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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:
May. 05, 2020

Filed:

May. 06, 2016
Applicant:

Qualcomm Incorporated, San Diego, CA (US);

Inventors:

Vladimir Parizhsky, New York, NY (US);

Rajiv Laroia, Basking Ridge, NJ (US);

Junyi Li, Bedminster, NJ (US);

Sathyadev Venkata Uppala, Whitehouse Station, NJ (US);

Arnab Das, Summit, NJ (US);

Assignee:

QUALCOMM Incorporated, San Diego, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 72/04 (2009.01); H04L 1/00 (2006.01); H04L 12/801 (2013.01); H04W 24/10 (2009.01); H04W 28/18 (2009.01); H04W 72/00 (2009.01); H04W 72/12 (2009.01); H04W 74/08 (2009.01); H04W 24/02 (2009.01); H04L 27/26 (2006.01); H04W 28/12 (2009.01); H04W 28/24 (2009.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 72/0453 (2013.01); H04L 1/0026 (2013.01); H04L 47/10 (2013.01); H04W 24/02 (2013.01); H04W 24/10 (2013.01); H04W 28/18 (2013.01); H04W 72/005 (2013.01); H04W 72/042 (2013.01); H04W 72/0413 (2013.01); H04W 72/1221 (2013.01); H04W 72/1284 (2013.01); H04W 74/0875 (2013.01); H04L 27/2602 (2013.01); H04W 28/12 (2013.01); H04W 28/24 (2013.01); H04W 72/1236 (2013.01); H04W 72/1242 (2013.01); H04W 72/1252 (2013.01);
Abstract

Wireless terminals and base stations support multiple modes of dedicated control channel operation wherein wireless terminals are allocated different amounts of dedicated uplink resources for reporting control information. A set of dedicated control channel segments is utilized by a wireless terminal to communicate uplink control information reports to its serving base station attachment point. Full tone and split-tone modes of dedicated control channel operation are supported. In full tone mode, a single wireless terminal is allocated each of the dedicated control channel segments associated with a single logical tone. In split tone mode, dedicated control channel segments associated with a single logical tone are allocated between different wireless terminals, with each of the multiple wireless terminals receiving a different non-overlapping subset of the dedicated control channel segments. Logical dedicated control channel tones can be dynamically reallocated for full-tone mode use or split tone mode use.


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