Device and Method for Performance Improvement with plurality of Subscriber Identity Module Awareness

• US 20170367085A1
• Filed: 06/15/2016
• Published: 12/21/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 06/15/2016
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Intel Corporation
• Original Assignee: Intel IP Corporation (Intel Corporation)
• Inventors: CHAKRABORTY, Soumen
• Granted Patent: US 10,104,671 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 24/10 Scheduling measurement reports ; Arrangements for measurement reports
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 36/0072 of resource information of target access point
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 36/0094 Definition of hand-off measurement parameters
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 56/001 Synchronization between nodes
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 68/02 Arrangements for increasing efficiency of notification or paging channel
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 72/51 based on terminal or device properties
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 8/183 Processing at user equipment or user record carrier
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 8/205 Transfer to or from user equipment or user record carrier
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 88/06 adapted for operation in multiple networks or having at least two operational modes, e.g. multi-mode terminals

Abstract

A wireless communication apparatus for a wireless communication system is described in one example comprising a receiver to receive communication signals, one or more processor to determine, based on the communication signals, that at least two SIM cards are located in one and the same wireless communication device of the wireless communication system, and the one or more processor further to coordinate requests for the at least two SIM cards that are located in the wireless communication device. Other embodiments may be described and/or claimed.

Claims

1. A wireless communication apparatus for a wireless communication system, comprising:

a receiver to receive communication signals;

one or more processors to determine, based on the communication signals, that at least two SIM cards are located in one and the same wireless communication device of the wireless communication system; and

the one or more processors further to coordinate requests for the at least two SIM cards that are located in the wireless communication device.

2. The wireless communication apparatus of claim 1, wherein the communication signals include a plurality of measurement reports from a plurality of wireless communication devices of the wireless communication system.

3. The wireless communication apparatus of claim 1, wherein the communication signals include information of the at least two SIM cards that are located in the wireless communication device sent by the wireless communication device through signaling.

4. The wireless communication apparatus of claim 1, wherein the communication signals include information of the at least two SIM cards that are located in the wireless communication device sent by Home Subscriber Server (HSS) through wired connections.

5. The wireless communication apparatus of claim 1, wherein the coordinated requests include alignments of paging cycles in Idle state of Radio Resource Control (RRC).

6. The wireless communication apparatus of claim 1, wherein the coordinated requests include alignments of Discontinuous Reception mode (DRX) in a connected state of Radio Resource Control (RRC).

7. The wireless communication apparatus of claim 1, wherein the coordinated requests include synchronizations of handovers.

8. The wireless communication apparatus of claim 1, wherein the coordinated requests include common measurements of neighbor cells for handovers, for reselections, or for redirections, measurements of serving cells for Radio Link Monitoring (RLM), measurements of locations for location based services, measurements of Channel State Information (CSI) for link adaption in downlink transmission.

9. The wireless communication apparatus of claim 1, wherein the one or more processors further to move the at least two SIM cards that are located in the wireless communication device of the wireless communication system to a same frequency for Carrier Aggregation deployments.

10. The wireless communication apparatus of claim 1, further comprising a transmitter to transmit the coordinated requests to the wireless communication device of the wireless communication system.

11. An apparatus of a wireless communication system, comprising:

a receiver to receive a plurality of measurement reports from a plurality of wireless communication devices of the wireless communication system;

wherein one or more wireless devices comprises a first subscriber identity module (SIM) and a second SIM;

one or more processors; and

a memory to store recorded instructions thereon which, when executed by the one or more processors, make the one or more processors;

scan the plurality of measurement reports to identify a first set of reports pertaining to the first SIM that are of a same type; and

check the first set of reports to identify a second set of reports pertaining to the second SIM that are within a time separation less than a pre-defined threshold.

12. The apparatus of claim 11, wherein the one or more processors are further made to correlate the second set of reports that are identified to be within the time separation that is less than the pre-defined threshold.

13. The apparatus of claim 12, wherein the one or more processors are further made to correct the correlation of the second set of reports through monitoring parameters with thresholds.

14. An apparatus for improving performance of wireless communications, comprising:

a receiving circuit to receive a plurality of measurement reports from a plurality of wireless communication devices of a wireless communication system;

a processing circuit to determine validity of correlated measurement reports of the plurality of measurement reports; and

the processing circuit further to correct one or more correlated measurement reports of the plurality of measurement reports determined to be invalid.

15. The apparatus of claim 14, wherein the processing module further to monitor parameters with thresholds to determine whether the correlated measurement reports of the plurality of measurement reports are valid.

16. The apparatus of claim 15, wherein the parameters include packet errors.

17. The apparatus of claim 15, wherein the parameters include handover failures.

18. The apparatus of claim 14, wherein the processing module correcting of the correlated measurement reports comprises scanning the plurality of measurement reports to identify a first set of reports that are of a same type.

19. The apparatus of claim 18, wherein the processing module correcting of the correlated measurement reports further comprises checking the first set of reports to identify a second set of reports that are within a time separation less than a pre-defined threshold.

20. The apparatus of claim 14, wherein the correlated measurement reports comprise location update reports, channel station information reports, or radio resource control reports.

21. The apparatus of claim 14, wherein the processing module further to update information of the correlated measurement reports that is stored on a memory of the apparatus with the corrected correlated measurement reports.

22. A non-transitory computer readable medium containing program instructions for causing a processor to perform a method for an apparatus to identify a plurality of Subscriber Identity Module (SIM) cards within a wireless communication device, wherein the method comprises:

scanning a plurality of measurement reports of a plurality of wireless communication devices within a wireless communication system to identify a first set of reports that are of a same type;

checking the first set of reports to identify a second set of reports that are within a time separation less than a pre-defined threshold;

correlating the second set of reports that are within the time separation;

monitoring parameters with thresholds to determine whether the correlated second set of reports needs to be corrected; and

correcting the correlated second set of reports determined to be corrected.

23. The processor of claim 22, further configured to store information of the correlated second set of reports on a memory of the apparatus.

24. The processor of claim 23, further configured to update the information of the correlated second set of reports with the corrected correlated second set of reports on the memory of the apparatus.

25. The processor of claim 22, wherein the correlation of the second set of reports includes correlating Subscriber Identity Module (SIM) cards that are associated with the correlated second set of reports.