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US 11,115,957 B2Granted
System and method for uplink resource reuse
AssigneeHilco Patent Acquisition 55, LLC
InventorsZhijun Cai, Sean Bartholomew Simmons, James Earl Womack, Takashi Suzuki, Yi Yu
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Abstract
A system and method are disclosed that allows for uplink resource reuse. A user device is provided an uplink resource for a first data type. If the user device does not have enough data of the first data type to fill the granted uplink resource, the user device fills the granted uplink resource with a second data type.
Claims18
A method for uplink resource reuse by a user equipment (UE), the method comprising:
- receiving, by the UE, a semi-persistent uplink resource allocation for a first data type session, the semi-persistent uplink resource allocation comprising a plurality of individual uplink resource allocations space in time and the first data type session being a Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) session;
- determining, by the UE, that an amount of data to be sent for the VoIP session is less than an individual uplink resource allocation;
- after determining, assigning, by the UE, an unused portion of the individual uplink resource allocation for the VoIP session to send data for a second data type session of the UE during a transient period in which the amount of data to be sent for the VoIP session is less than a maximum and greater than zero;
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- using, by the UE, a portion of the individual uplink resource allocation to send the amount of data for the VoIP session and using the unused portion of the individual uplink resource allocation to send data for the second data type session.
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A user device (UE) comprising:
- a processor configured to receive a semi-persistent uplink resource allocation for a first data type session, the semi-persistent resource allocation comprising a plurality of individual uplink resource allocations spaced in time and the first data type session being a Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) session;
- the processor further configured to determine that an amount of data to be sent for the VoIP session is less than an individual uplink resource allocation;
- the processor further configured to assign, after the determination, during a transient period in which the amount of data to be sent for the VoIP session is less than a maximum and greater than zero, an unused portion of the individual uplink resource allocation for the VoIP session to send data for a second data type session of the UE;
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- the processor further configured to use a portion of the individual uplink resource allocation to send the amount of data for the VoIP session and use the unused portion of the individual uplink resource allocation to send data for the second data type session.
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A user equipment (UE) configured to:
- receive, at the UE, a semi-persistent uplink resource allocation for a first data type, the semi-persistent resource allocation comprising a plurality of individual uplink resource allocations spaced in time and the first data type being a Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) session;
- determine, by the UE, that a portion of an individual uplink resource allocation will not be used by the VoIP session during a transient period in which an amount of data to be sent for the VoIP session is greater than zero but less than the individual uplink resource allocation;
- reassign, by the UE, the portion of the individual uplink resource allocation that will not be used for the VoIP session to transmit data for a second data type;
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- transmit, by the UE, the amount of data for the VoIP session using another portion of the individual uplink resource allocation and transmit data for the second data type using the portion of the individual uplink resource allocation reassigned to the second data type.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.