US 12,295,072 B2
System and method for updating user equipment capability
Nathan Edward Tenny, San Diego, CA (US); Jian Wang, Beijing (CN); and Haibo Xu, Beijing (CN)
Assigned to FUTUREWEI TECHNOLOGIES, INC., Plano, TX (US)
Filed by Futurewei Technologies, Inc., Addison, TX (US)
Filed on Apr. 17, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/301,317.
Application 18/301,317 is a continuation of application No. 17/552,186, filed on Dec. 15, 2021, granted, now 11,653,196.
Application 17/552,186 is a continuation of application No. 15/691,940, filed on Aug. 31, 2017, granted, now 11,234,119, issued on Jan. 25, 2022.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/444,414, filed on Jan. 10, 2017.
Prior Publication US 2023/0328511 A1, Oct. 12, 2023
Int. Cl. H04W 8/22 (2009.01)
CPC H04W 8/22 (2013.01) 19 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method, comprising:
determining, by a user equipment (UE), a capability limitation in the UE;
sending, by the UE to a network entity, a radio resource control (RRC) signal carrying capability update information, the capability update information indicating a reduced operating capability of the UE in response to the capability limitation; and
applying, by the UE, the reduced operating capability of the UE at expiration of a timer prior to or without receiving any configuration information compatible with the reduced operating capability from the network entity.