Patent ID: 11937282
Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 14:
15. A method for operating a user equipment (UE), the method comprising:
receiving, via higher layers, configuration information on a set of transmission configuration indicator (TCI) states;
receiving, based on the configuration information, a TCI state indication, wherein the TCI state indication indicates M beams, where M>1 and each of the M beams is associated with an interval of downlink (DL) time slots;
decoding the TCI state indication;
identifying the M beams; and
applying one of the M beams for a reception of a DL signal in a DL time slot, wherein the DL time slot belongs to the interval of DL time slots associated with one of the M beams.