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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 25, 2018
Filed:
Aug. 13, 2015
Applicant:
Alcatel Lucent, Boulogne-Billancourt, FR;
Inventors:
Assignee:
Alcatel Lucent, Boulogne-Billancourt, FR;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 4/00 (2018.01); H04W 16/14 (2009.01); H04W 72/04 (2009.01); H04W 84/12 (2009.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 16/14 (2013.01); H04W 72/0413 (2013.01); H04W 84/12 (2013.01);
Abstract
According an embodiment the method includes sending a RRC connection reconfiguration message to a user equipment, the RRC connection reconfiguration message including at least one energy sensing threshold corresponding to at least one unlicensed channel; and receiving a Layer 1 channel indication message via a licensed channel from the user equipment, the Layer 1 channel indication message indicating whether an unlicensed channel is free.