US 12,245,083 B2
Device category in 3GPP communications
Tarik Tabet, Los Gatos, CA (US); Awais M. Hussain, Milpitas, CA (US); Lydi Smaini, San Jose, CA (US); Moustafa M. Elsayed, Los Gatos, CA (US); Syed Aon Mujtaba, Palo Alto, CA (US); Matthias Sauer, San Jose, CA (US); Ronald W. Dimpflmaier, Los Gatos, CA (US); Bernd W. Adler, Saratoga, CA (US); and Christian W. Mucke, Cupertino, CA (US)
Assigned to Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US)
Filed by Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US)
Filed on Aug. 17, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/451,686.
Application 18/451,686 is a continuation of application No. 17/722,033, filed on Apr. 15, 2022, granted, now 11,778,516.
Application 17/722,033 is a continuation of application No. 16/590,866, filed on Oct. 2, 2019, granted, now 11,317,324, issued on Apr. 26, 2022.
Application 16/590,866 is a continuation of application No. 15/387,904, filed on Dec. 22, 2016, granted, now 10,455,454, issued on Oct. 22, 2019.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/274,353, filed on Jan. 3, 2016.
Prior Publication US 2023/0397054 A1, Dec. 7, 2023
This patent is subject to a terminal disclaimer.
Int. Cl. H04L 5/00 (2006.01); H04W 28/24 (2009.01); H04W 8/22 (2009.01); H04W 52/02 (2009.01)
CPC H04W 28/24 (2013.01) [H04L 5/0005 (2013.01); H04L 5/0044 (2013.01); H04W 8/22 (2013.01); H04W 52/0235 (2013.01); Y02D 30/70 (2020.08)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An apparatus comprising:
a processor configured to:
cause a base station to perform random access channel (RACH) communications with a device as part of a procedure, according to a first device category;
identify the device as being of a second device category different from the first device category;
cause the base station to transmit radio resource control (RRC) connection reconfiguration information to the device in response to identifying the device as being of a second device category, wherein the RRC connection reconfiguration information includes one or more parameter values of the second device category, wherein the one or more parameter values partially define how the device communicates with the base station; and
cause the base station to perform additional communications with the device according to the second device category, subsequent to performing the RACH communications, wherein the second device category features one or more of:
a greater maximum uplink bandwidth than a narrowband mode of operation associated with the first device category; or
a greater maximum downlink bandwidth than the narrowband mode of operation associated with the first device category;
wherein the first device category and the second device category share at least one common parameter value that partially defines how the device communicates with the base station; and
wherein a maximum transport block size restriction of the second device category is greater than a maximum transport block size restriction of the first device category for uplink and downlink.