公开(公告)号：US20210211972A1

公开(公告)日：2021-07-08

申请号：US17084387

申请日：2020-10-29

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Wei Zhang ,  Alosious Pradeep Prabhakar ,  Pengkai Zhao ,  Vijay Venkataraman ,  Junsung Lim ,  Zhu Ji ,  Johnson O. Sebeni ,  Yu-Lin Wang ,  Galib A. Mohiuddin ,  Sriram Subramanian ,  Shiva Krishna Narra ,  Madhukar K. Shanbhag ,  Sanjeevi Balasubramanian ,  Daniel A. West ,  Rohit R. Matolia

IPC: H04W48/16 ,  H04W24/10 ,  H04W52/02 ,  H04W4/02

Abstract: A user equipment (UE) supports communication over a first (lower) frequency range and a second (higher) frequency range. The UE determines an extent of preference of the second frequency range over the first frequency range, e.g., based on one or more of the following: sensor measurements; physical channel measurements; battery conditions; weather conditions; voice call activity; indoor/outdoor/in-car status; learned relationships between previous location-time conditions and performance on the second frequency range; etc. The UE device may control search activity and/or measurement activity on the second frequency range based on the preference extent, e.g., by controlling rates of repetition of search and/or measurement on the second frequency range, or by adding a measurement bias to a measurement reporting threshold, or by adding a delay to a measurement reporting time for a measurement, or by disabling search and measurement on the second frequency range.