18466672. COMMUNICATIONS DURING CELL INACTIVE COMMUNICATION PERIODS (QUALCOMM Incorporated)

COMMUNICATIONS DURING CELL INACTIVE COMMUNICATION PERIODS

Organization Name

QUALCOMM Incorporated

Inventor(s)

Diana Maamari of San Diego CA (US)

Ahmed Attia Abotabl of San Diego CA (US)

Marwen Zorgui of San Diego CA (US)

COMMUNICATIONS DURING CELL INACTIVE COMMUNICATION PERIODS

This abstract first appeared for US patent application 18466672 titled 'COMMUNICATIONS DURING CELL INACTIVE COMMUNICATION PERIODS

Original Abstract Submitted

The described techniques relate to improved methods, systems, devices, and apparatuses that support communications during cell inactive communication periods. For example, some of the described techniques may provide for opportunistic communication during discontinuous reception (DRX) and/or discontinuous transmission (DTX) periods. Because connected user equipments (UEs) may transmit and receive some permitted signaling during an inactive communication period (e.g., in an inactive duration of cell DTX/DRX), the cell is utilizing communication resources in one or more occasions during inactive communication periods. One or more UEs may accordingly opportunistically utilize the one or more occasions to perform other communications that are otherwise restricted during the inactive communication period. For example, a UE may utilize an opportunity to transmit one or more restricted signals, reports, or channel messages to the cell, or to receive one or more restricted signals or channel messages from the cell.