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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Dec. 18, 2018

Filed:

Aug. 11, 2017
Applicant:

Qualcomm Incorporated, San Diego, CA (US);

Inventors:

Leena Zacharias, San Jose, CA (US);

Srinivasan Balasubramanian, San Diego, CA (US);

Vanitha Kumar, San Diego, CA (US);

Shailesh Maheshwari, San Diego, CA (US);

Aziz Gholmieh, Del Mar, CA (US);

Sitaramanjaneyulu Kanamarlapudi, San Diego, CA (US);

Uppinder Babbar, San Diego, CA (US);

Yue Yang, San Diego, CA (US);

Assignee:

QUALCOMM Incorporated, San Diego, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 12/28 (2006.01); H04W 76/15 (2018.01); H04L 5/00 (2006.01); H04J 1/16 (2006.01); H04L 12/861 (2013.01); H04W 76/28 (2018.01); H04W 76/12 (2018.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 76/15 (2018.02); H04L 5/0098 (2013.01); H04L 5/001 (2013.01); H04L 49/90 (2013.01); H04W 76/12 (2018.02); H04W 76/28 (2018.02);
Abstract

A first method includes transmitting, to a network, an indication of a capability to operate in an uplink aggregation dual connectivity mode or in a fast switching dual connectivity mode; and receiving, from the network, a dual connectivity configuration for the UE based at least in part on the indication of the capability. A second method includes communicating with a first network access device; transmitting, to a second network access device, a request to perform fast switching from the first network access device to the second network access device; receiving, from the second network access device, a dual connectivity configuration for communicating with the second network access device; and communicating with the second network access device based at least in part on the dual connectivity configuration.


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