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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 31, 2017
Filed:
Feb. 05, 2016
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Sarma V. Vangala, San Jose, CA (US);
Tarik Tabet, Los Gatos, CA (US);
Swaminathan Balakrishnan, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Deepankar Bhattacharjee, Milpitas, CA (US);
Xiantao Sun, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Abstract
This disclosure relates to techniques for enabling a cellular network to more efficiently announce special network capabilities to UE's in its coverage area. The special network capabilities may be specific to a first class of UE devices and/or may be outside of the relevant telecommunication standard used by the cellular network. The base station may transmit a dummy System Information Block-(SIB-), wherein the dummy system information block is broadcast separately from regular system information block's (SIB-'s).