US 11,751,109 B2
System information block acquisition for wireless networks
Bharat Shrestha, San Diego, CA (US); Umesh Phuyal, San Diego, CA (US); Alberto Rico Alvarino, San Diego, CA (US); and Prasad Reddy Kadiri, San Diego, CA (US)
Assigned to QUALCOMM Incorporated, San Diego, CA (US)
Filed by QUALCOMM Incorporated, San Diego, CA (US)
Filed on May 11, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/317,768.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/024,366, filed on May 13, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2021/0360493 A1, Nov. 18, 2021
Int. Cl. H04W 4/00 (2018.01); H04W 36/00 (2009.01); H04W 48/16 (2009.01)
CPC H04W 36/0061 (2013.01) [H04W 48/16 (2013.01)] 30 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method for wireless communications at a user equipment (UE), comprising:
receiving a set of system information blocks common to a set of cells of a non-terrestrial network, the set of system information blocks indicating one or more parameters common to the set of cells for communications with the set of cells;
receiving a first system information block associated with a first cell of the set of cells of the non-terrestrial network, the first system information block comprising cell-specific information indicating a first set of cell-specific parameters for communications with the first cell; and
communicating with the first cell using the first set of cell-specific parameters associated with the cell-specific information of the first cell and at least a first sub-set of parameters of the one or more parameters that are common to the set of cells.