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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 30, 2025
Filed:
Mar. 27, 2020
Google Llc, Mountain View, CA (US);
Chih-Hsiang Wu, Taoyuan, TW;
Kao-Peng Chou, Taoyuan, TW;
GOOGLE LLC, Mountain View, CA (US);
Abstract
To obtain control channel information from a base station that communicates with the user device via a shared carrier, a user device monitors () a control channel on the shared carrier according to a pre-transmission pattern of control channel occasions. While monitoring the control channel using the pre-transmission pattern, the user device receives () from the base station, via the shared carrier, a signal indicating a transmission time during which the shared carrier is available to the base station. In response to receiving the signal, the base station monitors (), during the transmission time, the control channel on the shared carrier according to a transmission pattern of control channel occasions that is different than the pre-transmission pattern but includes at least one control channel occasion that overlaps a control channel occasion of the pre-transmission pattern.