US 12,075,432 B2
Resource allocation for uplink transmissions in unlicensed spectrum
Tai Do, Lund (SE); Joao Vieira, Hjärup (SE); and Stephen Grant, Pleasanton, CA (US)
Assigned to Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ), Stockholm (SE)
Appl. No. 17/422,179
Filed by Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ), Stockholm (SE)
PCT Filed Jan. 7, 2020, PCT No. PCT/EP2020/050192
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Jul. 10, 2021,
PCT Pub. No. WO2020/144168, PCT Pub. Date Jul. 16, 2020.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/791,431, filed on Jan. 11, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2022/0086893 A1, Mar. 17, 2022
Int. Cl. H04W 72/23 (2023.01); H04W 16/14 (2009.01)
CPC H04W 72/23 (2023.01) [H04W 16/14 (2013.01)] 18 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method performed by a wireless device, the method comprising:
receiving a resource allocation for an uplink transmission that allocates resources in one or more partially allocated interlaces; and
performing an uplink transmission on allocated resources in the one or more partially allocated interlaces in accordance with the resource allocation;
wherein the resource allocation comprises:
information that indicates the one or more partially allocated interlaces; and
one of the group consisting of:
information that indicates one or more physical resource blocks within the one or more partially allocated interlaces that are allocated for the uplink transmission from the wireless device; and
for each partially allocated interlace of the one or more partially allocated interlaces, information that indicates one or more physical resource blocks within the partially allocated interlace that are allocated for the uplink transmission from the wireless device;
wherein the information that indicates the one or more physical resource blocks is defined using a modified New Radio, NR, Resource Allocation, RA, type 1 resource allocation scheme.