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Granted Patent B2
US 12,432,703 · App. 17/633,141 · Granted Sep 30, 2025

Terminal

Inventors: Hiroki Harada (Tokyo, JP); Daisuke Kurita (Tokyo, JP); Satoshi Nagata (Tokyo, JP); Lihui Wang (Beijing, CN)
Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
H04W72/0446H04W72/23
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Patent No.
US 12,432,703
App. No.
17/633,141
Granted
Sep 30, 2025
Kind
B2
Abstract

A terminal including: a reception unit configured to receive, from a base station apparatus, control information designating a number of continuous slots to which a physical uplink shared channel is assigned, or a number of continuous physical uplink shared channels; and a transmission unit configured, when LBT succeeds at any one of a plurality of candidate start positions in a slot of continuous slots to which the physical uplink shared channel is assigned, to start data transmission by the physical uplink shared channel from a candidate start position at which LBT succeeds.

Claims (24)

1. A terminal comprising:

a reception unit configured to receive configuration information including a plurality of pieces of time domain assignment information each being related to a plurality of uplink data channels, and to receive control information including information that is represented by a bit length corresponding to a number of the plurality of pieces of time domain assignment information included in the configuration information, and

a control unit configured to determine a time position of each of the plurality of uplink data channels based on time domain assignment information, in the configuration information, designated by the information,

wherein the control unit determines whether or not to transmit a plurality of uplink channels based upon whether a type of the control information received by the reception unit is DCI format 0_1, and

wherein a number of uplink data channels is notified by a number. of start time positions of uplink data channels, included in the time domain assignment information designated by the information.

2. The terminal as claimed in claim 1 , wherein each of the plurality of pieces of time domain assignment information included in the configuration information includes a start time position of the plurality of uplink data channels.

3. A radio communication system comprising:

a terminal comprising:

a reception unit configured to receive configuration information including a plurality of pieces of time domain assignment information each being related to a plurality of uplink data channels, and to receive control information including information that is represented by a bit length corresponding to a number of the plurality of pieces of time domain assignment information included in the configuration information, and

a control unit configured to determine a time position of each of the plurality of uplink data channels based on time domain assignment information, in the configuration information, designated by the information,

wherein the control unit determines whether or not to transmit a plurality of uplink channels based upon whether a type of the control information received by the reception unit is DCI format 0_1, and

wherein a number of uplink data channels is notified by a number, of start time positions of uplink data channels, included in the time domain assignment information designated by the information, and

a base station comprising:

a transmission unit configured to transmit the control information.

4. A base station comprising:

a transmission unit configured to transmit, to a terminal, configuration information including a plurality of pieces of time domain assignment information each being related to a plurality of uplink data channels, and to transmit, to the terminal, control information including information that is represented by a bit length corresponding to a number of the plurality of pieces of time domain assignment information included in the configuration information,

wherein a time position of each of the plurality of uplink data channels is determined by the terminal based on time domain assignment information, in the configuration information, designated by the information,

the base station further comprising a reception unit configured to receive data transmitted by an uplink data channel of the time position that specifies whether or not to transmit a plurality of uplink channels based upon whether a type of the control information received by the reception unit is DCI format 0_1, and

wherein a number of uplink data channels is notified by a number, of start time positions of uplink data channels, included in the time domain assignment information designated by the information.

5. A communication method executed by a terminal, the method comprising:

receiving configuration information including a plurality of pieces of time domain assignment information each being related to a plurality of uplink data channels, and receiving control information including information that is represented by a bit length corresponding to a number of the plurality of pieces of time domain assignment information included in the configuration information;

determining a time position of each of the plurality of uplink data channels based on time domain assignment information, in the configuration information, designated by the information; and

determining whether or not to transmit a plurality of uplink channels based upon whether a type of the received control information is DCI format 0_1,

wherein a number of uplink data channels is notified by a number, of start time positions of uplink data channels, included in the time domain assignment information designated by the information.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded May 11, 2022
From: HARADA, HIROKI; KURITA, DAISUKE; NAGATA, SATOSHI; WANG, LIHUI
To: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
Reel/Frame 059953/0481 →
Continuity (1)
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