Patent ID: 11950223
Assignee: APPLE INC.
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 17:
18. An apparatus comprising:
one or more processors; and
one or more computer-readable media storing instructions that, when executed by the one or more processors, are configured to cause the one or more processors to perform operations comprising:
receiving, at a user equipment (UE) in a cellular communications network, a Radio Resource Control (RRC) signaling message from a base station communicatively coupled to the UE over a communications channel;
accessing, by the UE, a search space in the RRC signaling message;
identifying, by the UE, a fallback Downlink Control Information (DCI) information element (IE) included in the search space;
determining, by the UE, whether an aggregation factor is indicated in the fallback DCI IE for shared channel communications with the base station, over multiple slots in the communications channel;
determining, by the UE, an uplink/downlink (UL/DL) configuration for transmission on the communications channel; and
determining, by the UE, an aggregated transmission over multiple slots in the communications channel based on the aggregation factor and the uplink/downlink configuration.