Patent ID: 9485062
Filing Date: 2016-11-01
CPC Classification: H04J,H04L,H04W

Claim Text:
1. A method for configuring communication in a wireless communication system, the method comprising: obtaining, at a first network node, information indicating a plurality of candidate subframes for downlink transmissions to a wireless communication device in a first cell served by the first network node, wherein each candidate subframe satisfies a candidate condition that relates to transmissions in a second cell during that subframe; determining, based on the obtained information, a number of copies of an uplink transmission a wireless communication device should transmit in consecutive uplink subframes so that a downlink transmission related to the uplink transmission will occur during one of the candidate subframes; configuring the wireless communication device to transmit the determined number of copies of the uplink transmission in consecutive subframes; and configuring a measurement pattern for the wireless communication device, the measurement pattern indicating one or more subframes in which the related downlink transmission is to be received by the wireless communications device from the first network node, wherein: the one or more indicated subframes comprise candidate subframes; and the downlink transmission related to the uplink transmission will occur during one or more of the indicated subframes.