US 11,737,118 B2
System information signaling for link budget limited wireless devices
Tarik Tabet, Los Gatos, CA (US); Farouk Belghoul, Campbell, CA (US); and Awais M. Hussain, Milpitas, CA (US)
Assigned to Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US)
Filed by Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US)
Filed on Jul. 1, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/856,770.
Application 17/856,770 is a continuation of application No. 14/980,710, filed on Dec. 28, 2015, granted, now 11,382,080.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/101,924, filed on Jan. 9, 2015.
Prior Publication US 2022/0338181 A1, Oct. 20, 2022
This patent is subject to a terminal disclaimer.
Int. Cl. H04W 72/04 (2023.01); H04W 48/16 (2009.01); H04W 72/23 (2023.01); H04W 48/12 (2009.01)
CPC H04W 72/23 (2023.01) [H04W 48/12 (2013.01); H04W 48/16 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method, comprising:
at a base station that serves a cell, during a first period of time comprising a plurality of radio frames transmitted by the base station:
transmitting a master information block (MIB) comprising first information for accessing the cell, wherein the MIB indicates a location of a first system information block (SIB) of a first set of SIBs, the first SIB comprising at least one field of a SIB-1 of a second set of SIBs and at least one other field, wherein the first SIB is configured for a device with a different device category than a device for which the SIB-1 of the second set of SIBs is configured;
transmitting the first SIB a plurality of times within each radio frame of the plurality of radio frames transmitted by the base station; and
transmitting the second set of SIBs, including the SIB-1.