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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:
Aug. 20, 2019

Filed:

Nov. 03, 2017
Applicant:

Qualcomm Incorporated, San Diego, CA (US);

Inventors:

Raevanth Venkat Annam, Hyderabad, IN;

Chinmaya Padhy, Koraput, IN;

Pankaj Gupta, Hyderabad, IN;

Selvi Shah, San Diego, CA (US);

Naveen Kumar Pasunooru, Hyderabad, IN;

Prashanth Mohan, Chennai, IN;

Parthasarathy Krishnamoorthy, San Diego, CA (US);

Assignee:

QUALCOMM Incorporated, San Diego, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 12/801 (2013.01); H04L 12/751 (2013.01); H04B 1/50 (2006.01); H04L 1/00 (2006.01); H04B 17/309 (2015.01); H04W 24/10 (2009.01); H04L 25/02 (2006.01); H04W 24/08 (2009.01); H04W 88/06 (2009.01); H04W 76/27 (2018.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04B 17/309 (2015.01); H04L 25/0202 (2013.01); H04W 24/08 (2013.01); H04W 24/10 (2013.01); H04W 76/27 (2018.02); H04W 88/06 (2013.01);
Abstract

A method and apparatus for efficiently performing measurements during a connected mode in a wireless communication system is disclosed. For example, the method and apparatus may include receiving, at a user equipment (UE), a Radio Resource Control (RRC) Reconfiguration message including a plurality of measurement objects from a network entity to identify frequencies during a measurement procedure; receiving, at the UE, one or more neighbor discovery expression messages, each neighbor discovery expression message including a neighbor measurement object and being received from a respective neighbor UE; determining, by the UE, whether the plurality of measurement objects of the RRC Reconfiguration message satisfy a measurement capability threshold; selecting, by the UE, a portion of the plurality of measurement objects of the RRC Reconfiguration message; and performing, by the UE, the measurement procedure for each measurement object of the portion of the plurality of measurement objects.


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