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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:
Dec. 06, 2016

Filed:

Nov. 27, 2013
Applicant:

Qualcomm Incorporated, San Diego, CA (US);

Inventors:

Thawatt Gopal, San Diego, CA (US);

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

Tom Chin, San Diego, CA (US);

Qingxin Chen, Del Mar, CA (US);

Assignee:

QUALCOMM Incorporated, San Diego, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 36/00 (2009.01); H04W 76/04 (2009.01); H04W 48/16 (2009.01); H04W 48/18 (2009.01); H04W 88/06 (2009.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 76/048 (2013.01); H04W 48/16 (2013.01); H04W 48/18 (2013.01); H04W 88/06 (2013.01);
Abstract

The present disclosure presents a method and an apparatus for inter radio access technology (IRAT) cell reselection. For example, the method may include identifying that a user equipment (UE) in an idle or a discontinuous reception (DRX) mode is camped on a cell of a first RAT, determining that the cell the UE is camped on is not broadcasting any neighbor cell of a second RAT, scanning for one or more frequencies of the second RAT based on the determination, and triggering a cell reselection to a cell of the second RAT, wherein the cell of the second RAT is associated with a frequency identified during the scanning. As such, an autonomous IRAT cell reselection may be achieved.


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