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Date of Patent:
Dec. 05, 2017

Filed:

Sep. 30, 2014
Applicant:

Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);

Inventors:

Wanping Zhang, San Jose, CA (US);

Li Su, San Jose, CA (US);

Yingjie Zhao, Pleasanton, CA (US);

Assignee:

APPLE INC., Cupertino, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 5/00 (2006.01); H04W 76/06 (2009.01); H04W 76/02 (2009.01); H04W 72/12 (2009.01); H04W 88/02 (2009.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 5/0098 (2013.01); H04L 5/001 (2013.01); H04L 5/0085 (2013.01); H04L 5/0023 (2013.01); H04W 88/02 (2013.01);
Abstract

This disclosure relates to management of a secondary component carrier by a wireless device when using carrier aggregation. According to one embodiment, a primary component carrier for communication between a base station and a wireless device may be configured according to a first wireless communication technology. A secondary component carrier may also be configured. The wireless device may detect a trigger condition to deactivate the secondary component carrier. In response, the wireless device may modify its feedback to the base station with respect to channel conditions for the secondary component carrier to cause the base station to deactivate the secondary component carrier.


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