IP Library Granted Patent US 11,228,974
Granted Patent B2
US 11,228,974 · App. 16/277,110 · Granted Jan 18, 2022

Wireless communications and power configurations

Inventors: Kyungmin Park (Herndon, VA); Esmael Dinan (Herndon, VA); Hyoungsuk Jeon (Oakton, VA); Hua Zhou (Herndon, VA); Alireza Babaei (Fairfax, VA); Ali Cirik (Herndon, VA)
Assignee: Comcast Cable Communications, LLC
H04W52/0212H04L5/00H04W8/24H04W28/0221H04W52/0209H04W52/0229H04W74/08H04W92/20
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Quick Facts
Patent No.
US 11,228,974
App. No.
16/277,110
Filed
Feb 15, 2019
Granted
Jan 18, 2022
Kind
B2
Examiner
MEW, KEVIN D
Art Unit
2471
USPC
370/311
Abstract

Systems, apparatuses, and methods are described for wireless communications. A base station may determine at least one power configuration parameter for a wireless device. The at least one power configuration parameter may be based on information received from the wireless device.

Claims (63)

1. A method comprising:

receiving, by a base station distributed unit (DU) from a wireless device, a first radio resource control (RRC) message comprising wireless device information, wherein the wireless device information comprises an indication of a power configuration for the wireless device;

sending, by the base station DU to a base station central unit (CU), the first RRC message comprising the wireless device information;

receiving, by the base station DU from the base station CU, a first message comprising the wireless device information;

determining, by the base station DU and based on the wireless device information, at least one power configuration parameter; and

sending, by the base station DU to the base station CU, a second message comprising the at least one power configuration parameter.

2. The method of claim 1 , wherein the indication of the power configuration for the wireless device comprises:

a power preference indication indicating that the wireless device prefers a configuration for power saving.

3. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:

receiving, by the base station DU from the base station CU, a second RRC message comprising the at least one power configuration parameter; and

forwarding, by the base station DU to the wireless device, the second RRC message.

4. The method of claim 1 , wherein the sending the first RRC message comprises forwarding, to the base station CU via an F1 interface, the first RRC message.

5. The method of claim 1 , wherein the wireless device information further comprises at least one of:

a first number of preambles sent information element (IE) indicating a first number of preambles sent during a random access process; or

a first contention detected IE indicating contention was detected for at least one of transmitted preambles during the random access process.

6. The method of claim 1 , wherein the wireless device information further comprises at least one of:

an absolute time stamp information element (IE) indicating an absolute time that a logged measurement configuration logging is provided from a base station; or

a trace reference IE.

7. The method of claim 1 , wherein the wireless device information further comprises at least one of:

a failed cell identifier of a failed cell;

a maximum transmission power reached information element (IE); or

a time since failure IE.

8. The method of claim 1 , wherein the wireless device information further comprises a visited cell information list comprising, for each visited cell of at least one visited cell, at least one of:

a visited cell identifier of the visited cell;

a carrier frequency value of the visited cell; or

a time spent information element (IE) indicating at least one time spent in the visited cell.

9. The method of claim 1 , wherein the wireless device information comprises at least one of:

a downlink preference information element (IE) indicating a preference for a configuration of a maximum physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH) bandwidth;

an uplink preference IE indicating a preference for a configuration of a maximum physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH) bandwidth; or

a sidelink preference IE indicating a preference for a configuration of a maximum physical sidelink channel bandwidth.

10. The method of claim 1 , wherein the wireless device information further comprises at least one of:

a radio link monitoring (RLM) event information element (IE) indicating an early-out-of-sync or an early-in-sync; or

an excess repetition machine type communication physical downlink control channel (MPDCCH) IE indicating an excess number of repetitions on an MPDCCH.

11. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:

receiving, by the base station DU from the base station CU, a third message comprising one or more configuration parameters for at least a second wireless device; and

forwarding, by the base station DU to the at least the second wireless device, the third message comprising the one or more configuration parameters for the at least the second wireless device.

12. A method comprising:

receiving, by a base station central unit (CU) from a base station distributed unit (DU), a first radio resource control (RRC) message comprising wireless device information, wherein the wireless device information comprises an indication of a power configuration;

determining that the wireless device information is associated with a wireless device that is associated with the base station DU;

sending, by the base station CU to the base station DU, a first message comprising the wireless device information;

receiving, by the base station CU from the base station DU, a second message comprising at least one power configuration parameter based on the wireless device information; and

sending, by the base station CU to the wireless device via the base station DU, a second RRC message comprising the at least one power configuration parameter.

13. The method of claim 12 , wherein the indication of the power configuration comprises a power preference indication indicating that the wireless device prefers a configuration for power saving.

14. The method of claim 12 , wherein the wireless device information further comprises at least one of:

a random access report;

a connection establishment failure report; or

a radio link monitoring report.

15. The method of claim 12 , wherein the wireless device information further comprises at least one of:

a bandwidth preference;

a delay budget report;

a logged measurement report; or

a mobility history report indicating at least one time value of stay in recently visited cells.

16. The method of claim 12 , wherein the receiving the first RRC message comprises receiving, via an F1 interface forwarded by the base station DU from the wireless device, the first RRC message.

17. The method of claim 12 , further comprising:

determining, by the base station CU, one or more configuration parameters for at least a second wireless device; and

sending, by the base station CU to the base station DU, a third message comprising the one or more configuration parameters for the at least the second wireless device.

18. A method comprising:

determining, by a wireless device, wireless device information comprising an indication of a power configuration for the wireless device;

sending, by the wireless device to a base station distributed unit (DU), a first radio resource control (RRC) message comprising the wireless device information;

receiving, by the wireless device from a base station central unit (CU) via the base station DU, a second RRC message comprising at least one power configuration parameter based on the wireless device information; and

sending, to the base station DU and based on the at least one power configuration parameter, at least one transport block.

19. The method of claim 18 , wherein the power configuration for the wireless device comprises a power preference indication indicating that the wireless device prefers a configuration for power saving.

20. The method of claim 18 , wherein the receiving the second RRC message comprises receiving the second RRC message forwarded by the base station DU from the base station CU.

Assignments (2)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Jun 18, 2020
From: PARK, KYUNGMIN; DINAN, ESMAEL; JEON, HYOUNGSUK; ZHOU, HUA; BABAEI, ALIREZA; CIRIK, ALI
To: COMCAST CABLE COMMUNICATIONS, LLC
Reel/Frame 052981/0041 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Apr 4, 2019
From: PARK, KYUNGMIN; DINAN, ESMAEL; JEON, HYOUNGSUK; ZHOU, HUA; BABAEI, ALIREZA; CIRIK, ALI
To: COMCAST CABLE COMMUNICATIONS, LLC
Reel/Frame 048788/0744 →
Continuity (2)
Provisional Application 62631401 · Feb 15, 2018
Related Publication 20190253966A1 · Aug 15, 2019
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