# US 11,310,766 B2 · Signal transmission method and apparatus > Agents: this data is available as JSON from the patentgrep API and MCP server — see https://patentgrep.com/llms.txt - Number: US 11,310,766 B2 - Document ID: US11310766B2 - Status: Granted - Kind: B2 - Application number: 16/988,300 - Filed: 2020-08-07 - Published: 2020-11-26 - Granted: 2022-04-19 - Earliest claimed: 2018-02-09 - Assignees: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. - Applicants: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. - Inventors: Kuandong Gao; Huang Huang; Mao Yan; Hua Shao - Web page: https://patentgrep.com/patent/US11310766B2 ## CPC - H04W 68/02: Arrangements for increasing efficiency of notification or paging channel - H04W 68/005: {Transmission of information for alerting of incoming communication} - H04W 74/006: {in the downlink, i.e. towards the terminal} - H04W 74/0833: Random access procedures, e.g. with 4-step access - H04W 72/02: Selection of wireless resources by user or terminal - H04W: WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORKS (broadcast communication H04H; communication systems using wireless links for non-selective communication, e.g. wireless extensions H04M1/72) ## Abstract This disclosure describes signal transmission methods and apparatus. On example method includes: receiving, by a terminal device, a paging indication sent by a network device, where the paging indication carries information about a plurality of paging groups; and sending, by the terminal device to the network device based on an association relationship between a paged paging group in the plurality of paging groups and a random access preamble, a random access preamble associated with a paging group in which the terminal device is located. ## Claims ### Claim 1 A signal transmission method, comprising: receiving, by a terminal device, a paging indication sent by a network device, wherein the paging indication carries information about a plurality of paging groups; determining, by the terminal device, a synchronization signal/physical broadcast channel block (SS/PBCH block) corresponding to the paging indication based on configuration information sent by the network device; determining, by the terminal device, a random access occasion corresponding to the SS/PBCH block based on the configuration information; and sending, on the determined random access occasion, by the terminal device to the network device based on an association relationship between a paged paging group in the plurality of paging groups and a random access preamble, a random access preamble associated with a paging group in which the terminal device is located. ### Claim 2 (depends on 1) The method according to claim 1, wherein each paged paging group is associated with one random access preamble, or at least two paged paging groups share one random access preamble. ### Claim 3 (depends on 1) The method according to claim 1, wherein a quantity of random access preambles associated with paged paging groups is related to one or more of the following parameters: a quantity of random access preambles used for paging, a quantity of synchronization signal/physical broadcast channel blocks (SS/PBCH blocks) associated with one random access occasion, or a quantity of paging occasions associated with one random access occasion. ### Claim 4 (depends on 1) The method according to claim 1, wherein the paged paging group is associated with the random access preamble in a one-to-one manner, or the paged paging group is associated with the random access preamble in a cyclic reuse manner. ### Claim 5 A signal transmission method, comprising: receiving, by a terminal device, a paging indication sent by a network device, wherein the paging indication carries information about a plurality of paging groups; determining, by the terminal device, a synchronization signal/physical broadcast channel block (SS/PBCH block) corresponding to the paging indication based on configuration information sent by the network device; determining, by the terminal device, a random access occasion corresponding to the SS/PBCH block based on the configuration information; and sending, on the determined random access occasion, by the terminal device to the network device based on an association relationship between the plurality of paging groups and a random access preamble, a random access preamble associated with a paging group in which the terminal device is located. ### Claim 6 (depends on 5) The method according to claim 5, wherein each paging group is associated with one random access preamble, or at least two paging groups share one random access preamble. ### Claim 7 (depends on 5) The method according to claim 5, wherein a quantity of random access preambles associated with paging groups is related to one or more of the following parameters: a quantity of random access preambles used for paging, a quantity of synchronization signals/physical broadcast channel blocks (SS/PBCH blocks) associated with one random access occasion, or a quantity of paging occasions associated with one random access occasion. ### Claim 8 (depends on 5) The method according to claim 5, wherein the paging group is associated with the random access preamble in a one-to-one manner, or the paging group is associated with the random access preamble in a cyclic reuse manner. ### Claim 9 A signal transmission method, comprising: sending, by a network device, a paging indication to a terminal device, wherein the paging indication carries information about a plurality of paging groups; receiving, on a random access occasion, by the network device, a random access preamble associated with a paging group in which the terminal device is located, wherein the random access preamble associated with the paging group in which the terminal device is located is determined based on an association relationship between a paged paging group in the plurality of paging groups and a random access preamble, or the random access preamble associated with the paging group in which the terminal device is located is determined based on an association relationship between the plurality of paging groups and a random access preamble, and wherein the random access occasion corresponds to a synchronization signal/physical broadcast channel block (SS/PBCH block) that corresponds to the paging indication according to configuration information sent by the network device; and sending, by the network device, a paging message to the terminal device based on the random access preamble associated with the paging group in which the terminal device is located.