Patent ID: 11871376
Assignee: QUALCOMM INCORPORATED
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 14:
15. A user equipment (UE), comprising:
one or more processors;
a memory comprising instructions; and
a transceiver communicatively coupled to the processor,
wherein the one or more processors are configured to execute the instructions and cause the UE to:
communicate over a carrier comprising a plurality of bandwidth parts (BWPs) utilizing BWP hopping by configuring the transceiver to switch between BWPs of the plurality of BWPs according to a planned hopping pattern;
receive, via the transceiver, a paging indicator message in a first BWP of the plurality of BWPs;
responsive to the paging indicator message, switch the transceiver from the first BWP to a paging BWP of the plurality of BWPs, the paging BWP configured to carry paging messages, wherein switching from the first BWP to the paging BWP is not part of the planned hopping pattern; and
receive, via the transceiver, a paging message in the paging BWP;

wherein the paging BWP is a selected paging BWP from among a plurality of paging BWPs of the plurality of BWPs,
wherein the carrier comprises a plurality of non-overlapping hop regions, each of the hop regions comprising a respective subset of BWPs of the plurality of BWPs, each of the respective subsets of BWPs comprising a respective paging BWP,
wherein the first BWP is within a first hop region of the plurality of hop regions, and
wherein the selected paging BWP is the respective paging BWP of the first hop region.