# US 2019/0357029 A1 · Infrastructure equipment and method > Agents: this data is available as JSON from the patentgrep API and MCP server — see https://patentgrep.com/llms.txt - Number: US 2019/0357029 A1 - Document ID: US20190357029A1 - Status: Published application - Kind: A1 - Application number: 16/531,145 - Filed: 2019-08-05 - Published: 2019-11-21 - Earliest claimed: 2010-10-25 - Assignees: Sca Ipla Holdings Inc. - Applicants: SCA IPLA Holdings Inc. - Inventors: Robert ZAKRZEWSKI - Web page: https://patentgrep.com/patent/US20190357029A1 ## CPC - H04W 4/70: Services for machine-to-machine communication [M2M] or machine type communication [MTC] - H04W 8/26: Network addressing or numbering for mobility support - H04W 74/0833: Random access procedures, e.g. with 4-step access - H04W 76/11: Allocation or use of connection identifiers - H04L 5/0007: {the frequencies being orthogonal, e.g. OFDM(A) or DMT} - H04W 74/004: {in the uplink, i.e. towards network} - H04W 74/006: {in the downlink, i.e. towards the terminal} - H04W 74/0808: using carrier sensing, e.g. carrier sense multiple access [CSMA] - H04W 74/0838: using contention-free random access [CFRA] - H04W: WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORKS (broadcast communication H04H; communication systems using wireless links for non-selective communication, e.g. wireless extensions H04M1/72) - H04L: TRANSMISSION OF DIGITAL INFORMATION, e.g. TELEGRAPHIC COMMUNICATION (arrangements common to telegraphic and telephonic communication H04M) ## Abstract An infrastructure equipment for forming part of a mobile radio network includes a transmit and receive unit, to transmit and receive data to and from mobile communications devices via a wireless access interface, and a controller processing requests for communications resources from the mobile communications devices. Plural associated communications devices are arranged to form a group, and each of the associated communications devices of the group includes a same common identifier, with respect to which communications sessions can be established to communicate data via the mobile radio network, and the controller is arranged in combination with the transmit and receive unit to respond to a request from one of the communications devices of the group to establish a communications bearer using the common identifier. ## Claims ### Claim 1 An infrastructure equipment for forming part of a mobile radio network, the infrastructure equipment including a transmit and receive unit, which is arranged in operation to transmit and receive data to and from mobile communications devices via a wireless access interface, and a controller for processing requests for communications resources from the mobile communications devices, wherein a plurality of associated communications devices are arranged to form a group, and each of the associated communications devices of the group includes the same common identifier, with respect to which communications sessions can be established to communicate data via the mobile radio network, and the controller is arranged in combination with the transmit and receive unit to respond to a request from one of the communications devices of the group to establish a communications bearer using the common identifier. ### Claim 2 (depends on 1) An infrastructure equipment as claimed in claim 1, wherein the identifier, which is used to establish a communications session is provided using a subscriber identifier module or universal subscriber identity module, which includes the same common identifier for each of the communications devices ### Claim 3 (depends on 1) An infrastructure equipment as claimed in claim 1, wherein the identifier is a network temporary identifier or is used to generate a unique resource location or unique resource identifier. ### Claim 4 (depends on 1) An infrastructure equipment as claimed in claim 1, wherein the infrastructure equipment is arranged to identify each of the devices using an equipment identification number, the equipment identification number being used by a radio link layer to identify each of the communications devices within the group of communications devices. ### Claim 5 (depends on 1) An infrastructure equipment as claimed in claim 1, wherein a first of the plurality of associated communications devices is arranged to be a master communications device and the infrastructure equipment is arranged in operation to establish a communication session for the group in response to receiving signalling information including the common identifier from the master communications device, and transmit signalling information to the group of communications devices in response to the signalling information transmitted by the master communications device, with the effect that each of the associated communications devices can transmit data to the mobile radio network and receive data from the mobile radio network using the communications bearer established by the master communications device using the common identifier for all of the associated communications devices of the group. ### Claim 6 (depends on 5) An infrastructure equipment as claimed in claim 5, wherein the signalling information transmitted in response to the master communications device includes information required for mobility management and connection ### Claim 7 (depends on 1) An infrastructure equipment as claimed in claim 1, wherein the controller in combination with the transmitter and receiver unit is arranged in operation to provide each of the communications devices within the group of associated communications devices with one of a set of predefined sequences of data for use in forming the random access burst for transmission in the random access channel of the wireless access interface, the group of predefined sequences being uniquely associated with the group, and to transmit a signalling message in response to a random access burst, using the unique data sequence which was used to form the random access burst received from a communications device. ### Claim 8 (depends on 7) An infrastructure equipment as claimed in claim 7, wherein the random access burst of signals received from one of the communications devices includes data representing a request for uplink resources and in response to the transmitted burst the controller communicates a grant of uplink resources to the communications devices, which is identified using the same predefined sequence allocated to the communications device and received in the random access burst. ### Claim 9 A method of communicating data from an infrastructure equipment forming part of a mobile radio network, the method comprising providing a transmit and receive unit for transmitting and receiving data to and from mobile communications devices via a wireless access interface, and processing requests for communications resources from the mobile communications devices, wherein a plurality of associated communications devices are arranged to form a group, and each of the associated communications devices of the group includes the same common identifier, and the processing of the requests for communications includes responding to a request from one of the communications devices of the group to establish a communications bearer using the common identifier, and establishing a communications session to communicate data via the mobile radio network, using the common identifier from any of the members of the group ### Claim 10 (depends on 9) A method as claimed in claim 9, comprising receiving the common identifier, which is used to establish a communications session, from a subscriber identifier module or universal subscriber identity module, which includes the common identifier to each of the mobile communications devices. ### Claim 11 (depends on 9) A method as claimed in claim 9, wherein the identifier is a network temporary identifier or is used to generate a unique resource location or unique resource identifier. ### Claim 12 (depends on 9) A method as claimed in claim 9, wherein the establishing a communications sessions for communicating data via the mobile radio network, using the common identifier includes establishing a communications bearer using a first of the plurality of associated communications devices which operates as a master communications device, and transmitting signalling information including the identifier for each of the associated communications devices in the group w hen the group of communications devices are in a listening mode in which the signalling information can be received in response to the signalling information transmitted by a master communications device, with the effect that each of the associated communications devices can transmit data to the infrastructure equipment and receive data from the infrastructure equipment using the communications bearer established by the first communications device using the identifier which is common for all of the associated communications devices of the group. ### Claim 13 (depends on 12) A method as claimed in claim 12, wherein the signalling information received from the infrastructure equipment in response to the first communications device includes information required for mobility management and connection. ### Claim 14 (depends on 9) A method as claimed in claim 9, wherein the infrastructure equipment provides a wireless access interface which includes a random access communications channel for uplink transmission of a burst of signals, and the method includes allocating to each of the communications devices from the group of associated communications devices a time for transmitting a random access burst m the random access communications channel in accordance with a predetermined arrangement ### Claim 15 (depends on 14) A method as claimed in claim 14, wherein the predetermined arrangement includes allocating a lime to each of the communications devices of the group, when one or more of the communication of devices can transmit the random access burst in the random access communications channel. ### Claim 16 (depends on 15) A method as claimed in claim 15, wherein each of the communications devices within the group of associated communications devices is provided with one of a set of predefined sequences of data, the group of predefined sequences being uniquely associated with the group, the method comprising receiving a random access burst from one of the communications devices to the mobile radio network, the random access burst for transmission in the random access channel of the wireless access interlace using one of a set of predefined sequences allocated to each of the communications devices, and transmitting a signalling message in response to the random access burst, using the unique data sequence which was used to form the random access burst transmitted by the communications device. ### Claim 17 (depends on 16) A method as claimed in claim 16, wherein the random access burst of signals includes data representing a request for uplink resources and the method includes in response to the transmitted burst, communicating from the infrastructure equipment to the group of communications devices a grant of uplink resources, which is identified using the same predefined sequence allocated to the communications device.