Patent ID: 11889548
Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 6:
7. A device configured for operation in a millimeter wave shared spectrum, the device comprising:
a memory storing instructions; and
a processor caused, by executing the instructions, to:
receive higher layer information, the higher layer information indicating the device to operate with shared spectrum access in a serving cell within the millimeter wave shared spectrum, wherein the higher layer information includes an indicator that indicates a channel access mode; and
transmit, subsequent to determining that the channel is idle using channel sensing on the channel, an uplink (UL) transmission burst on a channel in the serving cell to, thereby, initiate channel occupancy on the channel;

wherein, the processor is caused to
perform the channel sensing in accordance with a channel sensing type that the processor has determined in accordance with the channel access mode, the channel sensing type comprising a directional channel sensing type.