Patent ID: 11924817
Assignee: SONY GROUP CORPORATION
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 6:
7. A communications device for receiving data in a wireless communications network, the communications device comprising:
transmitter circuitry, receiver circuitry and control circuitry, wherein the control circuitry is configured
to allocate a fraction of the data for transmitting to a first infrastructure equipment of the wireless communications network using a first carrier frequency,
to allocate a remainder of the data for transmitting to a second infrastructure equipment of the wireless communications network different from the first infrastructure equipment using a second carrier frequency, the second carrier frequency differing from the first carrier frequency,
and to control the transmitter circuitry and the receiver circuitry
receiving from a first infrastructure equipment an indication of a parameter associated with the data transmitted by the communications device using a first carrier frequency to the first infrastructure equipment,
measuring or estimating an attribute associated with communicating the data from the communications device to the first infrastructure equipment based upon the indication of the parameter,
allocating resources on a second carrier frequency different from the first carrier frequency for a fraction of the data to be transmitted by the communications device to a second infrastructure equipment using the second carrier frequency,
transmitting an indication of the allocated resources to one of the first infrastructure equipment and the communications device, and
receiving a fraction of data transmitted by the communications device using the second carrier frequency,
wherein the remainder of the data transmitted by the communications device is transmitted to the first infrastructure equipment using the first carrier frequency and the fraction is determined based on the attribute, and
the parameter comprises at least one of a path loss, an error rate, a received signal strength and a received signal quality.