# US 2022/0046597 A1 · Communications device, infrastructure equipment and methods > Agents: this data is available as JSON from the patentgrep API and MCP server — see https://patentgrep.com/llms.txt - Number: US 2022/0046597 A1 - Document ID: US20220046597A1 - Status: Published application - Kind: A1 - Application number: 17/413,592 - Filed: 2019-12-18 - Published: 2022-02-10 - Earliest claimed: 2018-12-20 - Assignees: Sony Group Corporation - Applicants: Sony Corporation - Inventors: Yassin Aden AWAD; Vivek SHARMA; Shin Horng WONG; Yuxin WEI; Kazuyuki SHIMEZAWA - Web page: https://patentgrep.com/patent/US20220046597A1 ## CPC - H04W 72/02: Selection of wireless resources by user or terminal - H04L 1/0003: {by switching between different modulation schemes} - H04W 72/0446: Resources in time domain, e.g. slots or frames - H04W 72/0453: Resources in frequency domain, e.g. a carrier in FDMA - H04W 72/23: in the downlink direction of a wireless link, i.e. towards a terminal - H04W 72/1268: of uplink data flows - H04W 72/543: based on requested quality, e.g. QoS - H04W 80/02: Data link layer protocols - H04W: WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORKS (broadcast communication H04H; communication systems using wireless links for non-selective communication, e.g. wireless extensions H04M1/72) - H04L: TRANSMISSION OF DIGITAL INFORMATION, e.g. TELEGRAPHIC COMMUNICATION (arrangements common to telegraphic and telephonic communication H04M) ## Abstract A method for transmitting data by a communications device, the method comprising determining that a plurality of communications resources overlap, the communications resources being configured for the transmission of data by the communications device, in response to determining that the plurality of communications resources overlap, selecting communications resources comprising at least a portion of one or more of the plurality of communications resources, selecting data to be transmitted using the selected communications resources, and transmitting the selected data using the selected communications resources. ## Claims ### Claim 1 A method for transmitting data by a communications device, the method comprising determining that a plurality of communications resources overlap, the communications resources being configured for the transmission of data by the communications device, in response to determining that the plurality of communications resources overlap, selecting communications resources comprising at least a portion of one or more of the plurality of communications resources, selecting data to be transmitted using the selected communications resources, and transmitting the selected data using the selected communications resources. ### Claim 2 (depends on 1) A method according to claim 1, wherein the plurality of communications resources are allocated for the transmission of data by the communications device. ### Claim 3 (depends on 1) A method according to claim 1, wherein the selecting communications resources is based on a frequency range associated with each of the plurality of communications resources. ### Claim 4 (depends on 1) A method according to claim 1, wherein the selecting communications resources is based on at least one of a starting time and an ending time associated with each of the plurality of communications resources. ### Claim 5 (depends on 1) A method according to claim 1, wherein each of the plurality of communications resources is associated with a latency requirement, and selecting communications resources is based on the latency requirement associated with each of the plurality of communications resources. ### Claim 6 (depends on 1) A method according to claim 1, wherein each of the plurality of communications resources is associated with modulation and coding scheme parameters, and the method comprises selecting modulation and coding scheme parameters, and transmitting the selected data in accordance with the selected modulation and coding scheme parameters. ### Claim 7 (depends on 6) A method according to claim 6, wherein selecting the modulation and coding scheme parameters comprises selecting the modulation and coding scheme parameters from the modulation and coding scheme parameters associated with the plurality of communications resources, the selected modulation and coding scheme parameters providing a greatest probability of correct decoding for the transmitted data of the modulation and coding scheme parameters associated with the plurality of communications resources. ### Claim 8 (depends on 6) A method according to claim 6, wherein selecting the modulation and coding scheme parameters comprises selecting the modulation and coding scheme parameters from a plurality of predetermined sets of modulation and coding scheme parameters so that the selected data can be transmitted using the selected communications resources. ### Claim 9 (depends on 1) A method according to claim 1, wherein the selecting the data for transmission using the selected communications resources is in response to determining that the plurality of communications resources overlap. ### Claim 10 (depends on 1) A method according to claim 1, wherein each of the plurality of communications resources are for the transmission of a medium access control (MAC) transport block (TB) by the communications device, the selecting communications resources is based on a time required to form a MAC transport block. ### Claim 11 (depends on 1) A method according to claim 1, the method comprising receiving an indication of a configured grant, the configured grant defining a periodic series of communications resources for transmission of data by the communications device, wherein one of the plurality of communications resources comprises one of the periodic series of communications resources defined by the configured grant. ### Claim 12 (depends on 11) A method according to claim 11, wherein the selecting the communications resources is based on a periodicity of the periodic series of communications resources defined by the configured grant. ### Claim 13 (depends on 11) A method according to claim 11, wherein the selecting the communications resources is based on whether one of the plurality of communications resources is allocated by means of a dynamic grant, the dynamic grant made in response to a request for communications resources transmitted by the communications device and granting a single allocation of communications resources. ### Claim 14 (depends on 1) A method according to claim 1, wherein the selected communications resources comprise the plurality of the communications resources. ### Claim 15 (depends on 1) A method according to claim 1, wherein the selected communications resources comprise later communications resources which are not within the plurality of the communications resources. ### Claim at position 16 16-17. (canceled) ### Claim 18 (depends on 1) A method according to claim 1, the method comprising transmitting with the selected data using the selected communications resources a selected communications resources indication, the selected communications resources indication indicating the selected communications resources. ### Claim 19 (depends on 1) A method according to claim 1, wherein determining that the plurality of communications resources overlap comprises determining that the plurality of communications resources overlap in a time domain by at least one orthogonal frequency division multiplexing, OFDM, symbol. ### Claim at position 19 20-21. (canceled) ### Claim 22 (depends on 1) A method according to claim 1, the method comprising determining that additional data not within the selected data is available for transmission and meets predetermined criteria, the predetermined criteria being based on one or more quality of service requirements, transmitting with the selected data using the selected communications resources an additional data indication, the additional data indication indicating that additional data is to be transmitted using next available communications resources, and transmitting the additional data using the next available communications resources. ### Claim at position 21 23-32. (canceled) ### Claim 33 A communications device for use in a wireless communications network, the wireless communications network comprising an infrastructure equipment providing a wireless access interface, the communications device comprising a transmitter configured to transmit signals via the wireless access interface, a receiver configured to receive signals, and a controller configured to control the transmitter and the receiver so that the communications device is operable: to determine that a plurality of communications resources overlap, the communications resources being configured for the transmission of data by the communications device, in response to determining that the plurality of communications resources overlap, to select communications resources comprising at least a portion of one or more of the plurality of communications resources, to select data to he transmitted using the selected communications resources, and to transmit the selected data using, the selected communications resources. ### Claim 34 Circuitry for a communications device for use in a wireless communications network, the wireless communications network comprising an infrastructure equipment providing a wireless access interface, the circuitry comprising transmitter circuitry configured to transmit signals via the wireless access interface, receiver circuitry configured to receive signals, and controller circuitry configured to control the transmitter circuitry and the receiver circuitry so that the communications device is operable: to determine that a plurality of communications resources overlap, the communications resources being configured for the transmission of data by the communications device, in response to determining that the plurality of communications resources overlap, to select communications resources comprising at least a portion of one or more of the plurality of communications resources, to select data to be transmitted using the selected communications resources, and to transmit the selected data using the selected communications resources. ### Claim at position 24 35-36. (canceled)