US 12,408,204 B2
User equipment, network node, and methods performed thereby, for handling first information
Emre Yavuz, Stockholm (SE); and Magnus Stattin, Upplands Väsby (SE)
Assigned to Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ), Stockholm (SE)
Appl. No. 17/767,969
Filed by Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ), Stockholm (SE)
PCT Filed Mar. 5, 2020, PCT No. PCT/SE2020/050243
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Apr. 11, 2022,
PCT Pub. No. WO2021/071405, PCT Pub. Date Apr. 15, 2021.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/913,785, filed on Oct. 11, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2024/0098795 A1, Mar. 21, 2024
Int. Cl. H04W 74/0833 (2024.01)
CPC H04W 74/0833 (2013.01) 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method performed by a user equipment for providing first information to a network node, the user equipment and the network node operating in a wireless communications network, the method comprising:
sending a first indication to the network node, the first indication indicating whether or not first information is being provided, the first information comprising a second information on subsequent transmissions from the user equipment to the network node or from the network node to the user equipment, the first indication being comprised in a payload of a Medium Access Control (MAC) control element (CE), wherein:
the second information on subsequent transmissions indicates that a single subsequent DL transmission is expected or that multiple subsequent data transmissions are expected in the DL and/or in the UL;
the first indication comprises a first value and a second value;
the first value is an unassigned/available/spare value, and wherein the second value is a codepoint; and
an unassigned/available/spare value of 0 and a codepoint value of 0 indicate that the second information on subsequent transmissions is not being sent, and only a quality report is being sent.