US Patent Application 17804543. SUB-SYMBOL DISCOVERY SIGNAL simplified abstract

SUB-SYMBOL DISCOVERY SIGNAL

Organization Name

QUALCOMM Incorporated==Inventor(s)==

[[Category:Iyab Issam Sakhnini of San Diego CA (US)]]

[[Category:Navid Abedini of Basking Ridge NJ (US)]]

[[Category:Tao Luo of San Diego CA (US)]]

SUB-SYMBOL DISCOVERY SIGNAL - A simplified explanation of the abstract

This abstract first appeared for US patent application 17804543 titled 'SUB-SYMBOL DISCOVERY SIGNAL

Simplified Explanation

The patent application describes an apparatus that is a wireless device or a network node.

• The apparatus is designed to monitor or generate discovery signal transmissions within a single symbol.
• Each discovery signal is for a single beam direction and lasts for less than a symbol in time.
• The purpose of the discovery signal transmissions is to synchronize with a network node.
• The apparatus can receive or transmit the discovery signal transmissions within the single symbol.

Original Abstract Submitted

The apparatus, in some aspects, may be a wireless device that is configured to monitor for one or more discovery signal transmissions within a single symbol, where each discovery signal for a single beam direction spans less than a symbol in time and synchronize with a network node based on a reception of the one or more discovery signal transmissions. The apparatus, in some aspects, may be network node that is configured to generate one or more discovery signal transmissions for transmission within a single symbol, wherein each discovery signal for a single beam direction spans less than a symbol in time, and transmit the one or more discovery signal transmissions within the single symbol.