Sony patents method for choosing when to send data in wireless networks
Sony has filed a patent application for a method that helps wireless devices decide when to send data to a network. The device picks a specific time slot for transmission based on a signal that tells it whether it needs to repeat the data if the first attempt fails.
In the filing’s own words
A method of operating a communications device for transmitting uplink data to a wireless communications network via a wireless access interface is disclosed. The method includes determining that uplink data is available for transmission, selecting an uplink transmission occasion within a set of uplink resources of the wireless access interface based on a retransmission indicator associated with the selected uplink transmission occasion, and transmitting an uplink channel carrying the uplink data in accordance with the retransmission indicator. The retransmission indicator specifies whether one or more retransmissions of the uplink channel are to be performed after an initial transmission in the selected uplink transmission occasion.
What exactly they claim (claim 1)
1. A method of operating a communications device configured to transmit signals to and/or to receive signals from a wireless communications network via a wireless access interface, the method comprising determining that the communications device has uplink data to transmit to the wireless communications network, selecting an uplink transmission occasion within a set of uplink resources of the wireless access interface to carry the uplink data to the wireless communications network, wherein the communications device selects the uplink transmission occasion based on a retransmission indicator associated with the selected uplink transmission occasion that indicates whether or not one or more retransmissions of an uplink channel are to be performed by the communications device after an initial transmission of the uplink channel in the selected uplink transmission occasion, and transmitting the uplink channel carrying the uplink data to the wireless communications network in accordance with the retransmission indicator.
Facts
- Company
- Sony (Sony Group Corporation)
- Official title
- METHODS, COMMUNICATIONS DEVICES, AND INFRASTRUCTURE EQUIPMENT
- Publication number
- US20260270990A1
- Application number
- 19167874
- Filed
- Mar 22, 2024
- Published
- Sep 10, 2026
- Inventors
- 3
- Claims
- 22
Classified under
H04W 72/1268 Electricity & electronicsH04W 72/21 Electricity & electronicsH04W 72/231 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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