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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 23, 2017
Filed:
Jun. 18, 2013
Applicant:
Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd, Suwon-si, Gyeonggi-do, KR;
Inventors:
Assignee:
Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., Suwon-si, KR;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 72/04 (2009.01); H04W 56/00 (2009.01); H04L 5/00 (2006.01); H04B 7/08 (2006.01); H04L 27/26 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 72/0406 (2013.01); H04B 7/086 (2013.01); H04L 5/0023 (2013.01); H04L 5/0053 (2013.01); H04L 5/0094 (2013.01); H04W 56/0045 (2013.01); H04L 27/2607 (2013.01);
Abstract
Methods and apparatus of a base station (BS) or a user equipment (UE) that communicate with each other via one or more directional beams. The BS sends and the UE receives a timing advance (TA). The BS receives information sent by the UE via a receive beam of the one or more directional beams of the BS and via an uplink (UL) control region of an UL control channel. The UL control region of the UL control channel identified via the TA and the receive beam.