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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:
May. 20, 2025

Filed:

Aug. 31, 2022
Applicant:

Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);

Inventors:

Ashish Kumar Singh, Munich, DE;

Anshul Kumar Gupta, Bangalore, IN;

Franz Goldhofer, Waakirchen, DE;

Pradeep Pangi, Bangalore, IN;

Mark Jeffery, Munich, DE;

Avinash Venugopal, San Diego, CA (US);

Assignee:

Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 76/18 (2018.01); H04W 36/14 (2009.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 76/18 (2018.02); H04W 36/1443 (2023.05);
Abstract

Methods, apparatuses, and systems are disclosed for reducing latency during IRAT re-selection in the presence of race conditions. When a UE initiates an IRAT re-selection procedure, and concurrently initiates a call setup procedure, a race condition may result, in which the UE's NAS layer prioritizes the call setup procedure, while the RRC layer prioritizes the IRAT re-selection procedure. This may result in failure of the call setup procedure, which may lead to a user needing to re-initiate the call, resulting in poor user experience and significant latency. To prevent this, the UE may cache a message and/or other information relevant to the call setup procedure, until the IRAT re-selection procedure is complete. The UE may then proceed to complete the call setup procedure. The message may be cached, e.g., at the NAS layer or the RRC layer of the cellular modem, or by an application processor.


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