Patent ID: 11950154
Assignee: APPLE INC.
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 15:
16. One or more non-transitory computer-readable storage media storing instructions that, upon execution on a user equipment (UE), cause the UE to perform operations comprising:
receiving, from a network while the UE is connected to a serving cell, a transmission configuration indicator (TCI) state switch command associated with a neighbor cell;
determining a TCI state switch condition associated with the neighbor cell, the TCI state switch condition indicating at least one of:
whether a state of the neighbor cell is known or unknown to the UE, or
whether a TCI state of the neighbor cell is known or unknown to the UE; and

completing a switch to the TCI state of the neighbor cell within a first period of time or a second period of time based on at least the TCI state switch condition.