US 12,088,528 B2
Communications devices, infrastructure equipment and methods
Shin Horng Wong, Basingstoke (GB)
Assigned to SONY GROUP CORPORATION, Tokyo (JP)
Appl. No. 17/770,338
Filed by Sony Group Corporation, Tokyo (JP)
PCT Filed Nov. 6, 2020, PCT No. PCT/EP2020/081368
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Apr. 20, 2022,
PCT Pub. No. WO2021/089832, PCT Pub. Date May 14, 2021.
Claims priority of application No. 19208170 (EP), filed on Nov. 8, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2022/0393830 A1, Dec. 8, 2022
Int. Cl. H04L 5/00 (2006.01); H04W 72/21 (2023.01); H04W 72/541 (2023.01)
CPC H04L 5/0053 (2013.01) [H04W 72/21 (2023.01); H04W 72/541 (2023.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A communications device configured to transmit signals to or receive signals from a wireless communications network, the communications device comprising
transceiver circuitry configured to transmit signals to and receive signals from the wireless communications network via a wireless access interface of the wireless communications network, and
controller circuitry configured in combination with the transceiver circuitry
to determine uplink communications resources of the wireless access interface to be used for the transmission of data by the communications device,
to receive a plurality of uplink cancellation indicators that each indicate that at least a portion of the uplink communications resources is allocated for the transmission of signals by another communications device and is located within communications resources of one of a plurality of reference regions, each of the reference regions being associated with one of the uplink cancellation indicators,
to determine that a portion of a first of the reference regions overlaps in both of frequency and time with a portion of a second of the reference regions, the portion of the uplink communications resources located within the communications resources of the first reference region being a first portion of the uplink communications resources and the portion of the uplink communications resources located within the communications resources of the second reference region being a second portion of the uplink communications resources, and
to determine, in accordance with dimensions of the first reference region and dimensions of the second reference region, that at least a third portion of the uplink communications resources is allocated for the transmission of signals by another communications device.