Patent ID: 11956113
Assignee: SONY GROUP CORPORATION
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 4:
5. A user equipment comprising:
a transceiver configured to monitor one or more synchronization signal blocks (SSBs) transmitted via a downlink, wherein each of the SSBs includes Primary Synchronization Signal (PSS), Secondary Synchronization Signal (SSS), and Physical Broadcast Channel (PBCH); and
a processor operatively connected to the transceiver and configured to:
determine an operational frequency band,
determine a value L corresponding to the operational frequency band, the value L indicating a maximum number of SSBs in a synchronization signal (SS) burst,
on a condition that the value L is less than a threshold L value, determine an SSB index based on a PBCH demodulation reference signal (DMRS) sequence, and
on a condition that the value L is 64, determine the SSB index using both of:
the PBCH DMRS sequence, and
a PBCH payload;
wherein, on the condition that the value L is 64, the SSB index consists of least significant bits (LSBs) and most significant bits (MSBs),
wherein the LSBs for the SSB index is determined based on the PBCH DMRS sequence, and
wherein the MSBs for the SSB index is determined based on the PBCH payload.