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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.

Date of Patent:
Jan. 08, 2019

Filed:

May. 22, 2017
Applicant:

Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);

Inventors:

Zhu Ji, San Jose, CA (US);

Johnson O. Sebeni, Fremont, CA (US);

Navid Damji, San Jose, CA (US);

Assignee:

APPLE INC., Cupertino, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 4/00 (2018.01); H04L 25/02 (2006.01); H04W 4/06 (2009.01); H04L 27/26 (2006.01); H04L 12/18 (2006.01); H04L 5/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 25/0224 (2013.01); H04L 25/0212 (2013.01); H04L 25/0222 (2013.01); H04L 25/0232 (2013.01); H04L 27/2601 (2013.01); H04W 4/06 (2013.01); H04L 5/0048 (2013.01); H04L 12/189 (2013.01);
Abstract

A method to be performed at a station configured to connect to a Long Term Evolution radio access network (LTE-RAN) to utilize enhanced Multimedia Broadcast Multicast Services using a Multicast-Broadcast Single-Frequency Network (MBSFN). The method including receiving a MBSFN subframe having a MBSFN subframe structure including a plurality of Orthogonal Frequency-Division Multiplexing (OFDM) symbols, a first one of the OFDM symbols having a first reference symbol inserted therein, a second one of the OFDM symbols having a second reference symbol inserted therein, determining a rate of change of channel conditions being experienced by the station and performing a non-destaggered channel estimation when the rate of change of channel conditions is greater than a predetermined threshold, the non-destaggered channel estimation using a first Channel Impulse Response (CIR) at the first OFDM symbol and a second CIR at the second OFDM symbol.


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