US 11,705,992 B2
Infrastructure equipment, wireless telecommunications system and method
Shin Horng Wong, Basingstoke (GB); and Martin Warwick Beale, Basingstoke (GB)
Assigned to SONY GROUP CORPORATION, Tokyo (JP)
Filed by Sony Group Corporation, Tokyo (JP)
Filed on May 23, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/750,477.
Application 17/750,477 is a continuation of application No. 17/098,488, filed on Nov. 16, 2020, granted, now 11,343,021.
Application 17/098,488 is a continuation of application No. 16/334,748, granted, now 10,841,041, issued on Nov. 17, 2020, previously published as PCT/EP2017/073461, filed on Sep. 18, 2017.
Claims priority of application No. 16191974 (EP), filed on Sep. 30, 2016.
Prior Publication US 2022/0286231 A1, Sep. 8, 2022
This patent is subject to a terminal disclaimer.
Int. Cl. H04L 1/16 (2023.01); H04L 1/18 (2023.01); H04L 1/00 (2006.01); H04L 5/00 (2006.01); H04L 1/1607 (2023.01); H04L 1/1812 (2023.01); H04L 1/1829 (2023.01); H04L 1/1867 (2023.01)
CPC H04L 1/1685 (2013.01) [H04L 1/1812 (2013.01); H04L 1/1854 (2013.01); H04L 1/1896 (2013.01); H04L 5/0044 (2013.01); H04L 5/0055 (2013.01); H04L 5/0092 (2013.01)] 18 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An infrastructure equipment forming part of a wireless telecommunications system, the infrastructure equipment comprising:
circuitry configured to
transmit and receive signals via a wireless access interface in accordance with a time divided structure in which the wireless access interface is divided into a plurality of repeating time units,
provide, in each of a plurality of the time units, one of a plurality of control channels each configured to schedule one of a plurality of data channels, and
transmit a bundle status indicator in one or more of the plurality of control channels,
wherein the bundle status indicator includes a switch indicator indicating to the communications device that a time unit after a data channel scheduled by the control channel is configured for uplink communication to the infrastructure equipment.