Method and apparatus for cell change order
AssigneeQUALCOMM Incorporated
InventorsMohit Narang, Mukesh Mittal
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Abstract
A method and apparatus for cell change order including issuing or receiving a cell change order message to find a target cell in a network with no compressed mode measurement, performing a power scan on the network to find a suitable cell if the target cell is not found, and camping on the suitable cell if found. In one aspect, the network is a 2G network. In yet another aspect, the network is a GSM network.
Claims43
A method for performing a cell change comprising:
- operating user equipment on a second network;
- receiving at the user equipment a cell change order message from the second network requesting to find a target cell in a first network, wherein no compressed mode measurements are used to influence the cell change order message;
- performing a power scan on the first network, in response to the cell change order, to find a suitable cell if the target cell is not found;
- and
- camping on the suitable cell if the suitable cell is found.
A method for performing a cell change comprising:
- operating user equipment on a second network;
- receiving at the user equipment a cell change order message from the second network requesting to find a target cell in a first network, wherein no compressed mode measurements are used to influence the cell change order message;
- determining if the user equipment found the target cell;
- determining if a dedicated resource in the second network is reserved for the user equipment if the target cell is not found;
- performing a power scan on the first network, in response to the cell change order, to find a suitable cell if there is no dedicated resource in the second network;
- determining if the suitable cell is found;
- and
- returning to the second network if the suitable cell is not found or camping on the suitable cell if the suitable cell is found.
A method for performing a cell change comprising:
- operating user equipment on a second network;
- receiving at the user equipment a cell change order message from the second network requesting to find a target cell in a first network, wherein no compressed mode measurements are used to influence the cell change order message;
- determining that the user equipment found the target cell;
- and
- camping on the target cell.
A user equipment comprising a processor and a memory, the memory containing program code executable by the processor for performing the following:
- operating the user equipment on a second network;
- receiving at the user equipment a cell change order message from the second network requesting to find a target cell in a first network, wherein no compressed mode measurements are used to influence the cell change order message;
- performing a power scan on the first network, in response to the cell change order, to find a suitable cell if the target cell is not found;
- and
- camping on the suitable cell if the suitable cell is found.
A user equipment comprising a processor and a memory, the memory containing program code executable by the processor for performing the following:
- operating the user equipment on a second network;
- receiving at the user equipment a cell change order message from the second network requesting to find a target cell in a first network, wherein no compressed mode measurements are used to influence the cell change order message;
- determining if the user equipment found the target cell;
- determining if a dedicated resource in the second network is reserved for the user equipment if the target cell is not found;
- performing a power scan on the first network, in response to the cell change order, to find a suitable cell if there is no dedicated resource in the second network;
- determining if the suitable cell is found;
- and
- returning to the second network if the suitable cell is not found or camping on the suitable cell if the suitable cell is found.
A user equipment comprising a processor and a memory, the memory containing program code executable by the processor for performing the following:
- operating the user equipment on a second network;
- receiving at the user equipment a cell change order message from the second network requesting to find a target cell in a first network, wherein no compressed mode measurements are used to influence the cell change order message;
- determining that the user equipment found the target cell;
- and
- camping on the target cell.
A non transitory computer-readable medium including program code stored thereon, the program code executable by a processor, comprising:
- program code to operate user equipment on a second network;
- program code to receive at the user equipment a cell change order message from the second network requesting to find a target cell in a first network, wherein no compressed mode measurements are used to influence the cell change order message;
- program code to perform a power scan on the first network, in response to the cell change order, to find a suitable cell if the target cell is not found;
- and
- program code to camp on the suitable cell if the suitable cell is found.
A non transitory computer-readable medium including program code stored thereon, the program code executable by a processor, comprising:
- program code to operate user equipment on a second network;
- program code to receive at the user equipment a cell change order message from the second network requesting to find a target cell in a first network, wherein no compressed mode measurements are used to influence the cell change order message;
- program code to determine if the user equipment found the target cell;
- program code to determine if a dedicated resource in the second network is reserved for the user equipment if the target cell is not found;
- program code to perform a power scan on the first network, in response to the cell change order, to find a suitable cell if there is no dedicated resource in the second network;
- program code to determine if the suitable cell is found;
- and
- program code to return to the second network if the suitable cell is not found or camping on the suitable cell if the suitable cell is found.
A non transitory computer-readable medium including program code stored thereon, the program code executable by a processor, comprising:
- program code to operate user equipment on a second network;
- program code to receive at the user equipment a cell change order message from the second network requesting to find a target cell in a network, wherein no compressed mode measurements are used to influence the cell change order message;
- program code to determine that the user equipment found the target cell;
- and
- program code to camp on the target cell.
An apparatus for performing a cell change comprising:
- means for operating user equipment on a second network;
- means for receiving at the user equipment a cell change order message from the second network requesting to find a target cell in a first network, wherein no compressed mode measurements are used to influence the cell change order message;
- means for performing a power scan on the first network, in response to the cell change order, to find a suitable cell if the target cell is not found;
- and
- means for camping on the suitable cell if the suitable cell is found.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.