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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 28, 2026
Filed:
Jan. 22, 2020
Applicant:
Qualcomm Incorporated, San Diego, CA (US);
Inventors:
Chao Wei, Beijing, CN;
Wanshi Chen, San Diego, CA (US);
Peter Pui Lok Ang, San Diego, CA (US);
Huilin Xu, Temecula, CA (US);
Jing Lei, San Diego, CA (US);
Jing Dai, Beijing, CN;
Assignee:
QUALCOMM Incorporated, San Diego, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 72/00 (2023.01); H04B 1/713 (2011.01); H04W 72/23 (2023.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04B 1/713 (2013.01); H04W 72/23 (2023.01);
Abstract
A reduced-capability user equipment (UE) uses frequency hopping to improve downlink (DL) coverage. Specifically, the UE may receive a physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH) using frequency hopping among a plurality of narrow hands in a wide bandwidth part. A bandwidth of narrow band is not larger than a maximum wireless communication bandwidth of the UE.