US 12,171,003 B2
Multi-subframe uplink scheduling in unlicensed spectrum
Qiaoyang Ye, San Jose, CA (US); Hwan-Joon Kwon, Portland, OR (US); Jeongho Jeon, San Jose, CA (US); and Abhijeet Bhorkar, Fremont, CA (US)
Assigned to Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US)
Filed by Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US)
Filed on Oct. 29, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/515,166.
Application 17/515,166 is a continuation of application No. 15/775,745, granted, now 11,412,535, previously published as PCT/US2016/024612, filed on Mar. 29, 2016.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/264,226, filed on Dec. 7, 2015.
Prior Publication US 2022/0053539 A1, Feb. 17, 2022
This patent is subject to a terminal disclaimer.
Int. Cl. H04W 72/12 (2023.01); H04L 5/00 (2006.01); H04W 72/21 (2023.01); H04W 72/23 (2023.01); H04W 16/14 (2009.01)
CPC H04W 72/21 (2023.01) [H04L 5/0037 (2013.01); H04L 5/0042 (2013.01); H04L 5/0044 (2013.01); H04L 5/0053 (2013.01); H04L 5/0082 (2013.01); H04W 72/23 (2023.01); H04L 5/001 (2013.01); H04L 5/0094 (2013.01); H04W 16/14 (2013.01)] 17 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An apparatus, comprising:
a processor configured to cause a base station (BS) to:
transmit, using a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH), a first downlink control information (DCI) message to a first UE scheduling a first plurality of uplink transmissions to be transmitted by the first UE, wherein the uplink transmissions of the first plurality of uplink transmissions to be transmitted by the first UE are scheduled to be contiguous, sequential, and non-overlapping in time, the first DCI message including:
bits to carry respective configurations including respective new data indicators and respective redundancy versions for respective uplink transmissions of the first plurality of uplink transmissions to be transmitted by the first UE; and
an indication of an offset from the first DCI to a first uplink transmissions of the first plurality of uplink transmissions to be transmitted by the first UE.