US 11,678,274 B2
Method for modifying parameter values for long range extension and corresponding node
Kumar Balachandran, Pleasanton, CA (US); Johan Bergman, Stockholm (SE); Konstantinos Dimou, San Francisco, CA (US); Erik Eriksson, Linköping (SE); and Anders Wallén, Ystad (SE)
Assigned to Telefonaktiebolaget L M Ericsson (publ), Stockholm (SE)
Filed by Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ), Stockholm (SE)
Filed on Sep. 16, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/477,032.
Application 17/477,032 is a continuation of application No. 16/829,863, filed on Mar. 25, 2020, granted, now 11,153,833.
Application 16/829,863 is a continuation of application No. 16/229,268, filed on Dec. 21, 2018, granted, now 10,631,253.
Application 16/229,268 is a continuation of application No. 14/441,479, granted, now 10,194,402, previously published as PCT/SE2013/051335, filed on Nov. 13, 2013.
Claims priority of provisional application 61/725,921, filed on Nov. 13, 2012.
Prior Publication US 2022/0007303 A1, Jan. 6, 2022
This patent is subject to a terminal disclaimer.
Int. Cl. H04W 52/24 (2009.01); H04B 17/18 (2015.01); H04B 17/23 (2015.01); H04W 52/02 (2009.01); H04W 76/18 (2018.01); H04W 4/70 (2018.01); H04W 76/25 (2018.01); H04B 17/391 (2015.01); H04L 7/00 (2006.01); H04L 43/0811 (2022.01); H04W 24/04 (2009.01); H04W 36/08 (2009.01)
CPC H04W 52/245 (2013.01) [H04B 17/18 (2015.01); H04B 17/23 (2015.01); H04B 17/3913 (2015.01); H04L 7/0054 (2013.01); H04L 43/0811 (2013.01); H04W 4/70 (2018.02); H04W 24/04 (2013.01); H04W 36/08 (2013.01); H04W 52/0216 (2013.01); H04W 52/0219 (2013.01); H04W 52/0245 (2013.01); H04W 76/18 (2018.02); H04W 76/25 (2018.02); Y02D 30/70 (2020.08)] 17 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method of operation of a base station in a cellular communications network, comprising:
determining whether a wireless device is to operate in a second mode or a first mode where the second mode is a mode of operation in which the wireless device is configured to maintain communication with the base station of the cellular communications network over an extended coverage range as compared to a coverage range over which the wireless device is configured to maintain communication with the base station of the cellular communications network in the first mode of operation; and
applying different values for at least one parameter utilized by the wireless device for radio link monitoring depending on whether the wireless device is to operate in the second mode or the first mode,
wherein the base station determines that the wireless device is to operate in the second mode in response to a request from the cellular communications network and sends a request causing the wireless device to apply, for each parameter of the at least one parameter, a modified value for the second mode that is different than that which would be applied for the first mode of operation.