Patent application number | Description | Published |
20120140731 | DETERMINING A NON-ACCESS STRATUM MESSAGE COUNT IN HANDOVER - Techniques for deriving message counts based at least in part on a locally stored message count and at least a portion of a message count received from a remote network node are disclosed. The message counts can relate to downlink (DL) non-access stratum (NAS) counts. In one aspect, a device can receive a number of least significant bits of the DL NAS count in a handover message. The device can derive a DL NAS count by utilizing a remaining portion of most significant bits of a locally stored DL NAS count, and can determine whether to increment or decrement the most significant bits based at least in part on a parameter to handle cases where the least significant bits of the locally stored DL NAS count have wrapped due to overflow and/or underflow. | 06-07-2012 |
20120218922 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR EMPLOYING DIFFERENT CAPABILITIES FOR DIFFERENT DUPLEXING MODES - Certain aspects of the present disclosure propose techniques for independently signaling features supported by a user equipment (UE) in different duplexing modes. The UE may be capable of communicating in frequency division duplexing (FDD) and time division duplexing (TDD) modes. The UE may obtain a FDD-specific feature group indicators (FGIs) set and a TDD-specific FGIs set, and signal at least one of the FDD-specific FGIs set or TDD-specific FGIs set. In addition, the UE may take one or more actions to reduce the likelihood of transitioning to a mode of operation that is different from its current mode of operation. | 08-30-2012 |
20130258998 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR IMPROVING DATA SERVICE AVAILABILITY - Certain aspects of the present disclosure relate to methods and apparatus for improving data service availability. Certain aspects provide methods and apparatus for wireless communications by a UE including determining, while the UE is in a coverage area of a first network, that a connection to a second network, comprising a packet data network (PDN), is disconnected locally, and taking at least one action to avoid a rejection of a request to connect to the second network. | 10-03-2013 |
20130329638 | AVOIDING PREMATURE E-UTRAN DISABLING - Methods, systems, and apparatuses for mobility management in wireless communications systems that provide both voice connection services and data services are disclosed. In some aspects, enhanced connectivity with wireless networks after a failure of voice connection services is provided. A counter may be utilized in connection with a combined registration procedure in which a device requests registration for both data services and voice connection services in the wireless network. The counter may track failed attempts to register for voice connection services when the request is accepted for data services. The counter may be reset in response to a deregistration event, such as a user input or a network command, allowing a full number of attempts for later registration with the wireless network. | 12-12-2013 |
20140099952 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR AVOIDING TRANSITIONS BETWEEN RADIO ACCESS TECHNOLOGIES WHEN PACKET DATA NETWORKS ARE INACCESSIBLE - Methods and apparatus are provided for avoiding attempts by a UE to attach to a RAT network when that RAT network is unavailable. According to certain aspects, the UE may detect scenarios when the RAT network is unavailable and take preemptive action to prevent the UE from attempting to acquire service on that RAT. For example, the UE may effectively remove that RAT from a list of supported RATs by sending a UE capability message indicating that RAT is not supported, which may prevent network-initiated transitions of the UE to that RAT. The UE may also remove the unavailable RAT from an internal list of supported RATs, which may prevent UE-initiated transitions to that RAT. | 04-10-2014 |
20140135016 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR OPTIMIZING THE FREQUENCY OF AUTONOMOUS SEARCH FUNCTIONS FOR DISCOVERING CSG CELLS - Apparatus and methods of maintaining a cell database for wireless communications include discovering a second cell to which a user equipment may reselect. In an aspect, the user equipment may be currently served by a first cell and the second cell is a closed subscriber group cell. Further, aspects include querying a fingerprinting database to determine whether the second cell was previously recorded in the fingerprinting database. Upon determining that the second cell was not previously recorded, further aspects include adding the second cell to the fingerprinting database. Adding the second cell may comprise indicating an association between the first cell and the second cell in the fingerprinting database. | 05-15-2014 |
20140179255 | TECHNIQUES FOR POWER CONSERVATION IN EMERGENCY BROADCAST MESSAGE RECEPTION - Techniques are described for power conservation in emergency broadcast message reception in a wireless communications system. In accordance with a method for conserving power, one or more segments of an emergency broadcast message in an access stratum are received. The emergency broadcast message is identified as a duplicate emergency broadcast message based at least in part on one or more identifiers of the received one or more segments. The receipt of additional segments of the emergency broadcast message is terminated. | 06-26-2014 |
20150065143 | ENHANCE PERFORMANCE OF MAKING AN EMERGENCY CALL DURING RADIO LINK FAILURE OVER RADIO ACCESS TECHNOLOGY - Methods, systems, apparatuses and devices are described for managing a call during radio link failure. In one embodiment, radio link failure over a radio access technology may be detected during or after a call setup procedure. A public land mobile network and an equivalent public land mobile network may be selected. An initial search for cells of the radio access technology may be performed over the selected public land mobile network and the equivalent public land mobile network. The initial search may be performed once or twice based on a configurable parameter. | 03-05-2015 |