Patent ID: 11870736
Assignee: QUALCOMM INCORPORATED
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H  Y | IPC H

Claim 41:
42. A user equipment (UE), comprising:
a memory;
at least one transceiver; and
at least one processor communicatively coupled to the memory and the at least one transceiver, the at least one processor configured to:
monitor a subset less than all of physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) monitoring occasions defined by an active search space (SS) set;
receive, via the at least one transceiver, during a PDCCH monitoring occasion, a downlink control information (DCI);
monitor a larger number of PDCCH monitoring occasions defined by the active SS set; and
activate at least one deactivated SS set based on the DCI and a mapping that associates an SS set to a DCI type, DCI format, transmission direction, or combinations thereof, or both.