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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:
Apr. 26, 2022

Filed:

Jun. 14, 2018
Applicant:

Telefonaktiebolaget Lm Ericsson (Publ), Stockholm, SE;

Inventors:

Gunnar Bergquist, Kista, SE;

Björn Hofström, Linköping, SE;

Mikael Wittberg, Uppsala, SE;

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 28/02 (2009.01); H04W 72/04 (2009.01); H04W 72/10 (2009.01); H04W 72/12 (2009.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 28/0278 (2013.01); H04W 72/0453 (2013.01); H04W 72/10 (2013.01); H04W 72/1284 (2013.01);
Abstract

One aspect of the disclosure provides a method for a terminal device in a wireless communications network, wherein the terminal device is configurable with a plurality of logical channel groups. The method comprises generating buffer status information and transmitting a message to a network node operative in the wireless communications network. The message comprises a buffer status report comprising the buffer status information. The buffer status report comprises respective indications, for each of the plurality of logical channel groups, of the availability of data to transmit in the terminal device for the logical channel group. The buffer status report further comprises respective buffer size fields, for one or more of the logical channel groups for which data is available to transmit, indicating an amount of data which is available to transmit.


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