US 12,232,207 B2
Method and device for performing multi-universal subscriber identity module operations
An-An Lee, Taipei (TW); Hung-Chen Chen, Taipei (TW); Mei-Ju Shih, Taipei (TW); Yung-Lan Tseng, Taipei (TW); and Hsin-Hsi Tsai, Taipei (TW)
Assigned to SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Sakai (JP)
Filed by SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Sakai (JP)
Filed on Aug. 5, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/882,154.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/260,049, filed on Aug. 6, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2023/0048297 A1, Feb. 16, 2023
Int. Cl. H04W 76/28 (2018.01); H04W 12/72 (2021.01); H04W 24/08 (2009.01); H04W 76/38 (2018.01)
CPC H04W 76/28 (2018.02) [H04W 12/72 (2021.01); H04W 24/08 (2013.01); H04W 76/38 (2018.02)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method for a User Equipment (UE) adapted to be equipped with a plurality of Universal Subscriber Identity Modules (USIMs) for performing a Multi-Universal Subscriber Identity Module (MUSIM) operation, the method comprising:
connecting to a first network associated with a first USIM of the plurality of USIMs;
transmitting a request message to the first network, the request message comprising assistance information to request a time gap for the MUSIM operation;
receiving a first time gap configuration from the first network in a case that a type of the time gap requested by the UE is aperiodic, the first time gap configuration indicating a starting System Frame Number (SFN) and a starting subframe of a first configured time gap; and
in a case that the UE receives the first time gap configuration, switching to a second network, while keeping a connection to the first network, during the first configured time gap according to the first time gap configuration, the second network being associated with a second USIM of the plurality of USIMs.