US 12,082,029 B2
Measurement enhancement in radio resource control (RRC) connected for base station (BS)
Fangli Xu, Beijing (CN); Dawei Zhang, Cupertino, CA (US); Dirk Nickisch, Munich (DE); Haijing Hu, Cupertino, CA (US); Sarma V. Vangala, Cupertino, CA (US); Sethuraman Gurumoorthy, Cupertino, CA (US); Sharad Sambhwani, San Diego, CA (US); Srirang A. Lovlekar, Cupertino, CA (US); Yuqin Chen, Beijing (CN); and Zhibin Wu, Cupertino, CA (US)
Assigned to Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US)
Appl. No. 17/442,683
Filed by Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US)
PCT Filed Aug. 6, 2020, PCT No. PCT/CN2020/107451
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Sep. 24, 2021,
PCT Pub. No. WO2022/027454, PCT Pub. Date Feb. 10, 2022.
Prior Publication US 2023/0156503 A1, May 18, 2023
Int. Cl. H04W 24/10 (2009.01); H04W 72/20 (2023.01); H04W 76/20 (2018.01)
CPC H04W 24/10 (2013.01) [H04W 72/20 (2023.01); H04W 76/20 (2018.02)] 20 Claims
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1. A Base Station (BS) device comprising a memory, and a processor, when executing instructions stored in the memory, configured to perform operations comprising:
transmitting, to a User Equipment (UE), a first RRCReconfiguration message comprising a measConfig information element (IE), wherein the first RRCReconfiguration message explicitly indicates a purpose of one or more of Carrier Aggregation (CA) or Dual Connectivity (DC), wherein the measConfig IE configures one or more measurements on a set of non-serving frequencies associated with a neighboring cell;
receiving, from the UE, a MeasurementReport message that indicates the one or more measurements; and
transmitting, based on the MeasurementReport message, a second RRCReconfiguration message that configures the UE with the one or more of CA or DC.