# US 12,184,564 B2 · Method for determining downlink control information type, and apparatus

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- Number: US 12,184,564 B2
- Document ID: US12184564B2
- Status: Granted
- Kind: B2
- Application number: 17/682,525
- Filed: 2022-02-28
- Published: 2022-06-16
- Granted: 2024-12-31
- Earliest claimed: 2019-11-08
- Assignees: Guangdong Oppo Mobile Telecommunications Corp., Ltd.
- Applicants: Guangdong Oppo Mobile Telecommunications Corp., Ltd.
- Inventors: Weijie Xu
- Web page: https://patentgrep.com/patent/US12184564B2

## CPC

- H04L 5/0032: {Distributed allocation, i.e. involving a plurality of allocating devices, each making partial allocation}
- H04L 5/0091: {Signalling for the administration of the divided path, e.g. signalling of configuration information}
- H04L 1/1671: {the supervisory signal being transmitted together with control information}
- H04L 5/0094: {Indication of how sub-channels of the path are allocated}
- H04L 1/1822: involving configuration of automatic repeat request [ARQ] with parallel processes
- H04L 1/1896: {ARQ related signaling}
- H04L 5/001: {the frequencies being arranged in component carriers}
- H04W 52/0229: {where the received signal is a wanted signal}
- H04W 76/15: Setup of multiple wireless link connections
- 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

The present application provides a method for determining a downlink control information type and an apparatus. The method comprises: a terminal apparatus receiving DCI; the terminal apparatus determining a type of the DCI according to a bit value of a first bit field in the DCI, and/or the terminal apparatus determining the type of the DCI according to a radio network temporary identity (RNTI) used to scramble a cyclic redundancy check (CRC) portion of the DCI, wherein the DCI comprises a first type of DCI and a second type of DCI, the first type of DCI is used to schedule data and instruct the terminal apparatus to operate in a dormant bandwidth part (BWP) or a non-dormant BWP on a secondary cell, and the second type of DCI is used to instruct the terminal apparatus to operate in a dormant BWP or a non-dormant BWP on the secondary cell.

## Claims

### Claim 1

A method for determining a downlink control information type, comprising:
receiving, by a terminal device, downlink control information (DCI); and
determining, by the terminal device, a type of the DCI according to a bit value of a first bit field in the DCI, and/or determining, by the terminal device, the type of the DCI according to a radio network tempory identity (RNTI) used for scrambling a cyclic redundancy check (CRC) of the DCI;
wherein the DCI is a first type of DCI and a second type of DCI, the first type of DCI is used for scheduling data and indicating that the terminal device operates on a dormant bandwidth part (BWP) or a non-dormant BWP in a secondary cell, and the second type of DCI is used for indicating that the terminal device operates on the dormant BWP or the non-dormant BWP in the secondary cell.

### Claim 2 (depends on 1)

The method according to claim 1, wherein the first bit field comprises at least one of the following: a frequency domain resource assignment field, a time domain resource assignment field, and a hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) process number field.

### Claim 3 (depends on 2)

The method according to claim 2, wherein the first bit field is the time domain resource assignment field, the determining, by the terminal device, the type of the DCI according to the bit value of the first bit field in the DCI comprises:
determining, by the terminal device, the DCI is the first type of DCI, if a bit value of the time domain resource assignment field is a first value; and/or
determining, by the terminal device, the DCI is the second type of DCI, if the bit value of the time domain resource assignment field is a second value.

### Claim 4 (depends on 2)

The method according to claim 2, wherein the first bit field is the frequency domain resource assignment field, and the determining, by the terminal device, the type of the DCI according to the bit value of the first bit field in the DCI comprises:
determining, by the terminal device, the DCI is the second type of DCI, if all bit values of the frequency domain resource assignment field are 0.

### Claim 5 (depends on 2)

The method according to claim 2, wherein the first bit field is the HARQ process number field, and the determining, by the terminal device, the type of the DCI according to the bit value of the first bit field in the DCI comprises:
determining, by the terminal device, the DCI is the first type of DCI, if a bit value of the HARQ process number field is a third value; and/or,
determining, by the terminal device, the DCI is the second type of DCI, if the bit value of the HARQ process number field is a fourth value.

### Claim 6

A method for determining a downlink control information type, comprising:
sending, by a network device, downlink control information (DCI), wherein the DCI comprises a first bit field, and a bit value of the first bit field is used for indicating a type of the DCI, and/or a radio network tempory identity (RNTI) used for scrambling a cyclic redundancy check (CRC) of the DCI is used for indicating the type of the DCI;
wherein the DCI is a first type of DCI and a second type of DCI, the first type of DCI is used for scheduling data and indicating that a terminal device operates on a dormant bandwidth part (BWP) or a non-dormant BWP in a secondary cell, and the second type of DCI is used for indicating that the terminal device operates on the dormant BWP or the non-dormant BWP in the secondary cell.

### Claim 7 (depends on 6)

The method according to claim 6, wherein the first bit field comprises at least one of the following: a frequency domain resource assignment field, a time domain resource assignment field, and a hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) process number field.

### Claim 8 (depends on 7)

The method according to claim 7, wherein a bit value of the time domain resource assignment field is used for determining target information, and the target information is used for indicating the type of the DCI, and comprises at least one of the following information: k0, k2, information of a time domain resource assignment table that needs to be read by the terminal device, L, S;
wherein k0 represents a slot interval between a slot where the DCI is located and a slot of a physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH) scheduled by the DCI, and k2 represents a slot interval between the slot where the DCI is located and a slot of a physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH) scheduled by the DCI, L represents a number of symbols assigned by a time domain resource, and S represents a starting position of a time domain symbol used by the PDSCH or the PUSCH scheduled by the DCI.

### Claim 9 (depends on 8)

The method according to claim 8, wherein an index number of a row in the time domain resource assignment table that needs to be read by the terminal device exceeding a range of index numbers that a configured time domain resource assignment table is capable of providing is used for indicating the DCI is the second type of DCI; and/or
k0 in the time domain resource assignment table that needs to be read by the terminal device being infinite or an invalid value or k0 being not configured by the time domain resource assignment table is used for indicating the DCI is the second type of DCI; and/or
k2 in the time domain resource assignment table that needs to be read by the terminal device being infinite or an invalid value or k2 being not configured by the time domain resource assignment table is used for indicating the DCI is the second type of DCI.

### Claim 10 (depends on 7)

The method according to claim 7, wherein all bit values of the frequency domain resource assignment field being 0 is used for indicating the DCI is the second type of DCI.

### Claim 11

A terminal device, comprising a processor and a memory, wherein the memory is configured to store a computer program, and the processor is configured to call and run the computer program stored in the memory, and perform:
receiving downlink control information (DCI); and
determining a type of the DCI according to a bit value of a first bit field in the DCI, and/or determining the type of the DCI according to a radio network tempory identity (RNTI) used for scrambling a cyclic redundancy check (CRC) of the DCI;
wherein the DCI is a first type of DCI and a second type of DCI, the first type of DCI is used for scheduling data and indicating that the terminal device operates on a dormant bandwidth part (BWP) or a non-dormant BWP in a secondary cell, and the second type of DCI is used for indicating that the terminal device operates on the dormant BWP or the non-dormant BWP in the secondary cell.

### Claim 12 (depends on 11)

The terminal device according to claim 11, wherein the first bit field comprises at least one of the following: a frequency domain resource assignment field, a time domain resource assignment field, and a hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) process number field.

### Claim 13 (depends on 12)

The terminal device according to claim 12, wherein the first bit field is the time domain resource assignment field, and the processor is configured to:
determine target information, according to a bit value of the time domain resource assignment field; and
determine the type of the DCI according to the target information, wherein the target information comprises at least one of the following information: k0, k2, information of a time domain resource assignment table that needs to be read by the terminal device, L, S;
wherein k0 represents a slot interval between a slot where the DCI is located and a slot of a physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH) scheduled by the DCI, and k2 represents a slot interval between the slot where the DCI is located and a slot of a physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH) scheduled by the DCI, L represents a number of symbols assigned by a time domain resource, and S represents a starting position of a time domain symbol used by the PDSCH or the PUSCH scheduled by the DCI.

### Claim 14 (depends on 13)

The terminal device according to claim 13, wherein the target information is k0, and the processor is configured to:
determine the DCI is the second type of DCI, if k0 is infinity or an invalid value or k0 is not configured.

### Claim 15 (depends on 12)

The terminal device according to claim 12, wherein the first bit field is the frequency domain resource assignment field, and the processor is configured to:
determine the DCI is the second type of DCI, if all bit values of the frequency domain resource assignment field are 0.

### Claim 16

A network device comprising a processor and a memory, wherein the memory is configured to store a computer program, and the processor is configured to call and run the computer program stored in the memory, and execute a method for determining a downlink control information type, the method comprising:
sending downlink control information (DCI), wherein the DCI comprises a first bit field, and a bit value of the first bit field is used for indicating a type of the DCI, and/or a radio network tempory identity (RNTI) used for scrambling a cyclic redundancy check (CRC) of the DCI is used for indicating the type of the DCI;
wherein the DCI is a first type of DCI and a second type of DCI, the first type of DCI is used for scheduling data and indicating that a terminal device operates on a dormant bandwidth part (BWP) or a non-dormant BWP in a secondary cell, and the second type of DCI is used for indicating that the terminal device operates on the dormant BWP or the non-dormant BWP in the secondary cell.

### Claim 17 (depends on 16)

The network device according to claim 16, wherein the first bit field comprises at least one of the following: a frequency domain resource assignment field, a time domain resource assignment field, and a hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) process number field.

### Claim 18 (depends on 17)

The network device according to claim 17, wherein all bit values of the frequency domain resource assignment field being 0 is used for indicating the DCI is the second type of DCI.

### Claim 19 (depends on 17)

The network device according to claim 17, wherein a bit value of the HARQ process number field being a third value is used for indicating that the DCI is the first type of DCI; and/or, the bit value of the HARQ process number field being a fourth value is used for indicating the DCI is the second type of DCI.

### Claim 20 (depends on 16)

The network device according to claim 16, wherein the RNTI used for scrambling the CRC of the DCI being a first RNTI is used for indicating that the DCI is the first type of DCI; and
the RNTI used for scrambling the CRC of the DCI being a second RNTI is used for indicating the DCI is the second type of DCI, wherein the first RNTI is different from the second RNTI.