US 12,250,661 B2
Master information block extension in a New Radio cell
Yi-Pin Eric Wang, Fremont, CA (US); Xingqin Lin, San Jose, CA (US); Yutao Sui, Solna (SE); Mohammad Mozaffari, Fremont, CA (US); Andreas Höglund, Solna (SE); Olof Liberg, Enskede (SE); and Luca Feltrin, Solna (SE)
Assigned to Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (Publ), Stockholm (SE)
Appl. No. 17/770,760
Filed by Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ), Stockholm (SE)
PCT Filed Nov. 6, 2020, PCT No. PCT/SE2020/051070
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Apr. 21, 2022,
PCT Pub. No. WO2021/091469, PCT Pub. Date May 14, 2021.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/932,588, filed on Nov. 8, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2022/0377705 A1, Nov. 24, 2022
This patent is subject to a terminal disclaimer.
Int. Cl. H04W 72/02 (2009.01); H04W 56/00 (2009.01); H04W 72/0446 (2023.01); H04W 72/0453 (2023.01)
CPC H04W 72/02 (2013.01) [H04W 56/001 (2013.01); H04W 72/0446 (2013.01); H04W 72/0453 (2013.01)] 18 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method performed by a wireless device for communicating with a network node in a wireless communication network, the method comprising:
using a field in a Master Information Block (MIB) received by the wireless device, as an indication of a presence of an extended MIB (eMIB); and
identifying which candidate resource of at least one candidate resource that contains the eMIB based on the indication of the presence of the eMIB, the identified candidate resource having a frequency domain allocation and a time domain allocation, such that one of:
the time domain allocation does not overlap a set of orthogonal frequency division multiplex (OFDM) symbols used for synchronization signal block (SSB) resources and the frequency domain allocation at least partially overlaps a frequency domain allocation of the SSB resources; and
the time domain allocation at least partially overlaps the set of OFDM symbols used for SSB resources and the frequency domain allocation does not overlap a frequency domain allocation of the SSB resources.