Patent ID: 11956654
Assignee: APPLE INC.
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 17:
18. A method for a user equipment (UE) to provide searcher resource coordination between new radio (NR) positioning reference signal (PRS) measurement or an Evolved Universal Terrestrial Radio Access (E-UTRA) PRS measurement and an NR mobility measurement without measurement gap in E-UTRA-NR dual connectivity (EN-DC) mode or NR-E-UTRA dual connectivity (NE-DC) mode, the method comprising:
if a UE searcher cannot support parallel measurement on PRS and mobility measurement, determining whether to prioritize a PRS measurement for positioning over a mobility measurement or to equally share a searcher resource between the PRS measurement for positioning and the mobility measurement; and
if an NR PRS exists on a same symbol and carrier as a target mobility reference signal (RS), and PRS have a different numerology than that of the mobility RS or the PRS have different receive (Rx) beam than that of the mobility RS, coordinate the PRS measurement and the mobility measurement based on whether the PRS and the mobility RS are fully overlapped or partially overlapped.