	US 11,991,637 B2
	Paging indication channel for EC-GSM-IoT
Srinivasan Selvaganapathy, Bangalore (IN); Jürgen Hofmann, Marching (DE); Hartmut Wilhelm, Ulm (DE); Muneender Chiranji, Hyderabad (IN); and Kari Juhani Niemelä, Oulu (FI)
Assigned to Nokia Technologies Oy, Espoo (FI)
Filed by Nokia Technologies Oy, Espoo (FI)
Filed on Sep. 30, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/489,962.
Application 17/489,962 is a division of application No. 16/765,931, granted, now 11,166,237, previously published as PCT/EP2018/080623, filed on Nov. 8, 2018.
Claims priority of application No. 201741042232 (IN), filed on Nov. 24, 2017.
Prior Publication US 2022/0046544 A1, Feb. 10, 2022
This patent is subject to a terminal disclaimer.
Int. Cl. H04W 52/02 (2009.01); H04W 68/00 (2009.01)

CPC H04W 52/0235 (2013.01) [H04W 52/0229 (2013.01); H04W 52/0274 (2013.01); H04W 68/005 (2013.01)]

12 Claims

1. An apparatus comprising:

at least one processor; and

at least one non-transitory memory storing instructions, that when executed by the at least one processor, cause the apparatus to at least:

receive, by a network device of a communication network, information comprising at least one wake-up signal associated with an occurrence or a non-occurrence of a paging request of a next paging occasion in the communication network;

identify whether the at least one wake-up signal of the information is for the network device; determine, based on the information comprising at least one wake-up signal and based on identifying that the at least one wake-up signal is for the network device, whether to leave, at the next paging occasion, an energy saving sleep mode to receive the paging request,

wherein the at least one wake-up signal comprises a burst format transmission that is sent in a multi-frame control channel,

wherein the multi-frame control channel is configured for extended coverage, and

wherein the at least one wake-up signal is mapped to at least one coverage class, and wherein the multi-frame control channel comprises 51 data burst locations.