# US 11,910,381 B2 · Multiplexing techniques for uplink transmissions > Agents: this data is available as JSON from the patentgrep API and MCP server — see https://patentgrep.com/llms.txt - Number: US 11,910,381 B2 - Document ID: US11910381B2 - Status: Granted - Kind: B2 - Application number: 17/396,256 - Filed: 2021-08-06 - Published: 2023-02-09 - Granted: 2024-02-20 - Earliest claimed: 2021-08-06 - Assignees: QUALCOMM Incorporated - Applicants: QUALCOMM Incorporated - Inventors: Iyab Issam Sakhnini; Jing Sun; Tao Luo; Xiaoxia Zhang; Ahmed Abdelaziz Ibrahim Abdelaziz Zewail - Web page: https://patentgrep.com/patent/US11910381B2 ## CPC - H04W 72/1268: of uplink data flows - H04W 72/23: in the downlink direction of a wireless link, i.e. towards a terminal - H04W 72/232: the control data signalling from the physical layer, e.g. DCI signalling - H04W: WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORKS (broadcast communication H04H; communication systems using wireless links for non-selective communication, e.g. wireless extensions H04M1/72) ## Abstract Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A user equipment (UE) may receive downlink control information (DCI) scheduling multiple physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH) resources for a set of uplink data messages. In some examples, the scheduled PUSCH resources may overlap with reserved or preconfigured uplink resources. The UE may determine, in accordance with a multiplexing configuration, a multiplexing schedule for multiplexing the scheduled PUSCH resources with the reserved or preconfigured uplink resources. The UE may transmit the set of uplink data messages on one or more of the scheduled PUSCH resources based on the multiplexing schedule. The described techniques may enable the UE to transmit the set of uplink data messages with improved reliability based on reducing a number of collisions between the set of uplink data messages and other uplink signals transmitted on the reserved or preconfigured uplink resources. ## Claims ### Claim 1 A method for wireless communications at a user equipment (UE), comprising: receiving an instance of downlink control information that schedules a first plurality of uplink resources for a plurality of uplink data messages; transmitting uplink control signaling via at least one uplink resource reserved for the uplink control signaling that overlaps with one or more uplink resources of the first plurality of uplink resources scheduled by the instance of downlink control information; and transmitting at least a subset of the plurality of uplink data messages via a second plurality of uplink resources based at least in part on a multiplexing schedule associated with a multiplexing configuration of the UE. ### Claim 2 (depends on 1) The method of claim 1, wherein transmitting at least the subset of the plurality of uplink data messages based at least in part on the multiplexing schedule comprises: refraining from transmitting uplink data messages on at least one uplink resource from the first plurality of uplink resources in accordance with the multiplexing configuration. ### Claim 3 (depends on 1) The method of claim 1, wherein transmitting at least the subset of the plurality of uplink data messages based at least in part on the multiplexing schedule comprises: identifying an alternate uplink resource for transmission of at least one uplink data message from the plurality of uplink data messages based at least in part on a time overlap between the first plurality of uplink resources and the at least one uplink resource reserved for the uplink control signaling. ### Claim 4 (depends on 3) The method of claim 3, wherein transmitting at least the subset of the plurality of uplink data messages comprises: transmitting the at least one uplink data message on the alternate uplink resource based at least in part on the multiplexing schedule. ### Claim 5 (depends on 3) The method of claim 3, wherein the multiplexing configuration comprises an indication of the alternate uplink resource. ### Claim 6 (depends on 1) The method of claim 1, wherein transmitting at least the subset of the plurality of uplink data messages based at least in part on the multiplexing schedule comprises: applying a frequency shift to at least one uplink resource from the first plurality of uplink resources based at least in part on a frequency overlap between the at least one uplink resource and the at least one uplink resource reserved for the uplink control signaling. ### Claim 7 (depends on 6) The method of claim 6, wherein transmitting at least the subset of the plurality of uplink data messages comprises: transmitting at least one uplink data message from the plurality of uplink data messages on the at least one uplink resource based at least in part on applying the frequency shift to the at least one uplink resource. ### Claim 8 (depends on 7) The method of claim 7, wherein the at least one uplink data message is frequency division multiplexed with the uplink control signaling. ### Claim 9 (depends on 6) The method of claim 6, wherein the multiplexing configuration comprises an indication to enable or disable the frequency shift, a shift amount for the frequency shift, or both. ### Claim 10 (depends on 1) The method of claim 1, further comprising: identifying one or more resource blocks or resource elements from the first plurality of uplink resources that overlap with one or more resource blocks or resource elements from the at least one uplink resource reserved for the uplink control signaling, wherein determining the multiplexing schedule is based at least in part on the identifying. ### Claim 11 (depends on 1) The method of claim 1, wherein receiving the instance of downlink control information comprises: receiving the instance of downlink control information that comprises an indication to refrain from transmitting uplink data messages on at least one uplink resource from the first plurality of uplink resources. ### Claim 12 (depends on 1) The method of claim 1, further comprising: receiving an indication of the multiplexing configuration. ### Claim 13 (depends on 1) The method of claim 1, wherein receiving the instance of downlink control information comprises: receiving instance of downlink control information that comprises an indication of a time domain resource allocation table index corresponding to the first plurality of uplink resources. ### Claim 14 (depends on 1) The method of claim 1, wherein transmitting the uplink control signaling comprises: transmitting a physical random access channel message, a physical uplink control channel message, a sounding reference signal, or a combination thereof on the at least one uplink resource reserved for the uplink control signaling. ### Claim 15 (depends on 1) The method of claim 1, wherein receiving the instance of downlink control information comprises: receiving the instance of downlink control information that schedules a plurality of physical uplink shared channel resources for a set of physical uplink shared channel messages to be transmitted by the UE. ### Claim 16 (depends on 1) The method of claim 1, wherein the first plurality of uplink resources are continuous in time. ### Claim 17 (depends on 1) The method of claim 1, wherein the first plurality of uplink resources are non-continuous in time. ### Claim 18 (depends on 1) The method of claim 1, wherein the second plurality of uplink resources comprises all of the uplink resources of the first plurality of uplink resources except for the one or more uplink resources of the first plurality of uplink resources which overlap with the at least one uplink resource reserved for the uplink signaling. ### Claim 19 A method for wireless communications at a network device, comprising: transmitting, to a user equipment (UE), an instance of downlink control information that schedules a first plurality of uplink resources for a plurality of uplink data messages; receiving uplink control signaling via at least one uplink resource reserved for the uplink control signaling that overlaps with one or more uplink resources of the first plurality of uplink resources scheduled by the instance of downlink control information; and receiving at least a subset of the plurality of uplink data messages via a second plurality of uplink resources based at least in part on a multiplexing schedule associated with a multiplexing configuration. ### Claim 20 (depends on 19) The method of claim 19, wherein at least one uplink data message of the subset of the plurality of uplink data messages is frequency division multiplexed with the uplink control signaling. ### Claim 21 (depends on 19) The method of claim 19, further comprising: transmitting an indication of the multiplexing configuration to the UE, wherein the multiplexing configuration comprises an indication to enable or disable a frequency shift for the first plurality of uplink resources, an indication of a shift amount for the frequency shift, an indication of an alternate uplink resource for the plurality of uplink data messages, or a combination thereof. ### Claim 22 (depends on 19) The method of claim 19, wherein transmitting the instance of downlink control information comprises: transmitting, to the UE, the instance of downlink control information that comprises a time domain resource allocation table index corresponding to the first plurality of uplink resources. ### Claim 23 (depends on 19) The method of claim 19, wherein transmitting the instance of downlink control information comprises: transmitting, to the UE, the instance of downlink control information that comprises an indication to refrain from transmitting uplink data messages on at least one uplink resource from the first plurality of uplink resources. ### Claim 24 (depends on 19) The method of claim 19, wherein receiving the uplink control signaling comprises: receiving a physical random access channel message, a physical uplink control channel message, a sounding reference signal, or a combination thereof from the UE on the at least one uplink resource reserved for the uplink control signaling. ### Claim 25 (depends on 19) The method of claim 19, wherein transmitting the instance of downlink control information comprises: transmitting, to the UE, the instance of downlink control information that schedules a plurality of physical uplink shared channel resources for a set of physical uplink shared channel messages to be transmitted by the UE. ### Claim 26 (depends on 19) The method of claim 19, wherein the first plurality of uplink resources are continuous in time. ### Claim 27 An apparatus for wireless communications at a user equipment (UE), comprising: a processor; memory coupled with the processor; and instructions stored in the memory and executable by the processor to cause the apparatus to: receive an instance of downlink control information that schedules a first plurality of uplink resources for a plurality of uplink data messages; transmit uplink control signaling via at least one uplink resource reserved for the uplink control signaling that overlaps with one or more uplink resources of the first plurality of uplink resources scheduled by the instance of downlink control information; and transmit at least a subset of the plurality of uplink data messages via a second plurality of uplink resources based at least in part on a multiplexing schedule associated with a multiplexing configuration of the UE. ### Claim 28 (depends on 27) The apparatus of claim 27, wherein the instructions to transmit at least the subset of the plurality of uplink data messages based at least in part on the multiplexing schedule are executable by the processor to cause the apparatus to: identify an alternate uplink resource for transmission of at least one uplink data message from the plurality of uplink data messages based at least in part on a time overlap between the first plurality of uplink resources and the at least one uplink resource reserved for the uplink control signaling. ### Claim 29 (depends on 27) The apparatus of claim 27, wherein the instructions to transmit at least the subset of the plurality of uplink data messages based at least in part on the multiplexing schedule are executable by the processor to cause the apparatus to: apply a frequency shift to at least one uplink resource from the first plurality of uplink resources based at least in part on a frequency overlap between the at least one uplink resource and the at least one uplink resource reserved for the uplink control signaling. ### Claim 30 An apparatus for wireless communications at a network device, comprising: a processor; memory coupled with the processor; and instructions stored in the memory and executable by the processor to cause the apparatus to: transmit, to a user equipment (UE), an instance of downlink control information that schedules a first plurality of uplink resources for a plurality of uplink data messages; receive uplink control signaling via at least one uplink resource reserved for the uplink control signaling that overlaps with one or more uplink resources of the first plurality of uplink resources scheduled by the instance of downlink control information; and receive at least a subset of the plurality of uplink data messages via a second plurality of uplink resources based at least in part on a multiplexing schedule associated with a multiplexing configuration.