Method for communicating in a mobile network during a transitional configuration mode
AssigneeKoninklijke Philips N.V.
InventorTimothy James Moulsley
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Abstract
The present invention relates to a method for communicating between a primary station and at least one secondary station, comprising (a) the secondary station being configured to search a first configuration of search spaces, said search spaces comprising a number of resource sets, where at least one resource set might be used to transmit a message to the secondary station, (b) configuring the secondary station by means of a configuration message to search a second configuration of search spaces, (c) the secondary station in response of the reception of the configuration message entering into a transitional configuration mode, wherein the secondary station searches partly the first configuration of search spaces and the second configuration of search spaces.
Claims15
A method for communicating between a primary station and at least one secondary station in a network, the method comprising:
- in a secondary station:
- (a) a controller operative to search a first configuration of search spaces, the first configuration of search spaces comprising a first number of resource sets and a first number of control message formats, where at least one resource set and control message format may be selected to transmit a control message from the primary station to the secondary station,
- (b) the secondary station entering into a transitional mode in response to the receipt of a configuration message from the primary station,
- (c) the controller operative to search a second configuration of search spaces upon exiting the transitional mode , wherein the second configuration of search spaces comprises a second number of resource sets and a second number of control message formats,
- wherein in the transitional mode, the secondary station partly searches the first configuration of search spaces and partly searches the second configuration of search spaces.
A secondary station, comprising:
- a transmitter including an antenna array arranged to communicate with a primary station,
- a controller operative to search a first configuration of search spaces, the first configuration of search spaces comprising a first number of resource sets and a first number of control message formats where at least one resource set and control message format may be selected to transmit a control message from the primary station to the secondary station,
- a receiver including an antenna array configured to receive a configuration message from the primary station for configuring the secondary station to enter into a transitional mode ,
- the controller operative to configure the secondary station to enter into the transitional mode in response to the reception of the configuration message, the controller operative to configure the secondary station to search a second configuration of search spaces upon exiting the transitional mode, wherein the second configuration of search spaces comprises a second number of resource sets and a second number of control message formats,
- wherein in the transitional mode, the secondary station partly searches the first configuration of search spaces and partly searches the second configuration of search spaces.
A non-transitory computer readable storage medium comprising any storage medium that is not a transitory propagating signal or wave, and having stored thereon instructions that when executed cause processing circuitry of a secondary station to:
- (a) search a first configuration of search spaces, the first configuration of search spaces comprising a first number of resource sets and a first number of control message formats, where at least one resource set and control message format may be selected to transmit a control message from a primary station to the secondary station,
- (b) enter into a transitional mode in response to the receipt of a configuration message,
- (c) search a second configuration of search spaces upon exiting the transitional mode, wherein the second configuration of search spaces comprises a second number of resource sets and a second number of control message formats,
- wherein in the transitional mode, the secondary station partly searches the first configuration of search spaces and partly searches the second configuration of search spaces.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.