US 11,722,910 B2
On-demand coverage extended broadcast signal
Xiaoxia Zhang, San Diego, CA (US); Zhifei Fan, San Diego, CA (US); Jing Sun, San Diego, CA (US); Andrei Dragos Radulescu, La Jolla, CA (US); Srinivas Yerramalli, San Diego, CA (US); and Tamer Kadous, San Diego, CA (US)
Assigned to QUALCOMM Incorporated, San Diego, CA (US)
Filed by QUALCOMM Incorporated, San Diego, CA (US)
Filed on Apr. 28, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/302,263.
Application 17/302,263 is a continuation of application No. 16/372,917, filed on Apr. 2, 2019, granted, now 11,019,504.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/652,576, filed on Apr. 4, 2018.
Prior Publication US 2021/0250779 A1, Aug. 12, 2021
This patent is subject to a terminal disclaimer.
Int. Cl. H04W 16/26 (2009.01); H04W 74/08 (2009.01)
CPC H04W 16/26 (2013.01) [H04W 74/0833 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method of wireless communication, comprising:
transmitting, by a user equipment (UE), a first extended cell coverage request indicating a requested number of repetitions of a broadcast system information block; and
receiving, by the UE from a base station (BS) in response to the first extended cell coverage request, a first broadcast communication signal in an extended cell coverage mode, wherein the receiving the first broadcast communication signal in the extended cell coverage mode includes:
receiving, by the UE from the BS in response to the first extended cell coverage request, at least the requested number of repetitions of the broadcast system information block indicating one or more random access resources for a random access procedure in the extended cell coverage mode.