IP Library Granted Patent US 12,295,023
Granted Patent B2
US 12,295,023 · App. 17/356,611 · Granted May 6, 2025

Terminal device, base station device, and wireless communication system

Inventors: Yoshiaki Ohta (Yokohama, JP); Yoshihiro Kawasaki (Kawasaki, JP); Nobuhisa Aoki (Kawasaki, JP)
Assignee: FUJITSU LIMITED
H04W72/543H04L5/0048H04W72/566
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Patent No.
US 12,295,023
App. No.
17/356,611
Granted
May 6, 2025
Kind
B2
Abstract

A terminal device includes: a receiver configured to receive a signal including configuration information related to a scheduling request configuration associated with a logical channel; and a controller configured to control a counter associated with the scheduling request configuration. The controller controls, when the receiver receives a signal including configuration information related to a reconfiguration of the scheduling request configuration, the counter in accordance with at least one of the scheduling request configuration after the reconfiguration and a state of the scheduling request.

Claims (39)

1. A terminal device that transmits a scheduling request to a base station device, the terminal device comprising:

a receiver configured to receive a signal including configuration information related to a scheduling request configuration associated with a logical channel; and

controller circuitry configured to;

control a counter associated with the scheduling request configuration, and

cause, when the receiver receives a signal including configuration information related to a reconfiguration of a first scheduling request configuration during counting a number of transmissions in the first scheduling request configuration, the counter associated with a second scheduling request configuration after the reconfiguration, to:

take over as the counted number of transmissions in the first scheduling request configuration, and

count a number of transmissions in the second scheduling request configuration, continuously from the taken-over counted number of transmissions in the first scheduling request configuration.

2. The terminal device according to claim 1 , wherein, when the receiver receives the signal including the configuration information related to the reconfiguration of the scheduling request configuration, the controller circuitry initializes all counters associated with corresponding scheduling request configurations.

3. The terminal device according to claim 2 , wherein the controller circuitry initializes all the counters by setting zero that is an initial value into the counter.

4. The terminal device according to claim 1 , wherein, when the receiver receives the signal including the configuration information related to the reconfiguration of the scheduling request configuration, the controller circuitry initializes only a counter associated with the scheduling request configuration after the reconfiguration from among a plurality of counters associated with a plurality of corresponding scheduling request configurations.

5. The terminal device according to claim 4 , wherein the controller circuitry initializes the counter by setting zero that is an initial value into the counter.

6. The terminal device according to claim 1 , wherein, when a plurality of scheduling requests belonging to a single scheduling request configuration are simultaneously triggered, the controller circuitry initializes a counter associated with the single scheduling request configuration.

7. The terminal device according to claim 6 , wherein the controller circuitry initializes the counter by setting zero that is an initial value into the counter.

8. The terminal device according to claim 1 , wherein, when the receiver receives the signal including the configuration information related to the reconfiguration of the scheduling request configuration, the controller circuitry initializes the counter when a scheduling request transmission is not being counted in the scheduling request configuration after the reconfiguration.

9. The terminal device according to claim 1 , wherein

the controller circuitry is further configured to cause, when the receiver receives the signal, the counter to not initialize the counted number of transmissions in the first scheduling request configuration.

10. A terminal device that transmits a scheduling request to a base station device, the terminal device comprising:

a receiver configured to receive a signal including configuration information related to a scheduling request configuration associated with a logical channel; and

controller circuitry configured to:

control a counter associated with the scheduling request configuration, and

when a plurality of scheduling requests belonging to a single scheduling request configuration are simultaneously triggered,

initialize a counter associated with the single scheduling request configuration, and

transmit the plurality of scheduling requests as one scheduling request after initializing the counter associated with the single scheduling request configuration.

11. The terminal device according to claim 10 , wherein the controller circuitry initializes the counter by setting zero that is an initial value into the counter.

12. A base station device that receives a scheduling request from a terminal device, the base station device comprising:

a transmitter configured to transmit a signal including configuration information related to scheduling request configuration associated with a logical channel;

a receiver configured to receive, when the transmitter transmits the signal including configuration information related to a reconfiguration of a first scheduling request configuration, a scheduling request of which a number of transmissions is counted by a counter,

during counting a number of transmissions in the first scheduling request configuration, when receiving the signal including the configuration information related to the reconfiguration of the first scheduling request configuration, the counter, associated with a second scheduling request configuration after the reconfiguration, being figured to:

take over the counted number of transmissions in the first scheduling request configuration, and

count a number of transmissions in the second scheduling request configuration, continuously from the counted number of transmissions in the first scheduling request configuration; and

processor circuitry configured to execute a process including allocating, when the scheduling request is received by the receiver, a resource to the terminal device in accordance with the scheduling request.

13. A wireless communication system comprising a terminal device configured to transmit and a base station including a receiver configured to receive a scheduling request, wherein

the terminal device includes

a receiver configured to receive a signal including configuration information related to a scheduling request configuration associated with a logical channel, and

controller circuitry configured to:

control a counter associated with the scheduling request configuration, and

cause, when the receiver receives a signal including configuration information related to a reconfiguration of a first scheduling request configuration during counting a number of transmissions in the first scheduling request configuration, the counter associated with a second scheduling request configuration after the reconfiguration, to:

take over the counted number of transmissions in the first scheduling request configuration, and

count a number of transmissions in the second scheduling request configuration, continuously from the counted number of transmissions in the first scheduling request configuration.

Assignments (2)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Jan 5, 2026
From: FUJITSU LIMITED
To: 1FINITY INC.
Reel/Frame 074197/0244 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Jun 24, 2021
From: OHTA, YOSHIAKI; KAWASAKI, YOSHIHIRO; AOKI, NOBUHISA
To: FUJITSU LIMITED
Reel/Frame 056648/0439 →
Priority Claims (1)
WO PCT/JP2018/048454 · Dec 28, 2018 · international
Continuity (2)
Continuation PCTJP2019005417 · Feb 14, 2019
Related Publication 20210321425A1 · Oct 14, 2021
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