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Date of Patent:
Sep. 21, 2021

Filed:

Oct. 11, 2019
Applicant:

Sprint Spectrum L.p., Overland Park, KS (US);

Inventor:

William Shvodian, McLean, VA (US);

Assignee:

Sprint Spectrum L.P., Overland Park, KS (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 5/14 (2006.01); H04W 4/021 (2018.01); H04W 16/18 (2009.01); H04L 5/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 5/1469 (2013.01); H04L 5/0082 (2013.01); H04W 4/021 (2013.01); H04W 16/18 (2013.01);
Abstract

When a first coverage area will use a first TDD configuration and a second coverage area will use a second TDD configuration that is different than the first TDD configuration, a guard band operatively separating the first and second coverage areas (in frequency and/or in space) will be configured with an enhanced TDD configuration that is specially structured to be consistent with both the first and second TDD configurations. Namely, the enhanced TDD configuration could be downlink just when both the first and second TDD configurations are downlink and uplink just when both the first and second TDD configurations are uplink, and can unused at other times.


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