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Date of Patent:
May. 15, 2018

Filed:

Feb. 03, 2014
Applicant:

Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);

Inventors:

Shivesh Makharia, San Jose, CA (US);

Sree Ram Kodali, Sunnyvale, CA (US);

Longda Xing, San Jose, CA (US);

Jianxiong Shi, Dublin, CA (US);

Assignee:

Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 36/00 (2009.01); H04W 76/04 (2009.01); H04W 48/20 (2009.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 76/048 (2013.01); H04W 48/20 (2013.01);
Abstract

A wireless communication system is presented in which user equipment (UE) performs non-intra-frequency (NIF) cell reselection. The NIF cell reselection process can: detect, on a discontinues reception (DRX) cycle, whether a NIF for a second cell has passed a second reselection threshold; perform, on the DRX cycle, additional checks or measurements to determine whether a higher priority NIF for a third cell has passed a third reselection threshold; and continue a cell reselection process for the second cell and the third cell. The NIF cell reselection techniques can help ensure that the UE reselects to higher priority cells without expending an unnecessary amount power.


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