Patent 10568081 was granted and assigned to Samsung on February, 2020 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
Methods and apparatus are provided for scheduling transmissions of data channels, control channels, or random access channels using downlink control information (DCI) formats. A DCI format can configure a transmission of one or multiple data channels over respective one or multiple transmission time intervals. A first DCI format can configure the parameters for a channel transmission and a second DCI format can trigger the channel transmission and indicate respective one or more transmission time intervals.