# US 12,193,017 B2 · Aperiodic reporting of channel state information > Agents: this data is available as JSON from the patentgrep API and MCP server — see https://patentgrep.com/llms.txt - Number: US 12,193,017 B2 - Document ID: US12193017B2 - Status: Granted - Kind: B2 - Application number: 17/538,960 - Filed: 2021-11-30 - Published: 2022-06-30 - Granted: 2025-01-07 - Earliest claimed: 2020-12-28 - Assignees: QUALCOMM Incorporated - Applicants: QUALCOMM Incorporated - Inventors: Mostafa Khoshnevisan; Yitao Chen; Jing Sun; Xiaoxia Zhang - Web page: https://patentgrep.com/patent/US12193017B2 ## CPC - H04L 5/0051: {of dedicated pilots, i.e. pilots destined for a single user or terminal} - H04W 72/23: in the downlink direction of a wireless link, i.e. towards a terminal - H04B 7/0408: using two or more beams, i.e. beam diversity - H04B 7/0626: {Channel coefficients, e.g. channel state information [CSI]} - H04L 1/0026: {Transmission of channel quality indication} - H04L 1/0027: {Scheduling of signalling, e.g. occurrence thereof} - H04L 1/08: by repeating transmission, e.g. Verdan system {(H04L1/1858 and H04L1/189 take precedence)} - H04L 1/1864: {ARQ related signaling (H04L1/1607 takes precedence)} - H04L 1/189: {Transmission or retransmission of more than one copy of a message} - H04L 5/0048: {Allocation of pilot signals, i.e. of signals known to the receiver (allocation of control signalling H04L5/0053; use of control signalling H04L5/0091)} - 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)} - H04L 5/0057: {Physical resource allocation for CQI} - 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) - H04B: TRANSMISSION ## Abstract Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. In some wireless communications systems, a user equipment (UE) may receive signaling scheduling a first set repetitions of a first uplink shared channel transmission associated with a first sounding reference signal (SRS) resource set and a second set of repetitions of a second uplink shared channel transmission associated with a second SRS resource set. The UE may receive a request to transmit one or more channel state information (CSI) reports and an indication that the CSI reports are to be multiplexed with one of the first set of repetitions or the second set of repetitions or with both of the first and second set of repetitions. The UE may then transmit the CSI reports in accordance with the indication by multiplexing the CSI reports with one or both of the first set of repetitions and the second set of repetitions. ## Claims ### Claim 1 A method for wireless communication at a user equipment (UE), comprising: receiving, from a network entity, signaling that schedules a first set of repetitions of a first uplink shared channel transmission associated with a first sounding reference signal resource set and a second set of repetitions of a second uplink shared channel transmission associated with a second sounding reference signal resource set; receiving, from the network entity, a request that the UE is to transmit one or more channel state information reports; receiving, from the network entity, an indication that the one or more channel state information reports are to be multiplexed with one of the first set of repetitions or the second set of repetitions or with both of the first set of repetitions and the second set of repetitions; and transmitting the one or more channel state information reports in accordance with the indication. ### Claim 2 (depends on 1) The method of claim 1, further comprising: multiplexing, based at least in part on receiving the indication that the one or more channel state information reports are to be multiplexed with both of the first set of repetitions and the second set of repetitions, a first of the one or more channel state information reports with a first repetition of the first uplink shared channel transmission within the first set of repetitions, wherein the first repetition is transmitted prior to remaining repetitions within the first set of repetitions; and multiplexing a second of the one or more channel state information reports with a second repetition of the second uplink shared channel transmission within the second set of repetitions, wherein the second repetition is transmitted prior to remaining repetitions within the second set of repetitions. ### Claim 3 (depends on 2) The method of claim 2, wherein a first quantity of coded modulation symbols comprising the first of the one or more channel state information reports equals a second quantity of coded modulation symbols comprising the second of the one or more channel state information reports. ### Claim 4 (depends on 3) The method of claim 3, wherein: a first payload size of first uplink control information included in the first repetition of the first uplink shared channel transmission equals a second payload size of second uplink control information included in the second repetition of the second uplink shared channel transmission, and the first quantity of coded modulation symbols equals the second quantity of coded modulation symbols based at least in part on the first payload size being equal to the second payload size. ### Claim 5 (depends on 1) The method of claim 1, further comprising: determining that a quantity of repetitions in the first set of repetitions and the second set of repetitions is two based at least in part on an absence of a transport block associate with the first uplink shared channel transmission and the second uplink shared channel transmission and receiving the indication that the one or more channel state information reports are to be multiplexed with both of the first set of repetitions and the second set of repetitions. ### Claim 6 (depends on 2) The method of claim 2, wherein: multiplexing the first of the one or more channel state information reports with the first repetition comprises multiplexing the first of the one or more channel state information reports with a first actual repetition associated with the first repetition that is transmitted prior to any other actual repetitions associated with the first repetition, and multiplexing the second of the one or more channel state information reports with the first repetition comprises multiplexing the second of the one or more channel state information reports with a second actual repetition associated with the second repetition that is transmitted prior to any other actual repetitions associated with the second repetition. ### Claim 7 (depends on 3) The method of claim 3, further comprising: determining the first quantity based at least in part on a payload size of uplink control information included in the first repetition of the first uplink shared channel transmission; and selecting the second quantity based at least in part on determining the first quantity. ### Claim 8 (depends on 1) The method of claim 1, further comprising: multiplexing, based at least in part on receiving the indication that the one or more channel state information reports are to be multiplexed with one of the first set of repetitions or the second set of repetitions, the one or more channel state information reports with a repetition from the first set of repetitions or the second set of repetitions that is transmitted prior to remaining repetitions within the first set of repetitions and the second set of repetitions. ### Claim 9 (depends on 1) The method of claim 1, wherein transmitting the one or more channel state information reports comprises: transmitting, based at least in part on receiving the indication that the one or more channel state information reports are to be multiplexed with both of the first set of repetitions and the second set of repetitions, a first repetition of the first uplink shared channel transmission comprising a first of the one or more channel state information reports via a first transmission beam associated with the first sounding reference signal resource set; and transmitting a second repetition of the second uplink shared channel transmission comprising a second of the one or more channel state information reports via a second transmission beam associated with the second sounding reference signal resource set. ### Claim 10 (depends on 1) The method of claim 1, further comprising: receiving, from the network entity, radio resource control signaling indicating a set of possible channel state information report settings, wherein the request that the UE is to transmit the one or more channel state information reports indicates one of the set of possible channel state information report settings. ### Claim 11 (depends on 1) The method of claim 1, wherein receiving the signaling and receiving the request comprises: receiving downlink control information, wherein the downlink control information schedules the first set of repetitions and the second set of repetitions and requests that the UE is to transmit the one or more channel state information reports. ### Claim 12 (depends on 1) The method of claim 1, wherein receiving the signaling that schedules the first set of repetitions and the second set of repetitions comprises: receiving downlink control information or radio resource control signaling indicating a quantity of repetitions in the first set of repetitions and the second set of repetitions. ### Claim 13 A method for wireless communication at a network entity, comprising: transmitting, to a user equipment (UE), signaling that schedules a first set of repetitions of a first uplink shared channel transmission associated with a first sounding reference signal resource set and a second set of repetitions of a second uplink shared channel transmission associated with a second sounding reference signal resource set; transmitting, to the UE, a request that the UE is to transmit one or more channel state information reports; transmitting, to the UE, an indication that the one or more channel state information reports are to be multiplexed with one of the first set of repetitions or the second set of repetitions or with both of the first set of repetitions and the second set of repetitions; and receiving the one or more channel state information reports in accordance with the indication. ### Claim 14 (depends on 13) The method of claim 13, further comprising: receiving, based at least in part on transmitting the indication that the one or more channel state information reports are to be multiplexed with both of the first set of repetitions and the second set of repetitions, a first of the one or more channel state information reports with a first repetition of the first uplink shared channel transmission within the first set of repetitions, wherein the first repetition is received prior to remaining repetitions within the first set of repetitions; and receiving a second of the one or more channel state information reports with a second repetition of the second uplink shared channel transmission within the second set of repetitions, wherein the second repetition is received prior to remaining repetitions within the second set of repetitions. ### Claim 15 (depends on 14) The method of claim 14, wherein a first quantity of coded modulation symbols comprising the first of the one or more channel state information reports equals a second quantity of coded modulation symbols comprising the second of the one or more channel state information reports. ### Claim 16 (depends on 15) The method of claim 15, wherein: a first payload size of first uplink control information included in the first repetition of the first uplink shared channel transmission equals a second payload size of second uplink control information included in the second repetition of the second uplink shared channel transmission; and the first quantity of coded modulation symbols equals the second quantity of coded modulation symbols based at least in part on the first payload size being equal to the second payload size. ### Claim 17 (depends on 13) The method of claim 13, wherein a quantity of repetitions in the first set of repetitions and the second set of repetitions is two based at least in part on an absence of a transport block associate with the first uplink shared channel transmission and the second uplink shared channel transmission and transmitting the indication that the one or more channel state information reports are to be multiplexed with both of the first set of repetitions and the second set of repetitions. ### Claim 18 (depends on 14) The method of claim 14, wherein: receiving the first of the one or more channel state information reports with the first repetition comprises receiving the first of the one or more channel state information reports with a first actual repetition associated with the first repetition that is received prior to any other actual repetitions associated with the first repetition; and receiving the second of the one or more channel state information reports with the first repetition comprises receiving the second of the one or more channel state information reports with a second actual repetition associated with the second repetition that is received prior to any other actual repetitions associated with the second repetition. ### Claim 19 (depends on 13) The method of claim 13, further comprising: receiving, based at least in part on transmitting the indication that the one or more channel state information reports are to be multiplexed with one of the first set of repetitions or the second set of repetitions, the one or more channel state information reports with a repetition from the first set of repetitions or the second set of repetitions that is received prior to remaining repetitions within the first set of repetitions and the second set of repetitions. ### Claim 20 (depends on 13) The method of claim 13, wherein receiving the one or more channel state information reports comprises: receiving, based at least in part on transmitting the indication that the one or more channel state information reports are to be multiplexed with both of the first set of repetitions and the second set of repetitions, a first repetition of the first uplink shared channel transmission comprising a first of the one or more channel state information reports via a first transmission beam associated with the first sounding reference signal resource set; and receiving a second repetition of the second uplink shared channel transmission comprising a second of the one or more channel state information reports via a second transmission beam associated with the second sounding reference signal resource set. ### Claim 21 (depends on 13) The method of claim 13, further comprising: transmitting, to the UE, radio resource control signaling indicating a set of possible channel state information report settings, wherein the request that the UE is to transmit the one or more channel state information reports indicates one of the set of possible channel state information report settings. ### Claim 22 (depends on 13) The method of claim 13, wherein transmitting the signaling and transmitting the request comprises: transmitting downlink control information, wherein the downlink control information schedules the first set of repetitions and the second set of repetitions and requests that the UE is to transmit the one or more channel state information reports. ### Claim 23 (depends on 13) The method of claim 13, wherein transmitting the signaling comprises: transmitting downlink control information or radio resource control signaling indicating a quantity of repetitions in the first set of repetitions and the second set of repetitions. ### Claim 24 A user equipment (UE) for wireless communication, comprising: one or more memories storing processor-executable code; and one or more processors coupled with the one or more memories and individually or collectively operable to cause the UE to: receive, from a network entity, signaling that schedules a first set of repetitions of a first uplink shared channel transmission associated with a first sounding reference signal resource set and a second set of repetitions of a second uplink shared channel transmission associated with a second sounding reference signal resource set; receive, from the network entity, a request that the UE is to transmit one or more channel state information reports; receive, from the network entity, an indication that the one or more channel state information reports are to be multiplexed with one of the first set of repetitions or the second set of repetitions or with both of the first set of repetitions and the second set of repetitions; and transmit the one or more channel state information reports in accordance with the indication. ### Claim 25 (depends on 24) The UE of claim 24, wherein the one or more processors are individually or collectively further operable to execute the code to cause the UE to: multiplexing, based at least in part on receiving the indication that the one or more channel state information reports are to be multiplexed with both of the first set of repetitions and the second set of repetitions, a first of the one or more channel state information reports with a first repetition of the first uplink shared channel transmission within the first set of repetitions, wherein the first repetition is transmitted prior to remaining repetitions within the first set of repetitions; and multiplex a second of the one or more channel state information reports with a second repetition of the second uplink shared channel transmission within the second set of repetitions, wherein the second repetition is transmitted prior to remaining repetitions within the second set of repetitions. ### Claim 26 (depends on 25) The UE of claim 25, wherein: multiplexing the first of the one or more channel state information reports with the first repetition comprises multiplexing the first of the one or more channel state information reports with a first actual repetition associated with the first repetition that is transmitted prior to any other actual repetitions associated with the first repetition; and multiplexing the second of the one or more channel state information reports with the first repetition comprises multiplexing the second of the one or more channel state information reports with a second actual repetition associated with the second repetition that is transmitted prior to any other actual repetitions associated with the second repetition. ### Claim 27 (depends on 25) The UE of claim 25, wherein a first quantity of coded modulation symbols comprising the first of the one or more channel state information reports equals a second quantity of coded modulation symbols comprising the second of the one or more channel state information reports. ### Claim 28 A network entity for wireless communication, comprising: one or more memories storing processor-executable code; and one or more processors coupled with the one or more memories and individually or collectively operable to cause the network entity to: transmit, to a user equipment (UE), signaling that schedules a first set of repetitions of a first uplink shared channel transmission associated with a first sounding reference signal resource set and a second set of repetitions of a second uplink shared channel transmission associated with a second sounding reference signal resource set; transmit, to the UE, a request that the UE is to transmit one or more channel state information reports; transmit, to the UE, an indication that the one or more channel state information reports are to be multiplexed with one of the first set of repetitions or the second set of repetitions or with both of the first set of repetitions and the second set of repetitions; and receive the one or more channel state information reports in accordance with the indication. ### Claim 29 (depends on 28) The network entity of claim 28, wherein the one or more processors are individually or collectively further operable to execute the code to cause the network entity to: receive, based at least in part on transmitting the indication that the one or more channel state information reports are to be multiplexed with both of the first set of repetitions and the second set of repetitions, a first of the one or more channel state information reports with a first repetition of the first uplink shared channel transmission within the first set of repetitions, wherein the first repetition is received prior to remaining repetitions within the first set of repetitions; and receive a second of the one or more channel state information reports with a second repetition of the second uplink shared channel transmission within the second set of repetitions, wherein the second repetition is received prior to remaining repetitions within the second set of repetitions. ### Claim 30 (depends on 29) The network entity of claim 29, wherein: receiving the first of the one or more channel state information reports with the first repetition comprises receiving the first of the one or more channel state information reports with a first actual repetition associated with the first repetition that is received prior to any other actual repetitions associated with the first repetition; and receiving the second of the one or more channel state information reports with the first repetition comprises receiving the second of the one or more channel state information reports with a second actual repetition associated with the second repetition that is received prior to any other actual repetitions associated with the second repetition.