Apparatus and method for paging overlap mitigation
AssigneeSamsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
InventorsYangwen LIANG, Fangming He, Srinivas Gururaja, Tariq Al-Khasib
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Abstract
An apparatus and a method. The apparatus includes a first subscriber identity module (SIM); a second SIM; a dual SIM resource controller (DSRC) connected to the first SIM and the second SIM; and a radio frequency (RF) communication entity connected to the DSRC, wherein the DSRC performs one of scheduling a first paging preparation period of the first SIM prior to a second paging preparation period of the second SIM and re-attempting by the first SIM an RF request for the RF communication entity after an initial RF request for the RF communication entity is not granted.
Claims20
An apparatus, comprising:
- a first subscriber identity module (SIM);
- a second SIM;
- a dual SIM resource controller (DSRC) connected to the first SIM and the second SIM;
- and
- a radio frequency (RF) communication entity connected to the DSRC,
- wherein the DSRC performs one of scheduling a first paging preparation period of the first SIM prior to a second paging preparation period of the second SIM and re-attempting by the first SIM an RF request for the RF communication entity after an initial RF request for the RF communication entity is not granted.
A method, comprising:
- performing one of scheduling, by a dual subscriber identity module (SIM) resource controller (DSRC), a first paging preparation period of a first SIM prior to a second paging preparation period of a second SIM and re-attempting by the first SIM a radio frequency (RF) request for an RF communication entity after an initial RF request for the RF communication entity is not granted.
A method of manufacturing a dual subscriber identity module (SIM) resource controller (DSRC), comprising:
- forming the DSRC as part of a wafer or package that includes at least one other DSRC, wherein the DSRC is configured to mitigate partial paging overlap between a first radio access technology (RAT) associated with a first SIM and a second RAT associated with a second SIM by either scheduling a time for paging preparation earlier than immediately prior to a paging decode period of the first RAT or reattempting by the first SIM a radio frequency (RF) request for an RF communication entity after an initial RF request for the RF communication entity is not granted;
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- testing the DSRC, wherein testing the DSRC comprises testing the DSRC and the at least one other DSRC using one or more electrical to optical converters, one or more optical splitters that split an optical signal into two or more optical signals, and one or more optical to electrical converters.
A method of constructing an integrated circuit, comprising:
- generating a mask layout for a set of features for a layer of the integrated circuit, wherein the mask layout includes standard cell library macros for one or more circuit features that include a dual subscriber identity module (SIM) resource controller (DSRC) configured to mitigate partial paging overlap between a first radio access technology (RAT) associated with a first SIM and a second RAT associated with a second SIM by either scheduling a time for paging preparation earlier than immediately prior to a paging decode period of the first RAT or reattempting by the first SIM a radio frequency (RF) request for an RF communication entity after an initial RF request for the RF communication entity is not granted;
- disregarding relative positions of the macros for compliance to layout design rules during the generation of the mask layout;
- checking the relative positions of the macros for compliance to layout design rules after generating the mask layout;
- upon detection of noncompliance with the layout design rules by any of the macros, modifying the mask layout by modifying each of the noncompliant macros to comply with the layout design rules;
- generating a mask according to the modified mask layout with the set of features for the layer of the integrated circuit;
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- manufacturing the integrated circuit layer according to the mask.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.