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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. 30, 2023

Filed:

Nov. 22, 2021
Applicant:

Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);

Inventors:

Peng Lu, Sunnyvale, CA (US);

Qiaoyang Ye, Fremont, CA (US);

Gang Xiong, Portland, OR (US);

Glenn J. Bradford, Hillsboro, OR (US);

Joonyoung Cho, Portland, OR (US);

Jong-Kae Fwu, Sunnyvale, CA (US);

Bishwarup Mondal, San Ramon, CA (US);

Assignee:

Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 5/00 (2006.01); H04J 13/00 (2011.01); H04L 7/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 5/0098 (2013.01); H04J 13/0062 (2013.01); H04L 5/001 (2013.01); H04L 5/0048 (2013.01); H04L 7/007 (2013.01);
Abstract

Systems, methods, and baseband processors are provided to generate or process symbols in a synchronization subframe. In one example, a method includes selecting non-consecutive orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) symbols in a synchronization subframe. A transmitter is instructed to transmit demodulation reference symbols (DM-RS) on identical first sets of subcarriers in respective OFDM symbols of the selected non-consecutive OFDM symbols for a Physical Broadcast Channel (PBCH) using a same transmit beam, wherein a gap between two subcarriers in a respective set of the identical first sets of subcarriers is three subcarriers. The transmitter is instructed to transmit the PBCH on identical second sets of subcarriers in respective OFDM symbols in the selected non-consecutive OFDM symbols.


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