Patent ID: 9515689
Filing Date: 2016-12-06
CPC Classification: H04B,H04J,H04L,H04W,Y02D

Claim Text:
1. A user equipment (UE) operable to communicate a UE power consumption configuration, the UE having computer circuitry configured to: determine, at the UE, Power Preference Indication (PPI) information, wherein the PPI information includes a preferred power consumption configuration of the UE; send the PPI information to a source evolved node B (eNB); receive instructions, from the source eNB, to perform a handover from the source eNB to the target eNB; receive instructions, from the source eNB, to begin a PPI Prohibit Event Interval during the handover from the source eNB to a target eNB, wherein the UE cannot send the PPI information to the source eNB during the PPI Prohibit Event Interval; receive, at the UE, the instructions to begin the PPI Prohibit Event Interval before the source eNB sends a handover request message to the target eNB; and send, from the UE, the PPI information to the target eNB that is configured to accept the PPI information, wherein the PPI information contains a most recent preferred power consumption configuration of the UE regardless of when the UE last sent PPI information to the source eNB.