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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 14, 2025
Filed:
Sep. 20, 2022
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Seyed Ali Akbar Fakoorian, San Diego, CA (US);
Wei Zeng, San Diego, CA (US);
Dawei Zhang, Saratoga, CA (US);
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Abstract
A base station may transmit a message to a group of user equipments (UEs), directing the UEs to change their respective bandwidth parts (BWPs). For each of the UEs of the group, the message may include a corresponding new BWP. In response to receiving the message, each UE of the group may switch to the corresponding new bandwidth part. The message may be transmitted as part of a group common DCI message. The UE may signal its required minimum guard band size to the base station. Alternatively, the UE may respond to the message with an acknowledgement message. The base station may configure a virtual common downlink BWP for the group of UEs. The UEs drop transmission/reception repetitions that occurs during its BWP switch delay period.