US 9,854,577 C1 (12,358th)
Multi-band channel aggregation
Kenneth L. Stanwood, San Diego, CA (US); Ramon Khalona, San Diego, CA (US); Lei Wang, San Diego, CA (US); Yair Bourlas, San Diego, CA (US); Gene W. March, San Diego, CA (US); Robert P. Gilmore, San Diego, CA (US); Ron Porat, San Diego, CA (US); and Paul W. Piggin, San Diego, CA (US)
Filed by Wi-LAN Inc., Ottawa (CA)
Assigned to WI-LAN INC., Ottawa (CA)
Reexamination Request No. 90/014,587, Oct. 5, 2020.
Reexamination Certificate for Patent 9,854,577, issued Dec. 26, 2017, Appl. No. 15/155,859, May 16, 2016.
Application 90/014,587 is a continuation of application No. 13/728,389, filed on Dec. 27, 2012, granted, now 9,344,998.
Application 13/728,389 is a continuation of application No. 13/412,287, filed on Mar. 5, 2012, granted, now 9,167,560.
Application 13/412,287 is a continuation of application No. 11/683,314, filed on Mar. 7, 2007, granted, now 8,130,699.
Ex Parte Reexamination Certificate issued on Aug. 15, 2023.
Int. Cl. H04W 72/04 (2023.01); H04L 5/00 (2006.01); H04L 5/14 (2006.01); H04W 72/23 (2023.01); H04L 5/06 (2006.01); H04W 76/15 (2018.01); H04L 1/18 (2023.01); H04L 27/26 (2006.01); H04W 72/21 (2023.01)
CPC H04L 5/0007 (2013.01) [H04L 1/18 (2013.01); H04L 5/0044 (2013.01); H04L 5/06 (2013.01); H04L 5/14 (2013.01); H04L 27/265 (2013.01); H04W 72/04 (2013.01); H04W 72/21 (2023.01); H04W 72/23 (2023.01); H04W 76/15 (2018.02)]
OG exemplary drawing
AS A RESULT OF REEXAMINATION, IT HAS BEEN DETERMINED THAT:
The patentability of claims 1-22 is confirmed.
1. A wireless device comprising:
a receive unit; and
a processor; and
the receive unit and the processor are configured to receive control data via control channels over at least a first communication channel or a second communication channel, the control data including a first assignment of downlink resources for the first communication channel and a second assignment of downlink resources for the second communication channel; wherein the first communication channel and the second communication channel have different carrier frequencies; wherein the first assignment of downlink resources indicates assigned orthogonal frequency division multiple access (OFDM) subcarriers of the first communication channel and the second assignment of downlink resources indicates assigned OFDM subcarriers of the second communication channel; and
the receive unit and the processor are further configured to receive downlink data on the assigned OFDM subcarriers of the first communication channel and the assigned OFDM subcarriers of the second communication channel; wherein at least a portion of the down-link data is received at least in part simultaneously on the first communication channel and the second communication channel; and
the processor is configured to combine at least a portion of the received downlink data from the first communication channel and the second communication channel to produce data for a single service.