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Date of Patent:
Apr. 12, 2016

Filed:

Apr. 17, 2015
Applicant:

Qualcomm Incorporated, San Diego, CA (US);

Inventors:

Anindya Majumder, San Diego, CA (US);

Farrukh Rashid, Farnborough, GB;

Divaydeep Sikri, Woking, GB;

Jafar Mohseni, San Diego, CA (US);

Krishna Rao Mandadapu, San Diego, CA (US);

Assignee:

QUALCOMM Incorporated, San Diego, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 4/00 (2009.01); H04L 12/26 (2006.01); H04B 17/318 (2015.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 43/02 (2013.01); H04B 17/318 (2015.01); H04L 43/16 (2013.01);
Abstract

Embodiments are provided herein for reducing neighbor cell monitoring by a mobile communication device that may include measuring a channel condition of the cell serving the idle network subscription, determining whether the measured channel condition of the cell serving the idle network subscription satisfies a threshold value, and in response to determining that the measured channel condition of the cell serving the idle network subscription satisfies the threshold value, reducing a frequency at which neighbor cells associated with the idle network subscription are monitored and monitoring the neighbor cells associated with the idle network subscription according to the reduced frequency.


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