# US 11,122,646 B2 · Gap period configuration > Agents: this data is available as JSON from the patentgrep API and MCP server — see https://patentgrep.com/llms.txt - Number: US 11,122,646 B2 - Document ID: US11122646B2 - Status: Granted - Kind: B2 - Application number: 16/474,980 - Filed: 2016-12-28 - Published: 2019-11-14 - Granted: 2021-09-14 - Earliest claimed: 2016-12-28 - Assignees: Motorola Mobility LLC - Applicants: Motorola Mobility LLC - Inventors: Zhi Yan; Xiaodong Yu; Haipeng Lei; Chenxi Zhu - Web page: https://patentgrep.com/patent/US11122646B2 ## CPC - H04W 76/28: Discontinuous transmission [DTX]; Discontinuous reception [DRX] - H04W 72/23: in the downlink direction of a wireless link, i.e. towards a terminal - H04W: WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORKS (broadcast communication H04H; communication systems using wireless links for non-selective communication, e.g. wireless extensions H04M1/72) ## Abstract Apparatuses, methods, and systems are disclosed for gap period (524, 528, 532, 536) configuration. One apparatus (200) includes a receiver (212) that receives (602) a configuration message. The configuration message includes information that configures one or more gap periods within a transmission period. The apparatus (212) also includes a transmitter (210) that transmits (604) data in the transmission period. The receiver (212) receives (606) a control indication message in the one or more gap periods. ## Claims ### Claim 1 An apparatus comprising a user equipment, wherein the apparatus comprises: a receiver that receives a configuration message from a base station, wherein the configuration message comprises information that configures one or more gap periods within a transmission period; and a transmitter that transmits data to the base station in the transmission period, wherein: the receiver further receives a control indication message from the base station in the one or more gap periods; the control indication message comprises information indicating whether data transmitted in the transmission period is to switch between a grant-free transmission and a grant-based transmission; and the control indication message comprises transmission pattern information comprising a size of transmission data, a redundancy version of transmission data, a modulation and code scheme of transmission data, a number of transmission repetitions, or some combination thereof. ### Claim 2 (depends on 1) The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the control indication message comprises new transmission indication information, transmission physical resource information, transmission power information, a reconfiguration message, or some combination thereof. ### Claim 3 (depends on 2) The apparatus of claim 2, wherein the transmission physical resource information comprises a time domain physical resource, a frequency domain physical resource, or some combination thereof. ### Claim 4 (depends on 2) The apparatus of claim 2, wherein the reconfiguration message comprises information that reconfigures the one or more gap periods in the transmission period. ### Claim 5 A method performed at a user equipment, the comprising: receiving a configuration message from a base station, wherein the configuration message comprises information that configures one or more gap periods within a transmission period; transmitting data to the base station in the transmission period; receiving a control indication message from the base station in the one or more gap periods, wherein the control indication message comprises information indicating whether data transmitted in the transmission period is to switch between a grant-free transmission and a grant-based transmission, and the control indication message comprises transmission pattern information comprising a size of transmission data, a redundancy version of transmission data, a modulation and code scheme of transmission data, a number of transmission repetitions, or some combination thereof. ### Claim 6 (depends on 5) The method of claim 5, wherein the control indication message comprises new transmission indication information, transmission physical resource information, transmission power information, a reconfiguration message, or some combination thereof. ### Claim 7 (depends on 6) The method of claim 6, wherein the transmission physical resource information comprises a time domain physical resource, a frequency domain physical resource, or some combination thereof. ### Claim 8 (depends on 6) The method of claim 6, wherein the reconfiguration message comprises information that reconfigures the one or more gap periods in the transmission period. ### Claim 9 An apparatus comprising a base station, wherein the apparatus comprises: a transmitter that transmits a configuration message to a user equipment, wherein the configuration message comprises information that configures one or more gap periods within a reception period; and a receiver that receives data from the user equipment in the reception period, wherein: the transmitter further transmits a control indication message to the user equipment in the one or more gap periods; the control indication message comprises information indicating whether data received in the reception period is to switch between grant-free data and grant-based data; and the control indication message comprises transmission pattern information comprising a size of transmission data, a redundancy version of transmission data, a modulation and code scheme of transmission data, a number of transmission repetitions, or some combination thereof. ### Claim 10 (depends on 9) The apparatus of claim 9, wherein the control indication message comprises new transmission indication information, transmission physical resource information, transmission power information, a reconfiguration message, or some combination thereof. ### Claim 11 (depends on 10) The apparatus of claim 10, wherein the transmission physical resource information comprises a time domain physical resource, a frequency domain physical resource, or some combination thereof. ### Claim 12 (depends on 10) The apparatus of claim 10, wherein the reconfiguration message comprises information that reconfigures the one or more gap periods in the reception period. ### Claim 13 A method performed at a base station, the method comprising: transmitting a configuration message to a user equipment, wherein the configuration message comprises information that configures one or more gap periods within a reception period; receiving data from the user equipment in the reception period; transmitting a control indication message to the user equipment in the one or more gap periods, wherein the control indication message comprises information indicating whether data received in the reception period is to switch between grant-free data and grant-based data, and the control indication message comprises transmission pattern information comprising a size of transmission data, a redundancy version of transmission data, a modulation and code scheme of transmission data, a number of transmission repetitions, or some combination thereof. ### Claim 14 (depends on 13) The method of claim 13, wherein the control indication message comprises new transmission indication information, transmission physical resource information, transmission power information, a reconfiguration message, or some combination thereof. ### Claim 15 (depends on 14) The method of claim 14, wherein the transmission physical resource information comprises a time domain physical resource, a frequency domain physical resource, or some combination thereof. ### Claim 16 (depends on 14) The method of claim 14, wherein the reconfiguration message comprises information that reconfigures the one or more gap periods in the reception period.