US 11,659,540 B2
Communications device, infrastructure equipment and methods for receiving downlink control information
Matthew William Webb, Basingstoke (GB)
Assigned to SONY GROUP CORPORATION, Tokyo (JP)
Filed by Sony Group Corporation, Tokyo (JP)
Filed on Oct. 22, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/507,812.
Application 17/507,812 is a continuation of application No. 16/669,538, filed on Oct. 31, 2019, granted, now 11,160,080.
Application 16/669,538 is a continuation of application No. 16/282,305, filed on Feb. 22, 2019, granted, now 10,506,600, issued on Dec. 10, 2019.
Application 16/282,305 is a continuation of application No. 15/026,348, granted, now 10,257,834, issued on Apr. 9, 2019, previously published as PCT/EP2014/071220, filed on Oct. 3, 2014.
Claims priority of application No. 13195385 (EP), filed on Dec. 2, 2013.
Prior Publication US 2022/0046629 A1, Feb. 10, 2022
This patent is subject to a terminal disclaimer.
Int. Cl. H04W 72/04 (2023.01); H04L 1/00 (2006.01); H04W 72/044 (2023.01); H04L 5/00 (2006.01); H04L 1/08 (2006.01); H04W 72/23 (2023.01); H04W 72/0446 (2023.01); H04W 4/70 (2018.01); H04L 1/1607 (2023.01)
CPC H04W 72/046 (2013.01) [H04L 1/0038 (2013.01); H04L 1/0046 (2013.01); H04L 1/0067 (2013.01); H04L 1/0072 (2013.01); H04L 1/08 (2013.01); H04L 5/0053 (2013.01); H04L 5/0098 (2013.01); H04W 72/23 (2023.01); H04L 1/1607 (2013.01); H04L 5/0094 (2013.01); H04W 4/70 (2018.02); H04W 72/0446 (2013.01); Y02D 30/70 (2020.08)] 20 Claims
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1. An infrastructure equipment for transmitting data to or receiving data from communication devices in a mobile communications network, the infrastructure equipment comprising:
circuitry configured to
transmit data via a wireless access interface, the data provided in a radio frame that is divided into a plurality of time divided temporal units with a downlink control channel and a downlink shared channel included in each temporal unit; and
transmit downlink control channel information in one or more control channel elements of the downlink control channel included in the radio frame, wherein the one or more control channel elements in which the downlink control channel information is transmitted is one of a plurality of sets of possible control channel elements in which infrastructure equipment can transmit the downlink control information in one of the temporal units of the radio frame, wherein
the circuitry is configured to transmit the downlink control channel information in at least one of (i) a first sub-set of the plurality of possible sets of control channel elements in one or more of the temporal units of the radio frame according to a fixed aggregation level, and (ii) a second sub-set of possible control channel elements which is selected from the plurality of possible sets of the control channel elements in one or more temporal units according to a configurable aggregation level.