Patent ID: 11902196
Assignee: SONY GROUP CORPORATION
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 19:
20. A method of operating an infrastructure equipment forming part of a wireless communications network for transmitting data to or receiving data from a communications device, the method comprising:
transmitting, to the communications device via a wireless radio interface provided by the wireless communications network, an uplink pre-emption indicator that indicates that at least a portion of uplink communications resources to be used for the transmission of data by the communications device to the infrastructure equipment are allocated for the transmission of signals by another communications device, the at least the portion of the uplink communications resources being located within communications resources of a reference region associated with the uplink pre-emption indicator,
wherein the uplink pre-emption indicator is transmitted to the communications device for use in adjusting one or more communications parameters for the transmission of signals representing the data in the uplink communications resources,
wherein the uplink pre-emption indicator is used for both pre-allocated uplink communication resources and dynamically allocated uplink communication resources.