# US 12,016,027 B2 · Consolidated feedback indication and feedback transmission

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- Number: US 12,016,027 B2
- Document ID: US12016027B2
- Status: Granted
- Kind: B2
- Application number: 17/182,969
- Filed: 2021-02-23
- Published: 2021-08-26
- Granted: 2024-06-18
- Earliest claimed: 2020-02-25
- Assignees: QUALCOMM Incorporated
- Applicants: QUALCOMM Incorporated
- Inventors: Yan Zhou; Tao Luo; Jelena Damnjanovic; Iyab Issam Sakhnini; Mahmoud Taherzadeh Boroujeni; Juan Montojo
- Web page: https://patentgrep.com/patent/US12016027B2

## CPC

- H04L 1/1614: {using bitmaps}
- H04W 72/23: in the downlink direction of a wireless link, i.e. towards a terminal
- H04L 1/1812: Hybrid protocols; Hybrid automatic repeat request [HARQ]
- H04L 1/1854: {Scheduling and prioritising arrangements}
- H04L 1/1861: {Physical mapping arrangements (for ACK signaling see also H04L5/0053)}
- H04L 1/1864: {ARQ related signaling (H04L1/1607 takes precedence)}
- H04L 1/1887: {Scheduling and prioritising arrangements}
- 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

Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may receive, in a downlink control information, a bit map identifying a plurality of feedback indicators for a plurality of uplink transmissions, wherein the plurality of feedback indicators includes more than one acknowledgment and/or negative acknowledgment; and retransmit one or more of the plurality of uplink transmissions based at least in part on receiving the bit map identifying the plurality of feedback indicators. Numerous other aspects are provided.

## Claims

### Claim 1

A method of wireless communication performed by a user equipment (UE), comprising:
transmitting a plurality of uplink transmissions associated with a plurality of uplink transmission occasions;
receiving a single downlink control information identifying a failure associated with the plurality of uplink transmissions, wherein the single downlink control information includes a scheduling information corresponding to the plurality of uplink transmission occasions; and
retransmitting the plurality of uplink transmissions using one or more subsequent uplink transmissions based at least in part on the received single downlink control information, wherein the plurality of uplink transmissions is associated with a greater resource allocation than the one or more subsequent uplink transmissions.

### Claim 2 (depends on 1)

The method of claim 1, wherein the plurality of uplink transmissions associated with the plurality of uplink transmission occasions is a plurality of physical uplink shared channel transmissions associated with a plurality of physical uplink shared channel occasions.

### Claim 3 (depends on 1)

The method of claim 1, wherein the one or more subsequent uplink transmissions correspond to a next configured grant occasion.

### Claim 4 (depends on 1)

The method of claim 1, wherein the one or more subsequent uplink transmissions correspond to a next configured grant occasion associated with one of a subset of configured grant configuration identifiers.

### Claim 5 (depends on 4)

The method of claim 4, wherein the subset of configured grant configuration identifiers includes one or more configured grant configuration identifiers of the plurality of uplink transmissions.

### Claim 6 (depends on 4)

The method of claim 4, wherein the subset of configured grant configuration identifiers excludes one or more configured grant configuration identifiers of the plurality of uplink transmissions.

### Claim 7 (depends on 1)

The method of claim 1, wherein the single downlink control information comprises a feedback message, and
further comprising:
receiving the feedback message with one or more bits identifying the failure, wherein the feedback message does not include a set of operation parameters for the one or more subsequent uplink transmissions.

### Claim 8 (depends on 1)

The method of claim 1, wherein the single downlink control information comprises a feedback message; and
further comprising:
receiving the feedback message with one or more bits identifying the failure, wherein the feedback message includes a set of operation parameters for the one or more subsequent uplink transmissions.

### Claim 9 (depends on 1)

The method of claim 1, wherein the retransmitting the plurality of uplink transmissions using the one or more subsequent uplink transmissions comprises:
scaling a configured grant resource allocation of the one or more subsequent uplink transmissions to accommodate the plurality of uplink transmissions.

### Claim 10 (depends on 1)

The method of claim 1, wherein the retransmitting the plurality of uplink transmissions using the one or more subsequent uplink transmissions comprises:
increasing a modulation and coding scheme of the one or more subsequent uplink transmissions to accommodate the plurality of uplink transmissions.

### Claim 11 (depends on 1)

The method of claim 1, wherein the single downlink control information includes one or more bits identifying the failure, and wherein the single downlink control information includes a dynamic grant for retransmission of one or more failed transport blocks or code block groups.

### Claim 12 (depends on 11)

The method of claim 11, further comprising:
selecting whether to transmit using a configured grant or the dynamic grant based at least in part on an order of the configured grant and the dynamic grant.

### Claim 13 (depends on 1)

The method of claim 1, wherein the single downlink control information includes one or more bits identifying the failure.

### Claim 14

A user equipment (UE) for wireless communication, comprising:
a memory; and
one or more processors coupled to the memory, the one or more processors configured to:
transmit a plurality of uplink transmissions associated with a plurality of uplink transmission occasions;
receive a single downlink control information identifying a failure associated with the plurality of uplink transmissions, wherein the single downlink control information includes a scheduling information corresponding to the plurality of uplink transmission occasions; and
retransmit the plurality of uplink transmissions using one or more subsequent uplink transmissions based at least in part on the received single downlink control information, wherein the plurality of uplink transmissions is associated with a greater resource allocation than the one or more subsequent uplink transmissions.

### Claim 15 (depends on 14)

The UE of claim 14, wherein the single downlink control information comprises a feedback message, and wherein the one or more processors are further configured to:
receive the feedback message with one or more bits identifying the failure, wherein the feedback message does not include a set of operation parameters for the one or more subsequent uplink transmissions.

### Claim 16 (depends on 14)

The UE of claim 14, wherein the single downlink control information comprises a feedback message, and wherein the one or more processors are further configured to:
receive the feedback message with one or more bits identifying the failure, wherein the feedback message includes one or more operation parameters for the one or more subsequent uplink transmissions; and
use the one or more operation parameters for the one or more subsequent uplink transmissions.

### Claim 17 (depends on 14)

The UE of claim 14, wherein the one or more processors are configured to retransmit the plurality of uplink transmissions using the one or more subsequent uplink transmissions by:
scaling a configured grant resource allocation of the one or more subsequent uplink transmissions to accommodate the plurality of uplink transmissions.

### Claim 18 (depends on 14)

The UE of claim 14, wherein the one or more processors are configured to retransmit the plurality of uplink transmissions using the one or more subsequent uplink transmissions by:
increasing a modulation and coding scheme of the one or more subsequent uplink transmissions to accommodate the plurality of uplink transmissions.

### Claim 19 (depends on 14)

The UE of claim 14, wherein the single downlink control information includes one or more bits identifying the failure, and wherein the single downlink control information includes a dynamic grant for retransmission of one or more failed transport blocks or code block groups.

### Claim 20 (depends on 19)

The UE of claim 19, wherein the one or more processors are configured to:
select whether to transmit using a configured grant or the dynamic grant based at least in part on an order of the configured grant and the dynamic grant.

### Claim 21

A non-transitory computer-readable medium storing a set of instructions for wireless communication, the set of instructions comprising:
one or more instructions that, when executed by one or more processors of a device, cause the one or more processors to:
transmit a plurality of uplink transmissions associated with a plurality of uplink transmission occasions;
receive a single downlink control information identifying a failure associated with the plurality of uplink transmissions, wherein the single downlink control information includes a scheduling information corresponding to the plurality of uplink transmission occasions; and
retransmit the plurality of uplink transmissions using one or more subsequent uplink transmissions based at least in part on the received single downlink control information, wherein the plurality of uplink transmissions is associated with a greater resource allocation than the one or more subsequent uplink transmissions.

### Claim 22 (depends on 21)

The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 21, wherein the plurality of uplink transmissions associated with the plurality of uplink transmission occasions is a plurality of physical uplink shared channel transmissions associated with a plurality of physical uplink shared channel occasions.

### Claim 23 (depends on 21)

The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 21, wherein the single downlink control information comprises a feedback message, and wherein the one or more instructions, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to:
receive the feedback message with one or more bits identifying the failure, wherein the feedback message does not include a set of operation parameters for the one or more subsequent uplink transmissions.

### Claim 24 (depends on 21)

The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 21, wherein the single downlink control information comprises a feedback message, and wherein the one or more instructions, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to:
receive the feedback message with one or more bits identifying the failure, wherein the feedback message includes one or more operation parameters for the one or more subsequent uplink transmissions; and
use the one or more operation parameters for the one or more subsequent uplink transmissions.

### Claim 25 (depends on 21)

The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 21, wherein the one or more instructions, when executed by the one or more processors, further cause the one or more processors to:
split the plurality of uplink transmissions into a first subset of information for transmission using a first uplink transmission and a second subset of information for transmission using a second uplink transmission.

### Claim 26

An apparatus for wireless communication, comprising:
means for transmitting a plurality of uplink transmissions associated with a plurality of uplink transmission occasions;
means for receiving a single downlink control information identifying a failure associated with the plurality of uplink transmissions, wherein the single downlink control information includes a scheduling information corresponding to the plurality of uplink transmission occasions; and
means for retransmitting the plurality of uplink transmissions using one or more subsequent uplink transmissions based at least in part on the received single downlink control information, wherein the plurality of uplink transmissions is associated with a greater resource allocation than the one or more subsequent uplink transmissions.

### Claim 27 (depends on 26)

The apparatus of claim 26, wherein the plurality of uplink transmissions associated with the plurality of uplink transmission occasions is a plurality of physical uplink shared channel transmissions associated with a plurality of physical uplink shared channel occasions.

### Claim 28 (depends on 27)

The apparatus of claim 27, wherein at least one physical uplink shared channel occasion of the plurality of physical uplink shared channel occasions includes a plurality of transport blocks or a plurality of code block groups in each transport block.

### Claim 29 (depends on 26)

The apparatus of claim 26, wherein the single downlink control information comprises a feedback message, and wherein the apparatus comprises:
means for receiving the feedback message with one or more bits identifying the failure, wherein the feedback message includes one or more operation parameters for the one or more subsequent uplink transmissions.

### Claim 30 (depends on 26)

The apparatus of claim 26, further comprising:
means for increasing a modulation and coding scheme of the one or more subsequent uplink transmissions to accommodate the plurality of uplink transmissions.
