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Samsung patents faster 5G connection for simple devices

Samsung has been granted a patent for a method that allows basic 5G devices to identify themselves to the network more quickly. The device uses a specific combination of signals and data channels to tell the network it has limited capabilities, allowing it to send data immediately without extra steps.

Why it mattersThis could make 5G connections faster and more efficient for low-cost devices like sensors or basic trackers.

In the filing’s own words

A system and method for providing early indication by a reduced capability New Radio (NR) User Equipment (UE). In some embodiments the reduced capability UE informs the network, by its use of a combination of preamble, Random Access Channel Occasion (RO), and initial bandwidth part (BWP), that it is a reduced capability UE. In some embodiments, the reduced capability UE transmits payload data in a Message A message. In some embodiments, the reduced capability UE receives, from the network, a set of candidate uplink resources, and transmits a Message 3 message within a subset of the set of candidate uplink resources.

What exactly they claim (claim 1)

1. A method, comprising: receiving, by a reduced capability user equipment (UE), a synchronization signal block comprising an indication of an extended Physical Uplink Shared Channel (PUSCH) Occasion (PO) set reserved for reduced capability UEs; and transmitting, by the reduced capability UE, a Message A message in a PO from the extended PO set wherein the transmitting of the Message A message comprises transmitting, by the reduced capability UE, payload data, and wherein the reduced capability UE uses transmitting in the PO from the extended PO set to indicate that the reduced capability UE is a reduced capability UE.

Facts

Company
Samsung (Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.)
Official title
System and method for providing early indication by reduced capability NR device
Patent number
US12739620B2
Application number
18496791
Filed
Oct 27, 2023
Granted
Sep 15, 2026
Inventors
4
Claims
20

Classified under

H04W 8/24 Electricity & electronicsH04W 56/001 Electricity & electronicsH04W 72/0453 Electricity & electronicsH04W 72/23 Electricity & electronicsH04W 74/0833 Electricity & electronicsH04W 74/0836 Electricity & electronics
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