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  "patent_number": "US 12021609",
  "country": "US",
  "title": "How 5G Networks Use Different Speeds for Device Communication",
  "original_title": "Network architecture, methods, and devices for a wireless communications network",
  "summary": "Ericsson's patent describes how 5G wireless networks can tell a device how to talk back, and then send data to that device using two different 'speeds' or channel widths at the same time, making communication more flexible.",
  "what_it_does": "This patent describes a method for wireless communication in 5G networks. From the network's side (a radio network node), it first receives a message from a user equipment (UE), like a smartphone, using a specific 'uplink access configuration' that the network previously told the UE to use (Claim 1). After that, the network sends two different data transmissions to the UE. These transmissions use Orthogonal Frequency-Division Multiplexing (OFDM) but have different 'subcarrier spacings' (Claim 1). This means the network can send different types of data, or data to different parts of the device, using different underlying transmission settings simultaneously. For example, a network might send high-priority control information with one subcarrier spacing and regular user data with another, more efficient subcarrier spacing.",
  "what_it_does_not_cover": [
    "Does not cover wireless communication systems where all data transmissions use the exact same subcarrier spacing.",
    "Does not cover systems where the network does not first provide an 'uplink access configuration index' to the user equipment.",
    "Does not cover communication methods that do not use Orthogonal Frequency-Division Multiplexing (OFDM).",
    "Does not cover systems where different data transmissions with different subcarrier spacings are processed by the same Medium Access Control (MAC) protocol layer.",
    "Does not cover systems where a single, common Radio Resource Control (RRC) protocol layer is not used to manage messages from different MAC layers."
  ],
  "filed": "2023-01-05",
  "granted": "2024-06-25",
  "expires": "2043-01-05",
  "status": "active",
  "holder": "Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson AB",
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  "abstract": "Methods and apparatus in a fifth-generation wireless communications, including an example method, in a wireless device, that includes receiving a downlink signal comprising an uplink access configuration index, using the uplink access configuration index to identify an uplink access configuration from among a predetermined plurality of uplink access configurations, and transmitting to the wireless communications network according to the identified uplink access configuration. The example method further includes, in the same wireless device, receiving, in a first subframe, a first Orthogonal Frequency-Division Multiplexing (OFDM) transmission formatted according to a first numerology and receiving, in a second subframe, a second OFDM transmission formatted according to a second numerology, the second numerology differing from the first numerology. Variants of this method, corresponding apparatuses, and corresponding network-side methods and apparatuses are also disclosed.",
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