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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Feb. 18, 2020

Filed:

Apr. 01, 2016
Applicant:

Intel Ip Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);

Inventors:

Sabine Roessel, Munich, DE;

Holger Neuhaus, Munich, DE;

Yeong-Sun Hwang, Oberhaching, DE;

Bertram Gunzelmann, Neubiberg, DE;

Andreas Menkhoff, Oberhaching, DE;

Elmar Wagner, Neubiberg, DE;

Jong-Kae Fwu, Sunnyvale, CA (US);

Xiangyang Zhuang, Lake Zurich, IL (US);

Assignee:

Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04B 7/26 (2006.01); H04L 5/14 (2006.01); H04L 27/26 (2006.01); H04L 5/00 (2006.01); H04W 72/04 (2009.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04B 7/2656 (2013.01); H04L 5/0007 (2013.01); H04L 5/1469 (2013.01); H04L 27/2607 (2013.01); H04W 72/0446 (2013.01);
Abstract

Methods and apparatus for communicating in a wireless network including apparatus comprising transceiver circuitry to send and receive data in a plurality of time periods, defined by a time division duplex (TDD) time grid, to another entity, the plurality of time periods corresponding to a plurality of orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) symbols and the transceiver circuitry being operable to switch from receive mode to transmit mode and/or from transmit mode to receive mode according to a flexible uplink and downlink allocation of the plurality of time periods; and baseband circuitry coupled to the transceiver circuitry to control the transceiver circuitry to switch during a switching interval embedded within a time period corresponding to an OFDM symbol of the plurality of OFDM symbols.


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