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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 04, 2025
Filed:
Aug. 06, 2021
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Jie Cui, San Jose, CA (US);
Dawei Zhang, Saratoga, CA (US);
Haitong Sun, Cupertino, CA (US);
Hong He, San Jose, CA (US);
Huaning Niu, San Jose, CA (US);
Manasa Raghavan, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Qiming Li, Beijing, CN;
Xiang Chen, Campbell, CA (US);
Yang Tang, San Jose, CA (US);
Yushu Zhang, Beijing, CN;
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Abstract
A user equipment (UE) may support concurrent synchronization signal block (SSB) inter-frequency measurement without a measurement gap (MG). The UE may also, or alternatively, support concurrent SSB inter-frequency measurement in intra-band scenarios (e.g., where a target inter-frequency cell and serving cell are on the same band) and/or inter-band scenarios (e.g., where a target inter-frequency cell and serving cell are on the same band). The UE may report concurrent SSB based inter-frequency measurement as a NEEDFORGAP information element (IE), which may include one or more of a variety of parameters regarding UE measurement capabilities. Scheduling restrictions (e.g., restrictions to downlink and uplink communications) are also enabled based on UE measurement capabilities, including scheduling restriction for frequency range 1 (FR1), frequency range 2 (FR2), and cross frequency range scenarios.