Patent ID: 11968547
Assignee: TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON (PUBL)
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 5:
6. The method of claim 1, wherein the method comprises a random access method for supporting random access to the network by the device, and wherein:
determining the directional reception scanning ability of the device comprises determining the directional scanning ability of the device in dependence on a random access preamble transmitted by the device as a random access request, the sequence or index of the random access preamble mapping to a defined directional reception scanning ability, according to a defined mapping scheme known to the network node and the device; and
configuring the network transmission for the device comprises selecting at least one of a Transmission/Reception Point or a transmission beamforming configuration to use for transmitting a random access response corresponding to the random access request.