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Date of Patent:
Jun. 09, 2020

Filed:

Dec. 14, 2017
Applicant:

T-mobile Usa, Inc., Bellevue, WA (US);

Inventors:

Jeff Ahmet, Issaquah, WA (US);

Puja Gupta, Redmond, WA (US);

Assignee:

T-Mobile USA, Inc., Bellevue, WA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 48/16 (2009.01); H04W 72/04 (2009.01); H04L 29/08 (2006.01); H04W 16/14 (2009.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 48/16 (2013.01); H04L 67/12 (2013.01); H04L 67/22 (2013.01); H04W 72/0446 (2013.01); H04W 72/0453 (2013.01); H04W 16/14 (2013.01); H04W 72/048 (2013.01);
Abstract

A NarrowBand Internet of Things (NB-IoT) device can find a connection to an NB-IoT cell by searching for an available NB-IoT carrier. An available NB-IoT carrier can be found by scanning through frequencies associated with a plurality of channel numbers on a predefined NB-IoT channel list, the plurality of channel numbers being associated with a plurality of NB-IoT carriers offered by one or more base stations. The NB-IoT carriers are frequency bands within a larger spectrum band associated with a telecommunications provider. The NB-IoT device can camp on a particular NB-IoT carrier when the particular NB-IoT carrier has an available physical resource block (PRB).


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