US 11,671,822 B2
UE capabilities provisioning and retrieval in cellular networks
Alexandre Saso Stojanovski, Paris (FR); Ashish Singh, Munich (DE); Franz Goldhofer, Schaftlach (DE); Michael Zitzmann, Nuremberg (DE); Naveen Palle, San Diego, CA (US); Puneet Jain, Hillsboro, OR (US); Richard Burbidge, Santa Clara, CA (US); Sudeep Palat, Cheltenham (GB); Sudeep Manithara Vamanan, Nuremberg (DE); Sushant Kumar, Munich (DE); and Youn Hyoung Heo, Seoul (KR)
Assigned to Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US)
Filed by APPLE INC., Cupertino, CA (US)
Filed on Apr. 5, 2019, as Appl. No. 16/376,528.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/655,691, filed on Apr. 10, 2018.
Prior Publication US 2019/0239064 A1, Aug. 1, 2019
Int. Cl. H04W 8/22 (2009.01); H04W 8/26 (2009.01); H04W 8/08 (2009.01); H04W 36/00 (2009.01); H04W 76/27 (2018.01); H04W 60/00 (2009.01)
CPC H04W 8/22 (2013.01) [H04W 8/08 (2013.01); H04W 8/26 (2013.01); H04W 36/0022 (2013.01); H04W 36/0027 (2013.01); H04W 76/27 (2018.02); H04W 60/00 (2013.01)] 19 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. One or more processors configured to perform operations comprising:
receiving, by a mobility management entity (MME), a user equipment (UE) Capabilities update from a remote server to update a UE capability database that stores UE capability information corresponding to one or more UEs identified with a unique identifier; and
processing the UE Capabilities update, wherein the MME is configured to control the UE capability database and communicate with one or more base stations and wherein the remote server is remote from the MME, the one or more base stations and the one or more UEs.