US 11,864,139 B2
Transmitting device, receiving device and methods performed therein for handling communication
Stefano Ruffini, Rome (IT); Magnus Sandgren, Staffanstorp (SE); Robert Baldemair, Solna (SE); Anders Höglund, Hägersten (SE); and Mårten Wahlström, Hägersten (SE)
Assigned to Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (Publ), Stockholm (SE)
Appl. No. 17/426,795
Filed by Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ), Stockholm (SE)
PCT Filed Jan. 30, 2020, PCT No. PCT/SE2020/050079
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Jul. 29, 2021,
PCT Pub. No. WO2020/159426, PCT Pub. Date Aug. 6, 2020.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/799,099, filed on Jan. 31, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2022/0141786 A1, May 5, 2022
Int. Cl. H04W 56/00 (2009.01)
CPC H04W 56/0015 (2013.01) [H04W 56/0045 (2013.01)] 18 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method performed by a transmitting device, for handling communication in a wireless communications network, the method comprising:
transmitting a Precision Time Protocol, PTP, message carrying synchronization information to a receiving device over a radio interface; and
not exchanging the PTP messages continuously with the proviso that the transmitting device and the receiving device are in synchronization.