US 12,232,124 B2
Multi-slot scheduling on unlicensed spectrum
Haipeng Lei, Beijing (CN); and Alexander Johann Maria Golitschek Edler von Elbwart, Darmstadt (DE)
Assigned to Lenovo (Beijing) Limited, Beijing (CN)
Appl. No. 17/276,129
Filed by LENOVO (BEIJING) LIMITED, Beijing (CN)
PCT Filed Sep. 28, 2018, PCT No. PCT/CN2018/108282
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Mar. 13, 2021,
PCT Pub. No. WO2020/062011, PCT Pub. Date Apr. 2, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2022/0053541 A1, Feb. 17, 2022
Int. Cl. H04W 72/12 (2023.01); H04W 72/23 (2023.01); H04W 74/08 (2024.01); H04W 74/0808 (2024.01)
CPC H04W 72/23 (2023.01) [H04W 74/0808 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method performed by a user equipment (UE), the method comprising:
receiving a downlink control information (DCI) for scheduling time-contiguous data transmission in multiple slots, wherein the downlink control information includes an indicator indicating the time domain resource allocation in the multiple slots;
determining, based on the indicator, a starting position and a length of the scheduled time-contiguous data transmission, wherein:
the indicator:
explicitly indicates three of: a starting symbol, a starting slot, an ending symbol, an ending slot, and a length of the scheduled time-contiguous data transmission in a first slot of the multiple slots; and
implicitly indicates:
the length of the scheduled time-contiguous data transmission in each of a number of slots of the multiple slots, the number of slots comprising slots between the starting slot and the ending slot; and
at least one of the following not explicitly indicated by the indicator: the starting symbol, the starting slot, the ending symbol, and the ending slot; and
transmitting, in response to a successful listen-before-talk, data from the determined starting position to the determined ending position.