US 12,192,136 B2
Communications device, infrastructure equipment, wireless communications network and methods
Shin Horng Wong, Basingstoke (GB); Martin Warwick Beale, Basingstoke (GB); and Samuel Asangbeng Atungsiri, Basingstoke (GB)
Assigned to SONY GROUP CORPORATION, Tokyo (JP)
Filed by Sony Group Corporation, Tokyo (JP)
Filed on May 1, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/141,473.
Application 18/141,473 is a continuation of application No. 16/098,134, granted, now 11,646,840, previously published as PCT/EP2017/060113, filed on Apr. 27, 2017.
Claims priority of application No. 16169734 (EP), filed on May 13, 2016.
Prior Publication US 2023/0336301 A1, Oct. 19, 2023
This patent is subject to a terminal disclaimer.
Int. Cl. H04L 5/00 (2006.01); H04L 1/16 (2023.01); H04L 1/1607 (2023.01); H04L 5/14 (2006.01)
CPC H04L 5/0048 (2013.01) [H04L 1/16 (2013.01); H04L 1/1671 (2013.01); H04L 5/0082 (2013.01); H04L 5/0091 (2013.01); H04L 5/0023 (2013.01); H04L 5/0044 (2013.01); H04L 5/14 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method of transmitting signals from an infrastructure equipment of a wireless communications network to a communications device and receiving signals at the infrastructure equipment from the communications device, the method comprising:
transmitting an indication from the infrastructure equipment of a combined transmission unit providing one or more transmission units for the communications device, and
transmitting an indication for each of the one or more transmission units of the combined transmission unit of whether the transmission unit is for receiving signals from the communications device on uplink or whether the transmission unit is for transmitting signals from the infrastructure equipment on downlink, the indication is a downlink or uplink grant, the indication is an explicit indication, and the one or more transmission units being provided from a wireless access interface within a system bandwidth of the wireless communications network including a plurality of communications resource elements divided in time and frequency, each of the transmission units being configured from a predetermined number of the communications resource elements, and the one or more transmission units being used to form the combined transmission unit.