Apparatuses and methods for facilitating adaptive, on-demand, and self-learning carrier aggregation based communications
AssigneeAT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
InventorsHongyan Lei, Yupeng Jia
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Abstract
Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, obtaining a first index from a first user equipment, determining that the first index obtained from the first user equipment corresponds to a second index accessible to the device, resulting in a first determination, selecting, based on the first determination, a first frequency band combination referenced by the second index, and causing the first user equipment to utilize the first frequency band combination for CA based communications. Other embodiments are disclosed.
Claims20
A device, comprising:
- a processing system including a processor;
- and
- a memory that stores executable instructions that, when executed by the processing system, facilitate performance of operations, the operations comprising:
- obtaining a first index from a first user equipment;
- determining that the first index obtained from the first user equipment corresponds to a second index accessible to the device, resulting in a first determination;
- selecting, based on the first determination, a first frequency band combination referenced by the second index;
- and
- causing the first user equipment to utilize the first frequency band combination for carrier aggregation (CA) based communications,
- wherein the second index is accessible to the device based on the second index being stored at a second device at a time of the obtaining of the first index.
A non-transitory machine-readable medium, comprising executable instructions that, when executed by a processing system including a processor, facilitate performance of operations, the operations comprising:
- obtaining an index from a communication device;
- configuring the communication device to engage in carrier aggregation (CA) based communications utilizing a first frequency band combination when the index matches a second index accessible to the processing system at a time when the index is obtained from the communication device, wherein the second index is associated with a plurality of frequency band combinations and the first frequency band combination is included in the plurality of frequency band combinations;
- and
- generating and providing at least one candidate frequency band combination to the communication device when the index does not match any of a plurality of indices accessible to the processing system at the time when the index is obtained from the communication device, wherein the plurality of indices includes the second index.
A method, comprising:
- obtaining, by a processing system including a processor, an index pertaining to a use of carrier aggregation (CA) from a first user equipment;
- determining, by the processing system, that the processing system lacks a profile corresponding to the index at a time that the index is obtained from the first user equipment, resulting in a first determination;
- sending, by the processing system and based on the first determination, a request to a second processing system for an indication of whether the second processing system has a copy of the profile corresponding to the index;
- receiving, by the processing system and based on the sending of the request, a response from the second processing system indicating that the second processing system has the copy of the profile corresponding to the index, the response including the copy of the profile;
- and
- storing, by the processing system and based on the receiving, the copy of the profile, resulting in a stored profile.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.