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US 11,539,830 B2Granted
Facilitation of display of 5G icons or other next generation network icons
AssigneeAT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
InventorsYupeng Jia, Inderpreet Ahluwalia
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Abstract
A 5G stand alone system information broadcast message (SIB) can be drilled down into to determine a frequency range (sub 6 Ghz, millimeter wave, or both) that is accessible to a stand-alone user equipment based on a cell associated with the user equipment. The frequency range can be used to determine whether the user equipment shall display a “5G” icon or a “5G+” icon. The display can also be dependent on whether the user equipment is in idle/inactive modes or connected mode. Optionally, the user equipment can be a sub 6 Ghz dual band (frequency range 1 and frequency range 2) device, which can also be used to determine the displayed icon of the user equipment.
Claims20
A method, comprising:
- receiving, by a user equipment comprising a processor, frequency band data representative of a frequency band specified for use with a fifth generation network communication capability by a base station operating via a network;
- in response to receiving the frequency band data, displaying, by the user equipment, a fifth generation icon indicative of the fifth generation network communication capability via a display screen of the user equipment;
- receiving, by the user equipment, first radio resource configuration data representative of an instruction to initiate an inter-radio access technology measurement on a frequency, wherein the inter-radio access technology measurement is utilized to determine whether a function of the inter-radio access technology measurement satisfies a threshold criterion;
- in response to initiating the inter-radio access technology measurement, sending, by the user equipment to the base station, message data representative of a message that the user equipment has performed a reconfiguration procedure;
- in response to sending the message data, receiving, by the user equipment, second radio resource configuration data representative of an additional radio cell and a frequency band list of frequency bands, defined for potential use with at least one fifth generation network communication capability and specifying the frequency bands for measurement by the user equipment;
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- determining, by the user equipment, whether to modify the fifth generation icon to indicate a modification to the fifth generation network communication capability based on a combination of the frequency band list and a group of frequency bands supported by the user equipment that are applicable to using the at least one fifth generation network communication capability.
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A user equipment comprising:
- a processor;
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- a memory that stores executable instructions that, when executed by the processor, facilitate performance of operations, comprising:
- receiving frequency band data representative of a frequency band specified for use with a fifth generation network communication protocol by a base station operating via a network;
- in response to receiving the frequency band data, displaying a fifth generation icon via a display screen of the user equipment;
- receiving first radio resource configuration data representative of an instruction to initiate an inter-radio access technology measurement at a frequency to determine whether the frequency has satisfied a threshold criterion;
- in response to initiating the inter-radio access technology measurement at the frequency, sending to the base station, message data representative of a message that the user equipment has performed a reconfiguration procedure;
- in response to sending the message data, receiving second radio resource configuration data representative of an additional radio cell and a frequency band list of frequency bands, defined for potential use with at least one fifth generation network communication protocol and specifying the frequency bands for measurement by the user equipment;
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- determining whether to modify the display of the fifth generation icon based on a combination of the frequency band list and a group of frequency bands supported by the user equipment that are applicable to using the at least one fifth generation network communication protocol.
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A non-transitory machine-readable medium, comprising executable instructions that, when executed by a processor of a user equipment, facilitate performance of operations, comprising:
- receiving frequency band data representative of a frequency band specified for use with a fifth generation network communication protocol by base station equipment;
- in response to receiving the frequency band data, facilitating displaying a fifth generation icon via a display screen of the user equipment;
- receiving first radio resource configuration data representative of an instruction to initiate measurement of a frequency to determine whether the frequency is able to satisfy a threshold criterion;
- in response to initiating the measurement, sending, to the base station equipment, message data representative of a message that the user equipment has performed a reconfiguration procedure;
- in response to the sending of the message data, receiving second radio resource configuration data representative of a radio cell and a frequency band list of frequency bands, defined for potential use with at least one fifth generation network communication protocol and specifying the frequency bands for measurement by the user equipment;
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- determining whether to modify the display of the fifth generation icon based on a combination of the fifth generation frequency band list and fifth generation frequency bands supported by the user equipment.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.