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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:
Sep. 12, 2017

Filed:

Sep. 09, 2014
Applicants:

Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);

Intel Ip Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);

Inventors:

Seunghee Han, Cupertino, CA (US);

Gang Xiong, Beaverton, OR (US);

Alexei Vladimirovich Davydov, Nizhny Novgorod, RU;

Jong-Kae Fwu, Sunnyvale, CA (US);

Gi Wan Choi, San Jose, CA (US);

Assignees:

Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);

Intel IP Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 56/00 (2009.01); H04L 5/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 56/0045 (2013.01); H04L 5/0053 (2013.01); H04W 56/0015 (2013.01); H04L 5/0007 (2013.01);
Abstract

Embodiments of an eNB to operate in accordance with a coverage enhancement mode are disclosed herein. The eNB may comprise hardware processing circuitry to, during a legacy sub-frame, transmit a system information block (SIB) in legacy SIB frequency resources according to a legacy SIB transmission format and refrain from transmission of channel state information reference signals (CSI-RS). The hardware processing circuitry may be further to, during a first coverage enhancement sub-frame, transmit a first portion of the SIB in first SIB frequency resources included in the legacy SIB frequency resources. The hardware processing circuitry may be further to, during a first coverage enhancement sub-frame, transmit a first set of CSI-RS in first CSI-RS frequency resources that include at least a portion of the legacy SIB frequency resources.


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