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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 06, 2016
Filed:
May. 07, 2014
Blackberry Limited, Waterloo, CA;
Satish Venkob, Waterloo, CA;
Claude Jean-Frederic Arzelier, Cannes, FR;
Takashi Suzuki, Ichikawa, JP;
Xusheng Wei, Staines, GB;
BlackBerry Limited, Waterloo, CA (US);
Abstract
A method, network element and user equipment, where in one embodiment at a network element, allocating a measurement gap configuration for a user equipment (UE) capable of operating in a carrier aggregation environment using at least first and second component carriers; and sending the measurement gap allocation to the UE, the allocation indicating a first measurement gap configuration for the first component carrier, the first measurement gap configuration being different than a second measurement gap configuration allocated for the second component carrier. In another embodiment at a UE capable of operating in a carrier aggregation environment using at least first and second component carriers, sending a measurement gap preference to a network, the preference including preference information indicating a preference for a first measurement gap configuration for the first component carrier, the first measurement gap configuration being different than a second measurement gap configuration for the second component carrier.