US 12,309,671 B2
Method of operating a wireless telecommunications network
Andrew Reeves, London (GB); Ian Neild, London (GB); and MohammadHossein Zoualfaghari, London (GB)
Assigned to BRITISH TELECOMMUNICATIONS PUBLIC LIMITED COMPANY, London (GB)
Appl. No. 18/708,489
Filed by BRITISH TELECOMMUNICATIONS PUBLIC LIMITED COMPANY, London (GB)
PCT Filed Oct. 11, 2022, PCT No. PCT/EP2022/078200
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date May 8, 2024,
PCT Pub. No. WO2023/083541, PCT Pub. Date May 19, 2023.
Claims priority of application No. 2116053 (GB), filed on Nov. 9, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2025/0119713 A1, Apr. 10, 2025
Int. Cl. H04W 4/20 (2018.01); H04W 48/10 (2009.01); H04W 84/12 (2009.01)
CPC H04W 4/20 (2013.01) [H04W 48/10 (2013.01); H04W 84/12 (2013.01)] 14 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method of operating a wireless telecommunications network, said network comprising a plurality of User Equipment devices, UEs, a Wireless Access Point, WAP, and a Wireless Local Area Network, WLAN, provided by means of the WAP, the method comprising the steps of:
allocating, to each of the plurality of UEs, an item of information;
encoding, by code division multiplexing, the allocated items of information, thereby to output a signal string;
assigning to the WLAN a network identifier, wherein said network identifier is derived from the output signal string;
broadcasting, by means of the WAP, the assigned network identifier;
retrieving, by means of each of the UEs, the signal string from the broadcast network identifier; and subsequently
performing, by each of the UEs, code-division demultiplexing upon the retrieved signal string, each given UE thereby outputting the item of information allocated to that given UE.