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Date of Patent:
Mar. 25, 2025

Filed:

Oct. 09, 2020
Applicant:

Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);

Inventors:

Hong He, San Jose, CA (US);

Chunhai Yao, Beijing, CN;

Chunxuan Ye, San Diego, CA (US);

Dawei Zhang, Saratoga, CA (US);

Haitong Sun, Cupertino, CA (US);

Oghenekome Oteri, San Diego, CA (US);

Seyed Ali Akbar Fakoorian, San Diego, CA (US);

Sigen Ye, Whitehouse Station, NJ (US);

Wei Zeng, Saratoga, CA (US);

Weidong Yang, San Diego, CA (US);

Yushu Zhang, Beijing, CN;

Assignee:

Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 56/00 (2009.01); H04L 1/00 (2006.01); H04L 5/00 (2006.01); H04W 24/08 (2009.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 56/001 (2013.01); H04L 1/0061 (2013.01); H04L 5/0051 (2013.01); H04W 24/08 (2013.01);
Abstract

A user equipment (UE) monitors for a synchronization signal block (SSB) to synchronize with a cell of a network. The UE monitors a frequency band during a discovery reference signal (DRS) window for a synchronization signal block (SSB) transmitted by a cell of the network, determines an SSB index based on information received from the cell of the network and synchronizes with the cell based on the SSB index.


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