MUMBAI, India, July 7 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202418047220 A) filed by Apple Inc. on June 19, 2024, for Physical Broadcast Channel Extension In Wireless Communications.
Inventors include Zhang, Yushu; He, Hong; Zhang, Dawei; Zeng, Wei; Yao, Chunhai; Sun, Haitong; Kim, Yuchul; Ye, Chunxuan; Oteri, Oghenekome Number; Yang, Weidong; Tang, Yang; Cui, Jie Filed On; Hu, Haijing; Wu, Zhibin; and Xu, Fangli.
The application for the patent was published on July 03, 2026, under issue no. 27/2026.
Abstract: To extend a physical broadcast channel (PBCH) in wireless communications, an extended physical broadcast channel (EPBCH) transmission is generated with one or more legacy PBCH blocks and one or more EPBCH blocks within an extension window. A size of the extension window is determined based at least in part on a PBCH repetition number and a number of the legacy PBCH blocks relative to a number of the EPBCH blocks. The EPBCH transmission is transmitted by a base station (BS) (102) to one or more user equipment (UE) (106).
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