US 12,150,110 B2
Communications device and method
Brian Alexander Martin, Basingstoke (GB)
Assigned to SONY GROUP CORPORATION, Toyko (JP)
Filed by Sony Group Corporation, Tokyo (JP)
Filed on Jun. 16, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/336,079.
Application 18/336,079 is a continuation of application No. 17/360,505, filed on Jun. 28, 2021, granted, now 11,683,795.
Application 17/360,505 is a continuation of application No. 16/832,683, filed on Mar. 27, 2020, granted, now 11,076,412, issued on Jul. 27, 2021.
Application 16/832,683 is a continuation of application No. 16/229,833, filed on Dec. 21, 2018, granted, now 10,609,718, issued on Mar. 31, 2020.
Application 16/229,833 is a continuation of application No. 15/109,774, granted, now 10,194,453, issued on Jan. 29, 2019, previously published as PCT/EP2014/078093, filed on Dec. 16, 2014.
Claims priority of application No. 14153512 (EP), filed on Jan. 31, 2014.
Prior Publication US 2023/0371016 A1, Nov. 16, 2023
This patent is subject to a terminal disclaimer.
Int. Cl. H04W 4/00 (2018.01); H04W 72/12 (2023.01); H04W 76/14 (2018.01)
CPC H04W 72/12 (2013.01) [H04W 76/14 (2018.02)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A communications device, comprising:
a transmitter configured to transmit signals to one or more other communications devices via a wireless access interface;
a receiver configured to receive signals from the one or more other communications devices via the wireless access interface; and
control circuitry configured to control the transmitter and the receiver to transmit or to receive the signals via the wireless access interface, wherein the wireless access interface provides a scheduling region comprising a plurality of sections of communications resources, and provides a plurality of sections of shared communications resources,
each of the plurality of sections of the scheduling region corresponds to a section of the plurality of sections of the shared communications resources, and
transmission in a section of the plurality of the sections of the scheduling region reserves a section of the shared communications resources,
wherein the control circuitry is configured to control the transmitter to transmit a message in one section of the scheduling region, and
wherein the message includes an indication of a section of the shared communications resources in which a signal representing data is to be transmitted.