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Google patents method for phones to confirm network settings faster

This filing describes a way for mobile devices to confirm they have received specific network configuration instructions from a cell tower. The device sends a confirmation signal across multiple time slots to ensure the network knows the settings are active before switching communication modes.

Why it mattersIt is a routine improvement to how phones and towers coordinate basic connection settings, which helps maintain stable data connections.

In the filing’s own words

This disclosure provides systems, devices, apparatus, and methods, including computer programs encoded on storage media, for TCI indication techniques. A UE may receive, on a PDSCH from a network entity, an activation indication that activates a subset of TCI states from a list of TCI states. The UE may transmit, to the network entity, an ACK for the PDSCH on a multi-slot PUSCH. The UE communicates with the network entity based on an action time associated with the activated subset of TCI states.

What exactly they claim (claim 1)

1. A method of wireless communication at a user equipment (UE), comprising: receiving, from a network entity, on a physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH), a medium access control-control element (MAC-CE) that activates a subset of transmission configuration indicator (TCI) states from a list of TCI states; transmitting, to the network entity, an acknowledgement (ACK) for the PDSCH on a multi-slot physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH); and communicating with the network entity based on an action time associated with the activated subset of TCI states.

Facts

Company
Google (Google LLC)
Official title
TRANSMISSION CONFIGURATION INDICATOR TECHNIQUES
Publication number
US20260269995A1
Application number
19156881
Filed
Feb 17, 2023
Published
Sep 10, 2026
Inventors
2
Claims
22

Classified under

H04L 5/0044 Electricity & electronicsH04L 5/0055 Electricity & electronics
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