 2019-05-16 - Granted: 2021-09-14 - Earliest claimed: 2017-09-08 - Assignees: Apple Inc. - Applicants: Apple Inc. - Inventors: Gang Xiong; Alexei Davydov; Alexey Khoryaev; Mikhail S. Shilov; Seung Hee Han; Yushu Zhang; Joonyoung Cho - Web page: https://patentgrep.com/patent/US11121897B2 ## CPC - H04L 27/2613: {Structure of the reference signals} - H04L 5/0025: {Spatial division following the spatial signature of the channel} - H04L 5/0035: {Resource allocation in a cooperative multipoint environment} - H04L 5/0048: {Allocation of pilot signals, i.e. of signals known to the receiver (allocation of control signalling H04L5/0053; use of control signalling H04L5/0091)} - H04L 5/0053: {Allocation of signalling, i.e. of overhead other than pilot signals} - H04L 5/006: {Quality of the received signal, e.g. BER, SNR, water filling} - H04L 27/2692: {with preamble design, i.e. with negotiation of the synchronisation sequence with transmitter or sequence linked to the algorithm used at the receiver} - H04W 52/146: {Uplink power control} - H04W 72/046: {the resource being in the space domain, e.g. beams} - H04L: TRANSMISSION OF DIGITAL INFORMATION, e.g. TELEGRAPHIC COMMUNICATION (arrangements common to telegraphic and telephonic communication H04M) - H04W: WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORKS (broadcast communication H04H; communication systems using wireless links for non-selective communication, e.g. wireless extensions H04M1/72) ## Abstract Technology for a user equipment (UE) configured for communication of sounding reference signal (SRS) resources is disclosed. The UE can decode a radio resource control (RRC) signal indicating an SRS to transmit with a physical uplink control channel (PUCCH), wherein the PUCCH and the SRS are quasi co located (QCLed) based on a spatial received parameter. The UE can encode an SRS for transmission using the spatial received parameter. The UE can encode uplink control information (UCI) for transmission in the PUCCH using the spatial received parameter. The UE can have a memory interface configured to send to a memory the spatial received parameter. ## Claims ### Claim 1 An apparatus of a user equipment (UE) configured for communication of sounding reference signal (SRS) resources, the apparatus comprising: one or more processors configured to: decode a radio resource control (RRC) signal indicating an SRS to transmit with a physical uplink control channel (PUCCH), wherein the PUCCH and the SRS are quasi co located (QCLed) based on a spatial received parameter and one or more of a delay spread and a Doppler spread; encode the SRS for transmission using the spatial received parameter; and encode uplink control information (UCI) for transmission in the PUCCH using the spatial received parameter; transmit the SRS using the spatial received parameter; transmit the UCI in the PUCCH using the spatial received parameter multiplexed with a plurality of PUCCH DMRS base sequence symbols wherein the base sequences are selected based on a low peak to average power ratio (PAPR) and low mutual cross-correlation; and a memory interface configured to send to a memory the spatial received parameter. ### Claim 2 (depends on 1) The apparatus of the UE of claim 1, further comprising a transceiver configured to: receive the RRC signal indicating the SRS. ### Claim 3 (depends on 1) The apparatus of the UE of claim 1, wherein the RRC signal includes an SRS resource index (SRI) associated with the SRS. ### Claim 4 (depends on 2) The apparatus of the UE of claim 2, wherein the one or more processors are further configured to encode the SRS associated with the SRI for transmission using the spatial received parameter. ### Claim 5 (depends on 1) The apparatus of the UE of claim 1, further comprising an antenna, a touch sensitive display screen, a speaker, a microphone, a graphics processor, an application processor, an internal memory, or a non-volatile memory port. ### Claim 6 (depends on 1) The apparatus of the UE of claim 1, the one or more processors further configured to define the SRS in one or more of: a first SRS group for SRS resources used for beam management; a second SRS group for SRS resources used for a physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH) transmission; and a third SRS group for SRS resources used for a physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) transmission. ### Claim 7 (depends on 6) The apparatus of the UE of claim 6, wherein the SRS is defined in each of the second SRS group and the third SRS group. ### Claim 8 (depends on 1) The apparatus of the UE of claim 1, wherein one or more of the first SRS group, the second SRS group, and the third SRS group is configured by RRC signaling. ### Claim 9 An apparatus of a next generation node B (gNB) configured for communication of sounding reference signal (SRS) resources, the apparatus comprising: one or more processors configured to: encode a radio resource control (RRC) signal indicating an SRS to transmit with a physical uplink control channel (PUCCH), wherein the PUCCH and the SRS are quasi co located (QCLed) based on a spatial received parameter and one or more of a delay spread and a Doppler spread; receive the SRS using the spatial received parameter; receive uplink control information UCI from the UE in the PUCCH using the spatial received parameter, the UCI multiplexed with a plurality of PUCCH DMRS base sequence symbols, wherein the base sequences are selected based on a low peak to average power ratio (PAPR) and low mutual cross-correlation; decode the SRS as received from a user equipment (UE) using the spatial received parameter; and decode the UCI using the spatial received parameter; and a memory interface configured to send to a memory the spatial received parameter. ### Claim 10 (depends on 9) The apparatus of the gNB of claim 9, further comprising a transceiver configured to: transmit the RRC signal indicating the SRS. ### Claim 11 (depends on 9) The apparatus of the gNB of claim 9, wherein the RRC signal includes an SRS resource index (SRI) associated with the SRS. ### Claim 12 (depends on 9) The apparatus of the gNB of claim 9, wherein the one or more processors are further configured to decode the SRS associated with the SRI received from the UE using the spatial received parameter.