Patent ID: 9456337
Filing Date: 2016-09-27
CPC Classification: H04W

Claim Text:
1. A method of wireless communications, comprising: maintaining, at a user equipment (UE), a Public Land Mobile Network (PLMN) list; receiving an information request from a network, wherein the information request queries the UE for network capabilities supported by the UE; receiving an indication associated with a Universal Mobile Telecommunications System (UMTS) Terrestrial Radio Access Network (UTRAN) network type from the network; in response to receiving the information request or the indication from the network, determining a type of radio access technology (RAT) supported by the network based on the PLMN list; and replying to the network with first network capabilities from multiple network capabilities supported by the UE, wherein the first network capabilities are associated with the type of RAT supported by the network, and wherein the multiple network capabilities supported by the UE include at least Time Division Synchronous Code Division Multiple Access (TDSCDMA) network capabilities or Wideband Code Division Multiple Access (WCDMA) network capabilities.