Patent ID: 11888772
Assignee: QUALCOMM INCORPORATED
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 0:
1. A method of wireless communication performed by a user equipment (UE), comprising:
receiving a sub-band usage indication, identifying a set of valid sub-bands available in a wideband structure of an unlicensed spectrum, in a channel occupancy time structure information (COT-SI), the COT-SI indicating the set of valid sub-bands as being reserved for a time period corresponding to a channel occupancy time;
selecting one or more sub-bands, of a plurality of sub-bands in the wideband structure of the unlicensed spectrum and based at least in part on the sub-band usage indication, for processing in association with receiving a reference signal, wherein the one or more sub-bands include at least one valid sub-band of the set of valid sub-bands in which the reference signal is received, wherein the one or more sub-bands are selected based at least in part on a priority rule, and wherein the priority rule indicates that a given sub-band, of the plurality of sub-bands, is selected over another sub-band, of the plurality of sub-bands, based at least in part on the given sub-band including a synchronization signal block (SSB) or a physical broadcast channel (PBCH) and the other sub-band not including the SSB or the PBCH; and
processing the one or more sub-bands in association with receiving the reference signal.