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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. 23, 2021

Filed:

Nov. 26, 2018
Applicant:

Wi-lan Inc., Ottawa, CA;

Inventors:

Yair Bourlas, San Diego, CA (US);

Kirupairaj Asirvatham, San Diego, CA (US);

Assignee:

Wi-LAN Inc., Ottawa, CA;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 72/04 (2009.01); H04L 1/18 (2006.01); H04L 5/00 (2006.01); H04L 1/00 (2006.01); H04W 88/08 (2009.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 72/0453 (2013.01); H04L 1/1861 (2013.01); H04L 1/1887 (2013.01); H04L 5/0053 (2013.01); H04L 5/0055 (2013.01); H04L 5/0096 (2013.01); H04W 72/04 (2013.01); H04W 72/0466 (2013.01); H04L 1/001 (2013.01); H04L 1/0004 (2013.01); H04L 5/003 (2013.01); H04L 5/0007 (2013.01); H04W 88/08 (2013.01);
Abstract

Methods and apparatus for communicating and utilizing persistent allocation of resources are described herein. A base station may allocate persistent resources to a client station, and may associate the client station or persistent resource allocation with a particular shared NACK channel. The base station may monitor the NACK channel for a NACK indicating a map error. The base station may monitor the resource allocation to implicitly determine a map error. The base station may resend one or more persistent resource allocation information elements in response to the NACK or implicit error determination. A client station having a persistent resource allocation may monitor persistent resource allocation information elements in map messages and/or may indicate failure to receive a persistent resource allocation information element in a NACK message on a shared NACK channel.


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