US 11,950,259 B2
Physical broadcast channel extension in wireless communications
Hong He, San Jose, CA (US); Dawei Zhang, Saratoga, CA (US); Wei Zeng, San Diego, CA (US); Chunhai Yao, Beijing (CN); Haitong Sun, Cupertino, CA (US); Yuchul Kim, San Jose, CA (US); Yushu Zhang, Beijing (CN); Chunxuan Ye, San Diego, CA (US); Oghenekome Oteri, San Diego, CA (US); Weidong Yang, San Diego, CA (US); Yang Tang, San Jose, CA (US); Jie Cui, San Jose, CA (US); Haijing Hu, Los Gatos, CA (US); Zhibin Wu, Los Altos, CA (US); and Fangli Xu, Beijing (CN)
Assigned to Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US)
Appl. No. 17/442,588
Filed by Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US)
PCT Filed Feb. 12, 2020, PCT No. PCT/CN2020/074945
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Sep. 23, 2021,
PCT Pub. No. WO2021/159349, PCT Pub. Date Aug. 19, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2023/0008907 A1, Jan. 12, 2023
Int. Cl. H04H 20/71 (2008.01); H04W 72/30 (2023.01)
CPC H04W 72/30 (2023.01) 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method for operating a base station (BS), comprising:
generating an extended physical broadcast channel (EPBCH) transmission comprising one or more legacy PBCH blocks and one or more EPBCH blocks included in an extension window, wherein a size of the extension window is determined based at least in part on a PBCH repetition number and a number of the legacy PBCH blocks relative to a number of the EPBCH blocks; and
transmitting, by the BS, the EPBCH transmission to one or more user equipment (UE).