US 12,034,544 B2
Methods and apparatus to facilitate a multiple bit new data indicator
Jung Ho Ryu, Fort Lee, NJ (US); Sony Akkarakaran, Poway, CA (US); Tao Luo, San Diego, CA (US); Junyi Li, Franklin Park, NJ (US); and Jelena Damnjanovic, Del Mar, CA (US)
Assigned to QUALCOMM Incorporated, San Diego, CA (US)
Filed by QUALCOMM Incorporated, San Diego, CA (US)
Filed on Apr. 15, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/231,783.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/011,997, filed on Apr. 17, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2021/0328727 A1, Oct. 21, 2021
Int. Cl. H04L 1/1812 (2023.01); H04L 1/00 (2006.01); H04L 1/1867 (2023.01); H04W 72/23 (2023.01)
CPC H04L 1/1819 (2013.01) [H04L 1/003 (2013.01); H04L 1/189 (2013.01); H04W 72/23 (2023.01)] 42 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An apparatus for wireless communication at a first device, comprising:
memory; and
one or more processors coupled to the memory, the one or more processors configured to cause the first device to:
transmit a first state of a multiple bit new data indicator (NDI) for a first packet, wherein the multiple bit NDI is configured to indicate more than two different states and the first state indicates that the first packet is a new packet;
transmit the first packet;
transmit a second state of the multiple bit NDI for a second packet that is a retransmission of the first packet, wherein the second state is different than the first state;
transmit the second packet;
transmit a third state of the multiple bit NDI for a third packet, wherein the third state is different than the first state and the second state; and
transmit the third packet that is an additional retransmission of the first packet.