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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:
Mar. 24, 2015

Filed:

Apr. 29, 2010
Applicants:

Sharad Deepak Sambhwani, San Diego, CA (US);

Andrei Dragos Radulescu, San Diego, CA (US);

Rohit Kapoor, San Diego, CA (US);

Bibhu Prasad Mohanty, San Diego, CA (US);

Mario Mark Scipione, San Diego, CA (US);

Danlu Zhang, San Diego, CA (US);

Aziz Gholmieh, San Diego, CA (US);

Inventors:

Sharad Deepak Sambhwani, San Diego, CA (US);

Andrei Dragos Radulescu, San Diego, CA (US);

Rohit Kapoor, San Diego, CA (US);

Bibhu Prasad Mohanty, San Diego, CA (US);

Mario Mark Scipione, San Diego, CA (US);

Danlu Zhang, San Diego, CA (US);

Aziz Gholmieh, San Diego, CA (US);

Assignee:

QUALCOMM Incorporated, San Diego, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 4/00 (2009.01); H04W 72/04 (2009.01); H04W 92/12 (2009.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 72/0453 (2013.01); H04W 72/0433 (2013.01); H04W 92/12 (2013.01);
Abstract

The present patent application discloses a method and apparatus for activating or de-activating a secondary carrier, comprising informing a serving radio network controller when a secondary carrier was activated or de-activated, receiving a confirmation from the serving radio network controller that non-serving NodeB cells have achieved synchronization, and scheduling a UE upon receiving confirmation. In another example, the present patent application discloses a method and apparatus for de-activating a secondary carrier, comprising controlling de-activation of the secondary carrier using high-speed shared control channel orders, receiving acknowledgement of said high-speed shared control channel orders, and informing a serving radio network controller when the secondary carrier was de-activated.


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