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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 14, 2017
Filed:
Sep. 30, 2015
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Navid Damji, Cupertino, CA (US);
Shivesh Makharia, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Luciano M. Verger, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Samy Khay-Ibbat, San Francisco, CA (US);
Johnson O. Sebeni, Fremont, CA (US);
Sree Ram Kodali, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Sreevalsan Vallath, Dublin, CA (US);
APPLE INC., Cupertino, CA (US);
Abstract
Apparatus, system and methods for evaluating link quality within a cellular system. A user equipment ('UE') is connected to a network, wherein the UE communicates data to the network on an uplink ('UL') link. The UE determines a requested buffer size for a UL communication, determines a transport block size for the UL communication based on a primary set of allocation parameters, and compares the requested buffer size to the transport block size to determine if a data rate for the UL communication satisfies a threshold. When the data rate satisfies the threshold, the UE identifies the UL link as a good quality link and sends acceptable link quality feedback to the network. When the data rate does not satisfy the threshold, the UE performs a further action to test a quality of the UL link.