# US 12,598,604 B2 · Uplink control information for enabling autonomous uplink transmissions > Agents: this data is available as JSON from the patentgrep API and MCP server — see https://patentgrep.com/llms.txt - Number: US 12,598,604 B2 - Document ID: US12598604B2 - Status: Granted - Kind: B2 - Application number: 17/995,451 - Filed: 2020-04-08 - Published: 2023-06-22 - Granted: 2026-04-07 - Earliest claimed: 2020-04-08 - Assignees: Apple Inc. - Applicants: Apple Inc. - Inventors: Hong He; Chunhai Yao; Chunxuan Ye; Dawei Zhang; Haitong Sun; Pengkai Zhao; Wei Zeng; Wei Zhang; Weidong Yang; Yuchul Kim; Yushu Zhang; Zhibin Wu - Web page: https://patentgrep.com/patent/US12598604B2 ## CPC - H04L 5/0053: {Allocation of signalling, i.e. of overhead other than pilot signals} - H04W 72/1263: Mapping of traffic onto schedule, e.g. scheduled allocation or multiplexing of flows - H04B 7/0626: {Channel coefficients, e.g. channel state information [CSI]} - H04L 1/0031: {Multiple signaling transmission (H04L1/1664, F15 take precedence)} - H04L 1/0067: {Rate matching (H04L1/0013 and H04L1/08 take precedence)} - H04L 1/1671: {the supervisory signal being transmitted together with control information} - H04L 1/1812: Hybrid protocols; Hybrid automatic repeat request [HARQ] - H04L 5/0051: {of dedicated pilots, i.e. pilots destined for a single user or terminal} - 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} - H04W 72/21: in the uplink direction of a wireless link, i.e. towards the network - H04L 1/0026: {Transmission of channel quality indication} - H04W 74/0808: using carrier sensing, e.g. carrier sense multiple access [CSMA] - 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 Embodiments include a computer readable storage medium, a user equipment, a method and an integrated circuit that perform operations. The operations include generating configured grant uplink control information (CG-UCI), generating hybrid automatic repeat request acknowledgement (HARQ-ACK) information, generating channel state information (CSI) and mapping the CG-UCI, HARQ-ACK, and CSI to resource elements (REs) in resource blocks (RBs) of a configured grant physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH) transmission, wherein the PUSCH transmission includes a demodulation reference signal (DMRS) and wherein the mapping includes one of mapping a concatenated bit sequence or omitting a portion of the CSI. ## Claims ### Claim 1 A non-transitory computer readable storage medium comprising a set of instructions, wherein the set of instructions when executed by a processor cause the processor of a user equipment (UE) to perform operations, comprising: decoding, based on signaling receiving from a base station, a radio resource control (RRC) message comprising a beta offset value to be used for a configured grant physical uplink shared channel (CG-PUSCH) transmission; generating configured grant uplink control information (CG-UCI); generating hybrid automatic repeat request acknowledgement (HARQ-ACK) information; generating channel state information (CSI); and mapping the CG-UCI, HARQ-ACK, and CSI to resource elements (REs) in resource blocks (RBs) of the CG-PUSCH transmission based, at least in part, on the beta offset value, wherein the CG-PUSCH transmission includes a demodulation reference signal (DMRS), and wherein the mapping includes one of mapping a concatenated bit sequence; concatenating the CG-UCI bits and the HARQ-ACK bits to form the concatenated bit sequence; encoding the concatenated bit sequence; and attaching a cyclic redundancy check (CRC), wherein the concatenating the CG-UCI bits and the HARQ-ACK bits occurs prior to the encoding and the attaching. ### Claim 2 (depends on 1) The non-transitory computer readable storage medium of claim 1, wherein the CSI comprises CSI part 1 bits and CSI part 2 bits. ### Claim 3 (depends on 2) The non-transitory computer readable storage medium of claim 2, wherein the portion of the CSI information that is omitted is the CSI part 2 bits, wherein the CG-UCI is mapped to the resource elements immediately after the DMRS, wherein the HARQ-ACK is mapped at a beginning REs of the RBs, and wherein the HARQ-ACK is rate-matched to the CG-UCI. ### Claim 4 (depends on 2) The non-transitory computer readable storage medium of claim 2, wherein the portion of the CSI information that is omitted is the CSI part 2 bits, wherein the HARQ-ACK is mapped to the resource elements immediately after the DMRS, wherein the CG-UCI is mapped at a beginning REs of the RBs, and wherein the CG-UCI is rate-matched to the HARQ-ACK. ### Claim 5 (depends on 1) The non-transitory computer readable storage medium of claim 1, wherein bits of CG-UCI precede bits of the HARQ-ACK or bits of CG-UCI prior to the bits of HARQ-ACK in the concatenated bit sequence. ### Claim 6 (depends on 1) The non-transitory computer readable storage medium of claim 1, wherein the concatenated bit sequence is mapped to the resource elements immediately after the DMRS, wherein the CSI part 1 bits are mapped at a beginning resource block of the REs of the RBs, and wherein the CSI part 1 bits are rate-matched to the concatenated bit sequence. ### Claim 7 (depends on 1) The non-transitory computer readable storage medium of claim 1, wherein mapping of the UCI begins after a predetermined starting position within multiple CG-PUSCHs configured by RRC. ### Claim 8 (depends on 7) The non-transitory computer readable storage medium of claim 7, wherein the predetermined starting position is a fixed starting position. ### Claim 9 (depends on 7) The non-transitory computer readable storage medium of claim 7, wherein the predetermined starting position is a starting position immediately following a successful listen before talk (LBT) process. ### Claim 10 A user equipment (UE) connected to a 5G new radio (NR) network on a frequency band in an unlicensed spectrum, the UE comprising: a processor configured to: decode, based on signaling receiving from a base station, a radio resource control (RRC) message comprising a beta offset value to be used for a configured grant physical uplink shared channel (CG-PUSCH) transmission; generate configured grant uplink control information (CG-UCI); generate hybrid automatic repeat request acknowledgement (HARQ-ACK) information; generate channel state information (CSI); and map the CG-UCI, HARQ-ACK, and CSI to resource elements (REs) of the CG-PUSCH transmission based, at least in part, on the beta offset value, wherein the PUSCH transmission includes a demodulation reference signal (DMRS); and a transceiver configured to transmit the CG-PUSCH to the 5G NR network over the frequency band, wherein the processor is configured to one of map a concatenated bit sequence; concatenating the CG-UCI bits and the HARQ-ACK bits to form the concatenated bit sequence; encoding the concatenated bit sequence; and attaching a cyclic redundancy check (CRC), wherein the concatenating the CG-UCI bits and the HARQ-ACK bits occurs prior to the encoding and the attaching. ### Claim 11 (depends on 10) The UE of claim 10, wherein the CSI comprises CSI part 1 bits and CSI part 2 bits. ### Claim 12 (depends on 11) The UE of claim 11, wherein the portion of the CSI information that is omitted is the CSI part 2 bits, wherein the CG-UCI is mapped to the resource elements immediately after the DMRS, wherein the HARQ-ACK is mapped at a beginning RE of the RBs, and wherein the HARQ-ACK is rate-matched to the CG-UCI. ### Claim 13 (depends on 11) The UE of claim 11, wherein the portion of the CSI information that is omitted is the CSI part 2 bits, wherein the HARQ-ACK is mapped to the resource elements immediately after the DMRS, wherein the CG-UCI is mapped at a beginning RE of the RBs, and wherein the CG-UCI is rate-matched to the HARQ-ACK. ### Claim 14 (depends on 10) The UE of claim 10, wherein the concatenated bit sequence is mapped to the resource elements immediately after the DMRS, wherein the CSI part 1 bits are mapped at a beginning REs of the RBs, and wherein the CSI part 1 bits are rate-matched to the concatenated bit sequence.