Patent ID: 8565260
Filing Date: 2013-10-22
Classification: H04W

Abstract:
1. A method for transmitting system information from a base station that supports a legacy system and an improved system having one or more functions added to the legacy system, the method comprising: transmitting a first broadcast channel, containing system information for supporting a user equipment for the legacy system, in a predetermined number of symbols that follow a synchronization channel in a first subframe of a radio frame containing a plurality of subframes; and transmitting additional system information for supporting a user equipment for the improved system in a second subframe, other than the first subframe, from among the plurality of subframes, wherein: the additional system information is contained in a second broadcast channel that is different from the first broadcast channel and transmitted in the second subframe; and the second broadcast channel is masked with a Cyclic Redundancy Check (CRC) that is different from a CRC applied to the first broadcast channel.