US 11,855,753 B2
Telecommunications apparatus and methods
Matthew William Webb, Basingstoke (GB); and Hideji Wakabayashi, Basingstoke (GB)
Assigned to SONY CORPORATION, Tokyo (JP)
Filed by Sony Corporation, Tokyo (JP)
Filed on Mar. 19, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/206,156.
Application 17/206,156 is a continuation of application No. 14/777,705, granted, now 10,958,368, previously published as PCT/EP2014/057391, filed on Apr. 11, 2014.
Claims priority of application No. 1306764 (GB), filed on Apr. 15, 2013.
Prior Publication US 2021/0211216 A1, Jul. 8, 2021
Int. Cl. H04J 11/00 (2006.01); H04W 52/36 (2009.01); H04W 36/00 (2009.01); H04W 36/08 (2009.01); H04W 36/30 (2009.01); H04W 52/14 (2009.01); H04W 52/50 (2009.01); H04W 48/20 (2009.01); H04W 52/24 (2009.01)
CPC H04J 11/0083 (2013.01) [H04W 36/0094 (2013.01); H04W 36/08 (2013.01); H04W 36/30 (2013.01); H04W 52/367 (2013.01); H04W 48/20 (2013.01); H04W 52/143 (2013.01); H04W 52/241 (2013.01); H04W 52/50 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A terminal device for use in a wireless telecommunication system comprising a plurality of base stations including one or more base stations that support a power boost operating mode in which a base station's available transmission power is concentrated to provide enhanced transmission powers in a subset of its available transmission resources, wherein the terminal device comprises circuitry, the circuitry being configured to control the terminal device to:
receive an indication of the extent to which the one or more base stations support the power boost operating mode in the wireless telecommunication system;
derive one or more characteristics of received signals from the plurality of base stations in the wireless telecommunications system, the derived one or more characteristics including at least one of power measurements or quality measurements associated with reference signals transmitted by the plurality of base stations in the wireless telecommunications system; and
choose a base station from among the plurality of base stations of the wireless telecommunication system based on the indicated extent to which the one or more base stations support the power boost mode and on the derived one or more characteristics.