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US 2013/0272255 A1Published application
Handling Measurements and Reporting for Fixed Devices in Mobile Broadband Networks
OwnerJing Zhu, Rath Vannithamby +2inventors
InventorsJing Zhu, Rath Vannithamby, Ali T. Koc, Maruti Gupta
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Abstract
Measurement requirements for user equipment may be reduced or eliminated where the user equipment is a fixed device. In such case, the measurement requirement may be less useful. In machine-to-machine communications, bandwidth may be increased and power consumption may be reduced in some embodiments.
Claims19
A method comprising:
- determining whether wireless machine-to-machine user equipment is fixed or mobile;
- if the equipment is fixed, assigning reduced wireless measurements to the equipment;
- and
- sending a radio resource control reconfiguration message to the equipment to operate with the reduced measurements.
1 more element
A non-transitory computer readable medium storing instructions to enable a computer to:
- determine whether wireless machine-to-machine user equipment is a fixed, as opposed to a mobile, device;
- and
- if the equipment is fixed, assigning reduced wireless measurements to the equipment using a radio resource control reconfiguration message.
A machine-to-machine wireless equipment comprising:
- a unit to determine whether an equipment is fixed or mobile and, if the equipment is fixed, assign reduced wireless measurements to the equipment using a radio resource control reconfiguration message;
- and
- an antenna coupled to said equipment.
An apparatus comprising:
- a unit to determine whether wireless machine-to-machine user equipment that is communicating with said apparatus is fixed or mobile and, if fixed, assign reduced wireless measurements to the equipment via a radio resource control reconfiguration message;
- and
- an antenna coupled to said unit.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.