US 12,382,499 B2
Channel occupancy time (COT)-structure indication
Ananta Narayanan Thyagarajan, Bangalore (IN); Kapil Bhattad, Bangalore (IN); Jing Sun, San Diego, CA (US); and Xiaoxia Zhang, San Diego, CA (US)
Assigned to QUALCOMM Incorporated, San Diego, CA (US)
Filed by QUALCOMM Incorporated, San Diego, CA (US)
Filed on Mar. 30, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/193,059.
Application 18/193,059 is a continuation of application No. 16/990,352, filed on Aug. 11, 2020, granted, now 11,638,302.
Claims priority of application No. 201941033013 (IN), filed on Aug. 15, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2023/0328787 A1, Oct. 12, 2023
This patent is subject to a terminal disclaimer.
Int. Cl. H04W 74/0816 (2024.01); H04L 5/00 (2006.01); H04W 72/1268 (2023.01); H04W 72/1273 (2023.01); H04W 72/23 (2023.01)
CPC H04W 74/0816 (2013.01) [H04L 5/0048 (2013.01); H04W 72/1268 (2013.01); H04W 72/1273 (2013.01); H04W 72/23 (2023.01)] 21 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method of wireless communication performed at a user equipment (UE), the method comprising:
receiving, from a network unit, a first indicator indicating a duration of at least a first portion of a channel occupancy time (COT);
receiving, from the network unit, a second indicator indicating a duration of at least a second portion of the COT different than the first portion of the COT and a flag indicating whether the second portion is a full remaining COT duration, wherein the second indicator comprises an uplink (UL) grant indicating one or more valid subbands of a subband configuration based on one or more listen-before-talk (LBT) results at a base station (BS); and
communicating at least one communication signal before an end of the duration of the second portion of the COT in response to the flag indicating the second portion is the full remaining COT duration, based on at least one of the first indicator or the second indicator.