Patent ID: 11917525
Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 6:
7. An apparatus, comprising:
a receiver, in coordination with a processor, configured to receive a system message that is broadcast by an access network device on a physical broadcast channel (PBCH), wherein the system message comprises an extension field, and the extension field indicates a format of the system message; and
wherein the processor, configured to discard the system message when it is determined that information about the extension field is first information, wherein the first information indicates that the format of the system message is an extended format, wherein the system message received by the apparatus is an interleaved system message, and the processing unit is further configured to:
perform de-interleaving on the interleaved system message, to obtain a de-interleaved system message; and
determine the extension field based on the de-interleaved system message.