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Apple patents method for phones to prioritize overlapping network checks

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Apple has filed a patent application describing a way for mobile devices to handle conflicting network measurement schedules. When two required check-ins overlap in time, the device uses a pre-set rule to prioritize the more important task, ensuring it doesn't miss critical data.

Why it mattersThis is a routine improvement to how phones manage their internal communication schedules, helping ensure stable connections without user interaction.

In the filing’s own words

Aspects are described for a user equipment (UE) comprising a transceiver configured to enable wireless communications with a base station and a processor communicatively coupled to the transceiver. The processor is configured to receive a configuration message from the base station. The configuration message configures the UE with a first measurement gap (MG) and a second MG. The processor is further configured to determine that the first MG and the second MG overlap at least partially in a first time period and measure a first measurement object corresponding to the first MG in the first time period. The first MG is a pre-configured MG. A priority of the first MG is higher than a priority of the second MG.

What exactly they claim (claim 1)

1. A user equipment (UE) comprising: a transceiver configured to enable wireless communications with a base station; and a processor, communicatively coupled to the transceiver, and configured to: receive, using the transceiver, a configuration message from the base station, wherein the configuration message configures the UE with a first measurement gap (MG) and a second MG; determine that the first MG and the second MG overlap at least partially in a first time period; and measure a first measurement object corresponding to the first MG in the first time period; wherein the first MG is a pre-configured MG, and wherein a priority of the first MG is higher than a priority of the second MG.

Facts

Company
Apple (APPLE INC.)
Official title
DYNAMIC COLLISION OF PRE-CONFIGURED MEASUREMENT GAP (PRE-MG)
Publication number
US20260313392A1
Application number
19479018
Filed
May 10, 2023
Published
Oct 8, 2026
Inventors
6
Claims
20

Classified under

H04W 24/02 Electricity & electronicsH04W 24/08 Electricity & electronics
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