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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:
Dec. 29, 2020

Filed:

May. 17, 2017
Applicant:

Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., Gyeonggi-do, KR;

Inventors:
Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 4/00 (2018.01); H04L 5/00 (2006.01); H04W 72/04 (2009.01); H04W 16/06 (2009.01); H04W 72/00 (2009.01); H04W 4/70 (2018.01); H04W 76/10 (2018.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 4/70 (2018.02); H04L 5/0044 (2013.01); H04L 5/0053 (2013.01); H04W 16/06 (2013.01); H04W 72/0453 (2013.01); H04W 72/005 (2013.01); H04W 76/10 (2018.02);
Abstract

The present invention provides a method and system for enabling machine type communication in a long term evolution (LTE) network environment. In one embodiment, a Physical (PHY) layer of a LTE protocol stack maps data bits in resource elements of a logical channel to resource elements of a physical channel. The PHY layer identifies the data bits intended for legacy devices but mapped to a first set of resource elements of machine type communication (MTC) devices and the data bits intended for the MTC device but mapped to the second set of resource elements of the legacy devices. Accordingly, the PHY layer remaps the data bits intended for the legacy devices to the second set of resource elements and the data bits intended for the MTC devices to the first set of resource elements prior to transmission.


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