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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Mar. 31, 2026

Filed:

Feb. 12, 2021
Applicant:

Qualcomm Incorporated, San Diego, CA (US);

Inventors:

Liangping MA, San Diego, CA (US);

Xiao Feng Wang, San Diego, CA (US);

Jun MA, San Diego, CA (US);

Peter Gaal, San Diego, CA (US);

Juan Montojo, San Diego, CA (US);

Wanshi Chen, San Diego, CA (US);

Alberto Rico Alvarino, San Diego, CA (US);

Ayan Sengupta, San Diego, CA (US);

Bharat Shrestha, San Diego, CA (US);

Huilin Xu, Temecula, CA (US);

Yiqing Cao, Beijing, CN;

Umesh Phuyal, San Diego, CA (US);

Assignee:

QUALCOMM Incorporated, San Diego, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04B 7/06 (2006.01); H04W 74/0833 (2024.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04B 7/06952 (2023.05); H04B 7/0617 (2013.01); H04B 7/0626 (2013.01); H04W 74/0833 (2013.01);
Abstract

Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques for beam selection for random access. A method that may be performed by a user equipment (UE) includes receiving, from a network entity, via a first beam, system information associated with at least a first plurality of beams that are within a coverage area of the first beam. The method also includes selecting a second beam among at least the first plurality of beams based at least in part on the system information and performing a random access procedure via the selected second beam.


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