Patent ID: 9232437
Filing Date: 2016-01-05
CPC Classification: H04L,H04W,Y02D

Claim Text:
1. User Equipment (UE) comprising processing circuitry to: operate, using a narrow bandwidth, in a wide bandwidth broadband network; retrieve, from a downlink subframe, channels within a primary narrow bandwidth device region (NBDR), the primary NBDR being a subset of frequency resources within a wide bandwidth subframe, the primary NBDR being allocated within a central part of a signal spectrum in which primary synchronization signals (PSS) and secondary synchronization signals (SSS) are received, and the channels including a control channel; process control channels in the primary NBDR, wherein the primary NBDR is received in a new carrier type (NCT) implemented in accordance with a standard of the 3GPP family of standards, retrieve, from the primary NBDR, configuration information for at least one secondary NBDR allocated in a different part of the signal spectrum separate from the central part of the signal spectrum, and wherein the PSS and SSS are not received in the secondary NBDR.