US 11,706,800 B2
Category-2 listen-before-talk (LBT) options for new radio-unlicensed (NR-U)
Jing Sun, San Diego, CA (US); Xiaoxia Zhang, San Diego, CA (US); and Kapil Bhattad, Bangalore (IN)
Assigned to QUALCOMM Incorporated, San Diego, CA (US)
Filed by QUALCOMM INCORPORATED, San Diego, CA (US)
Filed on Dec. 17, 2019, as Appl. No. 16/717,254.
Claims priority of application No. 201841048655 (IN), filed on Dec. 21, 2018; and application No. 201941010290 (IN), filed on Mar. 16, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2020/0205195 A1, Jun. 25, 2020
Int. Cl. H04W 4/00 (2018.01); H04W 74/08 (2009.01); H04W 16/14 (2009.01)
CPC H04W 74/0808 (2013.01) [H04W 16/14 (2013.01)] 30 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method of wireless communication, comprising:
receiving, at a first wireless communication device, a first communication signal;
performing, by the first wireless communication device, a listen-before-talk (LBT) based at least in part on one or more channel measurements in one or more measurement periods of a gap duration between the first communication signal and a second communication signal, wherein a timing of the one or more measurement periods is based on a time-partitioning of the gap duration into a plurality of gap duration portions, and wherein a quantity of the plurality of gap duration portions is based on a length of the gap duration; and
transmitting, by the first wireless communication device, the second communication signal based on the LBT.