US 11,750,271 B2
Repeater configuration via multicast control
Navid Abedini, Somerset, NJ (US); Junyi Li, Chester, NJ (US); and Ashwin Sampath, Skillman, NJ (US)
Assigned to QUALCOMM Incorporated, San Diego, CA (US)
Filed by QUALCOMM Incorporated, San Diego, CA (US)
Filed on Aug. 20, 2020, as Appl. No. 16/998,942.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/912,512, filed on Oct. 8, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2021/0105062 A1, Apr. 8, 2021
Int. Cl. H04W 4/06 (2009.01); H04B 7/155 (2006.01); H04W 84/04 (2009.01); H04W 16/26 (2009.01); H04W 72/20 (2023.01)
CPC H04B 7/15507 (2013.01) [H04W 4/06 (2013.01); H04W 16/26 (2013.01); H04W 72/20 (2023.01); H04W 84/047 (2013.01)] 13 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method for wireless communications at a first repeater, comprising:
receiving a group common radio network temporary identifier associated with the multicast message;
receiving, in a first frequency band, a multicast message comprising common control information for a plurality of repeaters based at least in part on the group network temporary identifier, the plurality of repeaters comprising at least the first repeater and a second repeater, wherein the common control information comprises at least one or more first information elements common to the plurality of repeaters and one or more second information elements specific to the first repeater;
identifying one or more configuration parameters associated with the first repeater for communicating with one or more wireless devices based at least in part on the common control information; and
transmitting, in a second frequency band, signaling to the one or more wireless devices based at least in part on the one or more configuration parameters, wherein the first frequency band and the second frequency band are different.