Sony Corporation

Sony Group Corporation

Sony Mobile Communications Inc.

Convida Wireless, LLC

Sony Semiconductor Solutions Corporation

Interdigital Patent Holdings, Inc.

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Sca Ipla Holdings Inc.

Altair Semiconductor Ltd.

Sony Semiconductor Israel Ltd.

Sony Europe Limited

Sony Europe B.v.

Shin Horng Wong

Martin Warwick Beale

Vivek Sharma

Brian Alexander Martin

Samuel Asangbeng Atungsiri

Hideji Wakabayashi

Basuki Endah Priyanto

Shinichiro Tsuda

Kazuyuki Shimezawa

Yassin Aden Awad

Yuxin Wei

Anders Berggren

Chrysovalantis Kosta

Rickard Ljung

Naoki Kusashima

Nafiseh Mazloum

Basuki Priyanto

Hiromasa Uchiyama

Olof Zander

Lars Nord

Yigal Bitran

Lavi Semel

Hovav Elzas

Kosta Chrysovalantis

A location server configured to determine a location of communications devices with respect to a location of infrastructure equipment of a wireless access network from observed time differences between receiving positioning reference signals transmitted by a plurality of the infrastructure equipment and received by the communications devices.

Location server, infrastructure equipment, communications device and methods for the use of supplementary positioning reference signals

A method of operating a communications device configured to transmit data via a wireless access interface is provided. The method comprises operating in accordance with a configured grant, CG, mode of operation comprising determining a sequence of instances of uplink communications resources of the wireless access interface and transmitting uplink data to the wireless communications network in at least one instance of the sequence of instances of uplink communications resources, transmitting, to the wireless communications network, uplink control information relating to the CG mode of operation, CG-UCI, comprising one or more indicators which indicate information required to support one or more of a plurality of services, the plurality of services including Ultra Reliable Low Latency Communications, URLLC, and transmitting the uplink data in accordance with the information required to support the one or more of the plurality of services indicated by the one or more indicators of the transmitted CG-UCI.

Uplink control information related to configured grants

A method of operating a communications device, the method comprising: receiving reference signals transmitted by the infrastructure equipment on a wireless access interface, receiving downlink control information (DCI) transmitted by the infrastructure equipment to the communications device and each of one or more other communications devices which together form a group of communications devices, the DCI indicating whether each of the respective communications devices of the group is to transmit a channel measurement report, and in response to receiving the DCI, determining, based on the DCI, communications resources for transmitting the channel measurement report, generating a channel measurement report based on the received reference signals, and transmitting the channel measurement report using the determined communications resources.

Communications device, infrastructure equipment and methods for performing measurements in a wireless network

A method of transmitting data by a transmitter to a receiver in a wireless communications network. The method comprises receiving data for transmission to the receiver via a communications channel, dividing the data into portions for transmission, receiving, for each of the portions of data, an indication of channel information from the receiver for use by the transmitter in determining values for one or more communications parameters with which the portion of data should be transmitted, determining the values for the one or more communications parameters based on the received channel information, dynamically generating, for each of the portions of data, a waveform representative of the portion of data, and transmitting each of the portions of data, using the generated waveform representations and in accordance with the values of the one or more communications parameters, to the receiver.

Communications devices, infrastructure equipment and methods

A method of communicating data in a telecommunications system comprising a base station and a plurality of terminals operable to communicate data to and from the base station. The system is configured to transmit downlink signals using downlink resources in a frequency band and in a first time period and the method comprises, upon identification of uplink data to be transmitted by a first terminal of the plurality of terminals, dynamically selecting a set of resources for transmitting the uplink data, wherein selecting the set of resources comprises selecting a subset of the frequency band and a subset of the time period of the downlink resources, the selected set of resources being based on the subset of the frequency band and the subset of the time period.

Wireless telecommunications apparatuses and methods for transmitting uplink data using a selected set of resources

A communications device operating according to a Half Duplex Frequency Division Duplex mode of operation (HD-FDD) is configured to transmit and/or receive data in a wireless communications network. The communications device is configured to receive from the wireless communications network a first allocation of first physical resources of an uplink channel of a wireless access interface provided by the wireless communications network for transmitting uplink data to the wireless communications network, and to receive from the wireless communications network a second indicator of second physical resources of a downlink channel of the wireless access interface for receiving downlink data from the wireless communications network.

Communications device, infrastructure equipment, and method for determining a use of first physical resources and second physical resources based on a first format indicator and a second format indicator

According to an aspect, a method is provided of operating a wireless communication device (UE) to provide positioning related data for determining a position estimate of the UE, the UE being connected to a communications network via a radio link, the method comprising: monitoring for a control channel associated with a positioning occasion in which the UE monitors for at least one positioning reference signal, wherein the control channel comprises an allocation configuration of resources for transmitting the positioning related data. According to further aspects, a method of operating a wireless communication device, a wireless communication device and an access node are provided.

Control channel for positioning related data

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.

Communications device, infrastructure equipment and methods

A method includes determining an operating mode of a first terminal of the one or more terminals; selecting, based on the operating mode, a first frame configuration from a plurality of frame configurations for the first terminal, each of the plurality of frame configurations configuring one or more of: an offset parameter determining the start of a frame, a Channel Occupancy Time 'COT' duration in a frame, an idle duration in a frame, a frame duration, a frame period and a gap duration between two subsequent frames; and communicating between the first terminal and the base station and via the first frequency band, using contention-based access and based on the first frame configuration.

Terminals, base stations, systems, methods, circuitry and computer program products

A method of receiving data at a communications device from a wireless communications network is provided. The method comprises receiving, by a receiver of the communications device, downlink data during an initial access phase of a communications session of the communications device from a wireless access interface provided by the wireless communications network, and receiving, by the receiver of the communications device, other downlink data during a connected phase of the communications session the communications device transmitted to the communications device via the wireless access interface, the wireless access interface providing communications resources comprising a predetermined number of OFDM symbols in each of a plurality of time slots, the OFDM symbols in the initial access phase having a greater number of sub-carriers available to carry the downlink data within greater frequency domain physical resources than the OFDM symbols in the connected phase.

Communications devices, network infrastructure equipment, wireless communications networks and methods

A method of configuring transmissions in a mobile telecommunications network based on a target error rate for the transmissions, the transmissions being between a first mobile node of the mobile telecommunications network and a second mobile node of the mobile telecommunications network. The method comprises, in an initialisation phase, the first and second mobile nodes communicating (S) in accordance with a first error rate and a first communication configuration, wherein the first error rate is greater than the target error rate; measuring (S) an initial transmission quality associated with transmissions in the initialisation phase; based on the initial transmission quality associated with the first communication configuration, determining (S) a second communication configuration corresponding to the target error rate; and in a stable phase, the first and second mobile nodes communicating (S) in accordance with the target error rate and the second communication configuration.

Method, systems, mobile nodes and circuitry for link adaptation

A method of operating a communications device for transmitting data to or receiving data from an infrastructure equipment forming part of a wireless communications network. The method comprises determining uplink communications resources of a wireless access interface provided by the wireless communications network to be used for the transmission of data by the communications device to the infrastructure equipment, receiving, from the infrastructure equipment via the wireless radio interface, an uplink pre-emption indicator that indicates that at least a portion of the uplink communications resources are allocated for the transmission of signals by another communications device, the at least the portion of the uplink communications resources being located within communications resources of a reference region associated with the uplink pre-emption indicator, and adjusting one or more communications parameters for the transmission of signals representing the data in the uplink communications resources in response to receiving the uplink pre-emption indicator.

Methods, communications device and infrastructure equipment

A method of transmitting acknowledgement information, includes receiving from an infrastructure equipment of a wireless communications network an indication of a plurality of instances of downlink communications resources associated with a semi-persistent resource allocation, the plurality of instances of downlink communications resources allocated for the transmission of data by the infrastructure equipment to the communications device via a wireless access interface, determining that one or more uplink communication resources allocated for the transmission of a portion of acknowledgement information indicating an acknowledgement status of a respective instance of the downlink communication resources is invalid and cannot be used for the transmission of the acknowledgement information, selecting, from a plurality of outstanding portions of acknowledgement information which have not been transmitted, a subset of portions of acknowledgement information, and transmitting to the infrastructure equipment the selected subset of portions of acknowledgement information using a single instance of uplink communication resources.

A retransmission method for use in a telecommunications system, the method comprising: transmitting, to a terminal, first data in a set of identified resources allocated for the transmission of the first data; identifying that a portion of the identified resources has been used to transmit data other than the first data; and retransmitting a subset of the first data, the subset of the first data comprising the portion of the first data that was previously scheduled to be transmitted in the portion of the identified resources.

Wireless telecommunications apparatus and methods for retransmission of a subset of data

A method of operating a communications device comprises: determining to transmit a first uplink signal comprising a first set of feedback indications in a first set of uplink resources; determining to transmit a second uplink signal comprising a second set of feedback indications in a second set of uplink resources; determining that the first set of uplink resources and the second set of uplink resources are located within a same time slot; transmitting only the second uplink signal instead of both of the first uplink signal and the second uplink signal, the second uplink signal comprising an indication of one or more of the first set of feedback indications; and determining that a downlink assignment index associated with the first set of feedback indications is reduced when the one or more of the first set of feedback indications are indicated within the second uplink signal.

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