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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.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 08, 2026
Filed:
Dec. 20, 2021
Applicant:
Sony Group Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Inventors:
Assignee:
Sony Group Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 8/24 (2009.01); H04W 76/10 (2018.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 8/24 (2013.01); H04W 76/10 (2018.02);
Abstract
A method for use in a user equipment (), UE, for progressive identification of the UE () as a reduced capability, RedCap, device, the method comprising: transmitting (), to a wireless network at an initial access procedure, an identification message () identifying a RedCap type of the UE and a RedCap profile associated with the RedCap type, wherein the RedCap profile is indicative of a set of connectivity parameters to be used when establishing a connection to the wireless network; and transmitting (), to the wireless network, a message () indicating one or more further RedCap profiles associated with said RedCap type to store in the wireless network.