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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 12, 2023
Filed:
Sep. 23, 2022
Applicant:
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Inventors:
Rohit R. Matolia, Karnataka, IN;
Alosious Pradeep Prabhakar, Singapore, SG;
Vijay Venkataraman, Cupertino, CA (US);
Assignee:
APPLE INC., Cupertino, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 36/24 (2009.01); H04W 36/00 (2009.01); H04W 36/12 (2009.01); H04W 76/27 (2018.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 36/00837 (2018.08); H04W 36/0085 (2018.08); H04W 36/00835 (2018.08); H04W 36/125 (2018.08); H04W 36/24 (2013.01); H04W 76/27 (2018.02);
Abstract
Systems and methods are provided to improve candidate search and measurement in non-standalone (NSA) and standalone (SA) 5G new radio (NR) multi-radio access technology (RAT) environments. For Evolved Universal Terrestrial Radio Access Network (E-UTRAN) NR-dual connectivity (EN-DC), a user equipment (UE) skips 5G band measurements for an initial search or an out-of-service (OOS) search. For SA dual connectivity, the UE avoids 5G remaining band (RBS) scans and limits 5G deviated band search (DBS) scans to bands configured for the carrier.