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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 10, 2026
Filed:
Jul. 08, 2022
Applicant:
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Inventors:
Sharad Sambhwani, San Diego, CA (US);
Dirk Nickisch, Oberpframmern, DE;
Madhukar K. Shanbhag, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Sanjeevi Balasubramanian, San Jose, CA (US);
Shiva Krishna Narra, San Jose, CA (US);
Sriram Subramanian, San Jose, CA (US);
Vishwanth Kamala Govindaraju, Mountain View, CA (US);
Assignee:
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 72/23 (2023.01); H04L 1/00 (2006.01); H04W 72/21 (2023.01); H04W 72/54 (2023.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 72/23 (2023.01); H04L 1/0008 (2013.01); H04W 72/21 (2023.01); H04W 72/54 (2023.01);
Abstract
A user equipment (UE) configured to receive an uplink (UL) grant comprising a UL grant size, determine a current UL buffer size, compare the current UL buffer size to the UL grant size and determining an amount of padding to fill the UL grant and determine whether to transmit on the UL grant based on the amount of padding to fill the UL grant.