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`c12) United States Patent
`Kubota et al.
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`US 10,200,920 B2
`(IO) Patent No.:
`(45) Date of Patent:
`Feb.5,2019
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`(54) ON-DEMAND SYSTEM INFORMATION
`
`(71) Applicant: QUALCOMM Incorporated, San
`Diego, CA (US)
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`(72)
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`Inventors: Keiichi Kubota, Farnborough (GB);
`Tingfang Ji, San Diego, CA (US);
`Naga Bhushan, San Diego, CA (US);
`Gavin Bernard Horn, La Jolla, CA
`(US); John Edward Smee, San Diego,
`CA (US); Joseph Binamira Soriaga,
`San Diego, CA (US); Wei Zeng, San
`Diego, CA (US)
`
`(58) Field of Classification Search
`CPC ........................... H04W 35/0083; H04L 12/18
`See application file for complete search history.
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`(56)
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`Primary Examiner - Peter G Solinsky
`(74) Attorney, Agent, or Firm - Clint R. Morin; Holland
`& Hart
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`(57)
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`ABSTRACT
`A wireless network may provide system information by
`either a fixed periodic broadcast or broad-beam transmission
`or in response to a request by a user equipment (UE). The
`wireless network may broadcast ( or broad-beam transmit) a
`signal that indicates to the UEs within a cell or zone
`coverage area that system information is to be transmitted on
`a fixed periodic schedule or in response to a request sent by
`one or more UEs.
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