Patent ID: 11864176
Assignee: QUALCOMM INCORPORATED
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 28:
29. An apparatus for wireless communications, comprising:
means for allocating, at a first node, a set of resources in non-continuous time slots to a second node for communication with the first node;
means for generating a control message that identifies the set of non-continuous time slots allocated to the second node;
means for transmitting the control message to the second node to schedule a communication in each of the set of non-continuous time slots;
means for communicating with the second node by transmitting or receiving in one or more of the set of resources in non-continuous time slots that are allocated for communication between the first node and the second node; and
means for terminating transmission of the communication with the second node on any subsequent time slots remaining from the set of non-continuous time slot resources that were allocated to the second node for communication with the first node in response to receiving an acknowledgment (ACK) message from the second node,
wherein terminating the transmission between the first node and the second node on any of the subsequent time slots remaining from the set of non-continuous time slots resources allows the second node to utilize the subsequent time slots for communication with a third node.