US 11,770,744 B2
Random access skip configuration
Hyejung Jung, Northbrook, IL (US); Prateek Basu Mallick, Dreieich (DE); Joachim Loehr, Wiesbaden (DE); Ravi Kuchibhotla, Chicago, IL (US); Vijay Nangia, Woodridge, IL (US); Ebrahim MolavianJazi, Lincolnwood, IL (US); and Robert T. Love, Barrington, IL (US)
Assigned to Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd., New Tech Park (SG)
Filed by Lenovo (Singapore) PTE. LTD., New Tech Park (SG)
Filed on Mar. 11, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/199,210.
Application 17/199,210 is a continuation of application No. 16/417,428, filed on May 20, 2019, granted, now 10,972,948.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/673,774, filed on May 18, 2018.
Prior Publication US 2021/0204178 A1, Jul. 1, 2021
Int. Cl. H04W 36/00 (2009.01); H04L 5/00 (2006.01); H04W 74/08 (2009.01)
CPC H04W 36/0055 (2013.01) [H04L 5/0048 (2013.01); H04W 74/0833 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method comprising:
determining a lack of a suitable synchronization signal and physical broadcast channel block (SS/PBCH), a channel state information reference signal (CSI-RS) resource, or a combination thereof, within a first cell based at least in part on a link reconfiguration procedure;
inhibiting, based at least in part on the determining, a retransmission of a physical random access channel (PRACH) preamble irrespective of a number of transmissions of the PRACH preamble being less than a threshold number of transmissions of the PRACH preamble; and
sending an indication of a random access (RA) problem based at least in part on the inhibiting.