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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:
Sep. 30, 2025

Filed:

Apr. 01, 2021
Applicant:

Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);

Inventors:

Yang Tang, Santa Clara, CA (US);

Qiming Li, Beijing, CN;

Manasa Raghavan, Sunnyvale, CA (US);

Xiang Chen, Campbell, CA (US);

Huaning Niu, San Jose, CA (US);

Dawei Zhang, Saratoga, CA (US);

Hong He, San Jose, CA (US);

Fangli Xu, Beijing, CN;

Yushu Zhang, Beijing, CN;

Jie Cui, San Jose, CA (US);

Assignee:

Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 36/00 (2009.01); H04W 36/08 (2009.01); H04W 36/24 (2009.01); H04W 74/0833 (2024.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 74/0833 (2013.01); H04W 36/00698 (2023.05); H04W 36/08 (2013.01); H04W 36/249 (2023.05);
Abstract

Some aspects of this disclosure relate to apparatuses and methods for implementing techniques for a user equipment (UE) having dual connectivity. The UE can communicate with a first primary base station in a first primary cell (PCell) and a second primary base station in a second PCell. The UE has dual connectivity in the second PCell using a first wireless carrier to communicate with the second primary base station and a second wireless carrier to communicate with a secondary base station in a primary secondary cell (PSCell). The UE receives a message from the first primary base station to perform a handover procedure. The UE performs the handover procedure according to the received message, and further perform an addition procedure for the secondary base station in parallel with the handover procedure. A start time of the addition procedure can be before an end time of the handover procedure.


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