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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 05, 2019
Filed:
Oct. 23, 2017
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Syed Aon Mujtaba, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Tarik Tabet, Los Gatos, CA (US);
Paul V. Flynn, Menlo Park, CA (US);
Kee-Bong Song, San Diego, CA (US);
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
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 (NW) and may from time to time be 'tuned away' from NWto a second network (NW). The UE may inform NWthat it has tuned away to another network, e.g., using start and end indicators. This information may prevent NWfrom wasting downlink capacity by unnecessarily allocating downlink resources to the UE during the tune-away. Alternatively, or in addition, this information may prevent NWfrom penalizing the UE, e.g., by reducing its future downlink allocations, since the UE does not respond to NWcommands during the tune-away.