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US 12,279,254 · App. 18/601,565 · Granted Apr 15, 2025

Two-stage trigger procedure

Inventor: Alexander Golitschek Edler von Elbwart (Hessen, DE)
Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America
H04W72/1268H04W16/14H04W72/0446H04W72/1215H04W72/23H04W76/11
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Patent No.
US 12,279,254
App. No.
18/601,565
Granted
Apr 15, 2025
Kind
B2
Abstract

The invention relates to a user equipment for being scheduled with uplink radio resources. The user equipment receives from a radio base station a first-stage uplink resource scheduling message, indicating uplink radio resources usable by the UE to perform an uplink transmission via an unlicensed cell. The receiver further receives a second-stage uplink resource scheduling message, which is related to the first-stage uplink resource scheduling message. Upon reception of the second-stage uplink resource scheduling message, a processor of the UE determines that an uplink transmission is scheduled in case the first-stage uplink resource scheduling message is valid. The first-stage uplink resource scheduling message is determined valid based on a determination as to whether an uplink transmission has been triggered by another second-stage uplink resource scheduling message within a predetermined time period prior to reception of the second-stage uplink resource scheduling message. The UE then performs an uplink transmission.

Claims (20)

1. An integrated circuit for a radio base station, the integrated circuit comprising:

transmission circuitry, which, in operation, controls transmitting to a user equipment a first-stage uplink resource scheduling message indicating uplink radio resources usable by the user equipment to perform an uplink transmission via an unlicensed cell, and a second-stage uplink resource scheduling message related to the first-stage uplink resource scheduling message,

wherein the first-stage uplink resource scheduling message is valid or not, depending on whether the uplink transmission from the user equipment has been triggered or not by another second-stage uplink resource scheduling message within a predetermined time period prior to reception of the second-stage uplink resource scheduling message at the user equipment, and

reception circuitry, which, in operation, controls receiving the uplink transmission from the user equipment via the unlicensed cell.

2. The integrated circuit according to claim 1 , wherein the first-stage uplink resource scheduling message is valid when no uplink transmission has been triggered by the other second-stage uplink resource scheduling message in the predetermined time period prior to reception of the second-stage uplink resource scheduling message at the user equipment.

3. The integrated circuit according to claim 1 , wherein the first-stage uplink resource scheduling message is invalid when the uplink transmission has been triggered by the other second-stage uplink resource scheduling message in the predetermined time period prior to reception of the second-stage uplink resource scheduling message, and

wherein the first-stage uplink resource scheduling message is valid when the first-stage uplink resource scheduling message has not been invalidated.

4. The integrated circuit according to claim 1 , wherein the first-stage uplink resource scheduling message is addressed to the user equipment, and the second-stage uplink resource scheduling message is commonly addressed to a plurality of user equipments including the user equipment.

5. The integrated circuit according to claim 1 , wherein the first-stage uplink resource scheduling message is addressed to the user equipment by means of a user-equipment-specific identity employed in the transmission of the first-stage uplink resource scheduling message.

6. The integrated circuit according to claim 5 , wherein the user-equipment-specific identify is configurable.

7. The integrated circuit according to claim 1 , wherein the second-stage uplink resource scheduling message is commonly addressed to a plurality of user equipments including the user equipment, by means of a shared identity employed in the transmission of the second-stage uplink resource scheduling message.

8. The integrated circuit according to claim 7 , wherein the shared identify is pre-configured.

9. The integrated circuit according to claim 1 , wherein the first-stage uplink resource scheduling message indicates the predetermined time period.

10. The integrated circuit according to claim 1 , wherein, during the predetermined time period, the first-stage uplink resource scheduling message is processed together with the second-stage uplink resource scheduling message at the user equipment.

11. The integrated circuit according to claim 1 , wherein the first-stage uplink resource scheduling message is processed together with the second-stage uplink resource scheduling message at the user equipment in case the second-stage uplink resource scheduling message is received within the predetermined time period after reception of the first-stage uplink resource scheduling message at the user equipment.

12. The integrated circuit according to claim 1 , wherein the first-stage uplink resource scheduling message indicates a first time offset to be considered for the uplink transmission.

13. The integrated circuit according to claim 12 , wherein the second-stage uplink resource scheduling message indicates a second time offset to be considered for the uplink transmission.

14. The integrated circuit according to claim 13 , wherein the reception circuitry, in operation, controls receiving the uplink transmission at least after a sum of the first time offset and the second time offset after reception of the second-stage uplink resource scheduling message at the user equipment.

15. The integrated circuit according to claim 1 , wherein the first-stage uplink resource scheduling message is a downlink control information (DCI) message of format 0A, 0B, 4A, or 4B, respectively comprising a first-stage flag indicating that the DCI message is a first uplink resource scheduling message of a two-stages uplink resource scheduling.

16. The integrated circuit according to claim 1 , wherein the second-stage uplink resource scheduling message is a downlink control information (DCI) message of format 1C, comprising a second-stage flag indicating that the DCI message is a second uplink resource scheduling message of a two-stages uplink resource scheduling.

Priority Claims (1)
EP 16002352 · Nov 4, 2016 · regional
Continuity (4)
Continuation 18169698 · Feb 15, 2023
Continuation 17357590 · Jun 24, 2021
Continuation 16346359
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