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- Patent Title: Methods and apparatus for scheduling and/or granting uplink resources
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Application No.: US17074603Application Date: 2020-10-19
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Publication No.: US11497049B2Publication Date: 2022-11-08
- Inventor: Amitav Mukherjee , Maulik Vaidya
- Applicant: Charter Communications Operating, LLC
- Applicant Address: US MO St. Louis
- Assignee: Charter Communications Operating, LLC
- Current Assignee: Charter Communications Operating, LLC
- Current Assignee Address: US MO St. Louis
- Agency: Straub & Straub
- Agent Michael P. Straub; Stephen T. Straub
- Main IPC: H04W72/12
- IPC: H04W72/12 ; H04W76/36 ; H04W28/06 ; H04W28/02 ; H04W72/04 ; H04L27/26

Abstract:
A base station schedules a user equipment (UE) for uplink air link resources, e.g., unlicensed spectrum PUSCH resources, corresponding to one or more slots and, in some embodiments, at least one mini-slot. There may be, and sometimes are gaps between two scheduled slots and/or between a scheduled slot and a scheduled mini-slot. Different uplink air link resources corresponding to a schedule slot or mini-slot may, and sometimes do, use different set of frequencies. The base station generates and sends to the UE a single UL grant which grants uplink air link resources corresponding to the composite of resource allocations corresponding to the one or more slots and, in some embodiments, at least one mini-slot. The single UL grant may, and sometimes does, communicates gap information and frequency information.
Public/Granted literature
- US20210037563A1 METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR SCHEDULING AND/OR GRANTING UPLINK RESOURCES Public/Granted day:2021-02-04
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