Patent ID: 11923974
Assignee: QUALCOMM INCORPORATED
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 5:
6. A user equipment (UE) for wireless communication comprising one or more processors coupled to memory and configured to:
determine that an uplink demodulation reference signal (DMRS) bundling operation associated with a physical channel has started; and
change an activity state of a reception operation associated with periodic downlink communications based at least in part on determining that the uplink DMRS bundling operation has started, wherein:
the uplink DMRS bundling operation comprises a joint channel estimation process for (i) a plurality of repetitions of at least one of a physical uplink shared channel or a physical uplink control channel, or (ii) at least one of a physical uplink shared channel transmission or a physical uplink control channel transmission; or
the periodic downlink communications comprise at least one semi-persistent scheduling instance that occurs during a time period corresponding to the uplink DMRS bundling operation; or
the one or more processors are configured to determine a UE capability of the UE and to change the activity state of the reception operation based at least in part on the UE capability, wherein the UE capability comprises a capability of maintaining a phase continuity for a pair of uplink communications having an intervening event that occurs between a transmission of a first uplink communication of the pair of uplink communications and a transmission of a second uplink communication of the pair of uplink communications.