US 12,376,076 B2
Methods and apparatus for resource reservation in narrowband Internet of Things communications
Carmela Cozzo, San Diego, CA (US); and Brian Classon, Palatine, IL (US)
Assigned to HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD., Shenzhen (CN)
Filed by Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd., Shenzhen (CN)
Filed on May 6, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/662,303.
Application 17/662,303 is a continuation of application No. PCT/US2020/054068, filed on Oct. 2, 2020.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/932,244, filed on Nov. 7, 2019.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/932,227, filed on Nov. 7, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2022/0264535 A1, Aug. 18, 2022
Int. Cl. H04W 72/02 (2009.01); H04L 1/1607 (2023.01); H04W 28/26 (2009.01); H04W 72/0446 (2023.01); H04W 72/0453 (2023.01); H04W 72/23 (2023.01)
CPC H04W 72/02 (2013.01) [H04L 1/1614 (2013.01); H04W 28/26 (2013.01); H04W 72/0446 (2013.01); H04W 72/0453 (2013.01); H04W 72/23 (2023.01)] 33 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method comprising:
receiving, by a first device from a second device, a higher layer message including reservation information for time domain network resources available for communicating with a plurality of wireless communication protocols, the reservation information comprising a first bitmap associated with the time domain network resources, wherein the first bitmap is 20 bits or 80 bits in length for slot-level resource reservation and includes 2 bits per subframe indicating whether a slot in a subframe is reserved for transmissions;
receiving, by the first device from the second device, a dynamically signaled message including a reservation indicator of a reservation status of a time domain network resource from the time domain network resources for communicating using a wireless communication protocol; and
communicating, by the first device, using machine to machine communications over the wireless communication protocol, the communicating occurring over an available time domain network resource from the time domain network resources.