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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 10, 2026
Filed:
Sep. 29, 2023
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Harshal R Mane, San Jose, CA (US);
Alosious Pradeep Prabhakar, Singapore, SG;
Princewill E Ihuoma, San Diego, CA (US);
Sofheem Mohammed, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Pranav Tripathi, San Jose, CA (US);
Muthukumaran Dhanapal, San Diego, CA (US);
Fnu Srinivas Kote Narasimhamurthy, San Diego, CA (US);
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Abstract
Apparatuses, systems, and methods for QoS impact mitigation during unavailability of RAN support of network slicing, e.g., in 5G NR systems and beyond. A UE may determine, while connected to a first cell of a network, whether handover instructions include DRB setup instructions on a second cell of the network for a PDU session established towards a first network slice on the first cell. The UE may, upon expiration of a timer initiated in response to the determination and/or confirmation that the second cell does not support network slicing, route, upon determining that there is not a neighboring cell that supports the first network slice and/or that there is not a routing rule for the first network slice that allows routing of traffic to another established DRB, user plane traffic to an eMBB DRB.