Patent ID: 9271166
Filing Date: 2016-02-23
CPC Classification: H04L,H04W

Claim Text:
1. A method in a Multi-Standard Radio (MSR) terminal, wherein the MSR terminal is configured to communicate with other network nodes over a radio interface using multiple Radio Access Technologies (RATs) via common radio frequency communication components included in the MSR terminal, the common radio frequency communication components comprising a power amplifier and/or a radio frequency (RF) filter, the method comprising: generating, by the MSR terminal, a message comprising an MSR terminal identifier identifying the MSR terminal, MSR terminal configuration data including RAT capability information relating to the multiple RATs supported by the MSR terminal, and information about configured sub-blocks of frequency or spectrum in a non-contiguous MSR network node, wherein the MSR terminal configuration data indicates that the MSR terminal supports non-contiguous multi-carrier operation and the information about the configured sub-blocks of frequency or spectrum comprises at least one of: a location of each sub-block of frequency in frequency domain, a size of each sub-block, number of carriers in each sub-block, and types of RATs for each carrier in each sub-block; sending, by the MSR terminal, the generated message to at least another network node for use in network operation; and using, by the MSR terminal, the common radio frequency communication components to transmit and/or receive over the radio interface using multiple RATs.