US 11,723,040 B2
Systems and methods for unlicensed wide-band transmission
Alexander Sayenko, Munich (DE); and Anatoliy Sergey Ioffe, Redwood City, CA (US)
Assigned to Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US)
Filed by Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US)
Filed on Mar. 26, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/213,883.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/104,021, filed on Oct. 22, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2022/0132554 A1, Apr. 28, 2022
Int. Cl. H04W 72/23 (2023.01); H04W 74/08 (2009.01); H04W 72/0453 (2023.01)
CPC H04W 72/23 (2023.01) [H04W 72/0453 (2013.01); H04W 74/0808 (2013.01)] 17 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method for wireless communication comprising:
requesting a channel allocation from a network operator;
receiving a grant of a channel having a plurality of sub-bands, wherein the channel comprises a plurality of guard bands disposed between each sub-band of the plurality of sub-bands;
determining availability of the plurality of sub-bands;
determining that the plurality of sub-bands comprises a block of contiguous available sub-bands and at least one available sub-band, the block of contiguous available sub-bands being noncontiguous with the at least one available sub-band and comprising a sub-plurality of guard bands of the plurality of guard bands disposed between each sub-band of the block of contiguous sub-bands; and
transmitting data on only the block of contiguous available sub-bands, at least a portion of the data being transmitted on the sub-plurality of guard-bands.