Abstract
The present invention relates to a method and mobile terminal for performing a data allocation process for scheduled data non-scheduled user data and non-scheduled control data obeying restrictions on the resource utilization defined by a scheduling grant and at least one non-scheduled grant. Further the invention relates to a method for transmitting control signaling from a network entity in a radio access network of a mobile communication system controlling the radio resources of mobile terminals to at least one of said mobile terminal and the network entity in a radio access network. In order to reduce the delays to control signaling implied by a conventional HARQ process restriction mechanism the present invention suggests a new categorization of uplink data into scheduled data non-scheduled user data and non-scheduled control data and a new HARQ process restriction mechanism disabling certain HARQ processes for non-scheduled user data only.
Technology | Declaration Information | Specification Information | Explicitly Disclosed | Patent Type | |||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Declaration Date | Declaration Reference | Declaring Company | Specification Number | ||||||
3G | 02/07/2006 | ISLD-200607-002 | PANASONIC CORP | No | Family Member |
Specification Information
Specification Information
Technologies
Family Information
All Granted Patents In Patent Family : | ---- |
All Pending Patents In Patent Family : | ---- |
Publication No | Technology | Declaration Information | Specification Information | Explicitly Disclosed | Patent Type | |||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Declaration Date | Declaration Reference | Declaring Company | Specification Number | |||||||
EP1748593A1 | 3G | 02/07/2006 | ISLD-200607-002 | PANASONIC CORP | Yes | Basis Patent | ||||
EP1748593B1 | 3G | 02/07/2006 | ISLD-200607-002 | PANASONIC CORP | Yes | Basis Patent | ||||
AT450945T | 3G | 02/07/2006 | ISLD-200607-002 | PANASONIC CORP | No | Family Member | ||||
CN101228732A | 3G | 02/07/2006 | ISLD-200607-002 | PANASONIC CORP | No | Family Member | ||||
CN101228732B | 3G | 02/07/2006 | ISLD-200607-002 | PANASONIC CORP | No | Family Member | ||||
EP2120382A2 | 3G | 02/07/2006 | ISLD-200607-002 | PANASONIC CORP | No | Family Member | ||||
EP2120382A3 | 3G | 02/07/2006 | ISLD-200607-002 | PANASONIC CORP | No | Family Member | ||||
EP2120382B1 | 3G | 02/07/2006 | ISLD-200607-002 | PANASONIC CORP | No | Family Member | ||||
ES2335417T3 | 3G | 02/07/2006 | ISLD-200607-002 | PANASONIC CORP | No | Family Member | ||||
JP2007082192A | 3G | 02/07/2006 | ISLD-200607-002 | PANASONIC CORP | No | Family Member | ||||
JP3997253B2 | 3G | 02/07/2006 | ISLD-200607-002 | PANASONIC CORP | No | Family Member | ||||
JP2008005507A | 3G | 02/07/2006 | ISLD-200607-002 | PANASONIC CORP | No | Family Member | ||||
JP4881799B2 | 3G | 02/07/2006 | ISLD-200607-002 | PANASONIC CORP | No | Family Member | ||||
US2007047451A1 | 3G | 02/07/2006 | ISLD-200607-002 | PANASONIC CORP | No | Family Member | ||||
US7447504B2 | 3G | 02/07/2006 | ISLD-200607-002 | PANASONIC CORP | No | Family Member | ||||
US2009034487A1 | 3G | 02/07/2006 | ISLD-200607-002 | PANASONIC CORP | No | Family Member | ||||
US8259693B2 | 3G | 02/07/2006 | ISLD-200607-002 | PANASONIC CORP | No | Family Member | ||||
BRPI0615539A2 | 3G | 02/07/2006 | ISLD-200607-002 | PANASONIC CORP | No | Family Member | ||||
BRPI0615539B1 | ----- | ----- | ----- | ----- | ----- | ----- | ----- |
Publication No | Technology | Declaration Information | Specification Information | Explicitly Disclosed | Patent Type | Status | National Phase Entries | |||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Declaration Date | Declaration Reference | Declaring Company | Specification Information | |||||||||
----- | ----- | ----- | ----- | ----- |
S1
|
----- | ----- | ----- | ----- |
Technologies

Product
Use Cases

Services
Claim
1. A method for performing a data allocation process for scheduled data, non- scheduled user data and non-scheduled control data obeying restrictions on the resource utilization defined by a non-scheduled grant, wherein a non- scheduled grant indicates the maximum amount of resources a mobile terminal is allowed to utilize for transmitting non-scheduled data on the uplink channel within a transmission time interval, the method comprising the following steps:', 'restricting a non-scheduled grant to a subset of a plurality of HARQ processes thereby activating the HARQ processes of said subset for transmitting non-scheduled user data, whereby the restriction deactivates the remaining HARQ processes of the plurality of HARQ process for transmitting non-scheduled user data and does not deactivate said remaining HARQ processes for transmitting non-scheduled control data,', 'multiplexing non-scheduled user data and non-scheduled control data to a packet data unit of a transport channel for transmission on the uplink channel using one of the plurality of HARQ processes according to the non-scheduled grant thereby taking into account whether the HARQ process is active for the transmission of non-scheduled user data, and', 'providing the packet data unit for transmission on the uplink channel in the next transmission time interval to the HARQ process.
2. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the non-scheduled control data is multiplexed to the packet data unit provided to the HARQ process, even if said HARQ process has been deactivated for transmitting non-scheduled user data.
3. A method for performing a data allocation process for scheduled data, non- scheduled user data and non-scheduled control data obeying restrictions on the resource utilization defined by a scheduling grant and at least one non- scheduled grant, wherein the scheduling grant and a non-scheduled grant indicates the maximum amount of resources a mobile terminal in a wireless communication system is allowed to utilize for transmitting scheduled data, non-scheduled data on an uplink channel within a transmission time interval, respectively, the method comprising the following steps performed by the mobile terminal:', 'defining a non-scheduled grant to be valid for a subset of a plurality of HARQ processes, wherein the HARQ processes of said subset are activated for the transmission of non-scheduled user data, while the remaining HARQ processes for which the non-scheduled grant is invalid are deactivated for the transmission of non-scheduled user data,', 'for a next transmission time interval, multiplexing scheduled data, non- scheduled user data and non-scheduled control data pending for uplink transmission to a packet data unit of a transport channel for transmission on the uplink channel within the next transmission time interval using one of the plurality of HARQ processes,', 'wherein the scheduled data, the non-scheduled user data and the non- scheduled control data pending for uplink transmission are multiplexed according to the scheduling grant and the corresponding non-scheduled grant thereby taking into account whether a non-scheduled grant has been defined valid or invalid for the HARQ process to be used in the next transmission time interval, and', 'providing the packet data unit to the HARQ process on the uplink channel in the next transmission time interval,', 'wherein the HARQ process to be used in the next transmission time interval is always assumed to be activated for the transmission of non-scheduled control data.
4. The method according to claim 3, wherein non-scheduled control data is multiplexed to the packet data unit provided to the HARQ process , even if said HARQ process is deactivated for a non-scheduled grant.
5. The method according to claim 3, wherein non-scheduled control data is multiplexed to the packet data unit provided to the HARQ process , even if a non-scheduled grant is invalid for said HARQ process.
6. The method accord to one of claims 1 to 5, wherein non-scheduled control data comprises data for scheduling related control signaling or data for MAC framing header signaling.
7. The method according to one of claims 1 to 6, wherein a non-scheduled grant indicates the maximum amount of resources the mobile terminal is allowed to utilize for transmitting non-scheduled user data and non-scheduled control data.
8. The method according to claim 7, wherein the non-scheduled control data is multiplexed to the packet data unit provided to the HARQ process, even the non-scheduled grant grants an amount of resources for the transmission of non-scheduled data not sufficient to transmit the non-scheduled control data.
9. The method according to one of claims 1 to 6, further comprising the step of allocating a separate non-scheduled grant indicating the maximum amount of resources the mobile terminal is allowed to utilize for the transmission of non- scheduled control data
10. The method according to claim 9, wherein the amount of resources indicated by said separate non-scheduled grant is always defined or assumed to be sufficiently large to allow for the transmission of the non-scheduled control data in the HARQ process to be used in the next transmission time interval
11. The method according to one of claims 1 to 10, further comprising the step of receiving control signaling from a network entity controlling the radio resource of the mobile terminal comprising an information element indicating the restriction of a non-scheduled grant to a subset of a plurality of HARQ processes, and wherein the mobile terminal restricts the non-scheduled grant to a subset of a plurality of HARQ processes according to the control signaling
12. The method according to one of claims 1 to 11 , wherein the maximum amount of resources indicated by a non-scheduled grant is indicated by the amount of data the mobile terminal is allowed to utilize for transmitting non- scheduled data on the uplink channel within a transmission time interval
13. The method according to one of claims 1 to 12, wherein the maximum amount of resources indicated by the scheduling grant is indicated by a power ratio between the enhanced dedicated physical data channel E-DPDCH and the dedicated physical control channel DPCCH
14. The method according to one of claims 1 to 13, further comprising the step of receiving a scheduling grant and at least one of a non-scheduled grant by the mobile terminal from a radio access network of the mobile communication system or is set by the mobile terminal
15. A mobile terminal for use in a wireless communication system adapted to perform a data allocation process for non-scheduled user data and non- scheduled control data obeying restrictions on the resource utilization defined by a non-scheduled grant, wherein a non-scheduled grant indicates the maximum amount of resources the mobile terminal is allowed to utilize for transmitting non-scheduled data on the uplink channel within a transmission time interval, the terminal comprising:', 'a processing unit for restricting a non-scheduled grant to a subset of a plurality of HARQ processes thereby activating the HARQ processes of said subset for transmitting non-scheduled user data, whereby the restriction deactivates the remaining HARQ processes of the plurality of HARQ process for transmitting non-scheduled user data and does not deactivate said remaining HARQ processes for transmitting non-scheduled control data, and a multiplexer for multiplexing non-scheduled user data and non-scheduled control data to a packet data unit of a transport channel for transmission on the uplink channel using one of the plurality of HARQ processes according to the non-scheduled grant thereby taking into account whether the HARQ process to be used in the next transmission time interval is active for the transmission of non-scheduled user data, and', 'wherein the multiplexer is adapted to provide the packet data unit for transmission on the uplink channel to the HARQ process
16. The mobile terminal according to claim 15, wherein the multiplexer is adapted to multiplex the non-scheduled control data to the packet data unit provided to the HARQ process , even if said HARQ process has been deactivated for transmitting non-scheduled user data.17. A mobile terminal for use in a wireless communication system adapted to perform a data allocation process for scheduled data, non-scheduled user data and non-scheduled control data obeying restrictions on the resource utilization defined by a scheduling grant and at least one non-scheduled grant, wherein the scheduling grant and a non-scheduled grant indicates the maximum amount of resources the mobile terminal is allowed to utilize for transmitting scheduled data, non-scheduled data on an uplink channel within a transmission time interval, respectively, the mobile terminal comprising the following means to perform the data allocation process:', 'a processing unit for defining a non-scheduled grant to be valid for a subset of a plurality of HARQ processes, wherein the HARQ processes of said subset are activated for the transmission of non-scheduled user data, while the remaining HARQ processes for which the non-scheduled grant is invalid are deactivated for the transmission of non-scheduled user data,', 'a multiplexer for multiplexing, for a next transmission time interval, scheduled data, non-scheduled user data and non-scheduled control data pending for uplink transmission to a packet data unit of a transport channel for transmission on the uplink channel within the next transmission time interval using one of the plurality of HARQ processes, wherein the multiplexer is adapted to multiplex the scheduled data, the non- scheduled user data and the non-scheduled control data pending for uplink transmission according to the scheduling grant and the corresponding non- scheduled grant thereby taking into account whether a non-scheduled grant has been defined valid or invalid for the HARQ process to be used in the next transmission time interval,', 'wherein the multiplexer is adapted to provide the packet data unit to the HARQ process on the uplink channel in the next transmission time interval, and', 'wherein the mobile terminal always assumes the HARQ process to be used in the next transmission time interval to be activated for the transmission of non- scheduled control data.18. The mobile terminal according to claim 17, wherein the multiplexer is adapted to multiplex non-scheduled control data to the packet data unit provided to the HARQ process , even if said HARQ process is deactivated for a non- scheduled grant.19. The method according to claim 17, wherein the multiplexer is adapted to multiplex non-scheduled control data to the packet data unit provided to the HARQ process , even if a non-scheduled grant is invalid for said HARQ process.
20. The mobile terminal according to one of claims 15 to 18, further comprising means adapted to perform the steps of the method according to one of claims 6 to 14.
21. A computer readable medium storing instructions that, when executed by a processor of a mobile terminal, cause the mobile terminal to perform a data allocation process for non-scheduled user data and non-scheduled control data obeying restrictions on the resource utilization defined by a non- scheduled grant, wherein a non-scheduled grant indicates the maximum amount of resources a mobile terminal is allowed to utilize for transmitting non-scheduled data on the uplink channel within a transmission time interval, wherein the mobile terminal is caused to perform said data allocation process by: restricting a non-scheduled grant to a subset of a plurality of HARQ processes thereby activating the HARQ processes of said subset for transmitting non-scheduled user data, whereby the restriction deactivates the remaining HARQ processes of the plurality of HARQ process for transmitting non-scheduled user data and does not deactivate said remaining HARQ processes for transmitting non-scheduled control data,', 'multiplexing non-scheduled user data and non-scheduled control data pending for uplink transmission to a packet data unit of a transport channel for transmission on the uplink channel within the next transmission time interval using one of the plurality of HARQ processes,', 'wherein the scheduled data, the non-scheduled user data and the non- scheduled control data pending for uplink transmission are multiplexed according to the scheduling grant and the corresponding non-scheduled grant thereby taking into account whether the HARQ process to be used in the next transmission time interval is active for the transmission of non-scheduled user data, and', 'providing the packet data unit for transmission on the uplink channel in the next transmission time interval to the HARQ process to be used in the next transmission time interval.
22. The computer readable medium according to claim 21 , further storing instructions that, when executed by the processor of the mobile terminal, cause the mobile terminal to multiplex the non-scheduled control data to the packet data unit provided to the HARQ process , even if said HARQ process has been deactivated for transmitting non-scheduled user data.
23. A computer readable medium storing instructions that, when executed by a processor of a mobile terminal, cause the mobile terminal to perform a data allocation process for scheduled data, non-scheduled user data and non- scheduled control data obeying restrictions on the resource utilization defined by a scheduling grant and at least one non-scheduled grant, wherein the scheduling grant and a non-scheduled grant indicates the maximum amount of resources a mobile terminal in a wireless communication system is allowed to utilize for transmitting scheduled data, non-scheduled data on an uplink channel within a transmission time interval, respectively, wherein the mobile terminal is caused to perform said data allocation process by:', 'defining a non-scheduled grant to be valid for a subset of a plurality of HARQ processes, wherein the HARQ processes of said subset are activated for the transmission of non-scheduled user data, while the remaining HARQ processes for which the non-scheduled grant is invalid are deactivated for the transmission of non-scheduled user data,', 'for a next transmission time interval, multiplexing scheduled data, non- scheduled user data and non-scheduled control data pending for uplink transmission to a packet data unit of a transport channel for transmission on the uplink channel within the next transmission time interval using one of the plurality of HARQ processes,', 'wherein the scheduled data, the non-scheduled user data and the non- scheduled control data pending for uplink transmission are multiplexed according to the scheduling grant and the corresponding non-scheduled grant thereby taking into account whether a non-scheduled grant has been defined valid or invalid for the HARQ process to be used in the next transmission time interval, and', 'providing the packet data unit to the HARQ process on the uplink channel in the next transmission time interval,', 'wherein the HARQ process to be used in the next transmission time interval is always assumed to be activated for the transmission of non-scheduled control data.
24. The computer readable medium according to claim 23, further storing instructions that, when executed by the processor of the mobile terminal, cause the mobile terminal to multiplex non-scheduled control data to the packet data unit provided to the HARQ process , even if said HARQ process is deactivated for a non-scheduled grant.
25. The computer readable medium according to claim 23, further storing instructions that, when executed by the processor of the mobile terminal, cause the mobile terminal to multiplex non-scheduled control data to the packet data unit provided to the HARQ process , even if a non-scheduled grant is invalid for said HARQ process.
26. The computer readable medium according to one of claims 21 to 25, further storing instructions that, when performed by the processor of the mobile terminal, cause the mobile terminal to perform the steps of the method according to one of claims 6 to 14.
27. A method for transmitting control signaling from a network entity in a radio access network of a mobile communication system controlling the radio resources of mobile terminals to at least one of said mobile terminal, the method comprising the following steps of performed by the network entity:', 'choosing a subset of a plurality of HARQ processes utilized for receiving non- scheduled user data and non scheduled control data from one of the mobile terminals according to a non-scheduled grant,', 'wherein the HARQ processes of said chosen subset are to be utilized for the transmission of non-scheduled control data from said one mobile terminal to the radio access network via an uplink channel,', 'generating control signaling information indicating the HARQ processes to of said subset to be activated for the transmission of non-scheduled control data to the radio access network , and', 'transmitting said control signaling information to said one mobile terminal.
28. The method according to claim 27, wherein the control signaling information is comprised within an information element of a signaling message transmitted to said one mobile terminal setting up or reconfiguring the uplink channel.
29. The method according to claim 27 or 28, wherein the signaling information comprises a sequence of bits, the number of bits in said sequence of bits being equivalent to the number of available HARQ processes, wherein the logical value of a respective one of said bits in said sequence indicates to said one mobile terminal whether a corresponding HARQ process is activated or deactivated for the transmission of non-scheduled control data on the uplink channel.
30. A network entity in a radio access network of a mobile communication system controlling the radio resources of mobile terminals, the network entity comprising:', 'processing unit for choosing a subset of a plurality of HARQ processes utilized for receiving non-scheduled user data and non scheduled control data from one of the mobile terminals according to a scheduling grant and at least one non-scheduled grant,', 'wherein the HARQ processes of said chosen subset are to be utilized for the transmission of non-scheduled control data from said one mobile terminal to the radio access network via an uplink channel,', 'and for generating control signaling information indicating the HARQ processes of said subset to be activated for the transmission of non- scheduled control data to the radio access network ,', 'a transmitter for transmitting said control signaling information to said one mobile terminal, and', 'a receiver from receiving non-scheduled control data from said one mobile terminal.
31. The network entity according to claim 30, further comprising means adapted to perform the steps of the method according to claim 28 or 29.
32. A computer readable medium storing instructions that, when executed by a processor of a network entity of a radio access network in a mobile communication system controlling the radio resources of mobile terminals, cause the network entity to transmit control signaling from the network entity to at least one of said mobile terminal, by:', 'choosing a subset of a plurality of HARQ processes utilized for receiving non- scheduled user data and non scheduled control data from one of the mobile terminals according to a scheduling grant and at least one non-scheduled grant,', 'wherein the HARQ processes of said chosen subset are to be utilized for the transmission of non-scheduled control data from said one mobile terminal to the radio access network via an uplink channel,', 'generating control signaling information indicating the HARQ processes to of said subset to be activated for the transmission of non-scheduled control data to the radio access network , and', 'transmitting said control signaling information to said one mobile terminal.
33. The computer readable medium according to claim 32, further storing instructions that, when executed by the processor of the network entity, cause the network entity to perform the steps of the method according to claim 28 or 29.
34. A mobile communication system comprising a mobile terminal according to one of claims 15 to 20 and a network entity according to claim 30 or 31.']
Associated Portfolios

![]() |
![]() |
![]() |
![]() |
---|---|---|---|
Claim charts will soon be available!
|
SUMMARY
ClaimChart-WO2007017071A1-STO
Patent number:WO2007017071A1
Claim Chart Type : SEP Claim Chart
Price: 200 €
To view claim charts you must become a Gold or Platinum Member.
Upgrade your subscriptionYou have reached the maximum number of patents which can be associated to your account per your subscription. If you wish to associate more patents
Please upgrade your subscription.Note:
The information in blue was extracted from the third parties (Standard Setting Organisation, Espacenet)
The information in grey was provided by the patent holder
The information in purple was extracted from the FrandAvenue
Explicitly disclosed patent:openly and comprehensibly describes all details of the invention in the patent document.
Implicitly disclosed patent:does not explicitly state certain aspects of the invention, but still allows for these to be inferred from the information provided.
Basis patent:The core patent in a family, outlining the fundamental invention from which related patents or applications originate.
Family member:related patents or applications that share a common priority or original filing.