Patent ID: 11882458
Assignee: QUALCOMM INCORPORATED
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 12:
13. An apparatus for wireless communications at a user equipment (UE) associated with a first network operator, comprising:
one or more memories storing processor-executable code; and
one or more processors coupled with the one or more memories and individually or collectively operable to execute the code to cause the UE to:
transmit a first portion of data to a network device associated with the first network operator over a channel of a shared radio frequency spectrum band using first resources within a first transmission opportunity based at least in part on identifying that the data is queued for communication;
receive a tentative grant from the network device associated with the first network operator over the channel of the shared radio frequency spectrum band using second resources within the first transmission opportunity associated with tentative grants based at least in part on a second portion of the data pending after transmitting the first portion of the data using the first resources within the first transmission opportunity, wherein the tentative grant schedules the UE to transmit the second portion of the data using the channel over a set of resources of a second transmission opportunity subsequent to the first transmission opportunity;
monitor, during a contention window of the second transmission opportunity, for one or more contention messages from a device associated with a second network operator; and
transmit the second portion of the data using the set of resources of the second transmission opportunity based at least in part on the tentative grant and an absence of the one or more contention messages associated with the second network operator that has higher priority than the first network operator during the second transmission opportunity.