US 11,991,119 B2
Communications device, infrastructure equipment and methods
Vivek Sharma, Basingstoke (GB); Shin Horng Wong, Basingstoke (GB); and Yassin Aden Awad, Basingstoke (GB)
Assigned to SONY CORPORATION, Tokyo (JP)
Appl. No. 17/270,043
Filed by Sony Corporation, Tokyo (JP)
PCT Filed Aug. 19, 2019, PCT No. PCT/EP2019/072143
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Feb. 22, 2021,
PCT Pub. No. WO2020/064220, PCT Pub. Date Apr. 2, 2020.
Claims priority of application No. 18197373 (EP), filed on Sep. 27, 2018.
Prior Publication US 2021/0328748 A1, Oct. 21, 2021
Int. Cl. H04L 5/00 (2006.01); H04W 28/18 (2009.01); H04W 72/566 (2023.01)
CPC H04L 5/0064 (2013.01) [H04L 5/0044 (2013.01); H04L 5/0069 (2013.01); H04W 28/18 (2013.01); H04W 72/569 (2023.01)] 19 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method for transmitting data by a communications device in a wireless communications network, the method comprising:
assigning one of a plurality of logical channel priorities to the data in accordance with a plurality of service types, the logical channel priorities providing at least an indication of high priority data and lower priority data;
selecting a transport block size based on an amount of high priority data to be transmitted, the transport block size being selected such that a transport block includes only the high priority data;
forming the transport block of the data for transmission at a medium access control protocol layer in accordance with the logical channel priorities and the transport block size selected; and
passing the transport block from the medium access control protocol layer to a physical layer for transmission and providing an indication to the physical layer based on the logical channel priority of the data in the transport block.