Patent ID: 11870633
Assignee: QUALCOMM INCORPORATED
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 20:
21. A non-transitory computer-readable medium having instructions recorded thereon that, when enacted by one or more computer processors, cause the one or more computer processors to:
receive, by a user equipment (UE), a preemptive grant for preemptive communications with a serving base station during current communications on a shared communication channel, wherein the preemptive grant includes at least:
a sub-symbol offset for a beginning of the preemptive communications; and
a length of the preemptive communications;

determine, by the UE, to perform a listen before talk (LBT) procedure on the shared communication channel;
perform the LBT procedure prior to the sub-symbol offset;
transmit channel reserving signals on the shared communication channel in response to detecting a successful LBT procedure prior to the sub-symbol offset; and
participate, by the UE, in the preemptive communications according to the preemptive grant.