US 12,232,104 B2
Communications device, infrastructure equipment and methods
Shin Horng Wong, Basingstoke (GB); and Yassin Aden Awad, Basingstoke (GB)
Assigned to SONY GROUP CORPORATION, Tokyo (JP)
Appl. No. 17/420,723
Filed by Sony Group Corporation, Tokyo (JP)
PCT Filed Jan. 8, 2020, PCT No. PCT/EP2020/050297
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Jul. 6, 2021,
PCT Pub. No. WO2020/148122, PCT Pub. Date Jul. 23, 2020.
Claims priority of application No. 19152670 (EP), filed on Jan. 18, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2022/0070896 A1, Mar. 3, 2022
Int. Cl. H04W 72/1268 (2023.01); H04W 72/21 (2023.01); H04W 72/23 (2023.01); H04W 72/566 (2023.01)
CPC H04W 72/1268 (2013.01) [H04W 72/21 (2023.01); H04W 72/23 (2023.01); H04W 72/569 (2023.01)] 19 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method of transmitting data by a communications device in a wireless communications network, the method comprising:
receiving a first downlink control message comprising an indication of a first dynamic grant allocating first uplink communications resources for transmission of data by the communications device,
receiving a second downlink control message, the second downlink control message comprising an indication of a second dynamic grant allocating second uplink communications resources for transmission of data by the communications device,
determining that the second uplink communications resources comprise at least a portion of the first uplink communications resources,
determining that the first uplink communications resources are associated with a higher priority than the second uplink communications resources based on an indication included in the first downlink control message permitting pre-emption of the second uplink communications resources allocated by the second downlink control message received prior to the first downlink control message, and
in response to the determining that the first uplink communications resources are associated with a higher priority than the second uplink communications resources, transmitting a transport block using the first uplink communications resources.