# US 12,113,622 B2 · Method for feedback control, UE, and network device > Agents: this data is available as JSON from the patentgrep API and MCP server — see https://patentgrep.com/llms.txt - Number: US 12,113,622 B2 - Document ID: US12113622B2 - Status: Granted - Kind: B2 - Application number: 17/514,032 - Filed: 2021-10-29 - Published: 2022-02-17 - Granted: 2024-10-08 - Earliest claimed: 2019-04-30 - Assignees: Vivo Mobile Communication Co., Ltd. - Applicants: Vivo Mobile Communication Co., Ltd. - Inventors: Wei Bao - Web page: https://patentgrep.com/patent/US12113622B2 ## CPC - H04L 1/1812: Hybrid protocols; Hybrid automatic repeat request [HARQ] - H04L 1/1854: {Scheduling and prioritising arrangements} - H04L 1/1607: Details of the supervisory signal - H04L 1/1822: involving configuration of automatic repeat request [ARQ] with parallel processes - H04L 1/1861: {Physical mapping arrangements (for ACK signaling see also H04L5/0053)} - H04L 1/1896: {ARQ related signaling} - H04W 72/1273: of downlink data flows - 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 Embodiments of this disclosure provide a method for feedback control, UE, and a network device. Specifically, the method for feedback control includes: receiving, by the UE, first downlink control information DCI from a network device, where the first DCI includes a first field, and the first field is used to indicate whether hybrid automatic repeat request acknowledgment HARQ-ACK information for at least one physical downlink shared channel PDSCH group is carried on a first uplink control channel for transmission. The first uplink control channel is indicated by the first DCI, the first field occupies M bits, M is a positive integer less than P, and P is a maximum number of PDSCH groups applicable to the UE. The method is specifically applied to a scenario in which the UE sends feedback information to the network device. ## Claims ### Claim 1 A method for feedback control, applied to user equipment (UE), wherein the method comprises: receiving first downlink control information (DCI) from a network device, wherein the first DCI comprises a first field, and the first field is used to indicate whether hybrid automatic repeat request acknowledgment (HARQ-ACK) information for at least one physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH) group is carried on a first uplink control channel for transmission; wherein the first field occupies M bits, M is a positive integer less than P, and P is a maximum number of PDSCH groups applicable to the UE; wherein M is equal to P minus 1. ### Claim 2 (depends on 1) The method according to claim 1, wherein the first DCI is further used to indicate a first PDSCH group, the first PDSCH group is indicated by one first index, each of the at least one PDSCH group is indicated by one second index, and each second index corresponds to one of the M bits; wherein, for each second index: in a case that one second index is less than the first index, a position index of a bit corresponding to the one second index is the same as the one second index; or in a case that one second index is greater than the first index, a position index of a bit corresponding to the one second index equals the one second index minus 1. ### Claim 3 (depends on 2) The method according to claim 2, wherein the first DCI further comprises a second field, the second field is used to indicate the first PDSCH group, and the second field occupies T bits; and T is determined based on P; wherein T is obtained by rounding up a floating point number of K, and K is obtained by logarithm base 2 of P; or, wherein the first PDSCH group is a PDSCH group to which a PDSCH scheduled by the first DCI belongs, and HARQ-ACK information corresponding to the first PDSCH group is carried on a PUCCH resource scheduled by the first DCI, for transmission. ### Claim 4 (depends on 1) The method according to claim 1, wherein after the receiving first DCI from a network device, the method further comprises: sending a first uplink control channel to the network device, wherein the first uplink control channel carries at least one piece of first feedback information, and each piece of first feedback information is HARQ-ACK information for one PDSCH group. ### Claim 5 (depends on 4) The method according to claim 4, wherein the method further comprises: in a case that it is detected that a preset condition is satisfied, sending a second uplink control channel to the network device, wherein the second uplink control channel carries at least one piece of second feedback information, each piece of second feedback information is HARQ-ACK information for one HARQ process, and HARQ process(es) corresponding to the at least one piece of second feedback information are all HARQ processes configured by the network device for the UE. ### Claim 6 (depends on 5) The method according to claim 5, wherein the preset condition is at least one of the following: the number of PDSCH groups that is indicated by DCI received by the UE is greater than or equal to a first threshold, the number of PDSCH groups that is indicated by the DCI received by the UE is P, the number of bits of fourth feedback information is greater than or equal to a second threshold, or the UE receives target indication information; and the fourth feedback information is HARQ-ACK information for all PDSCH groups that are indicated in the DCI received by the UE, and the target indication information is used to indicate that the UE sends HARQ-ACK information for all HARQ processes that are configured by the network device for the UE. ### Claim 7 (depends on 6) The method according to claim 6, wherein the target indication information is sent to the UE by the network device through common signaling; wherein the target indication information is indicated by one bit in the common signaling; wherein the common signaling further comprises assistance information; the assistance information is used to indicate a data transmission state of each of all the HARQ processes that are configured by the network device for the UE; and the data transmission state is a scheduled state or an unscheduled state. ### Claim 8 A method for feedback control, applied to a network device, wherein the method comprises: sending first downlink control information (DCI) to user equipment (UE), wherein the first DCI comprises a first field, and the first field is used to indicate whether hybrid automatic repeat request acknowledgment (HARQ-ACK) information for at least one physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH) group is carried on a first uplink control channel for transmission; wherein the first field occupies M bits, M is a positive integer less than P, and P is a maximum number of PDSCH groups applicable to the UE; wherein M is equal to P minus 1. ### Claim 9 (depends on 8) The method according to claim 8, wherein the first DCI is further used to indicate a first PDSCH group, the first PDSCH group is indicated by one first index, each of the at least one PDSCH group is indicated by one second index, and each second index corresponds to one of the M bits; wherein, for each second index: in a case that one second index is less than the first index, a position index of a bit corresponding to the one second index is the same as the one second index; or in a case that one second index is greater than the first index, a position index of a bit corresponding to the one second index equals the one second index minus 1. ### Claim 10 (depends on 9) The method according to claim 9, wherein the first DCI further comprises a second field, the second field is used to indicate the first PDSCH group, and the second field occupies T bits; and T is determined based on P; wherein T is obtained by rounding up a floating point number of K, and K is obtained by logarithm base 2 of P; or, wherein the first PDSCH group is a PDSCH group to which a PDSCH scheduled by the first DCI belongs, and HARQ-ACK information corresponding to the first PDSCH group is carried on a PUCCH resource scheduled by the first DCI, for transmission. ### Claim 11 (depends on 8) The method according to claim 8, wherein after the sending first DCI from UE, the method further comprises: receiving a first uplink control channel from the UE, wherein the first uplink control channel carries at least one piece of first feedback information, and each piece of first feedback information is HARQ-ACK information for one PDSCH group. ### Claim 12 (depends on 9) The method according to claim 9, wherein the method further comprises: receiving a second uplink control channel from the UE, wherein the second uplink control channel carries at least one piece of second feedback information, each piece of second feedback information is HARQ-ACK information for one HARQ process, and HARQ process(es) corresponding to the at least one piece of second feedback information are all HARQ processes configured by the network device for the UE. ### Claim 13 (depends on 12) The method according to claim 12, wherein before the receiving a second uplink control channel from the UE, the method further comprises: sending target indication information to the UE, wherein the target indication information is used to indicate that the UE sends HARQ-ACK information for all HARQ processes that are configured by the network device for the UE. ### Claim 14 (depends on 13) The method according to claim 13, wherein the target indication information is sent through common signaling; wherein the target indication information is indicated by one bit in the common signaling; wherein the common signaling further comprises assistance information; the assistance information is used to indicate a data transmission state of each of all the HARQ processes that are configured by the network device for the UE; and the data transmission state is a scheduled state or an unscheduled state. ### Claim 15 User equipment, comprising a processor, a memory, and a computer program stored in the memory and capable of running on the processor, wherein the computer program is executed by the processor to implement: receiving first downlink control information (DCI) from a network device, wherein the first DCI comprises a first field, and the first field is used to indicate whether hybrid automatic repeat request acknowledgment (HARQ-ACK) information for at least one physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH) group is carried on a first uplink control channel for transmission; wherein the first field occupies M bits, M is a positive integer less than P, and P is a maximum number of PDSCH groups applicable to the UE; wherein M is equal to P minus 1. ### Claim 16 (depends on 15) The user equipment according to claim 15, wherein the first DCI is further used to indicate a first PDSCH group, the first PDSCH group is indicated by one first index, each of the at least one PDSCH group is indicated by one second index, and each second index corresponds to one of the M bits; wherein, for each second index: in a case that one second index is less than the first index, a position index of a bit corresponding to the one second index is the same as the one second index; or in a case that one second index is greater than the first index, a position index of a bit corresponding to the one second index equals the one second index minus 1. ### Claim 17 (depends on 16) The user equipment according to claim 16, wherein the first DCI further comprises a second field, the second field is used to indicate the first PDSCH group, and the second field occupies T bits; and T is determined based on P; wherein T is obtained by rounding up a floating point number of K, and K is obtained by logarithm base 2 of P; or, wherein the first PDSCH group is a PDSCH group to which a PDSCH scheduled by the first DCI belongs, and HARQ-ACK information corresponding to the first PDSCH group is carried on a PUCCH resource scheduled by the first DCI, for transmission. ### Claim 18 (depends on 15) The user equipment according to claim 15, wherein after the receiving first DCI from a network device, wherein the computer program is further executed by the processor to implement: sending a first uplink control channel to the network device, wherein the first uplink control channel carries at least one piece of first feedback information, and each piece of first feedback information is HARQ-ACK information for one PDSCH group. ### Claim 19 (depends on 18) The user equipment according to claim 18, wherein the computer program is further executed by the processor to implement: in a case that it is detected that a preset condition is satisfied, sending a second uplink control channel to the network device, wherein the second uplink control channel carries at least one piece of second feedback information, each piece of second feedback information is HARQ-ACK information for one HARQ process, and HARQ process(es) corresponding to the at least one piece of second feedback information are all HARQ processes configured by the network device for the UE. ### Claim 20 (depends on 19) The user equipment according to claim 19, wherein the preset condition is at least one of the following: the number of PDSCH groups that is indicated by DCI received by the UE is greater than or equal to a first threshold, the number of PDSCH groups that is indicated by the DCI received by the UE is P, the number of bits of fourth feedback information is greater than or equal to a second threshold, or the UE receives target indication information; and the fourth feedback information is HARQ-ACK information for all PDSCH groups that are indicated in the DCI received by the UE, and the target indication information is used to indicate that the UE sends HARQ-ACK information for all HARQ processes that are configured by the network device for the UE.