US 11,956,642 B2
Methods of efficient wideband operation for intra-band non-contiguous spectrum
Pei-Kai Liao, Hsin-Chu (TW)
Filed by MEDIATEK INC., Hsin-Chu (TW)
Filed on Jan. 19, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/099,216.
Application 18/099,216 is a continuation of application No. 16/733,580, filed on Jan. 3, 2020, granted, now 11,589,239.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/790,543, filed on Jan. 10, 2019.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/788,177, filed on Jan. 4, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2023/0156478 A1, May 18, 2023
This patent is subject to a terminal disclaimer.
Int. Cl. H04W 16/14 (2009.01); H04L 5/00 (2006.01); H04W 72/0453 (2023.01); H04W 72/23 (2023.01); H04W 74/08 (2009.01); H04W 74/0833 (2024.01)
CPC H04W 16/14 (2013.01) [H04L 5/001 (2013.01); H04W 72/0453 (2013.01); H04W 72/23 (2023.01); H04W 74/0833 (2013.01)] 14 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method comprising:
receiving a high-layer signaling of a set of UE-specific downlink (DL) or uplink (UL) bandwidth parts (BWPs) for a serving cell from a base station by a user equipment (UE) over an active DL BWP in a primary cell, wherein a BWP configuration of each UE-specific DL or UL BWP in the higher-layer signaling includes at least a set of radio resource clusters;
determining frequency locations of each set of radio resource clusters of a UE-specific DL or UL BWP based on a set of contiguous physical resource blocks (PRBs) and a same numerology of the UE-specific DL or UL BWP, wherein guard bands are reserved at two sides of and within each radio resource cluster in each of the UE-specific DL or UL BWPs in frequency domain; and
receiving a DL or UL BWP switch signal over the active DL BWP to switch an active DL or UL BWP from one DL or UL BWP to another DL or UL BWP for the serving cell, respectively.