Patent ID: 11882610
Assignee: QUALCOMM INCORPORATED
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 10:
11. A user equipment (UE) for wireless communication, the UE being configured to communicate using a first subscription and a second subscription and comprising:
at least one processor;
a transceiver communicatively coupled to the at least one processor; and
a memory communicatively coupled to the at least one processor,
wherein the at least one processor is configured to:
establish a first connection with a base station via a communication link using the first subscription of the UE;
establish a second connection with the base station via the communication link using the second subscription of the UE, wherein the communication link is a common communication link shared by the first subscription and the second subscription; and
perform at least one of a first communication, via the communication link, using the first subscription, or a second communication, via the communication link, using the second subscription,
wherein the at least one of the first communication using the first subscription or the second communication using the second subscription is performed via a UE protocol stack having a physical layer and a media access (MAC) layer that are shared for the first subscription and the second subscription.