# US 12,114,346 B2 · Method and apparatus for uplink information transmission and user equipment

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- Number: US 12,114,346 B2
- Document ID: US12114346B2
- Status: Granted
- Kind: B2
- Application number: 17/582,166
- Filed: 2022-01-24
- Published: 2022-06-16
- Granted: 2024-10-08
- Earliest claimed: 2019-09-19
- Assignees: Guangdong Oppo Mobile Telecommunications Corp., Ltd.
- Applicants: Guangdong Oppo Mobile Telecommunications Corp., Ltd.
- Inventors: Li Guo
- Web page: https://patentgrep.com/patent/US12114346B2

## CPC

- H04L 1/1854: {Scheduling and prioritising arrangements}
- H04W 72/566: of the information or information source or recipient
- H04L 5/0053: {Allocation of signalling, i.e. of overhead other than pilot signals}
- H04L 5/0055: {Physical resource allocation for ACK/NACK (for physical mapping arrangements in ARQ protocols H04L1/1861)}
- H04W 72/21: in the uplink direction of a wireless link, i.e. towards the network
- H04L 1/1861: {Physical mapping arrangements (for ACK signaling see also H04L5/0053)}
- H04L 5/0064: {Rate requirement of the data, e.g. scalable bandwidth, data priority}
- H04W 16/28: using beam steering
- H04W 72/569: {of the traffic information}
- H04W 76/19: Connection re-establishment
- 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

Disclosed is a method and apparatus for uplink information transmission. In the method, a user equipment (UE) determines a priority rule and transmits at least one of first uplink information or second uplink information based on the priority rule, the first uplink information includes a first scheduling request (SR) that is dedicatedly configured for serving cell (SCell) beam failure recovery.

## Claims

### Claim 1

A method for uplink information transmission, comprising:
determining, by a user equipment (UE), a priority rule; and
transmitting, by the UE, at least one of first uplink information or second uplink information based on the priority rule,
wherein the first uplink information comprises a first scheduling request (SR) that is dedicatedly configured for serving cell (SCell) beam failure recovery; wherein a transmission resource for target information and transmission resources for K SRs have an overlapping portion, the K SRs include: at least the first SR, at least one second SR, at least one third SR, or any combination thereof, K is a positive integer, and
wherein the transmitting, by the UE, at least one of first uplink information or second uplink information based on the priority rule comprises:
appending, by the UE, ┌log2(K+1)┐-bit SR information to O-bit target information, to obtain 0+┌log2(K+1)┐-bit uplink information; and
transmitting, by the UE, the 0+┌log2(K+1)┐-bit uplink information on the second PUCCH,
wherein the second PUCCH is a PUCCH configured for the target information, and the second PUCCH uses PUCCH format 2/3/4;
wherein the target information is HARQ-ACK information, and the O-bit target information is OHARQ-bit HARQ-ACK information; or, the target information is CSI information, and the O-bit target information is OCSI-bit CSI information, where OHARQ is the number of HARQ-ACK information bits and where OCST is the number of CSI information bits.

### Claim 2 (depends on 1)

The method according to claim 1, wherein the second uplink information comprises at least one of the following:
a second SR for enhanced mobile broadband (eMBB);
a first hybrid automatic repeat request-acknowledgement (HARQ-ACK) for eMBB;
a third SR for ultra reliable low latency communication (URLLC); or
a second HARQ-ACK for URLLC.

### Claim 3 (depends on 2)

The method according to claim 2, wherein the priority rule is used for indicating that:
a priority of the first SR is higher than a priority of the third SR,
the priority of the third SR is higher than a priority of the second HARQ-ACK,
the priority of the second HARQ-ACK is higher than a priority of the first HARQ-ACK, and
the priority of the first HARQ-ACK is higher than a priority of the second SR,
or, wherein the priority rule is used for indicating that:
a priority of the third SR is higher than a priority of the first SR,
the priority of the first SR is higher than a priority of the second HARQ-ACK,
the priority of the second HARQ-ACK is higher than a priority of the first HARQ-ACK, and
the priority of the first HARQ-ACK is higher than a priority of the second SR,
or, wherein the priority rule is used for indicating that:
a priority of the third SR is higher than a priority of the second HARQ-ACK,
the priority of the second HARQ-ACK is higher than a priority of the first SR,
the priority of the first SR is higher than a priority of the first HARQ-ACK, and
the priority of the first HARQ-ACK is higher than a priority of the second SR,
or, wherein the priority rule is used for indicating that:
a priority of the third SR is higher than a priority of the second HARQ-ACK,
the priority of the second HARQ-ACK is higher than a priority of the first HARQ-ACK,
the priority of the first HARQ-ACK is higher than a priority of the first SR, and
the priority of the first SR is higher than a priority of the second SR,
or, wherein the priority rule is used for indicating that:
a priority of the first SR is higher than a priority of the second HARQ-ACK,
the priority of the second HARQ-ACK is higher than a priority of the third SR,
the priority of the third SR is higher than a priority of the first HARQ-ACK, and
the priority of the first HARQ-ACK is higher than a priority of the second SR,
or, wherein the priority rule is used for indicating that:
a priority of the second HARQ-ACK is higher than a priority of the first SR,
the priority of the first SR is higher than a priority of the third SR,
the priority of the third SR is higher than a priority of the first HARQ-ACK, and
the priority of the first HARQ-ACK is higher than a priority of the second SR,
or, wherein the priority rule is used for indicating that:
a priority of the second HARQ-ACK is higher than a priority of the third SR,
the priority of the third SR is higher than a priority of the first SR,
the priority of the first SR is higher than a priority of the first HARQ-ACK, and
the priority of the first HARQ-ACK is higher than a priority of the second SR,
or, wherein the priority rule is used for indicating that:
a priority of the second HARQ-ACK is higher than a priority of the third SR,
the priority of the third SR is higher than a priority of the first HARQ-ACK,
the priority of the first HARQ-ACK is higher than a priority of the first SR, and
the priority of the first SR is higher than a priority of the second SR.

### Claim 4 (depends on 2)

The method according to claim 2, wherein a priority of the first SR is lower than a priority of the third SR and a priority of the second HARQ-ACK, and the priority of the first SR is higher than a priority of the second SR and the priority of the first HARQ-ACK, and
a first physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) for carrying the first SR and a second PUCCH for carrying HARQ-ACK information have an overlapping portion within one time slot, and
wherein the transmitting, by the UE, at least one of first uplink information or second uplink information based on the priority rule comprises:
if the second PUCCH uses PUCCH format 0, transmitting, by the UE, at least one of the first SR or the HARQ-ACK information according to a first transmission mode; or,
if the second PUCCH uses PUCCH format 1, transmitting, by the UE, at least one of the first SR or the HARQ-ACK information according to a second transmission mode.

### Claim 5 (depends on 4)

The method according to claim 4, wherein the HARQ-ACK information is of a type of the first HARQ-ACK or the second HARQ-ACK, and
wherein the transmitting, by the UE, at least one of the first SR or the HARQ-ACK information according to the first transmission mode comprises:
if the first SR is a positive SR, transmitting, by the UE, the PUCCH in a resource using PUCCH format 0 in one or more physical resource blocks (PRBs) for HARQ-ACK information; or,
if the first SR is a negative SR, transmitting, by the UE, the PUCCH in a resource using PUCCH format 0 for the HARQ-ACK information as configured.

### Claim 6 (depends on 4)

The method according to claim 4, wherein the HARQ-ACK information is of a type of the first HARQ-ACK, and
the transmitting, by the UE, at least one of the first SR or the HARQ-ACK information according to the first transmission mode comprises:
if the first SR is a positive SR, transmitting, by the UE, the first SR on the first PUCCH; or,
if the first SR is a negative SR, transmitting, by the UE, the HARQ-ACK information on the second PUCCH.

### Claim 7 (depends on 4)

The method according to claim 4, wherein the HARQ-ACK information is of a type of the second HARQ-ACK, and
wherein transmitting, by the UE, at least one of the first SR or the HARQ-ACK information according to the second transmission mode comprises:
if the first PUCCH uses PUCCH format 0, transmitting, by the UE, the HARQ-ACK information on the second PUCCH; or,
if the first PUCCH uses PUCCH format 1, and the first SR is a positive SR, transmitting, by the UE, the HARQ-ACK information on the first PUCCH; or,
if the first PUCCH uses PUCCH format 1, and the first SR is a negative SR, transmitting, by the UE, the HARQ-ACK information on the second PUCCH.

### Claim 8 (depends on 4)

The method according to claim 4, wherein the HARQ-ACK information is of a type of the first HARQ-ACK, and
wherein transmitting, by the UE, at least one of the first SR or the HARQ-ACK information according to the second transmission mode comprises:
if the first SR is a positive SR, and the first PUCCH uses PUCCH format 0, transmitting, by the UE, the first SR on the first PUCCH; or
if the first SR is a positive SR, and the first PUCCH uses PUCCH format 1, transmitting, by the UE, the HARQ-ACK information on the first PUCCH; or, if the first SR is a negative SR, transmitting, by the UE, the HARQ-ACK information on the second PUCCH.

### Claim 9 (depends on 2)

The method according to claim 2, wherein a priority of the first SR is lower than a priority of the third SR; and the priority of the first SR is higher than a priority of the second SR,
a transmission opportunity for carrying the third SR and a transmission opportunity for carrying the first SR have overlapping parts within one slot or one sub-slot, and
wherein the transmitting, by the UE, at least one of first uplink information or second uplink information based on the priority rule comprises:
if the third SR is a positive SR, discarding, by the UE, the first SR; or,
if the third SR is a negative SR and the first SR is a positive SR, transmitting, by the UE, the first SR.

### Claim 10 (depends on 2)

The method according to claim 2, wherein a priority of the first SR is lower than a priority of the third SR; and the priority of the first SR is higher than a priority of a second SR,
a transmission opportunity for carrying the second SR and a transmission opportunity for carrying the first SR have overlapping parts in one time slot or one sub-slot, and
wherein the transmitting, by the UE, at least one of first uplink information or second uplink information based on the priority rule comprises:
if the first SR is a positive SR, discarding, by the UE, the second SR; or,
if the first SR is a negative SR and the second SR is a positive SR, transmitting, by the UE, the second SR.

### Claim 11 (depends on 2)

The method according to claim 2, wherein a priority of the first SR is lower than a priority of the third SR; and the priority of the first SR is higher than a priority of the second SR, and
wherein the transmitting, by the UE, at least one of first uplink information or second uplink information based on the priority rule comprises:
if the third SR is a positive SR, reporting, by the UE, the third SR, and not reporting the first SR.

### Claim 12 (depends on 11)

The method according to claim 11, wherein the PUCCH for carrying HARQ-ACK information, a transmission opportunity for carrying the first SR, and a transmission opportunity for carrying the third SR have an overlapping portion, and the PUCCH for carrying HARQ-ACK information uses PUCCH format 2/3/4.

### Claim 13 (depends on 2)

The method according to claim 2, wherein a priority of the first SR is lower than a priority of the third SR, and a priority of the first SR is higher than a priority of the second SR, and
wherein the transmitting, by the UE, at least one of first uplink information or second uplink information based on the priority rule comprises:
if the first SR is a positive SR, reporting, by the UE, the first SR, and not reporting the second SR.

### Claim 14 (depends on 1)

The method according to claim 1, wherein a transmission resource for target information, K1 transmission resources for the first SR, K2 transmission resources for the second SR, and K3 transmission resources for the third SR have an overlapping portion, K1, K2, and K3 are positive integers, and
wherein the transmitting, by the UE, at least one of first uplink information or second uplink information based on the priority rule comprises:
appending, by the UE, ┌log2(K1+1┐-bit first SR information, ┌log 2(K2+1┐-bit second SR information, and ┌log2(K3+1┐-bit third SR information to the O-bit target information, to obtain ┌log2(K1+1)┐+┌log2(K2+1)┐+┌log2 (K3+1)┐+O-bit uplink information; and
transmitting, by the UE, the ┌log2(K1+1)┐+┌log2(K2+1)┐+┌log2(K3+1)┐+O-bit uplink information on the second PUCCH, wherein the second PUCCH is a PUCCH configured for the target information, and the second PUCCH uses PUCCH format 2/3/4.

### Claim 15

A user equipment, comprising: a processor and a memory storing a computer program, the processor is configured to call and run the computer program stored in the memory, to execute following acts:
determining a priority rule; and
transmitting at least one of first uplink information or second uplink information based on the priority rule,
wherein the first uplink information comprises a first scheduling request (SR) that is dedicatedly configured for serving cell (SCell) beam failure recovery; wherein a transmission resource for target information and transmission resources for K SRs have an overlapping portion, the K SRs include: at least the first SR, at least one second SR, at least one third SR, or any combination thereof, K is a positive integer, and
wherein the transmitting, by the UE, at least one of first uplink information or second uplink information based on the priority rule comprises:
appending, by the UE┌log2(K+1)┐-bit SRinformation toO-bit target information, to obtain 0+┌log2(K+1)┐-bit uplink information; and
transmitting, by the UE, the 0+┌log2(K+1)┐-bit uplink information on the second PUCCH,
wherein the second PUCCH is a PUCCH configured for the target information, and the second PUCCH uses PUCCH format 2/3/4;
wherein the target information is HARQ-ACK information, and the O-bit target information is OHARQ-bit HARQ-ACK information; or, the target information is CSI information, and the O-bit target information is OCSI,-bit CSI information, where OHARQ is the number of HARQ-ACK information bits and where OCSI is the number of CSI information bits.