US 12,120,539 B2
Dynamic tune-away for neighbor cell measurements
Mungal Singh Dhanda, Slough (GB); Umesh Phuyal, San Diego, CA (US); Bharat Shrestha, San Diego, CA (US); Prasad Reddy Kadiri, San Diego, CA (US); Alberto Rico Alvarino, San Diego, CA (US); and Ayan Sengupta, San Diego, CA (US)
Assigned to QUALCOMM Incorporated, San Diego, CA (US)
Filed by QUALCOMM Incorporated, San Diego, CA (US)
Filed on Aug. 4, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/444,464.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/061,872, filed on Aug. 6, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2022/0046449 A1, Feb. 10, 2022
Int. Cl. H04W 24/08 (2009.01); G01N 35/00 (2006.01); H04W 8/24 (2009.01)
CPC H04W 24/08 (2013.01) [G01N 35/00871 (2013.01); H04W 8/24 (2013.01); G01N 2035/00881 (2013.01)] 30 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A user equipment (UE) for wireless communication, comprising:
one or more memories; and
one or more processors coupled to the one or more memories, the one or more memories comprising instructions executable by the one or more processors to cause the UE to:
transmit, to a network entity, a request for a tune-away period to perform one or more neighbor cell measurements, wherein the request is included in a medium access control (MAC) control element (CE);
receive an indication responsive to the request that the tune-away period is available, the indication indicating that the tune-away period is to begin when at least one of a scheduled uplink activity or a scheduled downlink activity is complete; and
perform the one or more neighbor cell measurements to detect one or more neighbor cells based at least in part on one or more synchronization signals, wherein the one or more neighbor cell measurements are performed during the tune-away period based at least in part on the indication.