US 12,143,970 B2
Configured grant resource configuration for new radio-unlicensed
Kapil Bhattad, Bangalore (IN); Jing Sun, San Diego, CA (US); Xiaoxia Zhang, San Diego, CA (US); and Ananta Narayanan Thyagarajan, Bangalore (IN)
Filed by QUALCOMM Incorporated, San Diego, CA (US)
Filed on Mar. 11, 2020, as Appl. No. 16/815,849.
Claims priority of application No. 201941012484 (IN), filed on Mar. 29, 2019; and application No. 201941014677 (IN), filed on Apr. 11, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2020/0314842 A1, Oct. 1, 2020
Int. Cl. H04W 72/0446 (2023.01); H04W 16/14 (2009.01); H04W 74/0808 (2024.01)
CPC H04W 72/0446 (2013.01) [H04W 16/14 (2013.01); H04W 74/0808 (2013.01)] 26 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method of wireless communication, comprising:
receiving, by a user equipment (UE), a configured grant (CG) configuration including a periodicity of CG resources available for CG transmissions and a resource indicator value (RIV) identifying a plurality of sets of CG resources including a plurality of slots, wherein the RIV includes a first RIV identifying a mini-slot level configuration of the plurality of sets of CG resources and a second RIV identifying a full-slot level configuration of the plurality of sets of CG resources;
performing, by the UE, a listen before talk (LBT) procedure at a starting location of a first set of CG resources of the plurality of sets of CG resources, wherein the first set of CG resources includes a plurality of starting locations within a slot of the plurality of slots, wherein performing the LBT procedure includes continuing to perform the LBT procedure at one or more of the plurality of starting locations until the LBT procedure is successful, wherein the first set of CG resources includes a plurality of consecutive uplink data transmission allocations within the slot of the plurality of slots; and
transmitting, by the UE, uplink data using the first set of CG resources in response to success of the LBT procedure.