US 12,177,918 B2
TDM transmission for inter-RAT dual connectivity UE
Wei Zeng, San Diego, CA (US); Haijing Hu, Beijing (CN); Yuchul Kim, Santa Clara, CA (US); Dawei Zhang, Saratoga, CA (US); Xiangying Yang, Cupertino, CA (US); Zhu Ji, San Jose, CA (US); Yang Li, Plano, TX (US); Beibei Wang, Cupertino, CA (US); Jia Tang, San Jose, CA (US); Sami M. Almalfouh, San Jose, CA (US); Johnson O. Sebeni, Fremont, CA (US); Wei Zhang, Santa Clara, CA (US); Tianyan Pu, Cupertino, CA (US); Vijay Venkataraman, Sunnyvale, CA (US); and Christian W. Mucke, Cupertino, CA (US)
Assigned to Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US)
Filed by Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US)
Filed on Oct. 17, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/488,644.
Application 18/488,644 is a continuation of application No. 17/993,215, filed on Nov. 23, 2022, granted, now 11,838,975.
Application 17/993,215 is a continuation of application No. 17/201,604, filed on Mar. 15, 2021, granted, now 11,533,770, issued on Dec. 20, 2022.
Application 17/201,604 is a continuation of application No. 16/905,636, filed on Jun. 18, 2020, granted, now 10,973,070, issued on Apr. 6, 2021.
Application 16/905,636 is a continuation of application No. 16/654,239, filed on Oct. 16, 2019, granted, now 10,736,163, issued on Aug. 4, 2020.
Application 16/654,239 is a continuation of application No. 15/966,541, filed on Apr. 30, 2018, granted, now 10,485,048, issued on Nov. 19, 2019.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/520,375, filed on Jun. 15, 2017.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/543,417, filed on Aug. 10, 2017.
Prior Publication US 2024/0049322 A1, Feb. 8, 2024
This patent is subject to a terminal disclaimer.
Int. Cl. H04W 76/15 (2018.01); H04B 7/26 (2006.01); H04W 72/0453 (2023.01); H04W 72/12 (2023.01); H04W 72/21 (2023.01); H04W 88/10 (2009.01); H04W 76/28 (2018.01); H04W 88/06 (2009.01)
CPC H04W 76/15 (2018.02) [H04B 7/2643 (2013.01); H04W 72/0453 (2013.01); H04W 72/1215 (2013.01); H04W 72/21 (2023.01); H04W 88/10 (2013.01); H04W 76/28 (2018.02); H04W 88/06 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method, comprising:
a first base station,
receiving, from a user equipment device (UE), a first capability indicating support of uplink (UL) sharing for one or more system bandwidths in a dual connectivity configuration with a first radio access technology (RAT) supported by a first cell served by the first base station and a second RAT supported by a second cell;
receiving, from the UE, binary information indicating one of no switching gap needed or switching gap needed;
coordinating, based on the first capability and binary information, UL resources over an interface with a second base station serving the second cell; and
transmitting an allocation of a first portion of the UL resources associated with the first cell using the first RAT to the UE, wherein the allocation of the first portion of the UL resources is in accordance with time division multiplexing (TDM) for UL data transmissions for the first RAT and the second RAT.