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US 2014/0211679 A1Published application
Communication state transitioning control
AssigneeApple Inc.
InventorsMaruti Gupta, Ali T. Koc, Rath Vannithamby
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Abstract
Embodiments of the present disclosure describe devices, methods, computer-readable media and systems configurations for managing state transitions of communication circuitries in wireless networks. Embodiments manage radio resource control (RRC) state transitions and/or discontinuous reception (DRX) state transitions. Other embodiments may be described and/or claimed.
Claims22
An apparatus comprising:
- communication circuitry to receive an indication of a value in a radio-resource control (RRC) message;
- a timer to be set with the value and to be triggered based on an occurrence of a power-configuration operation;
- and
- communication-state circuitry to suppress transmission of a change request related to a power configuration of the apparatus if the timer has not expired.
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A method comprising:
- setting a timer of a user equipment (UE) with a value indicated by an eNB in a radio resource control (RRC) message;
- initiating the timer based on a first state-transition operation that corresponds to a power-saving setting of the UE;
- and
- suppressing a request for a second state-transition operation based on the timer.
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One or more computer readable media having instructions that, when executed by one or more processors, cause a user equipment (UE) to:
- detect a value provided to the UE by an eNB as part of a configuration process;
- configure a timer with the value;
- perform a first operation that corresponds to a power-saving process;
- initiate the timer based on performance of the first operation;
- determine the timer is not running;
- and
- initiate a second operation that corresponds to the power-saving process based on the determination that the timer is not running.
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An apparatus comprising:
- communication circuitry to facilitate over-the-air communication with nodes of a wireless network;
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- transition-control circuitry to:
- transmit, via the communication circuitry, a radio-resource control (RRC) message to a user equipment (UE), the RRC message to indicate a value that corresponds to a period for which a transition request, which relates to a power-saving state, is to be suppressed by the UE;
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- control state transitions of the UE.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.