Patent ID: 11943758
Assignee: QUALCOMM INCORPORATED
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 0:
1. An apparatus for wireless communication, comprising:
a transceiver;
a memory configured to store instructions; and
one or more processors communicatively coupled with the memory and the transceiver, wherein the one or more processors are configured to execute the instructions to cause the apparatus to:
configure a beam for communicating over a wireless channel using narrow-beam channel access without performing listen-before-talk (LBT), wherein the beam is associated with a channel access class based on a threshold for channel access and having at least one of a defined maximum channel occupancy time (COT) or a defined minimum gap between communications;
wherein the threshold for channel access corresponds to a threshold for the narrow-beam channel access without using LBT;
wherein the memory stores a configuration of multiple channel access classes to thresholds for narrow-beam channel access without using LBT, and wherein the beam is associated with the channel access class based on determining the channel access class from the configuration for which at least one of an effective isotropic radiated power (EIRP) spherical measurement, or a cumulative distribution function (CDF) thereof, achieves a corresponding threshold of the thresholds; and
communicate over the wireless channel using the beam without performing LBT and based on at least one of the defined maximum COT or the defined minimum gap.