Method and apparatus to control HSDPA activation/de-activation
AssigneeBlackBerry Limited
InventorOzgur Ekici
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Abstract
A method and a user equipment (“UE”), for High Speed Downlink Packet Access (“HSDPA”) de-activation, the method determining whether a number of serving HSDPA cell changes of the UE exceeds a threshold within a predetermined time period; and; sending a transition indication from the UE to a network node to deactivate HSDPA if the threshold is exceeded for within the predetermined time period. Also, a method and a network node, for High Speed Downlink Packet Access de-activation, the method determining whether a number of serving HSDPA cell changes of a user equipment communicating with the network node exceeds a threshold within a predetermined time period; and; deactivating HSDPA for the UE if the threshold is exceeded within the predetermined time period.
Claims12
A method, at a user equipment (“UE”), for High Speed Downlink Packet Access (“HSDPA”) de-activation, comprising:
- determining whether a number of serving HSDPA cell changes of the UE exceeds a threshold within a time period;
- sending a first transition indication from the UE to a network node to deactivate HSDPA if the threshold is exceeded within the time period;
- and
- after a second time period, sending a second transition indication to the network node to resume HSDPA, wherein the second time period is one of a constant, a parameter signaled by the network, a function of network characteristics, and a function of HSDPA cell change frequency;
- wherein the first transition indication indicates that the UE does not support HSDPA and the second transition indication indicates that the UE supports HSDPA.
A user equipment (UE) adapted for High Speed Downlink Packet Access (HSDPA) activation and de-activation comprising:
- a communication subsystem;
- a processor;
- wherein the communication subsystem and the processor cooperate to:
- determine whether a number of serving HSDPA cell changes of the UE exceeds a threshold within a time period;
- send a first transition indication from the UE to a network node to deactivate HSDPA if the threshold is exceeded within the time period;
- and
- after a second time period, send a second transition indication to activate HSDPA for the UE, wherein the second time period is one of a constant, a parameter signaled by the network, a function of network characteristics, and a function of HSDPA cell change frequency;
- wherein the first transition indication indicates that the UE does not support HSDPA and the second transition indication indicates that the UE supports HSDPA.
A non-transitory computer readable medium having instructions stored thereon for execution by a processor of a user equipment (UE), the instructions comprising code for:
- determining whether a number of serving HSDPA cell changes of the UE exceeds a threshold within a time period;
- sending a first transition indication from the UE to a network node to deactivate HSDPA if the threshold is exceeded within the time period;
- and
- after a second time period, sending a second transition indication to the network node to resume HSDPA, wherein the second time period is one of a constant, a parameter signaled by the network, a function of network characteristics, and a function of HSDPA cell change frequency;
- wherein the first transition indication indicates that the UE does not support HSDPA and the second transition indication indicates that the UE supports HSDPA.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.