US 12,439,442 B2
Preemption and allocation of a control channel resource in a radio access network
Ali Esswie, Montreal (CA)
Assigned to Dell Products L.P., Round Rock, TX (US)
Filed by Dell Products, L.P., Round Rock, TX (US)
Filed on Jul. 15, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/866,233.
Prior Publication US 2024/0023152 A1, Jan. 18, 2024
Int. Cl. H04W 72/20 (2023.01); H04W 72/542 (2023.01); H04W 72/56 (2023.01)
CPC H04W 72/542 (2023.01) [H04W 72/20 (2023.01); H04W 72/56 (2023.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method, comprising:
based on a second priority corresponding to a second quality-of-service associated with a second user equipment being determined to be higher than a first priority corresponding to a first quality-of-service associated with a first user equipment, determining, by a radio access network node comprising at least one processor, to grant a data channel resource to the second user equipment; and
transmitting, in a first control channel search space preemption candidate according to a second scrambling code that is usable by the second user equipment to decode the first channel search space preemption candidate, scheduling information corresponding to the grant of the data channel resource to the second user equipment,
wherein the first user equipment is configured to decode the first control channel search space preemption candidate according to a first scrambling code that corresponds to the first user equipment, and wherein the second scrambling code is not usable by the first user equipment to decode the first control channel search space preemption candidate.