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Apple patents method to fix timing clashes in cellular paging

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Patent drawing from the official filing.

Apple has patented a system that manages how phones and cell towers coordinate their timing to avoid communication errors. The method involves the phone and network agreeing on a specific time offset to ensure that when the network calls the phone, the device is ready to respond without conflicting with other signals.

Why it mattersThis is a technical improvement to cellular network efficiency that helps prevent missed calls or data drops, though it is unlikely to be visible to users in daily life.

In the filing’s own words

The present application relates to devices and components including apparatus, systems, and methods for paging timing collision control, with respect to exchange of offset values (e.g., IMSI offset values) between a user equipment and a network.

What exactly they claim (claim 1)

1. One or more non-transitory computer-readable media having instructions that, when executed, cause processing circuitry to: identify a request message, from a user equipment (UE), that includes a requested offset value; generate an accept message that includes a negotiated offset value, the accept message to be provided to the UE; generate a paging message with a first international mobile subscriber identity (IMSI) value and a second IMSI value, the paging message to be provided to the UE; identify a response message, from the UE, that includes a global unique temporary identifier (GUTI) corresponding to the first IMSI value or the second IMSI value; and determine, based on the GUTI, that one of the first IMSI value or the second IMSI value is invalid.

Facts

Company
Apple (APPLE INC.)
Official title
Paging timing collision control
Patent number
US12757162B2
Application number
18525707
Filed
Nov 30, 2023
Granted
Oct 6, 2026
Inventors
3
Claims
18

Classified under

H04W 68/005 Electricity & electronicsH04W 8/26 Electricity & electronicsH04W 60/04 Electricity & electronicsH04L 2101/654 Electricity & electronics
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