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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 19, 2020
Filed:
Oct. 29, 2018
Interdigital Patent Holdings, Inc., Wilmington, DE (US);
Guodong Zhang, Woodbury, NY (US);
Afshin Haghighat, Ile-Bizard, CA;
Erdem Bala, East Meadow, NY (US);
David S. Bass, Great Neck, NY (US);
Paul Marinier, Brossard, CA;
Marian Rudolf, Montréal, CA;
Stephen E. Terry, Northport, NY (US);
INTERDIGITAL PATENT HOLDINGS, INC., Wilmington, DE (US);
Abstract
A method and apparatus for a wireless transmit receive unit (WTRU) to use a contention-based uplink communications channel, applies a rule-based restriction of access to the contention-based uplink channel that attempts to use at least one contention-free uplink channel allocation for uplink transmissions on a condition that at least one contention-free uplink channel allocation has been granted.