Patent ID: 9392542
Filing Date: 2016-07-12
CPC Classification: H04W,Y02D

Claim Text:
1. A method for reducing consumption of battery power of a user equipment (UE), the method comprising: receiving an indication from a serving cell operating on a first frequency layer, the indication indicating a presence of a beacon signal transmission on the first frequency layer from a non-serving cell, and an actual data transmission and reception of the non-serving cell occurring on a second frequency layer along with at least one trigger condition; determining whether the received indication satisfies the at least one triggering condition; if the received indication satisfies the at least one triggering condition, scanning the first frequency layer for identifying any beacon signal transmission and decoding the beacon signal transmission from the non-serving cell; and receiving assistance information from the serving cell to facilitate identification of the non-serving cell transmitting the beacon signal on the first frequency layer.