Apple Inc.

Aon Mujtaba

Tarik Tabet

Wen Zhao

Arun Godfrey Mathias

Ajoy K Singh

Dallas Blake De Atley

Christian W Mucke

Haining Zhang

Jonathan Jay Andrews

Jerry Hauck

Jason D Gosnell

Arjuna Sivasithambaresan

Stephen Schell

Alex Ho

A wireless communication system is presented for robust mobility management in a HetNet communication system. A source cell can prepare a macro cell and a target small cell as handover candidates during handover decision making and/or preparation. The mobile device is informed about the prepared macro cell and target small cell using radio resource control (RRC) messaging. After receiving a handover command or detecting radio frequency (RF) loss, the mobile device can try to connect with the target small cell. If the mobile device is unable to connect to the target small cell, the UE can fall back and connect to the macro cell.

HetNet Mobility Management

According to one aspect, a multifunctional computing device having a wireless communications processor (e.g., cellular processor) and an application processor (e.g., general-purpose processor such as a CPU) share a storage device that is associated with or attached to the application processor. An example of such a multifunctional computing device may be a Smartphone device having a cellular phone and handheld computer functionalities. There is no specific storage device directly associated with or attached to the wireless communications processor (hereinafter simply referred to as a wireless processor). Instead, the wireless processor communicates with the application processor via a high speed communications link, such as a USB link, to access code and data stored in the storage device (e.g., flash memory device) associated with the application processor.

Booting and configuring a subsystem securely from non-local storage

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