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Date of Patent:
Feb. 24, 2026

Filed:

May. 28, 2020
Applicant:

Google Llc, Mountain View, CA (US);

Inventors:

Madhusudan Kinthada Venkata, San Diego, CA (US);

Qin Zhang, Mountain View, CA (US);

Siddharth Ray, Sunnyvale, CA (US);

Jibing Wang, San Jose, CA (US);

Shivank Nayak, Milpitas, CA (US);

Assignee:

GOOGLE LLC, Mountain View, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 4/00 (2018.01); H04W 76/15 (2018.01); H04W 76/34 (2018.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 76/34 (2018.02); H04W 76/15 (2018.02);
Abstract

A user equipment (UE) reduces power consumption by selectively disconnecting from a radio access network (RAN) while in a non-standalone (NSA) mode in response to detecting a threshold number of communication failures associated with the RAN. The UE connects to a core network in the NSA mode via both a 4G RAN and a 5G RAN. The UE monitors the connection with the 5G RAN for communication failures, such as Random Access Channel (RACH) failures, radio link failures (RLFs), and the like. In response to the number of detected failures exceeding a threshold, the UE can determine that the quality of the connection with the 5G RAN is providing relatively little benefit and can terminate the connection with the 5G RAN.


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