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Google patents method for phones to skip unused data slots

This filing describes a way for mobile devices to manage their connection to cell towers. The phone receives a schedule of times it can send data and uses specific slots to tell the network if it plans to use a future slot, helping the tower know when to expect traffic.

Why it mattersIt is a routine improvement to how mobile networks handle data scheduling, which may help reduce unnecessary signal overhead.

In the filing’s own words

A user equipment (UE) receives, from a radio access network (RAN), a periodic configuration that indicates (i) a plurality of occasions for uplink transmission within each period, and (ii) a subset of the plurality of occasions, the subset including two or more occasions, in which the UE is allowed to transmit a control indication related to another occasion; and transmits, in a first occasion included in the subset, the control indication for a second occasion not included in the subset and subsequent to the first occasion, the control indication based on whether the UE will transmit data in the second occasion.

What exactly they claim (claim 1)

1. A method for uplink transmission implemented in a user equipment (UE), the method comprising: receiving, from a radio access network (RAN), a periodic configuration that indicates (i) a plurality of occasions for uplink transmission within each period, and (ii) a subset of the plurality of occasions, the subset including two or more occasions, in which the UE is allowed to transmit a control indication related to another occasion; and transmitting, in a first occasion included in the subset, the control indication for a second occasion not included in the subset and subsequent to the first occasion, the control indication based on whether the UE will transmit data in the second occasion.

Facts

Company
Google (GOOGLE LLC)
Official title
SIGNALLING OF UNUSED CG OCCASIONS
Publication number
US20260282025A1
Application number
19473430
Filed
Apr 8, 2024
Published
Sep 17, 2026
Inventors
2
Claims
15

Classified under

H04W 72/21 Electricity & electronicsH04W 72/115 Electricity & electronics
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