Granted Patent B2

US 12,425,138 · App. 18/046,799 · Granted Sep 23, 2025

Inventors: Su-Lin Low (San Diego, CA); Chun-I Lee (San Diego, CA); Tianan Tim Ma (San Diego, CA); Hong Kui Yang (San Diego, CA); Hausting Hong (San Diego, CA)

Assignee: GREATER SHINE LIMITED

H04L1/1854H04W72/21

Abstract

Claims (107)

1. A method for managing a scheduling service, the method comprising:

determining a score for each of multiple service grants based on a scoring function, wherein the scoring function includes one or more radio channel conditions associated with the multiple service grants; wherein the one or more radio channel conditions of the scoring function includes one or more of:

a latency indicator (K2);

a start symbol(S) of a slot transmit boundary;

a Physical Uplink Shared Channel (PUSCH) slot transmission time duration (T);

a received power (P);

a SubCarrier Spacing (SCS);

a grant size (G);

an interference level (I); or

a spectral efficiency (M);

prioritizing the multiple service grants based on the determined scores; and

assigning scheduling opportunities to the multiple service grants based on the determined scores of the multiple service grants in a geometric decreasing manner,

wherein, in the geometric decreasing manner, packets of a low priority service grant of the multiple service grants are transmitted once every two packets of a high priority service grant of the multiple service grants.

2. The method of claim 1 , wherein the scheduling service is an uplink medium access control (MAC) grant scheduling service.

3. The method of claim 1 , wherein the scoring function includes the following equation:

Grant_Score=Function( K 2, S,T,P,C,G,I,M ), wherein,

K2 refers to the latency indicator;

S refers to the start symbol of the slot transmit boundary;

T refers to the PUSCH slot transmission time duration;

P refers to the received power;

C refers to the SCS;

G refers to the grant size;

I refers to the interference level; and

M refers to the spectral efficiency.

4. The method of claim 1 , wherein each of the one or more radio channel conditions of the scoring function has a weighting factor (f).

5. The method of claim 4 , wherein the scoring function includes the following equation:

Grant_Score=[( f 4)( P )+( f 5)( C )−( f 2)( S )−( f 6)( G )−( f 7)( I )−( f 8)( M )]/[( f 1)( K 2)+( f 3)( T )], wherein,

K2 refers to the latency indicator;

S refers to the start symbol of the slot transmit boundary;

T refers to the PUSCH slot transmission time duration;

P refers to the received power;

C refers to the SCS;

G refers to the grant size;

I refers to the interference level; and

M refers to the spectral efficiency.

6. The method of claim 5 , wherein the latency indicator K2 is a slot offset value, and wherein the slot offset value is greater than or equal to 1.

7. The method of claim 4 , wherein the scoring function includes the following equation:

Grant_Score=[( f 4)( P )+( f 5)( C )−( f 6)( G )−( f 7)( I )−( f 8)( M )]/[( f 1)( K 2)+( f 2)( S )+( f 3)( T )], wherein,

K2 refers to the latency indicator;

S refers to the start symbol of the slot transmit boundary;

T refers to the PUSCH slot transmission time duration;

P refers to the received power;

C refers to the SCS;

G refers to the grant size;

I refers to the interference level; and

M refers to the spectral efficiency.

8. The method of claim 7 , wherein the latency indicator K2 is a slot offset value, and wherein the slot offset value is less than 1.

9. A method for managing a scheduling service, the method comprising:

determining a score for each of multiple service grants from multiple cells based on a scoring function, wherein the scoring function includes one or more radio channel conditions associated with the multiple service grants; wherein the one or more radio channel conditions of the scoring function includes one or more of:

a latency indicator (K2);

a start symbol(S) of a slot transmit boundary;

a Physical Uplink Shared Channel (PUSCH) slot transmission time duration (T);

a received power (P);

a SubCarrier Spacing (SCS);

a grant size (G);

an interference level (I); or

a spectral efficiency (M);

determining a low priority service grant and a high priority service grant of the multiple service grants based on the determined scores; and

transmitting packets of a low priority service grant once every two packets of the high priority service grant.

10. The method of claim 9 , wherein the scheduling service is an uplink medium access control (MAC) grant scheduling service.

11. The method of claim 9 , wherein the scoring function includes the following equation:

Grant_Score=Function( K 2, S,T,P,C,G,I,M ), wherein,

K2 refers to the latency indicator;

S refers to the start symbol of the slot transmit boundary;

T refers to the PUSCH slot transmission time duration;

P refers to the received power;

C refers to the SCS;

G refers to the grant size;

I refers to the interference level; and

M refers to the spectral efficiency.

12. The method of claim 9 , wherein each of the one or more radio channel conditions of the scoring function has a weighting factor (f).

13. The method of claim 12 , wherein the scoring function includes the following equation:

Grant_Score=[( f 4)( P )+( f 5)( C )−( f 2)( S )−( f 6)( G )−( f 7)( I )−( f 8)( M )]/[( f 1)( K 2)+( f 3)( T )], wherein,

K2 refers to the latency indicator;

S refers to the start symbol of the slot transmit boundary;

T refers to the PUSCH slot transmission time duration;

P refers to the received power;

C refers to the SCS;

G refers to the grant size;

I refers to the interference level; and

M refers to the spectral efficiency.

14. The method of claim 13 , wherein the latency indicator K2 is a slot offset value, and wherein the slot offset value is greater than or equal to 1.

15. The method of claim 12 , wherein the scoring function includes the following equation:

Grant_Score=[( f 4)( P )+( f 5)( C )−( f 6)( G )−( f 7)( I )−( f 8)( M )]/[( f 1)( K 2)+( f 2)( S )+( f 3)( T )], wherein,

K2 refers to the latency indicator;

S refers to the start symbol of the slot transmit boundary;

T refers to the PUSCH slot transmission time duration;

P refers to the received power;

C refers to the SCS;

G refers to the grant size;

I refers to the interference level; and

M refers to the spectral efficiency.

16. The method of claim 15 , wherein the latency indicator K2 is a slot offset value, and wherein the slot offset value is less than 1.

17. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium having instructions stored thereon that, when executed by one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to implement the instructions so as to perform a method, the method comprising:

determining a score for each of multiple service grants from multiple cells based on a scoring function, wherein the scoring function includes one or more radio channel conditions associated with the multiple service grants; wherein the one or more radio channel conditions of the scoring function includes one or more of:

a latency indicator (K2);

a start symbol(S) of a slot transmit boundary;

a Physical Uplink Shared Channel (PUSCH) slot transmission time duration (T);

a received power (P);

a SubCarrier Spacing (SCS);

a grant size (G);

an interference level (I); or

a spectral efficiency (M);

prioritizing the multiple service grants based on the determined scores; and

assigning scheduling opportunities to the multiple service grants based on the determined scores of the multiple services grants in a geometric decreasing manner,

wherein, in the geometric decreasing manner, packets of a low priority service grant of the multiple service grants are transmitted intermittently between packets of a high priority service grant of the multiple service grants.

18. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 17 , wherein the packets of the low priority service grant are transmitted once every two packets of the high priority service grant of the multiple service grants.

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