US 11,864,171 B2
Coordination of logical channel priorities
Andreas Schmidt, Braunschweig (DE); Achim Luft, Braunschweig (DE); Maik Bienas, Schöppenstedt (DE); and Martin Hans, Bad Salzdetfurth (DE)
Assigned to IPCom GmbH & Co. KG, Pullach (DE)
Appl. No. 17/436,657
Filed by IPCom GmbH & Co. KG, Pullach (DE)
PCT Filed Mar. 18, 2020, PCT No. PCT/EP2020/057489
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Sep. 7, 2021,
PCT Pub. No. WO2020/187997, PCT Pub. Date Sep. 24, 2020.
Claims priority of application No. 19163987 (EP), filed on Mar. 20, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2022/0191886 A1, Jun. 16, 2022
Int. Cl. H04W 36/00 (2009.01); H04L 1/00 (2006.01); H04L 1/16 (2023.01); H04L 1/18 (2023.01); H04L 12/26 (2006.01); H04W 72/12 (2023.01); H04W 28/02 (2009.01); H04W 72/1263 (2023.01); H04W 88/06 (2009.01)
CPC H04W 72/1215 (2013.01) [H04W 28/0278 (2013.01); H04W 72/1263 (2013.01); H04W 88/06 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method of transmitting data to a receiving entity, the method comprising:
establishing a plurality of transmission channels to the receiving entity, the transmission channels being established using more than one radio access technology;
for each transmission channel determining a buffer status of a data buffer containing data to be transmitted using that transmission channel; and
determining if transmission capacity is available in a packet data unit of a first radio access technology and if such transmission capacity is available determining whether data may be taken from a data buffer of a transmission channel of a second radio access technology and transmitted to the receiving entity in the packet data unit.