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US 11,240,753 B2Granted
Method and apparatus for beam management in a wireless communication system
AssigneeASUSTeK COMPUTER INC.
InventorsYu-Hsuan Guo, Hsin-Hsi Tsai, Richard Lee-Chee Kuo, Meng-Hui Ou
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Abstract
A method and apparatus are disclosed from the perspective of a UE. In one embodiment, the method includes receiving a configuration, wherein the configuration indicates whether the UE performs a beam management during a specific period of time. The method also includes determining whether to perform the beam management during the specific period of time based on at least the configuration.
Claims14
A method of a UE (User Equipment), comprising:
- maintaining at least one serving beam in a serving cell;
- determining, during a Discontinuous Reception (DRX) inactive time, whether the at least one serving beam is valid when uplink data is available for transmission, wherein the DRX inactive time is a time other than a DRX active time when DRX is configured and the DRX active time includes a time while an on-duration timer is running, and wherein a beam feedback procedure is not performed during the DRX inactive time;
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- responsive to determining that the at least one serving beam is not valid during the DRX inactive time:
- selecting, by the UE, a specific beam of the serving cell and transmitting a request for uplink resource via the specific beam during the DRX inactive time.
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A User Equipment (UE), comprising:
- a control circuit;
- a processor installed in the control circuit;
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- a memory installed in the control circuit and operatively coupled to the processor;
- wherein the processor is configured to execute a program code stored in the memory to:
- maintain at least one serving beam in a serving cell;
- determine, during a Discontinuous Reception (DRX) inactive time, whether the at least one serving beam is valid when uplink data is available for transmission, wherein the DRX inactive time is a time other than a DRX active time when DRX is configured and the DRX active time includes a time while an on-duration timer is running, and wherein a beam feedback procedure is not performed during the DRX inactive time;
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- responsive to determining that the at least one serving beam is not valid during the DRX inactive time:
- select a specific beam of the serving cell and transmit a request for uplink resource via the specific beam during the DRX inactive time.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.