# US 2026/0100749 A1 · User equipment and base station > Agents: this data is available as JSON from the patentgrep API and MCP server — see https://patentgrep.com/llms.txt - Number: US 2026/0100749 A1 - Document ID: US20260100749A1 - Status: Published application - Kind: A1 - Application number: 19/115,104 - Filed: 2023-09-28 - Published: 2026-04-09 - Earliest claimed: 2022-09-29 - Assignees: Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America - Applicants: Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America - Inventors: Quan KUANG; Hidetoshi SUZUKI - Web page: https://patentgrep.com/patent/US20260100749A1 ## CPC - H04B 7/0617: {for beam forming} - H04B 7/0696: {Determining beam pairs} - H04B 7/0691: {using subgroups of transmit antennas} - H04B 7/0695: {using beam selection} - H04B 7/06968: {using quasi-colocation [QCL] between signals} - H04L 5/0023: {Time-frequency-space} - H04L 5/0091: {Signalling for the administration of the divided path, e.g. signalling of configuration information} - H04L 41/16: using machine learning or artificial intelligence - H04W 56/0015: {one node acting as a reference for the others} - H04W 76/20: Manipulation of established connections - 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)} - H04B: TRANSMISSION - 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 Some exemplary embodiments relate to a user equipment, UE, a base station and respective methods for a UE and a base station. For example, the UE comprises a transceiver which, in operation, receives a relationship indicator indicating a relative spatial relationship between each of a plurality of beams. The UE further comprises circuitry which, in operation, performs a beam management procedure using the relative spatial relationship. ## Claims ### Claim 1 A user equipment (UE), comprising a transceiver which, in operation, receives a relationship indicator indicating a relative spatial relationship between each of a plurality of beams; and circuitry which, in operation, performs a beam management procedure using the relative spatial relationship. ### Claim 2 (depends on 1) The UE according to claim 1 wherein the relationship indicator includes, for each of a plurality of first beams, one or more beam indicators, and each of the one or more beam indicators indicates a beam closest to the respective first beam in one of a plurality of directions. ### Claim 3 (depends on 1) The UE according to claim 1, wherein the relationship indicator includes a plurality of beam indicators, each beam indicator indicates a beam included in the plurality of beams, and each beam indicator is associated with at least one element of a grid. ### Claim 4 (depends on 3) The UE according to claim 3, wherein the grid indicates a relative spatial relationship between each of the elements of the grid. ### Claim 5 (depends on 3) The UE according to claim 3, wherein the grid represents a reference plane, and the association of the beam indicators with respective elements of the grid represents a mapping of coverage areas of the plurality of beams with respect to the reference plane. ### Claim 6 (depends on 3) The UE according to claim 3, wherein at least one of the plurality of beam indicators is associated with two or more elements of the grid, and/or at least two of the plurality of beam indicators are associated with a same element of the grid. ### Claim 7 (depends on 2) The UE according to claim 2, wherein each beam indicator is a synchronization signal block identifier, (SSB ID), a reference signal resource identifier, and/or a transmission configuration indication state identifier; (TCI) state ID. ### Claim 8 (depends on 1) The UE according to claim 1, wherein the transceiver, in operation, receives the relationship indicator via broadcast signaling or radio resource control, (RRC), signaling. ### Claim 9 (depends on 1) The UE according to claim 1, wherein the beam management procedure includes a beam measurement procedure of measuring a first characteristic of each of the plurality of first beams, using the transceiver, and a beam prediction procedure of predicting a second characteristic of a beam included in a plurality of second beams. ### Claim 10 (depends on 9) The UE according to claim 9, wherein the plurality of second beams is equal to the plurality of first beams, is a subset of the plurality of first beams, or is different from the plurality of first beams. ### Claim 11 (depends on 1) The UE according to claim 1, wherein the circuitry, in operation, performs the beam management procedure using an artificial intelligence/machine learning; (AI/ML), model. ### Claim 12 (depends on 11) The UE according to claim 11, wherein the transceiver, in operation, receives the AI/ML model including the relationship indicator and/or associated with the relative spatial relationship between each of the plurality of beams. ### Claim 13 (depends on 11) The UE according to claim 11, wherein the relationship indicator indicates an AI/ML model from among a plurality of AI/ML models; and the circuitry, in operation, determines the AI/ML model indicated by the relationship indicator as the AI/ML model for performing the beam management procedure. ### Claim 14 A method for a user equipment, (UE), comprising receiving a relationship indicator indicating a relative spatial relationship between each of a plurality of beams; and performing a beam management procedure using the relative spatial relationship. ### Claim 15 A base station, comprising circuitry which, in operation, determines a relationship indicator indicating a relative spatial relationship between a plurality of beams; and a transceiver which, in operation, transmits the relationship indicator. ### Claim at position 16 16-18. 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