Patent ID: 11968683
Assignee: NOKIA TECHNOLOGIES OY
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 10:
11. A method, comprising:
providing, to a user equipment, a scheduling grant for a first number, M, of transport blocks, wherein the scheduling grant comprises an indication of the first number, M, of transport blocks and a second number, N, of transport blocks to be transmitted or received by the user equipment, wherein M is greater than 1 and N is less than or equal to M;
receiving a transmission from the user equipment, or causing reception at the user equipment, of a first group of N transport blocks;
in response to N being less than M, receiving a transmission from the user equipment, or causing reception at the user equipment, of a further group of up to N transport blocks from the user equipment, until M transport blocks are caused to be transmitted from the user equipment or caused to be received at the user equipment, wherein each successive transmission or reception of a group of N transport blocks is followed by a time delay; and
receiving or providing a hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) feedback for transmission or reception of each group of up to N transport blocks, respectively, wherein the HARQ feedback is received or provided in the time delay after the transmission or reception of the up to N transport blocks and before a successive transmission or reception of the up to N transport blocks, wherein the scheduling grant comprises a downlink control information including a field indicating the number of transport blocks N before the time delay.