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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 01, 2019
Filed:
May. 02, 2017
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Tarik Tabet, Los Gatos, CA (US);
Awais M. Hussain, Milpitas, CA (US);
Rafael L. Rivera-Barreto, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Matthias Sauer, San Jose, CA (US);
Christian W. Mucke, Cupertino, CA (US);
David Boettger, San Jose, CA (US);
Moustafa M. Elsayed, Los Gatos, CA (US);
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Abstract
In some embodiments, a wireless device such as a user equipment (UE) may communicate with a base station using an advanced form of carrier aggregation. The UE may provide signaling to the network specifying a number P of downlink component carriers to be configured for use by the UE for downlink carrier aggregation and a number Q of uplink component carriers to be configured for use by the UE for uplink carrier aggregation. The UE can only utilize a lesser number M of downlink component carriers at any given time in downlink carrier aggregation and can only utilize a lesser number N of uplink component carriers at any given time in uplink carrier aggregation. Thus the UE may request the network to configure a greater number P and Q of downlink and uplink component carriers, respectively, than the UE can actually use at any instant of time.