# US 12,120,679 B2 · Information counting method and apparatus, base station, and computer storage medium

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- Number: US 12,120,679 B2
- Document ID: US12120679B2
- Status: Granted
- Kind: B2
- Application number: 17/632,282
- Filed: 2020-07-20
- Published: 2022-08-25
- Granted: 2024-10-15
- Earliest claimed: 2019-08-02
- Assignees: Zte Corporation
- Applicants: Zte Corporation
- Inventors: Wei Gou; Peng Hao; Xingguang Wei; Jing Shi
- Web page: https://patentgrep.com/patent/US12120679B2

## CPC

- H04L 1/1896: {ARQ related signaling}
- H04W 72/1273: of downlink data flows
- H04L 1/1812: Hybrid protocols; Hybrid automatic repeat request [HARQ]
- H04L 1/1854: {Scheduling and prioritising arrangements}
- H04L 5/001: {the frequencies being arranged in component carriers}
- 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 24/08: Testing, {supervising or monitoring} using real traffic
- H04W 72/0446: Resources in time domain, e.g. slots or frames
- H04W 72/20: Control channels or signalling for resource management
- H04L 5/0094: {Indication of how sub-channels of the path are allocated}
- 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 in the present application are an information counting method, an information counting apparatus, a base station, and a computer storage medium. The information counting method includes: determining multiple PDCCHs which are transmitted within one MO of a serving cell and used for scheduling multiple PDSCHs, where HARQ-ACKs of the multiple PDSCHs are transmitted in one HARQ-ACK codebook; and determining, according to an order of indexes of serving cells to which the multiple PDSCHs belong, an order of values assigned to DAI counter fields in the multiple PDCCHs corresponding to the multiple PDSCHs.

## Claims

### Claim 1

A method, comprising:
determining a plurality of physical downlink control channels (PDCCHs) which are transmitted within one monitoring occasion (MO) of a serving cell and used for scheduling a plurality of physical downlink shared channels (PDSCHs), wherein hybrid automatic repeat request acknowledgements (HARQ-ACKs) of the plurality of PDSCHs are in one HARQ-ACK codebook;
determining, according to an order of indices of serving cells to which the plurality of PDSCHs belong, values assigned to counter downlink assignment indicator (DAI counter) fields in the plurality of PDCCHs corresponding to the plurality of PDSCHs;
for PDCCHs that schedule PDSCHs in a same serving cell, determining, according to an order of time domain positions of the PDSCHs scheduled by the PDCCHs, the values assigned to DAI counter fields in the PDCCHs that schedule PDSCHs in a same serving cell; and
for PDCCHs that schedule PDSCHs in the same serving cell and with a same time domain position, determining, according to an order of indices of control resource sets (CORESETs) to which the PDCCHs belong, the values assigned to DAI counter fields in the PDCCHs that schedule the PDSCHs in the same serving cell and with the same time domain position.

### Claim 2 (depends on 1)

The method of claim 1, wherein determining, according to the order of time domain positions of the PDSCHs scheduled by the PDCCHs, the values assigned to the DAI counter fields in the PDCCHs that schedule the PDSCHs in the same serving cell, comprises:
determining, according to an ascending order of the time domain positions of the PDSCHs scheduled by the PDCCHs.

### Claim 3

An apparatus, comprising:
at least one processor configured to:
determine a plurality of physical downlink control channels (PDCCHs) which are transmitted within one monitoring occasion (MO) of a serving cell and used for scheduling a plurality of physical downlink shared channels (PDSCHs), wherein hybrid automatic repeat request acknowledgements (HARQ-ACKs) of the plurality of PDSCHs are in one HARQ-ACK codebook;
determine, according to an order of indices of serving cells to which the plurality of PDSCHs belong, values assigned to counter downlink assignment indicator (DAI counter) fields in the plurality of PDCCHs corresponding to the plurality of PDSCHs;
for PDCCHs that schedule PDSCHs in a same serving cell, determine, according to an order of time domain positions of the PDSCHs scheduled by the PDCCHs, the values assigned to DAI counter fields in the PDCCHs that schedule PDSCHs in the same serving cell; and
for PDCCHs that schedule PDSCHs in the same serving cell and with a same time domain position, determine, according to an order of indices of control resource sets (CORESETs) to which the PDCCHs belong, the values assigned to DAI counter fields in the PDCCHs that schedule the PDSCHs in the same serving cell and with the same time domain position.

### Claim 4 (depends on 3)

The apparatus of claim 3, wherein determining, according to the order of time domain positions of the PDSCHs scheduled by the PDCCHs, the values assigned to the DAI counter fields in the PDCCHs that schedule the PDSCHs in the same serving cell, comprises:
determining, according to an ascending order of the time domain positions of the PDSCHs scheduled by the PDCCHs.

### Claim 5

A method, comprising:
transmitting, by a terminal, hybrid automatic repeat request acknowledgements (HARQ-ACKs) of a plurality of physical downlink shared channels (PDSCHs) in one HARQ-ACK codebook,
wherein a plurality of physical downlink control channels (PDCCHs) are transmitted within one monitoring occasion (MO) of a serving cell and used for scheduling the plurality of PDSCHs,
wherein values assigned to counter downlink assignment indicator (DAI counter) fields in the plurality of PDCCHs corresponding to the plurality of PDSCHs, are determined according to an order of indexes of serving cells to which the plurality of PDSCHs belong,
wherein for PDCCHs that schedule PDSCHs in a same serving cell, values assigned to DAI counter fields in the PDCCHs that schedule PDSCHs in the same serving cell are determined according to an order of time domain positions of the PDSCHs scheduled by the PDCCHs, and
wherein for PDCCHs that schedule PDSCHs in the same serving cell and with a same time domain position, values assigned to the DAI counter fields in the PDCCHs that schedule PDSCHs in the same serving cell and with the same time domain position are determined according to an order of indices of control resource sets (CORESETs) to which the PDCCHs belong.

### Claim 6 (depends on 5)

The method of claim 5, wherein the values assigned to the DAI counter fields, in the PDCCHs that schedule the PDSCHs in the same serving cell, are determined according to an ascending order of the time domain positions of the PDSCHs scheduled by the PDCCHs.

### Claim 7

A terminal, comprising:
at least one processor configured to:
transmit, via a transmitter, hybrid automatic repeat request acknowledgements (HARQ-ACKs) of a plurality of physical downlink shared channels (PDSCHs) in one HARQ-ACK codebook,
wherein a plurality of physical downlink control channels (PDCCHs) are transmitted within one monitoring occasion (MO) of a serving cell and used for scheduling the plurality of PDSCHs,
wherein values assigned to counter downlink assignment indicator (DAI counter) fields in the plurality of PDCCHs corresponding to the plurality of PDSCHs, are determined according to an order of indexes of serving cells to which the plurality of PDSCHs belong,
wherein for PDCCHs that schedule PDSCHs in a same serving cell, values assigned to DAI counter fields in the PDCCHs that schedule PDSCHs in the same serving cell are determined according to an order of time domain positions of the PDSCHs scheduled by the PDCCHs, for PDCCHs that schedule PDSCHs in a same serving cell, and
wherein for PDCCHs that schedule PDSCHs in the same serving cell and with a same time domain position, values assigned to the DAI counter fields in the PDCCHs that schedule PDSCHs in the same serving cell and with the same time domain position are determined according to an order of indices of control resource sets (CORESETs) to which the PDCCHs belong.

### Claim 8 (depends on 7)

The terminal of claim 7, wherein the values assigned to the DAI counter fields, in the PDCCHs that schedule the PDSCHs in the same serving cell, are determined according to an ascending order of the time domain positions of the PDSCHs scheduled by the PDCCHs.

### Claim 9 (depends on 1)

A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing a computer program, wherein the computer program, when executed by at least one processor, causes the at least one processor to implement the method of claim 1.

### Claim 10 (depends on 2)

A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing a computer program, wherein the computer program, when executed by at least one processor, causes the at least one processor to implement the method of claim 2.

### Claim 11 (depends on 5)

A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing a computer program, wherein the computer program, when executed by at least one processor, causes the at least one processor to implement the method of claim 5.

### Claim 12 (depends on 6)

A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing a computer program, wherein the computer program, when executed by at least one processor, causes the at least one processor to implement the method of claim 6.