Patent ID: 11968134
Assignee: TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON (PUBL)
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 0:
1. A method, in a wireless device that supports carrier aggregation (CA), the method comprising:
receiving a Radio Resource Control (RRC) configuration message from a wireless network node, the RRC configuration message indicating that the wireless device is to directly activate two or more secondary cells, wherein directly activating a secondary cell refers to configuring and activating the secondary cell to an active or dormant state from an inactive state using a single RRC configuration message;
determining that at least a first one of the two or more secondary cells is to be directly activated by a first time and that at least a second one of the two or more secondary cells is to be directly activated by a second time, following the first time; and
directly activating the first one of the secondary cells by the first time and subsequently directly activating the second one of the secondary cells by the second time.