Patent ID: 9686736
Date: 2017-06-20
CPC Classifications: H04W

Claim:
1. A method of conducting a public land mobile network (PLMN) search, comprising: determining a paging schedule for a serving cell of a user equipment, the serving cell being associated with a first PLMN, wherein the paging schedule defines one or more paging occasions; initiating a search for a second PLMN between consecutive paging occasions; reading a master information block (MIB) on a broadcast channel of a cell of the second PLMN; reading, by the user equipment, at least a portion of a system information block (SIB) on the broadcast channel of the cell of the second PLMN based on scheduling information provided in the MIB; discontinuing reading of a partially-read SIB when the partially-read SIB is scheduled for transmission at least partially concurrently with a first paging occasion of the one or more paging occasions and the partially-read SIB does not comprise information for identifying the second PLMN; and ignoring the first paging occasion when the partially-read SIB is scheduled for transmission at least partially concurrently with the first paging occasion and the partially-read SIB comprises the information for identifying the second PLMN.