Patent ID: 11950242
Assignee: APPLE INC.
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 14:
15. An integrated circuit for use in a base station configured to serve a cell in a cellular network, wherein the integrated circuit comprises
One or more processors, wherein the one or more processors are configured to:
perform cell re-selection with a user equipment (UE) device for a single cell provided by the base station;
establish a radio resource control (RRC) connection with the UE device to the single cell;
responsive to establishing the RRC connection with the UE device to the single cell, inform a mobility management entity (MME) of a cell location of the single cell;
receive, responsive to informing the MME of the cell location of the single cell, information from the MME that a paging message is intended for the UE device, wherein the information indicates that the UE device belongs to a class of link-budget limited UE devices, wherein the information includes instructions for paging the UE device from only the single cell;
in response to receiving the information from the MME that the paging message is intended for the UE device, transmitting the paging message to the UE device using improved paging scheduling for link budget limited devices, wherein the improved paging scheduling comprises increased resources in comparison to those used for non-link-budget limited UE devices.