US 12,231,373 B2
Telecommunications apparatus and methods
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 Apr. 14, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/300,419.
Application 18/300,419 is a continuation of application No. 17/164,180, filed on Feb. 1, 2021, granted, now 11,632,222.
Application 17/164,180 is a continuation of application No. 16/334,368, granted, now 10,911,209, issued on Feb. 2, 2021, previously published as PCT/EP2017/073172, filed on Sep. 14, 2017.
Claims priority of application No. 16191540 (EP), filed on Sep. 29, 2016.
Prior Publication US 2023/0254099 A1, Aug. 10, 2023
This patent is subject to a terminal disclaimer.
Int. Cl. H04L 5/08 (2006.01); H04L 5/00 (2006.01)
CPC H04L 5/0098 (2013.01) [H04L 5/0041 (2013.01); H04L 5/0042 (2013.01); H04L 5/0092 (2013.01); H04L 5/08 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. Circuitry for network infrastructure equipment for use in a wireless telecommunications system for communicating an indication of an allocation of radio resources on a radio channel for communicating data between the network infrastructure equipment and a terminal device, wherein the radio channel spans a channel frequency bandwidth divided into frequency resource units which may be selectively allocated for communicating data between the network infrastructure equipment and the terminal device, wherein the circuitry comprises controller circuitry and transceiver circuitry configured to operate together such that the circuitry is operable to:
select a combination of resource units for communicating the data between the network infrastructure equipment and the terminal device from among a predefined set of allowable combinations of the resource units, wherein the set of the allowable combinations of the resource units includes non-contiguous combinations of the resource units,
establish an indication of the selected combination of the resource units; and
transmit the indication of the selected combination of the resource units to the terminal device, wherein
the radio channel is one of a plurality of narrowband channels supported within a wider system bandwidth of the wireless telecommunications system, and wherein the indication of the selected combination of the resource units includes an indication of which one of the plurality of narrowband channels contains the selected combination of the resource units, and
the indication of the selected combination of the resource units includes a first set of data bits indicating which one of the plurality of narrowband channels the allocation of radio resources applies to, a second set of data bits indicating which of one or more sub-channels the allocation of radio resources applies to, and a third set of data bits indicating which of the resource units are allocated in the one or more sub-channels.