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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. 08, 2022

Filed:

Apr. 12, 2017
Applicant:

Nokia Solutions and Networks Oy, Espoo, FI;

Inventors:

Richa Gupta, Bangalore, IN;

Suresh Kalyanasundaram, Bangalore, IN;

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 72/04 (2009.01); H04L 5/00 (2006.01); H04W 88/14 (2009.01); H04W 28/02 (2009.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 72/0486 (2013.01); H04L 5/0082 (2013.01); H04W 72/04 (2013.01); H04W 72/042 (2013.01); H04W 88/14 (2013.01); H04W 28/0252 (2013.01);
Abstract

Methods and Systems are disclosed for allocating a time-frequency resource of a large cell base station either to a selected first user equipment associated with the base station, or to a selected self-backhaul link associated with a small cell within the coverage area of the large cell base station. In embodiments, data is provided representing target allocation proportions of the time-frequency resource, for each of the first user equipment(s) and the one or more backhaul link(s). Allocations are made, for each of a series of time units or intervals, either to a selected first user equipment or backhaul link based on the target data.


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