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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 02, 2026
Filed:
Jul. 16, 2021
Qualcomm Incorporated, San Diego, CA (US);
Yiqing Cao, Beijing, CN;
Jing Lei, San Diego, CA (US);
Peter Gaal, San Diego, CA (US);
Alberto Rico Alvarino, San Diego, CA (US);
Kazuki Takeda, Minato-ku, JP;
Juan Montojo, San Diego, CA (US);
Wanshi Chen, San Diego, CA (US);
Bin Han, Beijing, CN;
Ting Wang, Beijing, CN;
Yan Li, Beijing, CN;
Zhimin Du, Beijing, CN;
Kefeng Zhang, Beijing, CN;
QUALCOMM Incorporated, San Diego, CA (US);
Abstract
This disclosure provides systems, methods, and devices for wireless communication that support configuring associations between system information of at least one downlink (DL) anchor carrier and at least one random access channel (RACH) occasion (RO) of an uplink (UL) anchor carrier for initial access in flexible multicarrier operations. System information may be transmitted by a base station to a UE over the DL anchor carrier. In aspects, the at least one DL anchor carrier may be mapped to an UL anchor carrier, or to one or more candidate UL anchor carriers from which the UE may configurably select the UL anchor carrier, for initial access operations. In aspects, the UL anchor carrier and/or the one or more candidate UL anchor carriers may be respectively associated with one or more ROs. The UE may perform initial access operations over the UL anchor carrier using the associated one or more ROs.