US 12,219,415 B2
Anchor base station, slave cell and user equipment
Yuxin Wei, Basingstoke (GB); Hideji Wakabayashi, Basingstoke (GB); and Shinichiro Tsuda, Basingstoke (GB)
Assigned to Sony Group Corporation, Tokyo (JP)
Filed by Sony Group Corporation, Tokyo (JP)
Filed on Apr. 2, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/220,942.
Application 17/220,942 is a continuation of application No. 16/097,840, granted, now 10,972,951, previously published as PCT/EP2017/057626, filed on Mar. 30, 2017.
Claims priority of application No. 16168961 (EP), filed on May 10, 2016.
Prior Publication US 2021/0227433 A1, Jul. 22, 2021
This patent is subject to a terminal disclaimer.
Int. Cl. H04W 36/00 (2009.01); H04L 5/00 (2006.01); H04W 16/32 (2009.01); H04W 24/02 (2009.01); H04W 24/08 (2009.01); H04W 24/10 (2009.01); H04W 72/0453 (2023.01); H04W 84/04 (2009.01)
CPC H04W 36/0088 (2013.01) [H04L 5/005 (2013.01); H04W 16/32 (2013.01); H04W 24/02 (2013.01); H04W 24/08 (2013.01); H04W 24/10 (2013.01); H04W 36/13 (2023.05); H04W 72/0453 (2013.01); H04W 36/00838 (2023.05); H04W 84/045 (2013.01)] 17 Claims
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1. A slave cell being established by a slave base station and being connected to an anchor base station in a mobile telecommunications system, the mobile telecommunications system comprising the anchor base station, the anchor base station being configured to communicate with at least one user equipment and at least one further slave cell, the at least one further slave cell being configured to communicate with at least one user equipment and the anchor base station, the slave cell comprising circuitry being configured to:
activate or deactivate a carrier segment located within a primary carrier, based on a service requirement requested by the at least one user equipment; and
perform a control plane handover.