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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:
Oct. 31, 2017
Filed:
Apr. 24, 2013
Applicant:
Nec Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Inventors:
Assignee:
NEC Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 72/04 (2009.01); H04W 72/08 (2009.01); H04L 5/00 (2006.01); H04L 1/00 (2006.01); H04W 24/08 (2009.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 72/042 (2013.01); H04L 1/0025 (2013.01); H04L 1/0026 (2013.01); H04L 5/006 (2013.01); H04L 5/0053 (2013.01); H04L 5/0057 (2013.01); H04L 5/0069 (2013.01); H04W 24/08 (2013.01); H04W 72/085 (2013.01); H04L 5/0007 (2013.01);
Abstract
A communication system is presented in which a communication device communicates, in at least one communication cell operated by communication apparatus, using a plurality of subframes, wherein each subframe comprises a plurality of communication resources. A respective measure of communication quality associated with each of the communication resources is obtained and a search space, comprising a set of the communication resources, is defined based on the measures of communication quality. The mobile device searches for control information in the defined search space.