Patent ID: 11956646
Assignee: APPLE INC.
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 8:
9. A computer-readable storage medium that stores instructions for execution by one or more processors of a user equipment (UE), the instructions to configure the UE for uplink (UL) beam selection in a New Radio (NR) network, and to cause the UE to:
decode a medium access control (MAC) control element (CE) from a base station, the MAC CE dynamically configuring a spatial relationship for physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) resources within a PUCCH resource set, wherein the dynamic configuration configures the same spatial relationship for the PUCCH resources within the PUCCH resource set, wherein the dynamic configuration is applied after transmitting a hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) acknowledgement (ACK) of reception of a primary downlink shared channel (PDSCH) carrying the MAC CE;
identify a PUCCH resource of the PUCCH resource set and the spatial relationship corresponding to a beam direction; and
encode a PUCCH for beamforming to transmit the PUCCH on the PUCCH resource in the corresponding beam direction.