Patent ID: 9392512
Filing Date: 2016-07-12
CPC Classification: H04W

Claim Text:
1. A method to configure wireless circuitry, during one or more measurement gap time periods, in a wireless communication device connected to a long term evolution (LTE) wireless network, the method comprising: establishing a connection that uses a plurality of downlink carriers simultaneously for carrier aggregation between the wireless communication device and an access network subsystem of the LTE wireless network; providing an indication of a number of parallel radio frequency receive signal chains included in wireless circuitry of the wireless communication device to the access network subsystem of the LTE wireless network; obtaining a measurement gap configuration from the access network subsystem of the LTE wireless network; determining whether the measurement gap configuration indicates the wireless communication device is to suspend data communication on all carriers; when the measurement gap configuration indicates at least one carrier in the plurality of downlink carriers is usable for downlink communication from the access network subsystem of the LTE wireless network during the one or more measurement gap time periods: providing one or more measurement reports to the access network subsystem of the LTE wireless network based at least in part on the first set of signals received from the at least one additional access network subsystem; when the measurement gap configuration indicates the wireless communication device is to suspend data communication on all carriers thereby stopping downlink and uplink data communication during the at least a portion of the one or more measurement gap time periods: receiving a second set of signals from the plurality of downlink carriers, and providing a second measurement report to the access network subsystem of the LTE wireless network based on the second set of signals.