Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Assisted management of radio resources across dual networks
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Application No.: US15790230Application Date: 2017-10-23
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Publication No.: US10470088B2Publication Date: 2019-11-05
- Inventor: Syed Aon Mujtaba , Tarik Tabet , Paul V. Flynn , Kee-Bong Song
- Applicant: Apple Inc.
- Applicant Address: US CA Cupertino
- Assignee: Apple Inc.
- Current Assignee: Apple Inc.
- Current Assignee Address: US CA Cupertino
- Agency: Meyertons Hood Kivlin Kowert and Goetzel PC
- Agent Jeffrey C. Hood; Brian E. Moore
- Main IPC: H04W36/00
- IPC: H04W36/00 ; H04W76/28 ; H04W36/14 ; H04W36/32 ; H04W68/04 ; H04W68/12 ; H04W88/06 ; H04W88/08

Abstract:
A user equipment (UE) operating in a communication system comprising a base station and one or more UEs. The UE may be configured to operate on or “camp” on two different networks with one radio. In this exemplary system, the radio may be normally connected to the first network (NW1) and may from time to time be “tuned away” from NW1 to a second network (NW2). The UE may inform NW1 that it has tuned away to another network, e.g., using start and end indicators. This information may prevent NW1 from wasting downlink capacity by unnecessarily allocating downlink resources to the UE during the tune-away. Alternatively, or in addition, this information may prevent NW1 from penalizing the UE, e.g., by reducing its future downlink allocations, since the UE does not respond to NW1 commands during the tune-away.
Public/Granted literature
- US20180049075A1 Assisted Management of Radio Resources across Dual Networks Public/Granted day:2018-02-15
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