Patent ID: 11871413
Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 5:
6. The UE of claim 1, wherein the TCI state update indicates two separate TCI states for DL and UL, a DL TCI state and an UL TCI state, respectively, and the processor is configured to:
determine the beam based on the DL TCI state,
determine an UL transmit beam based on the UL TCI state, and
apply the UL transmit beam for a transmission of both UL control and data channels,
wherein:
the UL TCI state is indicated from N UL TCI states that are activated via the MAC-CE,
the N UL TCI states are activated from a second set of TCI states, where N≥1, and
the identification of the medium is further based on a value of N.