US 11,777,690 B2
Terminal device, infrastructure equipment and methods
Shin Horng Wong, Basingstoke (GB); Martin Warwick Beale, Basingstoke (GB); and Basuki Priyanto, Lund (SE)
Assigned to SONY CORPORATION, Tokyo (JP); and SONY MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS INC., Tokyo (JP)
Filed by Sony Corporation, Tokyo (JP); and Sony Mobile Communications Inc., Tokyo (JP)
Filed on Mar. 19, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/206,146.
Application 17/206,146 is a continuation of application No. 16/079,238, granted, now 10,958,399, previously published as PCT/EP2017/055341, filed on Mar. 7, 2017.
Claims priority of application No. 16160019 (EP), filed on Mar. 11, 2016; and application No. 16164756 (EP), filed on Apr. 11, 2016.
Prior Publication US 2021/0211261 A1, Jul. 8, 2021
This patent is subject to a terminal disclaimer.
Int. Cl. H04L 5/00 (2006.01); H04W 4/70 (2018.01); H04L 1/1812 (2023.01); H04L 69/28 (2022.01); H04L 1/1822 (2023.01); H04L 1/1607 (2023.01); H04W 72/23 (2023.01)
CPC H04L 5/0055 (2013.01) [H04L 1/1664 (2013.01); H04L 1/1812 (2013.01); H04L 1/1822 (2013.01); H04L 5/0053 (2013.01); H04L 5/0064 (2013.01); H04L 5/0078 (2013.01); H04L 5/0092 (2013.01); H04L 69/28 (2013.01); H04W 4/70 (2018.02); H04W 72/23 (2023.01); H04L 5/0044 (2013.01)] 18 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method, comprising:
receiving, by a terminal device, data from a wireless telecommunications network;
receiving control information that defines a period of time between a control channel and a data channel;
incrementing a number of grants in response to reception of the control channel; and
ignoring a subsequent control channel received during the period of time following the control channel in a case that incrementing the number of grants, in response to the subsequent control channel, would render the number of grants greater than a predetermined number.