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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 04, 2025
Filed:
Aug. 17, 2023
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Tarik Tabet, Los Gatos, CA (US);
Awais M. Hussain, Milpitas, CA (US);
Lydi Smaini, San Jose, CA (US);
Moustafa M. Elsayed, Los Gatos, CA (US);
Syed Aon Mujtaba, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Matthias Sauer, San Jose, CA (US);
Ronald W. Dimpflmaier, Los Gatos, CA (US);
Bernd W. Adler, Saratoga, CA (US);
Christian W. Mucke, Cupertino, CA (US);
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Abstract
A user equipment (UE) device may communicate according to a new device category satisfying specified QoS (quality of service) requirements while also satisfying specified link budget requirements, and/or additional optimization requirements. The UE device may communicate with a cellular base station according to a first mode of operation associated with the new device category, and may switch to communicating with the cellular base station according to a second mode of operation associated with a second (pre-existing) device category in response to the link budget requirements exceeding a specified value and the quality of service requirements not being sensitive. The UE device may also switch to communicating with the cellular base station according to a third mode of operation associated with a third (pre-existing) device type in response to the link budget requirement not exceeding the specified value, or the QoS requirements being sensitive and a downlink throughput requirement exceeding a specified throughput value.