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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 15, 2022
Filed:
May. 05, 2020
Applicant:
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Inventor:
James McCoy, Austin, TX (US);
Assignee:
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 5/00 (2006.01); H04W 72/12 (2009.01); H04W 28/04 (2009.01); H04W 72/08 (2009.01); H04B 1/7143 (2011.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 5/0048 (2013.01); H04B 1/7143 (2013.01); H04W 28/04 (2013.01); H04W 72/085 (2013.01); H04W 72/1226 (2013.01); H04W 72/1231 (2013.01);
Abstract
A technique of operating a wireless communication device includes receiving an assigned starting point index and an assigned reference signal bandwidth for a reference signal. The reference signal is then transmitted multiple times, beginning at an initial resource block that is associated with the assigned starting point index and in accordance with the assigned reference signal bandwidth, across a shared channel.