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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 05, 2022
Filed:
Oct. 02, 2020
Applicant:
Sierra Wireless, Inc., Richmond, CA;
Inventors:
Gustav Gerald Vos, Surrey, CA;
Gautham Prasad, Vancouver, CA;
Assignee:
SIERRA WIRELESS, INC., Richmond, CA;
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 1/18 (2006.01); H04L 1/16 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 1/1819 (2013.01); H04L 1/1614 (2013.01); H04L 1/1887 (2013.01);
Abstract
There is provided methods and associated base station and user equipment, for facilitating transmissions in a wireless communication system. The mapping between an index and its corresponding HARQ ID or HARQ ID & NDI pair can be done using one or more equations relating the two entities. The equations can be defined in two configurations, one for encoding HARQ ID or HARQ ID & NDI pair and a second for decoding the encoded HARQ ID or HARQ ID & NDI pair to determine the HARQ ID or HARQ ID and NDI.