Apple patents timer method for managing wireless data bursts

Apple has filed a patent application describing a method for managing timers during uplink data transmission in wireless networks. The system uses a single timer to track multiple related data packets sent in a cluster, rather than starting a separate timer for each packet. This approach simplifies how the device handles acknowledgments for these grouped transmissions.

In the filing’s own words

Methods, systems, apparatuses, and computer programs for uplink grant timer handling for a PUSCH transmission cluster is disclosed. In one aspect, the method can include actions of processing an uplink grant corresponding to a plurality of PUSCH transmissions, transmitting at least two of the plurality of PUSCH transmissions, and starting a single timer relating to at least two HARQ processes of a plurality of HARQ processes, wherein each HARQ process of the plurality of HARQ processes is associated with a PUSCH transmission of the plurality of PUSCH transmissions.

Facts

Company

Apple (Apple Inc.)

Official title

TIMER HANDLING FOR DATA TRANSMISSION

Publication number

US20260332313A1

Application number

19113127

Filed

Sep 30, 2022

Published

Oct 22, 2026

Inventors

3

Claims

21

Classified under

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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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