Patent ID: 11956683
Assignee: NOKIA TECHNOLOGIES OY
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 0:
1. A method, comprising:
determining, by a user equipment and in response to a beam failure being detected for a serving cell that serves the user equipment, whether a timer is running;
performing one of the following by the user equipment:
in response to the timer running, a beam failure recovery procedure with a target non-serving cell; or
in response to the timer not running, a beam failure recovery procedure with the serving cell, and

prior to the determining whether the timer is running,
determining by the user equipment whether an entering condition of a measurement event is fulfilled for a time-to-trigger or a second timer for the time-to-trigger has expired, wherein the measurement event is configured at least for the user equipment to measure one or more non-serving cells including the target non-serving cell; and
starting the running of the timer in response to a determination by the user equipment the entering condition of the measurement event is fulfilled for the time-to-trigger or the second timer for the time-to-trigger has expired.