US 12,250,723 B2
Method and apparatus for channel occupancy time sharing in wireless communication
Hong He, San Jose, CA (US); Chunhai Yao, Beijing (CN); Chunxuan Ye, San Diego, CA (US); Dawei Zhang, Saratoga, CA (US); Haitong Sun, Cupertino, CA (US); Jie Cui, San Jose, CA (US); Oghenekome Oteri, San Diego, CA (US); Wei Zeng, Saratoga, CA (US); Wei Zhang, Santa Clara, CA (US); Weidong Yang, San Diego, CA (US); Yang Tang, San Jose, CA (US); Yuchul Kim, San Jose, CA (US); Yushu Zhang, Beijing (CN); and Zhibin Wu, Los Altos, CA (US)
Assigned to APPLE INC., Cupertino, CA (US)
Appl. No. 17/441,362
Filed by Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US)
PCT Filed May 14, 2020, PCT No. PCT/CN2020/090161
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Sep. 21, 2021,
PCT Pub. No. WO2021/226909, PCT Pub. Date Nov. 18, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2023/0095487 A1, Mar. 30, 2023
Int. Cl. H04W 74/0816 (2024.01); H04W 72/12 (2023.01); H04W 72/21 (2023.01); H04W 74/08 (2024.01)
CPC H04W 74/0816 (2013.01) [H04W 72/12 (2013.01); H04W 72/21 (2023.01); H04W 74/0866 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A user equipment, comprising:
a transceiver configured to wirelessly transmit and receive information with a communications network; and
one or more processors configured to:
receive a maximum channel occupancy time (MCOT) from the communications network;
determine a first portion of the MCOT that will be used for uplink transmission and a remainder portion of the MCOT that will be unused;
generate an uplink transmission for transmitting during the first portion of the MCOT that includes channel occupancy time (COT) sharing information, the COT sharing information describing at least one of a location or a duration of the remainder portion, and being included within a configured grant uplink control information (CG-UCI) of the uplink transmission; and
cause the transceiver to transmit the uplink transmission to the communications network,
wherein the location of the remainder portion indicates a starting slot of the remainder portion relative to a slot in which the CG-UCI is transmitted.