US 2026/0231006 A1 · NETWORK SEARCH DURING PRE-LANDING TIME WINDOW

Network search during pre-landing time window

AssigneeQUALCOMM Incorporated

InventorsHewu GU, Arvind Vardarajan SANTHANAM, Osama LOTFALLAH, Samir THAKKAR, Abhishek BHATNAGAR, Uttam PATTANAYAK, Tom CHIN, Ajith Tom PAYYAPPILLY, Jun DENG, Sumalatha ARUGOLANU, Balakrishna YANAMADALA, Andres ZACARIAS, Yiding ZHAO, Xiaochen CHEN, Nitin PANT, Zhongyue LOU, Subashini KRISHNAMURTHY, Xuqiang ZHANG

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Abstract

Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. A user equipment (UE) may search for a network using a set of predicted mobile country codes (MCCs) during a flight. Some aspects more specifically relate to detecting an MCC in accordance with a set of predicted MCCs, where the set of predicted MCCs are used for the detection based at least in part on the detection occurring during the pre-landing time window. In some aspects, the detection of the MCC occurs during a pre-landing time window. For example, the UE may be in a low-power mode during the pre-landing time window and during detection of the MCC. In some aspects, the UE may determine the set of predicted MCCs, for example, according to a length of the flight and a source (such as a source airport or a source MCC).

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Dependent claims

An apparatus for wireless communication at a user equipment (UE), comprising:

at least one memory;
and
at least one processor coupled with the at least one memory, the at least one processor operable to cause the UE to:
identify a pre-landing time window associated with the UE during a flight;
detect, during the pre-landing time window, a mobile country code (MCC) in accordance with a set of predicted MCCs, the set of predicted MCCs used for the detection in accordance with the detection occurring during the pre-landing time window;
and
search for a network associated with the MCC.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.