Patent ID: 11924919
Assignee: APPLE INC.
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 0:
1. An apparatus of a node of an access network, comprising:
radio frequency circuitry configured to communicate with a first user equipment (UE) and a second UE; and
one or more baseband processors communicatively coupled to the radio frequency circuitry and configured to perform operations comprising:
processing a first UE capability report from the first UE;
processing a second UE capability report from the second UE, wherein the first UE capability report and the second UE capability report include a same UE capability ID for the first UE and the second UE;
sending the UE capability ID to a core network node; receiving a first request from the core network node to retrieve capabilities from at least one of the first UE and the second UE;
sending, to at least one of the first UE and the second UE, a second request to provide the respective UE capabilities using a band filter associated with a public land mobile network (PLMN);
receiving, from at least one of the first UE and the second UE, a respective further UE capability report including a partial UE capability information compiled using the band filter associated with the PLMN and a partial tag added by the one or more baseband processors; and
tagging each respective further UE capability report with one of multiple geographical areas within the PLMN from which the respective further UE capability information was retrieved.