Sony patents method to pack more data into one wireless control signal
Sony describes a way for a device to receive multiple data streams using just one control signal. Instead of sending a separate instruction for each stream, the single signal contains the timing and frequency details needed to access all of them at once.
In the filing’s own words
A terminal device includes a transceiver and a hardware processor. The hardware processor receives one physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) via the transceiver. The one PDCCH schedules a plurality of physical shared channels in one or more carriers or one or more slots. The one PDCCH and the plurality of physical shared channels are transmitted to the terminal device. The plurality of physical shared channels is a plurality of physical downlink shared channels (PDSCH) or a plurality of physical uplink shared channels (PUSCH).
What exactly they claim (claim 1)
1. A terminal device, comprising: a transceiver; and a hardware processor, wherein the hardware processor receives a single physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) through the transceiver, wherein the single PDCCH schedules a plurality of physical shared channels that are to be received through the transceiver in one or more carriers or one or more slots, and wherein the plurality of physical shared channels is at least one of a plurality of physical downlink shared channels (PDSCHs) or a plurality of physical uplink shared channels (PUSCHs), and wherein communication parameters applied to the plurality of physical shared channels and that are included in the single PDCCH include at least one of time domain information or frequency domain information.
Facts
- Company
- Sony (Sony Group Corporation)
- Official title
- Terminal device, base station device, and communication method
- Patent number
- US12757191B2
- Application number
- 18577706
- Filed
- Mar 15, 2022
- Granted
- Oct 6, 2026
- Inventors
- 2
- Claims
- 24
Classified under
H04W 72/1263 Electricity & electronicsH04W 72/23 Electricity & electronicsH04W 72/232 Electricity & electronicsH04L 5/0053 Electricity & electronicsMore from Sony in Networks & wireless
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Summaries are simplified from the filing’s own abstract and first claim. A patent filing is not a product announcement.
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