US Patent Issued to Huawei Technologies on Feb. 24 for "Apparatus and method for communicating two stage DCI" (Canadian, Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,563,574, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).

"Apparatus and method for communicating two stage DCI" was invented by Hao Tang (Shenzhen, China), Jianglei Ma (Kanata, Canada), Xiaoyan Bi (Shenzhen, China) and Peiying Zhu (Kanata, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A two-stage DCI framework is provided in which the first stage DCI is carried by PDCCH, second stage DCI is carried by PDSCH. The first stage DCI is blind decoded. The second stage DCI is indicated by the first stage DCI and therefor no blind decoding is necessary. The size of the second stage DCI can be very flexible, can indicat...