US 11,671,841 B2
Telecommunications apparatus and methods
Brian Alexander Martin, Basingstoke (GB)
Assigned to SONY CORPORATION, Tokyo (JP)
Filed by Sony Corporation, Tokyo (JP)
Filed on Nov. 16, 2020, as Appl. No. 17/98,495.
Application 17/098,495 is a continuation of application No. 16/157,839, filed on Oct. 11, 2018, granted, now 10,841,807.
Application 16/157,839 is a continuation of application No. 15/504,145, granted, now 10,111,106, issued on Oct. 23, 2018, previously published as PCT/EP2015/069742, filed on Aug. 28, 2015.
Claims priority of application No. 14186237 (EP), filed on Sep. 24, 2014.
Prior Publication US 2021/0067977 A1, Mar. 4, 2021
This patent is subject to a terminal disclaimer.
Int. Cl. H04W 72/00 (2023.01); H04W 16/14 (2009.01); H04W 72/12 (2023.01); H04W 72/0453 (2023.01); H04W 76/16 (2018.01)
CPC H04W 16/14 (2013.01) [H04W 72/0453 (2013.01); H04W 72/1215 (2013.01); H04W 76/16 (2018.02)] 17 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method of operating network infrastructure equipment in a wireless telecommunications system for communicating with a terminal device in accordance with a first radio access technology (RAT) on a primary cell supporting a primary component carrier on radio resources within a first frequency band and a secondary cell supporting a secondary component carrier on radio resources within a second frequency band, wherein the terminal device is further operable to use radio resources within the second frequency band for communicating in accordance with a second RAT, wherein the method comprises:
establishing a configuration of radio resources within the second frequency band for use by the terminal device for communications with the network infrastructure equipment in accordance with the first RAT;
transmitting to the terminal device an indication of the configuration of radio resources within the second frequency band for use by the terminal device for communications with the network infrastructure equipment in accordance with the first RAT;
receiving from the terminal device an indication of an overlap in the radio resources configured for use by the terminal device for communications in accordance with the first RAT and radio resources for use by the terminal device for communications in accordance with the second RAT;
establishing a replacement configuration of radio resources within the second frequency band for use by the terminal device for communications with the network infrastructure equipment in accordance with the first RAT, wherein the replacement configuration is selected to avoid radio resources in respect of which the overlap is indicated; and
transmitting to the terminal device an indication of the replacement configuration of radio resources within the second frequency band for use by the terminal device for communications with the network infrastructure equipment in accordance with the first RAT, wherein
the indication of the overlap received from the terminal device is an inter-frequency in-device coexistence (IDC) message,
the IDC message conforms to an IDC message format, and
the IDC message received from the terminal device comprises radio resource control (RRC) signaling.