Patent 10461895 was granted and assigned to Nokia on October, 2019 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
Systems, methods, apparatuses, and computer program products for the transmission of uplink (UL) control information via unlicensed spectrum are provided. One method includes dynamically allocating, by a network node, control channel resources for transmitting of uplink control information (UCI). The method may also include scheduling a user equipment with multiple transmission opportunities for each hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) acknowledgement/non-acknowledgement (A/N) on the control channel in multiple uplink subframes.