Patent ID: 11889512
Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H  Y | IPC H

Claim 11:
12. A method comprising the following steps performed by a user equipment:
monitoring, during a first time period, a downlink channel of an unlicensed radio cell for a channel occupancy signal that is transmitted by a base station communicating with the user equipment via the unlicensed radio cell of a mobile communication system, wherein the channel occupancy signal indicates that the base station occupies the downlink channel to perform downlink transmissions;
receiving the channel occupancy signal during the first time period from the base station;
determining that the base station occupies the downlink channel based on the received channel occupancy signal;
after determining that the base station occupies the downlink channel, monitoring, during a second time period, the downlink channel for downlink control information regarding a downlink transmission to be received by the user equipment; and
receiving the downlink control information during the second time period and receives subsequently the downlink transmission from the base station based on the received downlink control information.