Selective tuning-away in multi-subscription wireless communication device

• US 10,231,117 B2
• Filed: 03/14/2016
• Issued: 03/12/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 03/14/2016
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Qualcomm, Inc.
• Original Assignee: Qualcomm, Inc.
• Inventors: Sahu, Debesh Kumar, Chitikela, Raja, Kasilya Sudarsan, Vishnu Vardhan, Gupta, Tushar, Gundu, Naresh, Kotha, Bala Krishna
• Primary Examiner(s): Chau, Peter P
• Application Number:
  US15/069,776
• Publication Number:
  US 20170265114A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,093 Days
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/1016 IP multimedia subsystem [IMS]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/1069 Session establishment or de-establishment
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/1073 Registration or de-registration
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/1104 Session initiation protocol [SIP]
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 48/18 Selecting a network or a communication service
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 60/005 Multiple registrations, e.g. multihoming
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 60/06 De-registration or detaching
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 8/183 Processing at user equipment or user record carrier

Abstract

Embodiments described herein relate to a method of managing communications for a wireless communication device having a first Subscriber Identity Module (SIM) associated with a first subscription and a second SIM associated with a second subscription, the method including, but not limited to, determining that the first subscription is a Default Data Subscription (DDS), deactivating at least one first Packet Data Network (PDN) associated with the second subscription, and communicating via at least one second PDN associated with the second subscription, wherein the at least one first PDN is different from the at least one second PDN.

Claims

1. A method of managing communications for a wireless communication device having a first Subscriber Identity Module (SIM) associated with a first subscription and a second SIM associated with a second subscription, the method comprising:

determining that the first subscription is a Default Data Subscription (DDS);

in response to determining that the first subscription is a DDS, deactivating all Packet Data Networks (PDNs) associated with the second subscription except for a first network, wherein the first network is an Internet Protocol (IP) Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) Packet Data Network (PDN);

de-registering, for the first network, all IMS services except for a first service selected from the group consisting of Voice-Over-LTE (VoLTE) services, Video Technology (VT) services, and Short Messaging Services (SMS) services; and

communicating via the first network using the first service.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein deactivating all (PDNs) associated with the second subscription except for the first network comprises sending an indication message to network indicating that all PDNs associated with the second subscription except for the first network are deactivated.

3. The method of claim 2, wherein the indication message is an Over-the-Air (OTA) signaling message.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein communicating via the first network associated with the second subscription comprises receiving pages for the first network associated with the second subscription.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein de-registering services of the first network comprises sending an indication message to a network indicating that all IMS services except the first service are deactivated.

6. The method of claim 5, wherein the indication message is an Over-the-Air (OTA) signaling message.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein communicating via the first network comprises receiving Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) packets.

8. The method of claim 1, wherein:

the first subscription is a Long Term Evolution (LTE) subscription; and

the second subscription is a LTE subscription.

9. The method of claim 1, wherein the wireless communication device is a Multi-SIM-Multi-Standby (MSMS) device.

10. The method of claim 1, wherein the de-registered IMS services allow a non-mandatory service.

11. The method of claim 10, wherein the non-mandatory service is at least one from the group consisting of Rich Communication Services (RCS), File-To-Protocol, and video sharing services.

12. The method of claim 1, wherein the communicating comprises only receiving mandatory traffic from the first network.

13. A wireless communication device, comprising:

at least one radio frequency (RF) resource;

a first Subscriber Identity Module (SIM) associated with a first subscription;

a second SIM associated with a second subscription;

a processor; and

a memory storing instructions that, when executed by the processor, cause the wireless communication device to;

determine that the first subscription is a Default Data Subscription (DDS);

in response to a determination that the first subscription is a DDS, deactivate all Packet Data Networks (PDNs) associated with the second subscription except for a first network, wherein the first network is an Internet Protocol (IP) Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) PDN;

de-register, for the first network, all IMS services except for a first service selected from the group consisting of Voice-Over-LTE (VoLTE) services, Video Technology (VT) services, and Short Messaging Services (SMS) services; and

communicate via the first network using the first service.

14. The wireless communication device of claim 13, wherein execution of instructions to deactivate all PDNs associated with the second subscription except for the first network causes the wireless communication device to further:

send an indication message to a network indicating that all PDNs associated with the second subscription except for the first network are deactivated.

15. The wireless communication device of claim 14, wherein the indication message is an Over-the-Air (OTA) signaling message.

16. The wireless communication device of claim 13, wherein execution of the instructions to communicate via the first network causes the wireless communication device to further:

receive pages for the first network associated with the second subscription.

17. The wireless communication device of claim 13, wherein execution of the instructions to de-register all IMS services of the first network except for the first service causes the wireless communication device to further:

send an indication message to a network indicating that all IMS services except the first service are deactivated.

18. The wireless communication device of claim 17, wherein the indication message is an Over-the-Air (OTA) signaling message.