# US 11,310,005 B2 · Techniques for communicating using multiple transmission points wireless communications > Agents: this data is available as JSON from the patentgrep API and MCP server — see https://patentgrep.com/llms.txt - Number: US 11,310,005 B2 - Document ID: US11310005B2 - Status: Granted - Kind: B2 - Application number: 16/712,915 - Filed: 2019-12-12 - Published: 2020-06-18 - Granted: 2022-04-19 - Earliest claimed: 2018-12-14 - Assignees: QUALCOMM Incorporated - Applicants: QUALCOMM Incorporated - Inventors: Makesh Pravin John Wilson; Tao Luo; Mostafa Khoshnevisan; Xiaoxia Zhang; Jing Sun; Vinay Chande; Arumugam Chendamarai Kannan - Web page: https://patentgrep.com/patent/US11310005B2 ## CPC - H04L 5/0035: {Resource allocation in a cooperative multipoint environment} - H04B 7/022: Site diversity; Macro-diversity (using two or more spaced independent antennas H04B7/04) - H04B 7/024: Co-operative use of antennas of several sites, e.g. in co-ordinated multipoint or co-operative multiple-input multiple-output [MIMO] systems - H04L 5/001: {the frequencies being arranged in component carriers} - H04L 5/0094: {Indication of how sub-channels of the path are allocated} - H04L 5/0098: {Signalling of the activation or deactivation of component carriers, subcarriers or frequency bands} - H04W 28/0231: {based on communication conditions (dynamic wireless traffic scheduling definition based on channel quality criteria H04W72/54)} - H04W 36/00692: {using simultaneous multiple data streams, e.g. cooperative multipoint [CoMP], carrier aggregation [CA] or multiple input multiple output [MIMO] (allocation of physical resources in CoMP or in CA H04L5/0035)} - H04W 72/20: Control channels or signalling for resource management - H04L: TRANSMISSION OF DIGITAL INFORMATION, e.g. TELEGRAPHIC COMMUNICATION (arrangements common to telegraphic and telephonic communication H04M) - H04B: TRANSMISSION - H04W: WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORKS (broadcast communication H04H; communication systems using wireless links for non-selective communication, e.g. wireless extensions H04M1/72) ## Abstract Aspects described herein relate to communicating in a wireless network based on a configured set of one or more transmission points (TRPs), receiving an instruction to modify the set of one or more TRPs, modifying, based on the instruction, the set of one or more TRPs to generate a modified set of one or more TRPs, and communicating in the wireless network based on the modified set of one or more TRPs. ## Claims ### Claim 1 A method of wireless communication, comprising: communicating, by a user equipment (UE), with a configured set of one or more transmission points (TRPs) in a wireless network; identifying, by the UE, at least one additional TRP transmitting signals received by the UE; notifying, by the UE, one or more of the TRPs in the configured set of one or more TRPs of the at least one additional TRP; receiving an instruction to switch a bandwidth part (BWP) used to communicate in the wireless network to a different BWP; identifying, based on the instruction to switch the BWP, a set of one or more TRPs associated with the different BWP, wherein the set of one or more TRPs identified based on the instruction to switch the BWP is different than the configured set of one or more TRPs; modifying, based on the instruction to switch the BWP, the configured set of one or more TRPs to generate a modified set of one or more TRPs including the set of one or more TRPs associated with the different BWP, wherein modifying the configured set of one or more TRPs includes generating the modified set of one or more TRPs to at least one of add at least one TRP from the set of one or more TRPs that is not in the configured set of one or more TRPs or remove at least one TRP from the configured set of one or more TRPs that is not in the set of one or more TRPs; and communicating, by the UE, with the modified set of one or more TRPs in the wireless network. ### Claim 2 (depends on 1) The method of claim 1, wherein modifying the configured set of one or more TRPs to generate the modified set of one or more TRPs to add the at least one TRP from the set of one or more TRPs includes activating communications with the at least one TRP, or wherein modifying the configured set of one or more TRPs to generate the modified set of one or more TRPs to remove the at least one TRP from the configured set of one or more TRPs includes deactivating communications with the at least one TRP. ### Claim 3 (depends on 2) The method of claim 2, wherein the different BWP corresponds to multiple TRPs, and wherein modifying the configured set of one or more TRPs includes activating or deactivating communications with the at least one TRP to generate the modified set of one or more TRPs to include the multiple TRPs. ### Claim 4 (depends on 1) The method of claim 1, wherein the instruction includes identifiers associated with a control resource set (CORESET) to indicate the set of one or more TRPs associated with the different BWP, and wherein modifying the configured set of one or more TRPs is based on the identifiers associated with the CORESET. ### Claim 5 (depends on 1) The method of claim 1, wherein modifying the set of one or more TRPs includes modifying the configured set of one or more TRPs to generate the modified set of one or more TRPs to use based on a timer value, and wherein communicating with the modified set of one or more TRPs in the wireless network occurs after expiration of the timer value. ### Claim 6 (depends on 1) The method of claim 1, wherein receiving the instruction comprises receiving downlink control information (DCI) indicating the instruction to switch the BWP. ### Claim 7 (depends on 1) The method of claim 1, wherein the instruction to switch the BWP indicates to activate communications with the at least one additional TRP, and wherein modifying the configured set of one or more TRPs includes activating communications with the at least one additional TRP in the modified set of one or more TRPs. ### Claim 8 An apparatus for wireless communication, comprising: a transceiver; a memory configured to store instructions related to configuring a set of one or more transmission points (TRPs); and one or more processors communicatively coupled with the transceiver and the memory, wherein the one or more processors are configured to: communicate, by the apparatus, with a configured set of one or more transmission points (TRPs) in a wireless network; identify, by the apparatus, at least one additional TRP transmitting signals received by the apparatus; notify, by the apparatus, one or more of the TRPs in the configured set of one or more TRPs of the at least one additional TRP; receive an instruction to switch a bandwidth part (BWP) used to communicate in the wireless network to a different BWP; identifying, based on the instruction to switch the BWP, a set of one or more TRPs associated with the different BWP, wherein the set of one or more TRPs identified based on the instruction to switch the BWP is different than the configured set of one or more TRPs; modify, based on the instruction to switch the BWP, the configured set of one or more TRPs to generate a modified set of one or more TRPs including the set of one or more TRPs associated with the different BWP, wherein the one or more processors are configured to modify the configured set of one or more TRPs at least in part by generating the modified set of one or more TRPs to at least one of add at least one TRP from the set of one or more TRPs that is not in the configured set of one or more TRPs or remove at least one TRP from the configured set of one or more TRPs that is not in the set of one or more TRPs; and communicate, by the apparatus, with the modified set of one or more TRPs in the wireless network. ### Claim 9 (depends on 8) The apparatus of claim 8, wherein the one or more processors are configured to modify the configured set of one or more TRPs to generate the modified set of one or more TRPs to add the at least one TRP from the set of one or more TRPs at least in part by activating communications with the at least one TRP, or wherein the one or more processors are configured to modify the configured set of one or more TRPs to generate the modified set of one or more TRPs to remove the at least one TRP from the configured set of one or more TRPs at least in part by deactivating communications with at least one TRP in the configured set of one or more TRPs. ### Claim 10 (depends on 9) The apparatus of claim 9, wherein the different BWP corresponds to multiple TRPs, and wherein the one or more processors are configured to modify the configured set of one or more TRPs at least in part by activating or deactivating communications with the at least one TRP to generate the modified set of one or more TRPs to include the multiple TRPs. ### Claim 11 (depends on 8) The apparatus of claim 8, wherein the instruction includes identifiers associated with a control resource set (CORESET) to indicate the set of one or more TRPs associated with the different BWP, and wherein the one or more processors are configured to modify the configured set of one or more TRPs based on the identifiers associated with the CORESET. ### Claim 12 (depends on 8) The apparatus of claim 8, wherein the one or more processors are configured to modify the configured set of one or more TRPs to generate the modified set of one or more TRPs to use based on a timer value, and wherein the one or more processors are configured to communicate with the modified set of one or more TRPs in the wireless after expiration of the timer value. ### Claim 13 (depends on 8) The apparatus of claim 8, wherein the one or more processors are configured to receive the instruction in downlink control information (DCI) indicating the instruction to switch the BWP. ### Claim 14 (depends on 8) The apparatus of claim 8, wherein the instruction to switch the BWP indicates to activate communications with the at least one additional TRP, and wherein the one or more processors are configured to modify the configured set of one or more TRPs at least in part by activating communications with the at least one additional TRP in the modified set of one or more TRPs. ### Claim 15 An apparatus for wireless communication, comprising: means for communicating, by the apparatus, with a configured set of one or more transmission points (TRPs) in a wireless network; means for identifying, by the apparatus, at least one additional TRP transmitting signals received by the apparatus; means for notifying, by the apparatus, one or more of the TRPs in the configured set of one or more TRPs of the at least one additional TRP; means for receiving an instruction to switch a bandwidth part (BWP) used to communicate in the wireless network to a different BWP; means for identifying, based on the instruction to switch the BWP, a set of one or more TRPs associated with the different BWP, wherein the set of one or more TRPs identified based on the instruction to switch the BWP are different than the configured set of one or more TRPs; means for modifying, based on the instruction to switch the BWP, the configured set of one or more TRPs to generate a modified set of one or more TRPs including the set of one or more TRPs associated with the different BWP, wherein modifying the configured set of one or more TRPs includes generating the modified set of one or more TRPs to at least one of add at least one TRP from the set of one or more TRPs that is not in the configured set of one or more TRPs or remove at least one TRP from the configured set of one or more TRPs that is not in the set of one or more TRPs; and means for communicating, by the apparatus, with the modified set of one or more TRPs in the wireless network. ### Claim 16 A non-transitory computer-readable medium, comprising code executable by one or more processors for wireless communications, the code comprising code for: communicating, by a user equipment (UE), with a configured set of one or more transmission points (TRPs) in a wireless network; identifying, by the UE, at least one additional TRP transmitting signals received by the UE; notifying, by the UE, one or more of the TRPs in the configured set of one or more TRPs of the at least one additional TRP; receiving an instruction to switch a bandwidth part (BWP) used to communicate in the wireless network to a different BWP; identifying, based on the instruction to switch the BWP, a set of one or more TRPs associated with the different BWP, wherein the set of one or more TRPs identified based on the instruction to switch the BWP are different than the configured set of one or more TRPs; modifying, based on the instruction to switch the BWP, the configured set of one or more TRPs to generate a modified set of one or more TRPs including the set of one or more TRPs associated with the different BWP, wherein modifying the configured set of one or more TRPs includes generating the modified set of one or more TRPs to at least one of add at least one TRP from the set of one or more TRPs that is not in the configured set of one or more TRPs or remove at least one TRP from the configured set of one or more TRPs that is not in the set of one or more TRPs; and communicating, by the UE, with the modified set of one or more TRPs in the wireless network. ### Claim 17 A method of wireless communication, comprising: configuring a user equipment (UE) with a configured set of one or more transmission points (TRPs) for communicating in a wireless network; receiving, from the UE, identification of at least one additional TRP transmitting signals received by the UE; transmitting, to the UE, an instruction to switch a bandwidth part (BWP) used to communicate in the wireless network to a different BWP, wherein the different BWP is associated with a second set of one or more TRPs that at least one of includes at least one TRP that is not in the configured set of one or more TRPs causing the UE to activate communications with the at least one TRP or does not include at least one TRP that is in the configured set of one or more TRPs causing the UE to deactivate communications with the at least one TRP, and wherein the different BWP is associated with a single TRP or multiple TRPs. ### Claim 18 (depends on 17) The method of claim 17, wherein the instruction includes identifiers associated with a control resource set (CORESET) to indicate the at least one TRP associated with the different BWP. ### Claim 19 (depends on 17) The method of claim 17, wherein the instruction relates to activating communications with the at least one TRP where the different BWP is associated with the multiple TRPs. ### Claim 20 (depends on 17) The method of claim 17, wherein the instruction relates to deactivating communications with the at least one TRP where the different BWP corresponds to the single TRP. ### Claim 21 (depends on 17) The method of claim 17, wherein transmitting the instruction includes transmitting the instruction in downlink control information (DCI) in a downlink control channel. ### Claim 22 (depends on 17) The method of claim 17, further comprising receiving, from the UE, an indication of the at least one TRP, wherein transmitting the instruction is based on receiving the indication. ### Claim 23 An apparatus for wireless communication, comprising: a transceiver; a memory configured to store instructions related to configuring a set of one or more transmission points (TRPs); and one or more processors communicatively coupled with the transceiver and the memory, wherein the one or more processors are configured to: configure a user equipment (UE) with a configured set of one or more transmission points (TRPs) for communicating in a wireless network; receive, from the UE, identification of at least one additional TRP transmitting signals received by the UE; transmit, to the UE, an instruction to switch a bandwidth part (BWP) used to communicate in the wireless network to a different BWP, wherein the different BWP is associated with a second set of one or more TRPs that at least one of includes at least one TRP that is not in the configured set of one or more TRPs causing the UE to activate communications with the at least one TRP associated or does not include at least one TRP that is in the configured set of one or more TRPs causing the UE to deactivate communications with the at least one TRP, and wherein the different BWP is associated with a single TRP or multiple TRPs. ### Claim 24 (depends on 23) The apparatus of claim 23, wherein the instruction includes identifiers associated with a control resource set (CORESET) to indicate the at least one TRP. ### Claim 25 (depends on 23) The apparatus of claim 23, wherein the instruction relates to activating communications with the at least one TRP where the different BWP corresponds to the multiple TRPs. ### Claim 26 (depends on 23) The apparatus of claim 23, wherein the instruction relates to deactivating communications with the at least one TRP where the different BWP corresponds to the single TRP. ### Claim 27 (depends on 23) The apparatus of claim 23, wherein the one or more processors are configured to transmit the instruction in downlink control information (DCI) in a downlink control channel. ### Claim 28 (depends on 23) The apparatus of claim 23, wherein the one or more processors are further configured to receive, from the UE, an indication of the at least one TRP, wherein the one or more processors are configured to transmit the instruction based on receiving the indication. ### Claim 29 An apparatus for wireless communication, comprising: means for configuring a user equipment (UE) with a configured set of one or more transmission points (TRPs) for communicating in a wireless network; means for receiving, from the UE, identification of at least one additional TRP transmitting signals received by the UE; means for transmitting, to the UE, an instruction to switch a bandwidth part (BWP) used to communicate in the wireless network to a different BWP, wherein the different BWP is associated with a second set of one or more TRPs that at least one of includes at least one TRP that is not in the configured set of one or more TRPs causing the UE to activate communications with the at least one TRP or does not include at least one TRP that is in the configured set of one or more TRPs causing the UE to deactivate communications with the at least one TRP, and wherein the different BWP is associated with a single TRP or multiple TRPs. ### Claim 30 A non-transitory computer-readable medium, comprising code executable by one or more processors for wireless communications, the code comprising code for: configuring a user equipment (UE) with a configured set of one or more transmission points (TRPs) for communicating in a wireless network; receiving, from the UE, identification of at least one additional TRP transmitting signals received by the UE; transmitting, to the UE, an instruction to switch a bandwidth part (BWP) used to communicate in the wireless network to a different BWP, wherein the different BWP is associated with a second set of one or more TRPs that at least one of includes at least one TRP that is not in the configured set of one or more TRPs causing the UE to activate communications with the at least one TRP or does not include at least one TRP that is in the configured set of one or more TRPs causing the UE to deactivate communications with the at least one TRP, and wherein the different BWP is associated with a single TRP or multiple TRPs.