User equipment, communication system, and method of controlling a user equipment
AssigneeSony Mobile Communications Inc.
InventorsLars Nord, Peter C. Karlsson, Rickard Ljung, Basuki Priyanto
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Abstract
A user equipment (10) is operable in a first mode in which the user equipment (10) is configured for communication with a first cellular network (30) and a second mode in which the user equipment (10) is configured for communication with a second cellular network (40). Mode switching between the modes is performed autonomously by the user equipment (10) or under the control of a cellular network node. The user equipment (10) has a first power consumption when operating in the first mode and a second power consumption when operating in the second mode, the second power consumption being different from the first power consumption.
Claims20
A user equipment, comprising:
- a radio interface;
- and
- a processing device coupled to the radio interface to control the radio interface, the processing device being operative to control a mode switching between a first mode in which the user equipment is configured for communication with a first cellular network and a second mode in which the user equipment is configured for communication with a second cellular network,
- the user equipment having a first power consumption when operating in the first mode and a second power consumption when operating in the second mode, the second power consumption being different from the first power consumption.
A method of controlling operation of a user equipment, wherein the user equipment comprises a radio interface and is operative to attach to a first cellular network and to attach to a second cellular network (40) different from the first cellular network, wherein the method comprises:
- controlling the user equipment such that it operates in a first mode in which the user equipment is operative to attach to the first cellular network, the user equipment having a first power consumption when operating in the first mode;
- controlling a mode switching between the first mode and a second mode in which the user equipment is operative to attach to the second cellular network;
- and
- controlling the user equipment such that it operates in a second mode in which the user equipment is operative to attach to the second cellular network, the user equipment having a second power consumption when operating in the second mode, the second power consumption being different from the first power consumption.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.