Patent SG-11201806066Q-A (SG)
Title: Communication of uplink control information
Inventor: ISLAM MUHAMMAD NAZMUL
IPC: H04W56/00
Filed: 2017-02-14
Abstract: 0 111 l 402 111 1 14 15 16 17 29 62us 62us -4 2ms 2ms 404 (12) INTERNATIONAL APPLICATION PUBLISHED UNDER THE PATENT COOPERATION TREATY (PCT) (19) World Intellectual Property Organization International Bureau (10) International Publication Number (43) International Publication Date WO 2017/142880 Al 24 August 2017 (24.08.2017) WIPO I PCT 111111111111110111011111111111010111110111010111110111H11101111111111111110111111 (51) International Patent Classification: H04W 56/00 (2009.01) (21) International Application Number: PCT/US2017/017838 (22) International Filing Date: 14 February 2017 (14.02.2017) (25) Filing Language: English (26) Publication Language: English (30) Priority Data: 62/297,861 20 February 2016 (20.02.2016) 15/224,122 29 July 2016 (29.07.2016) 62/438,196 22 December 2016 (22.12.2016) (71) Applicant: QUALCOMM INCORPORATED [US/US]; Attn: International IP Administration, 5775 Morehouse Drive, San Diego, California 92121-1714 (US). (72) Inventors: ISLAM, Muhammad Nazmul; 5775 More- house Drive, San Diego, California 92121-1714 (US). SUBRAMANIAN, Sundar; 5775 Morehouse Drive, San Diego, California 92121-1714 (US). CEZANNE, Juer- gen; 5775 Morehouse Drive, San Diego, California 92121- 1714 (US). LI, Junyi; 5775 Morehouse Drive, San Diego, California 92121-1714 (US). (74) Agent: FITCH, Gabriel; Loza & Loza, LLP, 305 North Second Avenue #127, Upland, California 91786 (US). (81) Designated States (unless otherwise indicated, for every kind of national protection available): AE, AG, AL, AM, AO, AT, AU, AZ, BA, BB, BG, BH, BN, BR, BW, BY, BZ, CA, CH, CL, CN, CO, CR, CU, CZ, DE, DJ, DK, DM, DO, DZ, EC, EE, EG, ES, FI, GB, GD, GE, GH, GM, GT, HN, HR, HU, ID, IL, IN, IR, IS, JP, KE, KG, KH, KN, KP, KR, KW, KZ, LA, LC, LK, LR, LS, LU, LY, MA, MD, ME, MG, MK, MN, MW, MX, MY, MZ, NA, NG, NI, NO, NZ, OM, PA, PE, PG, PH, PL, PT, QA, RO, RS, RU, RW, SA, SC, SD, SE, SG, SK, SL, SM, ST, SV, SY, TH, TJ, TM, TN, TR, TT, TZ, UA, UG, US, UZ, VC, VN, ZA, ZM, ZW. Designated States (unless otherwise indicated, for every kind of regional protection available): ARIPO (BW, GH, GM, KE, LR, LS, MW, MZ, NA, RW, SD, SL, ST, SZ, TZ, UG, ZM, ZW), Eurasian (AM, AZ, BY, KG, KZ, RU, TJ, TM), European (AL, AT, BE, BG, CH, CY, CZ, DE, DK, EE, ES, FI, FR, GB, GR, HR, HU, IE, IS, IT, LT, LU, LV, MC, MK, MT, NL, NO, PL, PT, RO, RS, SE, SI, SK, SM, TR), OAPI (BF, BJ, CF, CG, CI, CM, GA, GN, GQ, GW, KM, ML, MR, NE, SN, TD, TG). Declarations under Rule 4.17: as to applicant's entitlement to apply for and be granted a patent (Rule 4.1700) as to the applicant's entitlement to claim the priority of the earlier application (Rule 4.1 7 (iii)) Published: with international search report (Art. 21(3)) (84) US US US = (54) Title: COMMUNICATION OF UPLINK CONTROL INFORMATION 400 W O 20 17 / 142880 Al FIG. 4 (57) : Various aspects of the disclosure relate to communicating random access information and uplink control information. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) or other suitable apparatus transmits physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) information concurrently with random access channel (RACH) information transmitted by another UE or other apparatus. For example, the RACH access information and the PUCCH information may be frequency division multiplexed orthogonal tones. The disclosure relates in some aspects to using downlink-uplink (DL-UL) channel reciprocity to determine symbol and/or tone locations. For ex- ample, a base station or other suitable apparatus may initially sweep across different directions in different time slots to transmit sig - nals during a synchronization sub-frame. A UE or other suitable apparatus can then find an appropriate RACH symbol from its best synchronization beam index and transmit PUCCH information in those symbols.