Patent ID: 11902946
Assignee: QUALCOMM INCORPORATED
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 10:
11. A wireless communication device operable as user equipment (a UE), comprising:
one or more processors,
memory coupled to the one or more processors; and
a transceiver coupled to the one or more processors;
wherein the one or more processors are configured to cause the UE to:
receive, from a base station, information indicating a slot format configuration the information identifying a first frequency portion of a slot and a second frequency portion of the slot, wherein one of the first or the second frequency portion of the slot is reserved for downlink communications and another of the first or the second frequency portion of the slot is reserved for uplink communications;
receive, from the base station, a resource allocation for the slot that overlaps with at least a portion of the first frequency portion; and
communicate, with the base station, over a set of usable resources that belongs to both the resource allocation and the first frequency portion wherein the set of usable resources is based at least in part on the resource allocation and the slot format configuration, and
wherein communicating over the set of usable resources comprises either: receiving a downlink communication over the set of usable resources, or transmitting an uplink communication over the set of usable resources.