US 12,193,029 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 Group Corporation, Tokyo (JP)
Filed by Sony Group Corporation, Tokyo (JP)
Filed on Jul. 17, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/353,124.
Application 18/353,124 is a continuation of application No. 17/136,042, filed on Dec. 29, 2020, granted, now 11,706,772.
Application 17/136,042 is a continuation of application No. 16/346,129, granted, now 10,887,878, issued on Jan. 5, 2021, 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 2023/0362949 A1, Nov. 9, 2023
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)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method of operating a transmitter entity in a wireless telecommunications system for communicating higher layer data to a receiver entity, wherein the method comprises:
establishing 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;
transmitting an indication of the allocated radio resources to the receiver entity, wherein the indication includes a predefined signature sequence;
beginning 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; and
identifying 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, establishing a subset of the allocated radio resources for the transmitter entity to use for transmitting the other data and transmitting the other data using the subset of the allocated radio resources;
wherein the method further comprises the transmitter entity conveying 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; and
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.