Patent ID: 11937241
Assignee: TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON (PUBL)
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 5:
6. A wireless device operable to transmit uplink control information (UCI) on grant-free resources, the grant-free resources pertaining to Type 1 and Type 2 Uplink (UL) transmission without grant in New Radio (NR), the wireless device comprising processing circuitry operable to:
receive UCI configuration information from a network node, the UCI configuration information including at least an indication of a subset of time/frequency resources of a grant-free uplink channel to reserve to transmit UCI;
reserve the subset of time/frequency resources of the grant-free uplink channel for transmitting UCI; and
when the wireless device has UCI to transmit on the grant-free uplink channel, transmit the UCI to a network node in the reserved subset of time/frequency resources.