US 12,010,663 B2
Configurations for dynamic indication of soft resource availability
Lili Wei, Cupertino, CA (US); Qian Li, Cupertino, CA (US); and Geng Wu, Cupertino, CA (US)
Assigned to Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US)
Appl. No. 17/442,006
Filed by Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US)
PCT Filed Mar. 27, 2020, PCT No. PCT/US2020/025436
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Sep. 22, 2021,
PCT Pub. No. WO2020/205607, PCT Pub. Date Oct. 8, 2020.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/826,954, filed on Mar. 29, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2022/0183003 A1, Jun. 9, 2022
Int. Cl. H04W 72/0446 (2023.01)
CPC H04W 72/0446 (2013.01) 8 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method for an integrated access and backhaul (IAB) wireless network, comprising:
determining, by an IAB node comprising a mobile termination (MT) block and a co-located distributed unit (DU) block, two slot format indications (SFIs) by configuring the co-located DU block, the two SFIs indications comprising a first SFI that indicates a resource availability for communicating with a parent node and a second SFI that indicates a soft resource availability for communicating with a child node, wherein each of the two SFIs comprise at least one RRC-configured slot formats; and
transmitting the two SFI indications to a second DU block;
the method further comprising configuring a first DU block of the IAB wireless network with a plurality of slot format lists, each list of the plurality of slot format lists corresponding to one child link of the first DU;
wherein each child link is configured with a slot format combination based on a multi-slot scheduling mechanism.