US 11,706,772 B2
Wireless telecommunications apparatus and methods
Samuel Asangbeng Atungsiri, Basingstoke (GB); Shin Horng Wong, Basingstoke (GB); and Martin Warwick Beale, Basingstoke (GB)
Assigned to SONY CORPORATION, Tokyo (JP)
Filed by Sony Corporation, Tokyo (JP)
Filed on Dec. 29, 2020, as Appl. No. 17/136,042.
Application 17/136,042 is a continuation of application No. 16/346,129, granted, now 10,887,878, previously published as PCT/EP2017/075546, filed on Oct. 6, 2017.
Claims priority of application No. 16198538 (EP), filed on Nov. 11, 2016.
Prior Publication US 2021/0120533 A1, Apr. 22, 2021
This patent is subject to a terminal disclaimer.
Int. Cl. H04W 72/23 (2023.01); H04L 1/00 (2006.01); H04L 25/02 (2006.01); H04L 27/26 (2006.01); H04W 72/0446 (2023.01)
CPC H04W 72/23 (2023.01) [H04L 1/0057 (2013.01); H04L 1/0061 (2013.01); H04L 25/0202 (2013.01); H04L 27/2697 (2013.01); H04W 72/0446 (2013.01)] 12 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A transmitter entity for use in a wireless telecommunications system for communicating higher layer data to a receiver entity, wherein the transmitter entity comprises controller circuitry and transceiver circuitry configured to operate together such that the transmitter entity is operable to:
establish an allocation of radio resources for the transmitter entity to use for transmitting higher layer data to the receiver entity during a higher layer data transmission period;
transmit an indication of the allocated radio resources to the receiver entity;
begin transmission of the higher layer data to the receiver entity at the beginning of the higher layer data transmission period using the allocated radio resources;
identify during the higher layer data transmission period whether any of the allocated radio resources which have not yet been used are needed by the transmitter entity for transmitting other data in the wireless telecommunications system, and if so, establish a subset of the allocated radio resources for the transmitter entity to use for transmitting the other data and transmit the other data using the subset of the allocated radio resources; and
convey to the receiver entity during the higher layer data transmission period an indication of the subset of allocated radio resources used for the transmission of other data, wherein the indication includes a predefined signature sequence conveyed on a control channel region for the other data which is multiplexed along with a data channel for the other data into a data channel period of the allocation of radio resources in the higher layer data transmission period,
wherein the predefined signature sequence is selected by the transmitter entity from among a plurality of predefined signature sequences according to whether the transmission of the higher layer data to the receiver entity is a first transmission of the higher layer data to the receiver entity or a retransmission of the higher layer data to the receiver entity.