US 12,010,569 B2
Providing beam information
Ali Parichehrehteroujeni, Linköping (SE); Pradeepa Ramachandra, Linköping (SE); and Wei Shen, Linköping (SE)
Assigned to Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ), Stockholm (SE)
Appl. No. 17/441,747
Filed by Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ), Stockholm (SE)
PCT Filed Feb. 4, 2020, PCT No. PCT/SE2020/050100
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Sep. 22, 2021,
PCT Pub. No. WO2020/218959, PCT Pub. Date Oct. 29, 2020.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/838,219, filed on Apr. 24, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2022/0095181 A1, Mar. 24, 2022
Int. Cl. H04W 36/00 (2009.01)
CPC H04W 36/00835 (2018.08) [H04W 36/0058 (2018.08); H04W 36/0072 (2013.01)] 22 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method of operating a wireless device in a wireless communication network, the method comprising:
determining respective signal qualities of a plurality of cells of the wireless communication network;
counting a number of beams of a first cell of the plurality of cells determined to have signal qualities that exceed a quality threshold, to generate a first count value;
counting a number of beams of a second cell of the plurality of cells determined to have signal qualities that exceed a quality threshold, to generate a second count value;
ranking the plurality of cells based on the respective signal qualities of the plurality of cells, wherein ranking comprises identifying the first cell of the plurality of cells having a highest signal quality and identifying at least the second cell of the plurality of cells having a signal quality within a defined range of the highest signal quality;
logging measurement information for at least one of the plurality of cells in memory of the wireless device based on ranking the plurality of cells, wherein the measurement information includes a cell identity and beam information for the at least one of the plurality of cells;
generating a report including separate fields storing a cell identity for the first cell, the first count value, a cell identity for the second cell, and the second count value, wherein the cell identity for the second cell and the second count value are included in the report only if the second cell of the plurality of cells has a signal quality within the defined range of the highest signal quality; and
transmitting to the wireless communication network the report including the fields storing the cell identity for the first cell, the first count value, the cell identity for the second cell, and the second count value.