US 11,843,404 B2
Communications devices, infrastructure equipment and methods
Shin Horng Wong, Basingstoke (GB); and Martin Warwick Beale, Basingstoke (GB)
Assigned to SONY GROUP CORPORATION, Tokyo (JP)
Filed by Sony Group Corporation, Tokyo (JP)
Filed on Oct. 31, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/977,054.
Application 17/977,054 is a continuation of application No. 17/240,110, filed on Apr. 26, 2021, granted, now 11,489,549.
Application 17/240,110 is a continuation of application No. 15/834,552, filed on Dec. 7, 2017, granted, now 10,992,328, issued on Apr. 27, 2021.
Application 15/834,552 is a continuation of application No. 15/615,087, filed on Jun. 6, 2017, granted, now 9,866,247, issued on Jan. 9, 2018.
Application 15/615,087 is a continuation of application No. PCT/EP2017/052454, filed on Feb. 3, 2017.
Claims priority of application No. 16154582 (EP), filed on Feb. 5, 2016.
Prior Publication US 2023/0052683 A1, Feb. 16, 2023
Int. Cl. H04B 1/06 (2006.01); H04L 5/00 (2006.01); H04L 1/08 (2006.01); H04L 67/12 (2022.01); H04W 72/04 (2023.01); H04W 72/23 (2023.01); H04W 72/51 (2023.01); H04W 72/0446 (2023.01); H04W 72/0453 (2023.01)
CPC H04B 1/06 (2013.01) [H04L 1/08 (2013.01); H04L 5/0044 (2013.01); H04L 67/12 (2013.01); H04W 72/23 (2023.01); H04L 5/0007 (2013.01); H04L 5/0064 (2013.01); H04W 72/0446 (2013.01); H04W 72/0453 (2013.01); H04W 72/51 (2023.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method of controlling communications at an infrastructure equipment of a mobile communications network configured to receive signals from a communications device, the method comprising:
receiving a plurality of sub-units of an encoded transport block of data in a plurality of time-divided units within one or more frequency resources of the wireless access interface allocated to the communications device in a first repetition cycle, each of the sub-units being received a repeated number of times within the first repetition cycle;
for the first repetition cycle, combining the same sub-unit received the repeated number of times to form a composite sub-unit for the first repetition cycle;
receiving each sub-unit the repeated number of times within a second repetition cycle different from the first repetition cycle;
for the second repetition cycle, combining the same sub-unit received the repeated number of times to form a composite sub-unit in the second repetition cycle; and
combining the composite sub-units of the same section from the first and second repetition cycles to recover the transport block.