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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 20, 2025
Filed:
Apr. 06, 2021
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Sigen Ye, Cupertino, CA (US);
Chunxuan Ye, Cupertino, CA (US);
Dawei Zhang, Cupertino, CA (US);
Fangli Xu, Cupertino, CA (US);
Haitong Sun, Cupertino, CA (US);
Huaning Niu, Cupertino, CA (US);
Sethuraman Gurumoorthy, Cupertino, CA (US);
Seyed Ali Akbar Fakoorian, Cupertino, CA (US);
Wei Zeng, Cupertino, CA (US);
Yushu Zhang, Cupertino, CA (US);
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Abstract
Methods and systems are disclosed to configure different paging occasions for enhanced UEs that support, and for legacy UEs that do not support, the enhanced feature of the paging early indication (PEI) in paging procedure for 5G/LTE networks. Different paging occasions for the enhanced and legacy UEs may be configured by providing separate paging occasion parameters for the enhanced and legacy UEs. The network may use the separate paging parameters to design the PEI to save signaling overhead. The network may reuse paging format for the paging PDCCH to serve as the PEI that is transmitted in advance of the paging occasions for the enhanced UEs, or may keep legacy paging PDCCH at its current locations to serve as the PEI for the enhanced UEs. A scheduling offset may be configured to separate in time the paging PDCCH serving as the PEI and the paging PDSCH containing the paging message.