Patent ID: 11943058
Assignee: TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON (PUBL)
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 9:
10. A wireless device configured to manage transport block (TB) transmissions by the wireless device to a network node at periodic transmission occasions, the wireless device comprising at least one processor and a memory, the memory storing instructions that, when executed by the at least one processor, cause the wireless device to:
start a retransmission timer for a hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) process associated with a transport block (TB) transmission by the wireless device to the network node;
applying a HARQ policy for the HARQ process, the HARQ policy governing whether the wireless device is to retransmit the first TB or transmit a second TB where no HARQ feedback responsive to the first TB transmission is received from the network node before the retransmission timer expires; and
retransmit the first TB or transmitting the second TB according to the HARQ policy at a next periodic transmission occasion for the HARQ process after the retransmission timer expires, wherein the HARQ process is one of a plurality of concurrent HARQ processes.