US 11,956,654 B2
Method and apparatus for searcher resource sharing for measurement without measurement gap
Jie Cui, Cupertino, CA (US); Hong He, Cupertino, CA (US); Dawei Zhang, Cupertino, CA (US); Chunhai Yao, Beijing (CN); Chunxuan Ye, San Diego, CA (US); Haitong Sun, Cupertino, CA (US); Weidong Yang, San Diego, CA (US); Wei Zeng, Cupertino, CA (US); Yuchul Kim, Cupertino, CA (US); Yushu Zhang, Beijing (CN); Zhibin Wu, Cupertino, CA (US); and Yang Tang, Cupertino, CA (US)
Assigned to APPLE INC., Cupertino, CA (US)
Appl. No. 17/593,108
Filed by APPLE INC., Cupertino, CA (US)
PCT Filed Dec. 15, 2020, PCT No. PCT/CN2020/136588
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Sep. 9, 2021,
PCT Pub. No. WO2021/159852, PCT Pub. Date Aug. 19, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2022/0191720 A1, Jun. 16, 2022
Int. Cl. H04W 24/08 (2009.01); H04L 5/00 (2006.01)
CPC H04W 24/08 (2013.01) [H04L 5/0048 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
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1. A method for a user equipment (UE) to provide searcher resource coordination between new radio (NR) mobility based measurement and Evolved Universal Terrestrial Radio Access (E-UTRA) positioning reference signal (PRS) based measurement without measurement gap in E-UTRA-NR dual connectivity (EN-DC) mode or NR-E-UTRA dual connectivity (NE-DC) mode, the method comprising:
prioritizing the PRS based measurement over the mobility based measurement if a PRS periodicity is greater than a first threshold value, or if the PRS periodicity is equal to the first threshold value and one or more PRS occasions are muted; and
not prioritizing the PRS based measurement over the mobility based measurement if the PRS periodicity is smaller than a second threshold value, or if the PRS periodicity is equal to the second threshold value and none of the one or more PRS occasions are muted.