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Date of Patent:
Jan. 23, 2018

Filed:

Jul. 31, 2015
Applicant:

Sprint Spectrum L.p., Overland Park, KS (US);

Inventors:

Sanghoon Sung, Ashburn, VA (US);

Bharatwajan Raman, Arlington, VA (US);

Udit Thakore, Fairfax, VA (US);

Tri Duong, Annandale, VA (US);

Assignee:

Sprint Spectrum L.P., Overland Park, KS (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 72/04 (2009.01); H04W 88/08 (2009.01); H04L 5/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 72/0446 (2013.01); H04L 5/0007 (2013.01); H04W 88/08 (2013.01);
Abstract

A method and system to help manage air interface resources for communication between a user equipment device (UE) and a base station. As disclosed, a UE or base station detect a situation where a transport block that the base station would allocate to the UE would be too small to hold carry a packet that the UE would seek to transmit, and the UE and base station responsively switch to a mode of operation in which the UE will receive a multi-TTI transport block allocation rather than a single-TTI transport block allocation. Given a per-TTI limitation of available air interface resources, the allocation of a transport block spanning multiple TTIs may thus provide the UE with increased air interface capacity for transmission, thus optimally allowing the UE to transmit without a need for segmentation.


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