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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:
Feb. 27, 2024

Filed:

Sep. 07, 2021
Applicant:

Nec Corporation, Tokyo, JP;

Inventor:

Yassin Aden Awad, Uxbridge, GB;

Assignee:

NEC CORPORATION, Tokyo, JP;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 72/04 (2023.01); H04W 74/00 (2009.01); H04L 1/1867 (2023.01); H04W 52/14 (2009.01); H04W 88/18 (2009.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 74/0833 (2013.01); H04L 1/1896 (2013.01); H04W 52/143 (2013.01); H04W 74/006 (2013.01); H04W 74/008 (2013.01); H04W 88/187 (2013.01);
Abstract

A communication system is disclosed in which a communications node allocates resources for potential use by any of a plurality of user communication devices, including first type (e.g. legacy) user communication devices and second type (e.g. machine-type) communication devices. Control data is sent, to the user communication devices, defining communication resources for potential use by any of the user communication devices. The control data includes information identifying a first PRACH resource configuration for a first type user communication device and a second PRACH resource configuration for a second type of device such that the user devices can be distinguished by the PRACH configuration used.


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