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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 20, 2025
Filed:
Dec. 16, 2022
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Wei Zhang, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Fangli Xu, Beijing, CN;
Haitong Sun, Irvine, CA (US);
Sriram Subramanian, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Vishwanth Kamala Govindaraju, Mountain View, CA (US);
Johnson O. Sebeni, Fremont, CA (US);
Dawei Zhang, Saratoga, CA (US);
Hong He, Cupertino, CA (US);
Yuchul Kim, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Haijing Hu, Beijing, CN;
Yuqin Chen, Shenzhen, CN;
Wei Zeng, San Diego, CA (US);
Sanjeevi Balasubramanian, San Jose, CA (US);
Sandeep K. Sunkesala, San Jose, CA (US);
Tarakkumar G. Dhanani, San Jose, CA (US);
Madhukar K. Shanbhag, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Shiva Krishna Narra, San Jose, CA (US);
Longda Xing, San Jose, CA (US);
Srinivasan Nimmala, San Jose, CA (US);
Sree Ram Kodali, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Murtaza A. Shikari, Mountain View, CA (US);
Sethuraman Gurumoorthy, San Jose, CA (US);
Srirang A. Lovlekar, Cupertino, CA (US);
Xu Ou, San Jose, CA (US);
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Abstract
A user equipment (UE) device may reside in a state of dual connectivity with a master cell group (MCG) and a secondary cell group (SCG), wherein the radio access technologies of the MCG and the SCG are different. While in the dual connectivity state, the UE device may transition to a mode of reduced activity (e.g., processing and/or RF activity) relative to the secondary cell group (SCG) in order to save power, e.g., when traffic flow via the SCG is below a threshold, or when scheduling activity on the SCG is low. Various mechanisms may be employed to reduce activity, e.g., mechanisms such as reduction of beam monitoring, deactivation of secondary cells of the SCG, reduction of number of active antenna elements, employment of longer periods for periodic measurement and reporting processes, etc.