US 12,082,262 B2
Mechanism for providing multiple transmission opportunities
Chunli Wu, Beijing (CN); Benoist Sebire, Tokyo (JP); and Samuli Turtinen, Ii (FI)
Assigned to Nokia Technologies Oy, Espoo (FI)
Appl. No. 17/606,815
Filed by Nokia Technologies Oy, Espoo (FI)
PCT Filed Apr. 30, 2019, PCT No. PCT/CN2019/085346
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Oct. 27, 2021,
PCT Pub. No. WO2020/220332, PCT Pub. Date Nov. 5, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2022/0256609 A1, Aug. 11, 2022
Int. Cl. H04W 74/0833 (2024.01)
CPC H04W 74/0833 (2013.01) 22 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A device comprising:
at least one processor; and
at least one memory storing instructions, that when executed by the at least one processor, cause the device to:
transmit a random access request from the device to a further device, the random access request comprising a preamble of the device;
receive a random access response to the random access request from the further device, the random access response comprising an indication as to the number of transmission opportunities granted for a set of devices of which random access requests are responded,
wherein the indication is indicating the number of transmission opportunities with a time domain offset from an uplink grant, and
wherein one of the number of transmission opportunities are of a continuous uplink grant following the uplink grant, or the number of transmission opportunities with a frequency offset to resources physical resource blocks is provided in the uplink grant;
in response to determining that the random access response comprises a preamble identification of the device, determine the number of transmission opportunities granted for the device based on the indication; and
determine a set of transmission resources for the device based at least in part on the number of the transmission opportunities.