AT&T Intellectual Property I, LP

At&t Mobility II LLC

Marc B Grant

Yupeng Jia

Yonghui Tong

Wen Yang

Yi Shen

Inderpreet Ahluwalia

Various embodiments disclosed herein provide for a compressed user equipment (UE) capability message that can indicate to a mobile network the various capabilities of the UE. In particular, the carrier aggregation and dual connectivity capabilities are compressed as disclosed herein. In traditional implementations, each carrier aggregation and dual connectivity combination and implementation that is supported is explicitly indicated in the message. As disclosed herein, rather than listing explicit combinations, the UE capability message can be compressed by instead listing boundary values of several different parameters which can be used by the network to derive the carrier aggregation and dual connectivity combinations. The UE capability message can also list the boundary values for LTE (Long Term Evolution), NR (New Radio, or 5G), and Dual Connectivity separately within the message to reduce ambiguity.

Carrier aggregation and dual connectivity capability exchange

A system for displaying a wireless service icon receives a message from a network device of a wireless network to which a mobile device is attempting to connect, wherein the message comprises layer indication data representative of a functionality of the network device of the wireless network and an index value associated with first frequency bands supported by the network device and based on a type of the mobile device, analyzing the layer indication data and the index value. The system can further comprise in response to determining a condition associated with the index value is satisfied based on a result of the analyzing, determining whether a frequency band allocated to the mobile device is included in the first frequency bands and in response to the frequency band allocated to the mobile device being determined to be included in the first frequency bands, generating first display data.

Displaying wireless service icon based on frequency band indexing in 5G or other next generation wireless networks

Various embodiments disclosed herein provide for a compressed UE capability message that can indicate to a mobile network the various capabilities of the UE. In particular, the carrier aggregation and dual connectivity capabilities are compressed as disclosed herein. In traditional implementations, each carrier aggregation and dual connectivity combination and implementation that is supported is explicitly indicated in the message. As disclosed herein, rather than listing explicit combinations, the UE capability message can be compressed by instead listing boundary values of several different parameters which can be used by the network to derive the carrier aggregation and dual connectivity combinations. The UE capability message can also list the boundary values for LTE (Long Term Evolution), NR (New Radio, or 5G), and Dual Connectivity separately within the message to reduce ambiguity.

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Marc B Grant