Patent ID: 11968551
Assignee: APPLE INC.
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 12:
13. A user equipment (UE), comprising:
interface circuitry configured to receive, upon reception of one or more synchronization signal block (SSB) burst configurations, a plurality of SSBs of a plurality of SSB bursts for an SSB scanning measurement, the plurality of SSB bursts being of a plurality of inter-frequency layers according to the one or more SSB burst configurations; and
processing circuitry coupled with the interface circuitry, the processing circuitry configured to:
perform the SSB scanning measurement with respect to the received plurality of SSBs,
determine, based on the SSB scanning measurement, a set of SSB timing groups for one or more incoming SSB bursts,
generate, based on the set of SSB timing groups, a receiver switching pattern that indicates whether to switch a receiver of the UE to operate at the plurality of inter-frequency layers with respect to individual SSB timing groups of the set of SSB timing groups for the one or more incoming SSB bursts, and
switch, based on the receiver switching pattern, the receiver to operate at individual inter-frequency layers of the plurality of inter-frequency layers with respect to the individual SSB timing groups for one or more SSB tracking measurements of the one or more incoming SSB bursts in a radio resource control_connected (RRC_CONNECTED) state.