US 11,758,420 B2
Smart mechanism to manage thermal impact in 5G NR
Alosious Pradeep Prabhakar, Singapore (SG); Wen Zhao, San Jose, CA (US); Lakshmi N. Kavuri, Cupertino, CA (US); Li Su, San Jose, CA (US); Sagar B. Shah, San Jose, CA (US); Sriram Subramanian, Santa Clara, CA (US); Vijay Venkataraman, San Jose, CA (US); Vishwanth Kamala Govindaraju, Mountain View, CA (US); Shiva Krishna Narra, San Jose, CA (US); Sanjeevi Balasubramanian, San Jose, CA (US); Wei Zhang, Santa Clara, CA (US); Madhukar K. Shanbhag, Santa Clara, CA (US); Sandeep K. Sunkesala, San Jose, CA (US); Srinivasan Nimmala, San Jose, CA (US); Muthukumaran Dhanapal, Dublin, CA (US); Tarakkumar G. Dhanani, San Jose, CA (US); Sree Ram Kodali, Sunnyvale, CA (US); Ioannis Pefkianakis, San Jose, CA (US); Dhruv Khati, San Jose, CA (US); Franco Travostino, San Jose, CA (US); Thanigaivelu Elangovan, Santa Clara, CA (US); Madhusudan Chaudhary, Campbell, CA (US); and Geoffrey R. Hall, Cupertino, CA (US)
Assigned to Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US)
Filed by Apple inc., Cupertino, CA (US)
Filed on Aug. 16, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/888,989.
Application 17/888,989 is a division of application No. 16/952,906, filed on Nov. 19, 2020, granted, now 11,558,758.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/951,232, filed on Dec. 20, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2022/0394513 A1, Dec. 8, 2022
Int. Cl. H04W 24/02 (2009.01); H04W 76/15 (2018.01); H04W 52/28 (2009.01); H04W 76/23 (2018.01); H04W 76/27 (2018.01); H04W 76/30 (2018.01)
CPC H04W 24/02 (2013.01) [H04W 52/28 (2013.01); H04W 76/15 (2018.02); H04W 76/23 (2018.02); H04W 76/27 (2018.02); H04W 76/30 (2018.02)] 14 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method comprising, by a user equipment (UE) device:
establishing an Evolved Universal Terrestrial Radio Access (EUTRA) New Radio (NR) Dual Connectivity (ENDC) connection with a network, wherein the ENDC connection comprises a connection involving an evolved node B (eNB) and a gNodeB (gNB);
initiating a data session with the network over the ENDC connection;
determining that the UE device satisfies an overheating condition; and
indicating, at least in part based on determining that the UE device satisfies the overheating condition, a preference to drop one or more cells associated with the ENDC connection that correspond to the gNB and to continue the data session using the eNB;
wherein indicating the preference to drop one or more cells associated with the ENDC connection that correspond to the gNB comprises transmitting a drop priority list to the network;
wherein the drop priority list comprises a ranked ordering of preference for dropping a plurality of secondary cells (SCells) of the gNB.