Apple inc. (20250063480). User Equipment (UE) Parallel Search in Connected Mode
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User Equipment (UE) Parallel Search in Connected Mode
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Inventor(s)
Saikat Sengupta of Bengaluru (IN)
Bernd H. Kemmer of Eichenau (DE)
Jayanth Nadigar of Bengaluru (IN)
Parvez Sheikh of Bengaluru (IN)
User Equipment (UE) Parallel Search in Connected Mode
This abstract first appeared for US patent application 20250063480 titled 'User Equipment (UE) Parallel Search in Connected Mode
Original Abstract Submitted
disclosed are methods, systems, and computer-readable medium to perform operations including: receiving, by an access stratum (as) layer of a user equipment (ue) and from a non-access stratum layer (nas) layer of the ue, a public land mobile network (plmn) search request; determining, by the as layer, that a first connection instance is in radio resource control (rrc) connected mode; responsively determining, by the as layer, whether a second connection instance is available; and in response to determining that the second connection instance is available, triggering, by the as layer, the plmn search on the second connection instance, wherein the plmn search comprises one or more frequency scans.
