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US 12,720,542 B2Granted
Methods, communications devices, and infrastructure equipment
AssigneeSony Group Corporation
InventorShin Horng Wong
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Abstract
Receiving, from a wireless network, signals on one or more downlink channels, each of the downlink channels being within one of a plurality of downlink transmission occasions, determining, for each of the downlink transmission occasions, a value of an acknowledgement bit indicating whether or not one of the signals has been successfully received on one of the downlink channels within that downlink transmission occasion, performing, based on at least one bundling characteristic, one or more of a plurality of different bundling operations on the acknowledgement bits determined for each of the downlink transmission occasions to produce one or more bundled bits, and transmitting, to the wireless communications network, an indication of the one or more bundled bits.
Claims17
A method of operating a communications device configured to transmit signals to and/or to receive signals from a wireless communications network via a wireless radio interface provided by the wireless communications network, the method comprising
- receiving, from the wireless communications network, signals on one or more downlink channels, each of the downlink channels being within one of a plurality of downlink transmission occasions,
- determining, for each of the downlink transmission occasions, a value of an acknowledgement bit indicating whether or not one of the signals has been successfully received by the communications device on one of the downlink channels within that downlink transmission occasion,
- performing, based on at least one bundling characteristic, one or more of a plurality of different bundling operations on the acknowledgement bits determined for each of the downlink transmission occasions to produce one or more bundled bits, wherein each of the bundled bits is produced by one or more of the performed bundling operations, wherein the at least one bundling characteristic comprises a minimum acknowledgement number, KMIN,
- determining, for each of at least one of the bundled bits, the bundling operation to be performed based on a value of KMIN associated with that bundled bit,
- wherein each of the at least one of the bundled bits produced by the determined bundling operation to be performed is to indicate either
- a positive acknowledgement, ACK, if the values of the acknowledgement bits indicate that a number of the downlink transmission occasions within which one of the signals has been successfully received by the communications device on one of the downlink channels is greater than or equal to the value of KMIN associated with that bundled bit, or
- a negative acknowledgement, NACK, if the values of the acknowledgement bits indicate that a number of the downlink transmission occasions within which one of the signals has been successfully received by the communications device on one of the downlink channels is less than the value of KMIN associated with that bundled bit, and
- transmitting, to the wireless communications network, an indication of the one or more bundled bits.
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A communications device configured to transmit signals to and/or to receive signals from a wireless communications network, the communications device comprising
- transceiver circuitry configured to transmit signals and receive signals via a wireless radio interface provided by the wireless communications network, and
- controller circuitry configured in combination with the transceiver circuitry
- to receive, from the wireless communications network, signals on one or more downlink channels, each of the downlink channels being within one of a plurality of downlink transmission occasions,
- to determine, for each of the downlink transmission occasions, a value of an acknowledgement bit indicating whether or not one of the signals has been successfully received by the communications device on one of the downlink channels within that downlink transmission occasion,
- to perform, based on at least one bundling characteristic, one or more of a plurality of different bundling operations on the acknowledgement bits determined for each of the downlink transmission occasions to produce one or more bundled bits, wherein each of the bundled bits is produced by one or more of the performed bundling operations, wherein the at least one bundling characteristic comprises a minimum acknowledgement number, KMIN,
- to determine, for each of at least one of the bundled bits, the bundling operation to be performed based on a value of Kw associated with that bundled bit,
- wherein each of the at least one of the bundled bits produced by the determined bundling operation to be performed is to indicate either
- a positive acknowledgement, ACK, if the values of the acknowledgement bits indicate that a number of the downlink transmission occasions within which one of the signals has been successfully received by the communications device on one of the downlink channels is greater than or equal to the value of KMIN associated with that bundled bit, or
- a negative acknowledgement, NACK, if the values of the acknowledgement bits indicate that a number of the downlink transmission occasions within which one of the signals has been successfully received by the communications device on one of the downlink channels is less than the value of KMIN associated with that bundled bit, and
- to transmit, to the wireless communications network, an indication of the one or more bundled bits.
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An infrastructure equipment forming part of a wireless communications network configured to transmit signals to and/or to receive signals from a communications device, the infrastructure equipment comprising
- transceiver circuitry configured to transmit signals and receive signals via a wireless radio interface provided by the infrastructure equipment, and
- controller circuitry configured in combination with the transceiver circuitry
- to transmit, to the communications device, signals on one or more downlink channels, each of the downlink channels being within one of a plurality of downlink transmission occasions, and
- to receive, from the communications device, an indication of one or more bundled bits produced by one or more bundling operations performed by the communications device, wherein the one or more bundled bits indicate a result of the bundling operations performed on acknowledgement bits determined by the communications device for each of the downlink transmission occasions based on at least one or more bundling characteristic, wherein each of the acknowledgement bits indicates whether or not one of the signals has been successfully received by the communications device on one of the downlink channels within that downlink transmission occasion,
- wherein the at least one bundling characteristic comprises a minimum acknowledgement number, KMIN, wherein each of the at least one of the bundled bits produced by a bundling operation determined based on a value of KMIN associated with that bundled bit is to indicate either
- a positive acknowledgement, ACK, if the values of the acknowledgement bits indicate that a number of the downlink transmission occasions within which one of the signals has been successfully received by the communications device on one of the downlink channels is greater than or equal to the value of KMIN associated with that bundled bit, or
- a negative acknowledgement, NACK, if the values of the acknowledgement bits indicate that a number of the downlink transmission occasions within which one of the signals has been successfully received by the communications device on one of the downlink channels is less than the value of Kun associated with that bundled bit.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.