Terminal information obtaining method, terminal, and network side device

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-12470948-B2
Application number	US-202218090778-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Dec 29, 2022
Priority date	Jul 17, 2020
Publication date	Nov 11, 2025
Grant date	Nov 11, 2025

Abstract

The terminal information obtaining method includes: receiving a first signal sent by a terminal; and estimating first information of the terminal according to the first signal, the first information including at least one of the following: position information of the terminal, direction information of the terminal, reception beam information corresponding to the terminal, or sending beam information corresponding to the terminal.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1 . A terminal information obtaining method, performed by a first network node, wherein the first network node is an intelligent-surface-type device or a relay-type device and the method comprises:
receiving a first signal sent by a terminal; and
estimating first information of the terminal according to the first signal; wherein
the first information comprises at least one of following: position information of the terminal, direction information of the terminal, reception beam information corresponding to the terminal, or sending beam information corresponding to the terminal;
wherein after the estimating the first information of the terminal according to the first signal, the method further comprises:
sending a second signal to a second network node; wherein the second signal carries all or some of content of the first information, and the second network node is a base-station-type node associated with the first network node;
receiving a third signal sent by the second network node; and
adjusting a transmission mode of the first network node according to the third signal;
wherein the transmission mode comprises at least one of following:
a beam;
transmission configuration index (TCI) information; or
quasi-colocation (QCL) information.

2 . The method according to claim 1 , wherein the first signal is carried by one of following:
a sounding reference signal (SRS); a demodulation reference signal (DMRS); a random-access channel (RACH) sequence; or a dedicated sequence of the first signal.

3 . The method according to claim 1 , wherein the receiving the first signal sent by the terminal comprises:
obtaining the first signal through sequence detection; and/or obtaining the first signal through energy detection.

4 . The method according to claim 1 , wherein information carried by the second signal further comprises at least one of following:
information related to an identifier of the terminal; indexes of the received first signal; or intensity-related information of the first signal corresponding to each of the indexes.

5 . The method according to claim 1 , wherein the adjusting the transmission mode of the first network node according to the third signal comprises:
adjusting states of a reflection unit and/or a refraction unit in the first network node according to the third signal.

6 . The method according to claim 1 , wherein after the estimating the first information of the terminal according to the first signal, the method further comprises:
adjusting, according to the first information, a sending beam and/or a reception beam associated with the terminal.

7 . The method according to claim 1 , wherein the receiving the first signal sent by the terminal comprises:
receiving the first signal sent by the terminal in a time domain repetition manner.

8 . The method according to claim 7 , wherein beams used for the first signal sent in the time domain repetition manner are different; or
beams used for the first signal sent in the time domain repetition manner are the same.

9 . The method according to claim 8 , wherein, in a case that beams used for the first signal sent in the time domain repetition manner are different, the receiving the first signal sent by the terminal comprises:
receiving the first signal sent by the terminal in a manner of polling reception beams.

10 . A signal receiving method, performed by a terminal and comprising:
receiving a fourth signal sent by a first network node; wherein the first network node is an intelligent-surface-type device or a relay-type device; and sending a fifth signal to the first network node or a second network node; wherein the fifth signal carries some or all of information related to the fourth signal, and the second network node is a base-station-type device associated with the first network node; wherein the some or all of information related to the fourth signal comprises at least one of following: at least one piece of target reception beam information, wherein the at least one piece of target reception beam information is related information of a reception beam with a strongest signal intensity that is estimated according to the fourth signal; at least one piece of target sending beam information, wherein the at least one piece of target sending beam information is related information of a sending beam corresponding to the reception beam with the strongest signal intensity; or information related to an identifier of the terminal.

11 . The method according to claim 10 , wherein the fourth signal carries second information, the second information comprising at least one of following:
synchronization information; identification information of the first network node; beam information of the first network node; a time window during which the first network node performs forwarding; or time information associated with the beam information of the first network node.

12 . The method according to claim 10 , wherein the receiving the fourth signal sent by the first network node comprises at least one of following:
receiving the fourth signal in a manner of polling reception beams; obtaining the fourth signal through sequence detection; or obtaining the fourth signal through energy detection.

13 . The method according to claim 10 , wherein the sending the fifth signal comprises:
sending the fifth signal in a target slot; and/or sending the fifth signal by using a target sending beam, wherein the target sending beam corresponds to a target reception beam, and the target reception beam is a beam used for receiving the fourth signal with a strongest signal intensity.

14 . The method according to claim 13 , wherein the target slot is a slot in a forwarding time window of the first network node; or
the target slot is a slot outside a forwarding time window of the first network node.

15 . The method according to claim 14 , wherein, in a case that the target slot is a slot in a forwarding time window of the first network node, the sending the fifth signal comprises:
sending the fifth signal to the first network node, so that the fifth signal is forwarded to the second network node by the first network node.

16 . A terminal, comprising a processor, a memory, and a program or instructions stored in the memory and executable on the processor, the program or instructions, when executed by the processor, implementing steps of the signal receiving method according to claim 10 .

17 . A first network node, wherein the first network node is an intelligent-surface-type device or a relay-type device and comprises a processor, a memory, and a program or instructions stored in the memory and executable on the processor, wherein the program or instructions, when executed by the processor, causes the first network node to perform:
receiving a first signal sent by a terminal; and estimating first information of the terminal according to the first signal; wherein the first information comprises at least one of following: position information of the terminal, direction information of the terminal, reception beam information corresponding to the terminal, or sending beam information corresponding to the terminal; wherein the program or instructions, when executed by the processor, causes the first network node to further perform: sending a second signal to a second network node; wherein the second signal carries all or some of content of the first information, and the second network node is a base-station-type node associated with

Assignees

• Vivo Mobile Communication Co Ltd

Inventors

• Jiang Dajie
• Yang Kun
• Pan Xueming
• Sun Yanliang
• Qin Fei

Classifications

• H04W40/00

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• H04B7/04013

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• Y02D30/70

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