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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 02, 2025
Filed:
Aug. 05, 2021
Sony Group Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Martin Warwick Beale, Basingstoke, GB;
Kazuyuki Shimezawa, Basingstoke, GB;
Shin Horng Wong, Basingstoke, GB;
Sony Group Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A method of receiving data at a communications device from a wireless communications network is provided. The method comprises receiving, by a receiver of the communications device, downlink data during an initial access phase of a communications session of the communications device from a wireless access interface provided by the wireless communications network, and receiving, by the receiver of the communications device, other downlink data during a connected phase of the communications session the communications device transmitted to the communications device via the wireless access interface, the wireless access interface providing communications resources comprising a predetermined number of OFDM symbols in each of a plurality of time slots, the OFDM symbols in the initial access phase having a greater number of sub-carriers available to carry the downlink data within greater frequency domain physical resources than the OFDM symbols in the connected phase.