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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. 20, 2022

Filed:

Dec. 22, 2017
Applicant:

Telefonaktiebolaget Lm Ericsson (Publ), Stockholm, SE;

Inventors:

Wei Wang, Kanata, CA;

Liping Zhang, Beijing, CN;

Pu Yao, Beijing, CN;

Qingyu Miao, Beijing, CN;

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 1/00 (2006.01); H04W 4/70 (2018.01); H04W 4/80 (2018.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 1/0027 (2013.01); H04L 1/0003 (2013.01); H04W 4/70 (2018.02); H04W 4/80 (2018.02);
Abstract

A method implemented by a network device in a communication network is provided. The network device is operable to communicate with a User Equipment UE and a Narrow Band Internet Of Things NB-IoT terminal device in the communication network. Said method may comprise configuring NB-IoT Physical Resource Blocks PRBs. Said method may further comprise when scheduling said UE, if said configured NB-IoT PRBs have not been allocated to said NB-IoT terminal device and if available PRBs other than said configured NB-IOT PRBs are not enough for said UE, attempting to allocate said configured NB-IoT PRBs for said UE. A network device performing said method is also provided. Further, a communication network comprising said network device is also provided.


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