US 9,002,015 B2Granted

System and method for multi-carrier network operation

AssigneeBlackBerry Limited

InventorsMo-Han Fong, Richard Charles Burbidge, Zhijun Cai, Takashi Suzuki, Andrew Mark Earnshaw, Youn Hyoung Heo, Hua Xu, Jun Li, Sean Michael McBeath

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Abstract

A system and method for configuring a component carrier is presented. A component carrier assignment message is received. The component carrier assignment message may be configured to identify the component carrier and include at least one of, at least one of a downlink carrier frequency, a carrier frequency of a paired uplink carrier, a bandwidth of the component carrier, and a bandwidth of the paired uplink carrier, an indication of whether the component carrier is a control channel monitoring component carrier configured to signal data channel assignment information for the component carrier, and a logical index of the component carrier. The component carrier assignment message may then be used to configure the component carrier on a user equipment (UE).

Claims18

Dependent claims

A method, comprising:

receiving a component carrier assignment message via a first component carrier different from a second component carrier and a third component carrier, the first component carrier a control channel monitoring component carrier, the component carrier assignment message identifying the second component carrier and the third component carrier and including:
a physical cell identity (PCI) of the second component carrier;
a PCI of the third component carrier;
an indication that the second component carrier is a control channel monitoring component carrier configured to signal data channel assignment information associated with the second component carrier;
an indication that the third component carrier is a not control channel monitoring component carrier and an indication that a control channel of the first component carrier is configured to signal data channel assignment information for the third component carrier;
an antenna configuration for the second component carrier;
an antenna configuration for the third component carrier;
and
using the component carrier assignment message to configure the second component carrier and the third component carrier on a user equipment (UE).

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Facts

Application: 13/430,632Filed 26 Mar 2012 · continuation
Priority: 25 Sep 2009
Published: US 2013/0010964 A110 Jan 2013
Granted: 7 Apr 2015
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification6 codes

H04W 72/23
Control channels or signalling for resource management: in the downlink direction of a wireless link, i.e. towards a terminal
H04L 5/0053
Arrangements for allocating sub-channels of the transmission path: allocation of signalling, i.e. of overhead other than pilot signals
H04L 5/0092
Signalling for the administration of the divided path, e.g. signalling of configuration information: indication of how the channel is divided
H04L 5/0094
Signalling for the administration of the divided path, e.g. signalling of configuration information: indication of how sub-channels of the path…

Family

Application61/246,061Us provisional application · filed 25 Sep 2009
Application61/293,521Us provisional application · filed 8 Jan 2010
PCT/US2010/050232Parent of this continuation · filed 24 Sep 2010
US 2013/0010964 A1Pre-grant publication · published 10 Jan 2013
US 9,002,015 B2This patent

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