# US 12,184,566 B2 · Uplink skipping with multiple configured grants without LCH-based prioritization > Agents: this data is available as JSON from the patentgrep API and MCP server — see https://patentgrep.com/llms.txt - Number: US 12,184,566 B2 - Document ID: US12184566B2 - Status: Granted - Kind: B2 - Application number: 17/593,176 - Filed: 2021-01-14 - Published: 2023-06-08 - Granted: 2024-12-31 - Earliest claimed: 2021-01-14 - Assignees: Apple Inc. - Applicants: Apple Inc. - Inventors: Ralf Rossbach; Fangli Xu; Weidong Yang; Haijing Hu; Wenshu Zhang; Sigen Ye; Sarma V. Vangala - Web page: https://patentgrep.com/patent/US12184566B2 ## CPC - H04L 5/0044: {Allocation of payload; Allocation of data channels, e.g. PDSCH or PUSCH} - H04L 5/0007: {the frequencies being orthogonal, e.g. OFDM(A) or DMT} - H04L 5/0053: {Allocation of signalling, i.e. of overhead other than pilot signals} - H04W 72/21: in the uplink direction of a wireless link, i.e. towards the network - 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 A method for a user equipment (UE) includes decoding an information element (IE) MAC-CellGroupConfig, determining that a field lch-BasedPrioritization of the IE MAC-CellGroupConfig is not configured, determining that a plurality of configured grants (CGs) overlap in time domain, each of the plurality of CGs indicative of uplink resources for allocation to a corresponding one of a plurality of CG physical uplink share channels (CG-PUSCH), causing uplink control information (UCI) to be multiplexed onto a CG-PUSCH, and selecting the CG-PUSCH with multiplexed UCI for transmission. ## Claims ### Claim 1 A method for a user equipment (UE), comprising: decoding an information element (IE) MAC-CellGroupConfig; determining that a field Ich-BasedPrioritization of the IE MAC-CellGroupConfig is not configured; determining that a plurality of configured grants (CGs) overlap in time domain, each of the plurality of CGs indicative of uplink resources for allocation to a corresponding one of a plurality of CG physical uplink share channels (CG-PUSCHs); causing uplink control information (UCI) to be multiplexed onto a CG-PUSCH; and selecting the CG-PUSCH with multiplexed UCI for transmission over other CG-PUSCHs without the multiplexed UCI that correspond to CGs that overlap in the time domain without the multiplexed UCI, wherein the CG-PUSCH is selected over the other CG-PUSCHs based on the presence of the multiplexed UCI. ### Claim 2 (depends on 1) The method of claim 1, wherein the selecting comprises: selecting, from the plurality of CGs, a CG indicative of uplink resources for allocation to the CG-PUSCH with multiplexed UCI; and creating a medium access control (MAC) protocol data unit (PDU) for the CG-PUSCH with multiplexed UCI. ### Claim 3 (depends on 2) The method of claim 2, further comprising: in accordance with a determination that the CG indicative of uplink resources for allocation to the CG-PUSCH with multiplexed UCI has been selected, not creating a MAC PDU for a different CG-PUSCH than the CG-PUSCH with multiplexed UCI. ### Claim 4 (depends on 1) The method of claim 1, further comprising: determining that there is logical channel (LCH) data available for one of the plurality of CG-PUSCHs, wherein the causing the UCI to be multiplexed comprises: causing the UCI to be multiplexed onto the CG-PUSCH for which the LCH data is available. ### Claim 5 (depends on 1) The method of claim 1, further comprising: causing the selected CG-PUSCH with multiplexed UCI to be transmitted. ### Claim 6 (depends on 1) The method of claim 1, wherein the IE MAC-CellGroupConfig is derived from a message received from a network, the message selected from a group consisting of an RRCSetup message and an RRCReconfiguration message. ### Claim 7 (depends on 1) The method of claim 1, wherein the UCI comprises at least one selected from a group consisting of a hybrid automatic repeat request acknowledgement/non-acknowledgement (HARQ ACK/NACK), channel state information (CSI), a channel quality indicator (CQI), a precoding matrix indicator (PMI), and a rank indication (RI). ### Claim 8 A method for a user equipment (UE), comprising: decoding an information element (IE) MAC-CellGroupConfig; determining that a field Ich-BasedPrioritization of the IE MAC-CellGroupConfig is not configured; determining that a plurality of configured grants (CGs) overlap in time domain; and causing uplink control information (UCI) to be multiplexed onto a physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) and not onto a physical uplink share channel (PUSCH) in response to determining that the plurality of CGs overlap in the time domain. ### Claim 9 (depends on 8) The method of claim 8, further comprising: causing the PUCCH with multiplexed UCI to be transmitted. ### Claim 10 (depends on 8) The method of claim 8, wherein the IE MAC-CellGroupConfig is derived from a message received from a network, the message selected from a group consisting of an RRCSetup message and an RRCReconfiguration message. ### Claim 11 (depends on 8) The method of claim 8, wherein the UCI comprises at least one selected from a group consisting of a scheduling request (SR), a hybrid automatic repeat request acknowledgement/non-acknowledgement (HARQ ACK/NACK), channel state information (CSI), a channel quality indicator (CQI), a precoding matrix indicator (PMI), and a rank indication (RI).