(19)
(11) EP 2 369 884 A8

(12) CORRECTED EUROPEAN PATENT APPLICATION
Note: Bibliography reflects the latest situation

(15) Correction information:
Corrected version no 1 (W1 A2)

(48) Corrigendum issued on:
16.11.2011 Bulletin 2011/46

(43) Date of publication:
28.09.2011 Bulletin 2011/39

(21) Application number: 11162890.5

(22) Date of filing: 06.03.2006
(51) International Patent Classification (IPC): 
H04W 68/10(2009.01)
(84) Designated Contracting States:
AT BE BG CH CY CZ DE DK EE ES FI FR GB GR HU IE IS IT LI LT LU LV MC NL PL PT RO SE SI SK TR

(30) Priority: 04.03.2005 US 659025 P
05.07.2005 US 175788

(62) Application number of the earlier application in accordance with Art. 76 EPC:
06737322.5 / 1854327

(71) Applicant: Qualcomm Incorporated
San Diego, CA 92121-1714 (US)

(72) Inventors:
  • Teague, Edward Harrison
    San Diego CA 92130 (US)
  • Agrawal, Avneesh
    San Diego CA 92127 (US)
  • Khandekar, Aamod
    San Diego CA 92122 (US)

(74) Representative: Reedy, Orlaith et al
Tomkins & Co 5 Dartmouth Road
Dublin 6
Dublin 6 (IE)

 
Remarks:
This application was filed on 18-04-2011 as a divisional application to the application mentioned under INID code 62.
 


(54) Multi-sector broadcast paging channel


(57) Systems and methods are described that facilitate improving paging signal strength at or near sector perimeters in a wireless network region by transmitted identical paging waveforms simultaneously from all sectors in the region and permitting over-the-air signal aggregation to combine signal energy near sector perimeters. Waveforms can be modulated using an orthogonal frequency division multiplexing technique and can be simultaneously transmitted according to predefined transmission resources over a multi-sector broadcast paging channel reserved for such identical waveforms. Cyclic prefix can be added to the identical waveforms to mitigate problems associated with delay spread and/or time-of-arrival differences at or near sector perimeters.