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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:
May. 24, 2022

Filed:

Aug. 06, 2019
Applicant:

Fujitsu Limited, Kawasaki, JP;

Inventors:

Xusheng Wei, Staines, GB;

Timothy Moulsley, Caterham, GB;

Assignee:

FUJITSU LIMITED, Kawasaki, JP;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 56/00 (2009.01); H04W 76/11 (2018.01); H04W 48/10 (2009.01); H04W 72/04 (2009.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 56/001 (2013.01); H04W 48/10 (2013.01); H04W 72/046 (2013.01); H04W 72/0446 (2013.01); H04W 76/11 (2018.02);
Abstract

A 5G wireless communication system to transmit a beam ID or part of a beam ID by joint design of a secondary synchronization sequence (SSS) and Physical Broadcast Channel (PBCH). In 5G during the initial access procedure a terminal will try to obtain fundamental system information/identifiers which are required for future signal transmission/reception activities. Due to the extensive usage of beamforming techniques in 5G, besides identifying a cell ID and obtaining time/frequency synchronization, the terminal may identify a beam ID during the initial access procedure. Therefore, a beam ID is transmitted as part of synchronization signals (SS) broadcast by a gNB, more particularly as part of SSS or as part of PBCH. The synchronization signals may be transmitted as a set of SS blocks, each having an index, which may be a time index, for facilitating identification.


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