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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 11, 2023
Filed:
Jul. 14, 2016
Applicant:
Qualcomm Incorporated, San Diego, CA (US);
Inventors:
Madhavan Srinivasan Vajapeyam, San Diego, CA (US);
Masato Kitazoe, Tokyo, JP;
Hao Xu, San Diego, CA (US);
Alberto Rico-Alvarino, San Diego, CA (US);
Assignee:
QUALCOMM INCORPORATED, San Diego, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 36/00 (2009.01); H04W 74/08 (2009.01); H04L 1/08 (2006.01); H04W 4/70 (2018.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 36/0083 (2013.01); H04L 1/08 (2013.01); H04W 4/70 (2018.02); H04W 74/0833 (2013.01);
Abstract
Aspects of the present disclosure provided techniques for wireless communications by a user equipment (UE). An exemplary method, performed by the UE, generally includes identifying a level of coverage enhancement (CE) for the UE to communicate on at least one narrowband region within a wider system bandwidth in which the UE communicates with a base station (BS) and taking one or more actions to alter one or more procedures related to mobility of the UE, based on the level of CE.