US 11,812,369 B2
Cell selection for wireless communications
Kyungmin Park, Vienna, VA (US); Esmael Hejazi Dinan, McLean, VA (US); Weihua Qiao, Herndon, VA (US); Taehun Kim, Reston, VA (US); Jinsook Ryu, Herndon, VA (US); Peyman Talebi Fard, Sterling, VA (US); and Hua Zhou, Herndon, VA (US)
Assigned to Comcast Cable Communications, LLC, Philadelphia, PA (US)
Filed by Comcast Cable Communications, LLC, Philadelphia, PA (US)
Filed on Feb. 12, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/174,539.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/976,046, filed on Feb. 13, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2021/0258865 A1, Aug. 19, 2021
Int. Cl. H04W 48/16 (2009.01); H04B 17/318 (2015.01); H04W 16/02 (2009.01); H04W 74/08 (2009.01)
CPC H04W 48/16 (2013.01) [H04B 17/318 (2015.01); H04W 16/02 (2013.01); H04W 74/0833 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method comprising:
receiving, by a wireless device, a power threshold for selection of a cell, comprising a normal uplink and a supplementary uplink, for communications using a network slice;
determining to use the supplementary uplink of the cell for random access based on:
a received power associated with the cell satisfying the power threshold;
the normal uplink of the cell not operating within a frequency range of the network slice; and
the supplementary uplink of the cell operating within the frequency range of the network slice; and
sending, via the supplementary uplink of the cell, at least one message associated with the random access.