Granted Patent B2

US 12,309,798 · App. 17/759,466 · Granted May 20, 2025

Inventors: Changlong Xu (Beijing, CN); Jing Sun (San Diego, CA); Xiaoxia Zhang (San Diego, CA)

Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated

H04W72/23H04W74/0816H04W74/0866

Abstract

Claims (40)

1. A method of wireless communication performed by a user equipment (UE), comprising:

receiving, from a base station, an uplink grant message in a first fixed frame period (FFP) in frame based equipment (FBE) mode; and

transmitting data to the base station in a first part of a second FFP, based at least in part on information in the uplink grant message,

wherein the first part of the second FFP is during a processing time for the UE to decode a channel occupancy time (COT) indicator.

2. The method of claim 1 , wherein the first part of the second FFP is a first one or more symbols of the second FFP.

3. The method of claim 1 , wherein said transmitting data to the base station includes transmitting data to the base station based at least in part on receiving a common downlink control message that indicates that the base station will not contend for the second FFP.

4. The method of claim 1 , wherein said receiving the uplink grant message includes receiving the uplink grant message in a last slot of the first FFP.

5. The method of claim 1 , further comprising receiving the COT indicator from the base station and transmitting said data to the base station based at least in part on the COT indicator.

6. The method of claim 1 , wherein said transmitting data to the base station includes performing a listen before talk (LBT) procedure and transmitting data to the base station based at least in part on a determination that the LBT procedure is successful.

7. The method of claim 6 , wherein said performing the LBT procedure includes performing the LBT procedure in an idle period of the first FFP and before the second FFP.

8. A method of wireless communication performed by a base station, comprising:

transmitting an uplink grant message in a first fixed frame period (FFP) to a user equipment (UE) in frame based equipment (FBE) mode;

receiving data from the UE in a first part of a second FFP, based at least in part on information in the uplink grant message;

performing a listen before talk (LBT) procedure in an idle period of the first FFP and before the second FFP; and

receiving data from the UE in the first part of the second FFP based at least in part on a determination that the LBT procedure is successful, wherein the first part of the FFP includes a processing time for decoding a channel occupancy time (COT) indicator of the base station.

9. The method of claim 8 , wherein said transmitting the uplink grant message includes transmitting the uplink grant message in a last slot of the first FFP.

10. The method of claim 8 , wherein the first part of the second FFP is a first one or more symbols of the second FFP.

11. A user equipment (UE) for wireless communication, comprising:

a memory; and

one or more processors coupled to the memory, the memory and the one or more processors configured to:

receive, from a base station, an uplink grant message in a first fixed frame period (FFP) in frame based equipment (FBE) mode; and

transmit data to the base station in a first part of a second FFP, based at least in part on information in the uplink grant message,

wherein the first part of the second FFP is during a processing time for the UE to decode a channel occupancy time (COT) indicator.

12. The UE of claim 11 , wherein the first part of the second FFP is a first one or more symbols of the second FFP.

13. The UE of claim 11 , wherein the memory and the one or more processors are configured to transmit said data to the base station based at least in part on receiving a common downlink control message that indicates that the base station will not contend for the second FFP.

14. The UE of claim 11 , wherein the memory and the one or more processors are configured to receive the uplink grant message in a last slot of the first FFP.

15. The UE of claim 11 , wherein the memory and the one or more processors are configured to receive the COT indicator from the base station and transmit said data to the base station based at least in part on the COT indicator.

16. The UE of claim 11 , wherein the memory and the one or more processors are configured to perform a listen before talk (LBT) procedure and transmit data to the base station based at least in part on a determination that the LBT procedure is successful.

17. The UE of claim 16 , wherein the memory and the one or more processors are configured to perform the LBT procedure in an idle period of the first FFP and before the second FFP.

18. A base station for wireless communication, comprising:

a memory; and

one or more processors coupled to the memory, the memory and the one or more processors configured to:

transmit an uplink grant message in a first fixed frame period (FFP) to a user equipment (UE) in frame based equipment (FBE) mode;

receive data from the UE in a first part of a second FFP, based at least in part on information in the uplink grant message;

perform a listen before talk (LBT) procedure in an idle period of the first FFP and before the second FFP; and

receive data from the UE in the first part of the second FFP based at least in part on a determination that the LBT procedure is successful, wherein the first part of the FFP includes a processing time for decoding a channel occupancy time (COT) indicator of the base station.

19. An apparatus for wireless communication, comprising:

means for receiving, from a base station, an uplink grant message in a first fixed frame period (FFP) in frame based equipment (FBE) mode; and

means for transmitting data to the base station in a first part of a second FFP, based at least in part on information in the uplink grant message,

wherein the first part of the second FFP is during a processing time for the UE to decode a channel occupancy time (COT) indicator.

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