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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:
Jul. 28, 2020

Filed:

Jan. 08, 2016
Applicant:

Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);

Inventors:

Zhu Ji, San Jose, CA (US);

Yanxia Wang, Beijing, CN;

Bing Zhao, Beijing, CN;

Johnson O. Sebeni, Fremont, CA (US);

Assignee:

Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 72/08 (2009.01); H04W 28/18 (2009.01); H04L 5/00 (2006.01); H04L 1/00 (2006.01); H04W 72/04 (2009.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 72/082 (2013.01); H04L 1/0003 (2013.01); H04L 1/0009 (2013.01); H04L 5/001 (2013.01); H04W 28/18 (2013.01); H04W 72/0413 (2013.01); H04W 72/0446 (2013.01);
Abstract

Described herein are apparatuses, systems and methods for adaptive downlink scheduling and link adaptation. The methods including, at a base station connected to a user equipment ('UE'), determining an initial modulation and coding scheme ('MCS') for a plurality of subframes to be transmitted to the UE, wherein each MCS relates to a coding rate value for the subframes, determining an MCS pattern for the plurality of subframes based on the initial MCS, wherein an MCS for one of the subframes has a higher coding rate value than the initial MCS, and transmitting the plurality of subframes to the UE according to the MCS pattern.


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