US 12,088,514 B2
Sub-band position modulation techniques for wireless communication
Arumugam Chendamarai Kannan, San Diego, CA (US); Xiaoxia Zhang, San Diego, CA (US); and Sony Akkarakaran, Poway, CA (US)
Assigned to QUALCOMM INCORPORATED, San Diego, CA (US)
Filed by QUALCOMM Incorporated, San Diego, CA (US)
Filed on Jul. 28, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/387,858.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/059,063, filed on Jul. 30, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2022/0038225 A1, Feb. 3, 2022
Int. Cl. H04L 5/00 (2006.01); H04W 72/044 (2023.01); H04W 72/0453 (2023.01)
CPC H04L 5/0007 (2013.01) [H04L 5/0046 (2013.01); H04W 72/0453 (2013.01); H04W 72/0473 (2013.01)] 28 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An apparatus for wireless communication, comprising:
at least one processor;
a transceiver communicatively coupled to the at least one processor; and
at least one memory communicatively coupled to the at least one processor,
wherein the apparatus is configured to:
receive, via the transceiver, a resource allocation indicating a frequency bandwidth, the frequency bandwidth including N frequency sub-bands, wherein N is an integer number greater than one; and
transmit, via the transceiver, a wireless communication of first data over K active sub-bands of the N frequency sub-bands for a first interval, wherein positions of the K active sub-bands in the N frequency sub-bands form a first active sub-band position pattern that encodes first additional bits of data relative to the wireless communication of the first data over the K active sub-bands, wherein K is an integer number of sub-bands greater than zero and less than N.