Patent ID: 9491689
Filing Date: 2016-11-08
CPC Classification: H04J,H04W

Claim Text:
1. A method, comprising: determining at a user equipment a multi-carrier structure of a flexible spectrum use wireless cell based on received at least one of synchronization channels and broadcast channels of detected individual carriers of the flexible spectrum use wireless cell, where the multi-carrier structure of the flexible spectrum use wireless cell is characterized by a wide bandwidth spectrum comprised of a plurality of substantially independent individual carriers that are one of contiguous to one another in a channel bonded instance of the wide bandwidth spectrum and at least partially non-contiguous to one another in a channel aggregated instance of the wide bandwidth spectrum; and using the determined multi-carrier structure to select at the user equipment an intended carrier for at least one of initial access and cell reselection to the flexible spectrum use wireless cell, wherein the multi-carrier structure comprises carriers that are compatible with an earlier version of a communication standard, or carriers that are compatible with a later version of the communication standard, or carriers that are compatible with an earlier version of a communication standard and carriers that are compatible with a later version of the communication standard. wherein the determining comprises determining from the received at least one of synchronization channels and broadcast channels relative positions of the individual carriers in a spectrum band of the multi-carrier structure; and layer one cell-carrier identifiers.