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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 28, 2026
Filed:
Jun. 23, 2022
Sony Group Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Shin Horng Wong, Basingstoke, GB;
Yassin Aden Awad, Basingstoke, GB;
Yuxin Wei, Basingstoke, GB;
Vivek Sharma, Basingstoke, GB;
Hideji Wakabayashi, Basingstoke, GB;
Sony Group Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A method including receiving an indication of a first pattern for one of a plurality of time-divided portions of a wireless radio interface from a wireless communications network, the first pattern defining one or more uplink resource units for transmitting uplink data to the wireless communications network and/or one or more downlink resource units for receiving downlink data from the wireless communications network, receiving an overwrite indicator from the wireless communications network indicating that the communications device is able to use at least one of the downlink resource units for transmitting uplink data to the wireless communications network and/or at least one of the uplink resource units for receiving downlink data from the wireless communications network, and determining a second pattern for the time-divided portion of the wireless radio interface to replace the first pattern by overwriting at least a portion of the first pattern based on the overwrite indicator.