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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 02, 2025
Filed:
Feb. 16, 2022
Spreadtrum Communications (Shanghai) Co., Ltd., Shanghai, CN;
Sicong Zhao, Shanghai, CN;
Zhenzhu Lei, Shanghai, CN;
SPREADTRUM COMMUNICATIONS (SHANGHAI) CO., LTD., Shanghai, CN;
Abstract
A method and an apparatus for identifying a reduced capability (RedCap) user equipment (UE) type, a base station, and a UE. The method includes broadcasting random access channel (RACH) configuration information, comprising a proportion parameter of available RACH occasion (RO) resources for different RedCap UE types, of RedCap UEs in a cell through a broadcast message in such a manner that a RedCap UE of the RedCap UEs is configured to transmit, based on the proportion parameter and a RedCap UE type of the different RedCap UE types, Msg1 to a base station by using RO resources corresponding to the RedCap UE type; and identifying the RedCap UE type of the RedCap UE based on the RO resources used by the RedCap UE to transmit the Msg1.