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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 08, 2023
Filed:
Mar. 22, 2021
Applicant:
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Inventor:
Jayesh Kotecha, Austin, TX (US);
Assignee:
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 5/00 (2006.01); H04L 1/00 (2006.01); H04W 72/20 (2023.01); H04W 72/21 (2023.01); H04W 72/23 (2023.01); H04W 72/54 (2023.01); H04L 1/1607 (2023.01); H04L 1/1867 (2023.01); H04W 28/04 (2009.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 5/0057 (2013.01); H04L 1/0026 (2013.01); H04L 1/0027 (2013.01); H04L 1/0031 (2013.01); H04W 72/20 (2023.01); H04W 72/21 (2023.01); H04W 72/23 (2023.01); H04W 72/54 (2023.01); H04L 1/1671 (2013.01); H04L 1/1896 (2013.01); H04L 5/0053 (2013.01); H04W 28/04 (2013.01);
Abstract
A technique for operating a wireless communication device includes transmitting a scheduling request from the wireless communication device and receiving, following the scheduling request, an uplink grant that assigns an uplink channel to the wireless communication device. The uplink grant may include one or more fields indicating whether only channel quality information is to be transmitted or if data is also to be transmitted.