Patent ID: 11930484
Assignee: CHARTER COMMUNICATIONS OPERATING, LLC
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 0:
1. A wireless access node apparatus configured to manage system information (SI) transmission in a wireless network, the wireless access node apparatus comprising:
a digital processor apparatus;
a wireless network interface in data communication with the digital processor apparatus; and
a computer readable storage apparatus in data communication with the digital processor apparatus and comprising a storage medium including at least one computer program configured to, when executed on the digital processor apparatus, cause the wireless access node apparatus to:
invoke an overlapping SI-window protocol;
based at least in part on the invocation of the overlapping SI-window protocol, scramble downlink control information using at least one overlapping SI-identifier; and
transmit the scrambled downlink control information to at least one user device;
wherein:
the wireless access node apparatus comprises a 3GPP (3rd Generation Partnership Project)-compliant Firth Generation New Radio (5G NR) gNodeB (gNB) configured to employ aperiodic OSI data transmission; and
the transmission of the scrambled downlink control information to the at least one user device comprises transmission, by the 3GPP 5G NR gNB, of OSI (other system information) data outside of a prescribed SI window, so as to compensate for any listen-before-talk (LBT) failures within the prescribed SI window.