TELECOMMUNICATIONS APPARATUS AND METHODS
    2.
    发明申请

    公开(公告)号:US20200221512A1

    公开(公告)日:2020-07-09

    申请号:US16818373

    申请日:2020-03-13

    Abstract: A method for controlling a connection procedure for a terminal device requesting a radio connection to a cell supported by network infrastructure equipment in a wireless telecommunication system, the method comprising: determining, at the terminal device, that a request to connect to the cell supported by the network infrastructure equipment is to be made, establishing, at the terminal device, application information relating to an operating context for the terminal device; transmitting a connection request message from the terminal device to the network infrastructure equipment, wherein the connection request message comprises a request for the terminal device to connect to the cell and an indication of the application information; and determining, at the network infrastructure equipment, whether to allow the request for the terminal device to connect to the cell based, at least in part, on the application information received by the network infrastructure equipment from the terminal device.

    TERMINAL DEVICE, INFRASTRUCTURE EQUIPMENT AND METHODS FOR RECEIVING WARNING NOTIFICATION MESSAGE

    公开(公告)号:US20200178040A1

    公开(公告)日:2020-06-04

    申请号:US16623399

    申请日:2018-06-14

    Abstract: A terminal device for use in a wireless telecommunications network, the terminal device comprising receiver circuitry and control circuitry, wherein the control circuitry is configured to: control the receiver circuitry to receive a first signal indicating that a warning notification message is to be transmitted by infrastructure equipment of the network using a multicast or broadcast transmission; in response to the reception of the first signal, control the receiver circuitry to receive a second signal transmitted by infrastructure equipment of the network using predetermined communication resources, the second signal comprising information for the terminal device to use to determine communication resources for the multicast or broadcast transmission of the warning notification message; determine the communication resources for the multicast or broadcast transmission of the warning notification message using the information comprised in the second signal; control the receiver circuitry to receive the warning notification message using the determined communication resources.

    MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS NETWORK, COMMUNICATIONS DEVICE, INFRASTRUCTURE EQUIPMENT AND METHODS

    公开(公告)号:US20200092774A1

    公开(公告)日:2020-03-19

    申请号:US16610527

    申请日:2018-04-26

    Abstract: Methods are provided for communicating in a mobile network, the mobile network comprising a plurality of infrastructure equipment, each providing wireless connectivity within at least one cell, and a device configured to communicate wirelessly with at least a first of the infrastructure equipment in control of a first cell. In some embodiments, the method comprises determining, at the device, whether a second cell under control of a second of the infrastructure equipment is connected to a first core network operating in accordance with a first protocol or both of the first core network and a second core network operating in accordance with a second protocol, and transmitting, by the device, an automatic neighbor relation report to the first infrastructure equipment, a report comprising an indication of whether the second cell is connected to the first core network or both of the first core network and the second core network.

    COMMUNICATIONS DEVICE, INFRASTRUCTURE EQUIPMENT, WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS NETWORK AND METHODS

    公开(公告)号:US20200077317A1

    公开(公告)日:2020-03-05

    申请号:US16610528

    申请日:2018-04-26

    Abstract: A method is performed in a first infrastructure equipment for a handover of a wireless device from the first infrastructure equipment as a source to a second infrastructure equipment as a target. The method comprises maintaining a mapping between a plurality of packet bearers and a data radio bearer for the wireless device, each of the plurality of packet bearers being configured to provide a specified quality of service, determining that the wireless device should handover from the first infrastructure equipment to the second infrastructure equipment, determining that the second infrastructure equipment does not support the mapping of the plurality of packet bearers to the data radio bearer, and providing an indication of a mapping of the plurality of packet bearers for the second infrastructure equipment after handover to one of a core network equipment and the second infrastructure equipment.

    COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEM, COMMUNICATIONS DEVICE AND METHOD

    公开(公告)号:US20200008253A1

    公开(公告)日:2020-01-02

    申请号:US16568248

    申请日:2019-09-12

    Abstract: A method of allocating resources for communications in a mobile telecommunication system wherein the mobile telecommunication system provides a wireless interface for a base station to communicate with communications devices and wherein a communications device is operable to transmit signals to another communications device using resources of the wireless interface and in accordance with a device-to-device communication protocol. A first pool of the resources is allocated to device-to-device communications of the broadcast type and a second pool of the resources is allocated to a device-to-device communications of the unicast type, the second pool of resources being separate from the first pool. The method comprises a first communications device transmitting broadcast messages using resources of the first resources pool and a second communications device transmitting unicast messages using resources of the second resources pool.

    TELECOMMUNICATIONS APPARATUS AND METHODS
    7.
    发明申请

    公开(公告)号:US20190327742A1

    公开(公告)日:2019-10-24

    申请号:US16502051

    申请日:2019-07-03

    Abstract: A wireless telecommunications system in which downlink communications are made using a radio interface that spans a system frequency bandwidth (host carrier) and supports at least some communications from a base station to least some terminal devices within a plurality of restricted frequency bands (virtual carriers) which are narrower than and within the system frequency bandwidth. A terminal device conveys an indication of its identity, to the base station during an initial connection procedure as the terminal device seeks to access the radio interface. The terminal device and the base station both determine a selected restricted frequency band from among the plurality of restricted frequency bands based on the identity of the terminal device in the same way. Thus the terminal device and base station select the same restricted frequency band and can accordingly configure their respective transceivers to allow downlink communications between them within the selected restricted frequency band.

    COMMUNICATIONS DEVICE, INFRASTRUCTURE EQUIPMENT, COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEM AND METHODS

    公开(公告)号:US20190320395A1

    公开(公告)日:2019-10-17

    申请号:US15770843

    申请日:2016-10-13

    Abstract: An infrastructure equipment transmitting/receiving data to/from one or more communications devices in a wireless communications network, includes a transmitter, receiver, and controller controlling the transmitter and receiver to provide a wireless access interface providing communications resources arranged in time divided units of a system bandwidth providing plural blocks of communications resources, and one or more narrowband carriers. Each carrier provides, within a carrier frequency bandwidth, communications resources for allocation to narrow band communications devices, the carrier bandwidth being less than and within the system bandwidth, signals being transmitted to the narrowband communications devices via the narrow band carriers with a first power. The controller controls the transmitter to transmit signals on a down-link of a narrowband carrier to a narrow-band communications device with an increased power, power of the signals being increased to a greater second power to reduce a time of communicating a high priority message.

    ANCHOR BASE STATION, SLAVE CELL AND USER EQUIPMENT

    公开(公告)号:US20190215759A1

    公开(公告)日:2019-07-11

    申请号:US16312580

    申请日:2017-05-09

    Abstract: A communications device acting as a relay device including a controller configured in combination with a transmitter and a receiver to receive from a remote communications device a first random access preamble message, the first random access preamble message comprising an identifier of the remote communications device, to transmit, in response to the first random access preamble message, a random access response message to the remote communications device, the random access response message comprising an indication of communications resources allocated to the remote communications device, to receive, from the remote communications device and using the communications resources indicated in the random access response message, a scheduled transmission comprising a connection request message and a first contention resolution identifier, and to transmit to the remote communications device a second contention resolution identifier.

    TELECOMMUNICATIONS SYSTEM, TERMINAL DEVICE, INFRASTRUCTURE EQUIPMENT AND METHODS

    公开(公告)号:US20190182732A1

    公开(公告)日:2019-06-13

    申请号:US16323784

    申请日:2017-07-19

    Abstract: A wireless telecommunications system including a terminal device; first infrastructure equipment operable to communicate with the terminal device using a first radio access technology (RAT) and second infrastructure equipment operable to communicate with the terminal device using a second RAT. During a handover procedure for handover from the first infrastructure equipment as a source master infrastructure equipment to a third infrastructure equipment as a target master infrastructure equipment, the second infrastructure equipment is operable to communicate with the third infrastructure equipment using an interface associated with the second RAT so as to allow information necessary for completing the handover to be exchanged between the first infrastructure equipment and the third infrastructure equipment via the second infrastructure equipment.

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