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- Patent Title: Mobility enhancements for cellular communications
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Application No.: US16479628Application Date: 2018-08-28
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Publication No.: US11218924B2Publication Date: 2022-01-04
- Inventor: Srirang A. Lovlekar , Longda Xing , Srinivasan Nimmala , Dawei Zhang , Yuqin Chen , Fangli Xu , Haijing Hu , Sethuraman Gurumoorthy , Murtaza A. Shikari
- Applicant: Apple Inc.
- Applicant Address: US CA Cupertino
- Assignee: Apple Inc.
- Current Assignee: Apple Inc.
- Current Assignee Address: US CA Cupertino
- Agency: Kowert, Hood, Munyon, Rankin & Goetzel, P.C.
- International Application: PCT/CN2018/102652 WO 20180828
- International Announcement: WO2020/041966 WO 20200305
- Main IPC: H04W36/00
- IPC: H04W36/00 ; H04W12/04 ; H04W36/02 ; H04W40/36 ; H04W36/18

Abstract:
Techniques are disclosed relating to handover between cellular base stations. In some embodiments that use dual-connectivity handover, disclosed techniques may facilitate synchronization of a security configuration switch. In some embodiments, the base station and/or mobile device determine activation sequence numbers for the security configuration switch (e.g., by estimating when a path switch will occur). In some embodiments, the security configuration switch is implicitly detected based in deciphering failure. In some embodiments, the security configuration switch is explicitly signaled and is checked based on deciphering failure. In some embodiments that use make before break handover techniques, a source base station may be retained after the path switch.
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