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US 12,641,412 · App. 18/029,822 · Granted May 26, 2026

Method and device for supporting UE supporting multiple sims in wireless communication system

Inventors: Sangyeob Jung (Suwon-si, KR); Soenghun Kim (Suwon-si, KR); Anil Agiwal (Suwon-si, KR)
Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
H04W8/183H04W76/27
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Patent No.
US 12,641,412
App. No.
18/029,822
Granted
May 26, 2026
Kind
B2
Abstract

The present disclosure relates to a 5G or pre-5G communication system to be provided for supporting a higher data transmission rate beyond a 4G communication system such as LTE. The present disclosure proposes a communication method of a UE supporting multiple subscriber identity modules (SIMs) (multi-SIM UE), the communication method comprising the steps of: a paging message from a second base station being received by a UE which is in a RRC connected state with a first base station associated with a first SIM of the UE, and which is in a RRC inactive state with the second base station associated with a second SIM of the UE; deciding not to respond to the paging message; and initiating a procedure of transmitting a busy indication to the second base station.

Claims (46)

1 . A method for communication by a user equipment (UE) supporting a plurality of subscriber identity modules (SIMs), the method comprising:

receiving, from a first base station related to a first SIM of the UE, a radio resource control (RRC) message including information on a prohibit timer;

transmitting, to the first base station, a first UE assistance information message including information associated with gap preference;

starting the prohibit timer using the information on the prohibit timer in response to transmitting the first UE assistance information including the information associated with gap preference; and

based on the prohibit timer running, determining not to transmit a second UE assistance information message including the information associated with gap preference.

2 . The method of claim 1 , wherein the information associated with gap preference includes a gap offset and a gap length related to the gap preference.

3 . The method of claim 1 , further comprising:

receiving, from a second base station related to a second SIM, a message for paging when the UE is in an RRC inactive state with the second base station;

determining not to respond to the paging; and

transmitting, to the second base station, a message including information indicating not to respond to the paging.

4 . The method of claim 1 , further comprising:

receiving, from the first base station, an RRC reconfiguration message including information for setup or release of a gap configuration related to multi-SIM operation of the UE.

5 . The method of claim 4 , further comprising:

in case that the information for setup or release of the gap configuration related to multi-SIM operation of the UE is set to setup, releasing previously set up multi-SIM operation related gap configuration; and

setting up the gap configuration related to multi-SIM operation of the UE based on the RRC reconfiguration message including a gap offset value.

6 . The method of claim 5 , wherein the gap configuration related to multi-SIM operation of the UE satisfies following conditions:

system frame number (SFN) mod T =FLOOR(Offset/10);

subframe=Offset mod 10; and

with T=GapRepetition/10, and

wherein the SFN indicates a system frame number of an initial gap, the subframe indicates a subframe number of the initial gap, the GapRepetition indicates a repetition period for multi-SIM operation related gap.

7 . The method of claim 4 , further comprising:

in case that the information for setup or release of the gap configuration related to multi-SIM operation of the UE is set to release, releasing the gap configuration related to multi-SIM operation of the UE.

8 . A user equipment (UE) supporting a plurality of subscriber identity modules (SIMs), the UE comprising:

a transceiver; and

at least one processor coupled to the transceiver, wherein the at least one processor is configured to:

receive, from a first base station related to a first SIM of the UE, a radio resource control (RRC) message including information on a prohibit timer;

transmit, to the first base station, a first UE assistance information message including information about associated with gap preference;

start a timer for a gap request using the information on the prohibit timer for the gap request in response to transmitting the first UE assistance information including the information associated with gap preference; and

based on the timer for the gap request running, determining not to transmit a second UE assistance information message including the information associated with gap preference.

9 . The UE of claim 8 , wherein the information associated with gap preference includes a gap offset and a gap length related to the gap preference.

10 . The UE of claim 8 , wherein the at least one processor is further configured to:

receive, from a second base station related to a second SIM, a message for paging when the UE is in an RRC inactive state with the second base station;

determine not to respond to the paging; and

transmit, to the second base station, a message including information indicating not to respond to the paging.

11 . The UE of claim 8 , wherein the at least one processor is further configured to:

receive, from the first base station, an RRC reconfiguration message including information for setup or release of a gap configuration related to multi-SIM operation of the UE.

12 . The UE of claim 11 , wherein the at least one processor is further configured to:

in case that the information for setup or release of the gap configuration related to multi-SIM operation of the UE is set to setup, release previously set up multi-SIM operation related gap configuration; and

set up the gap configuration related to multi-SIM operation of the UE based on the RRC reconfiguration message including a gap offset value.

13 . The UE of claim 12 , wherein the gap configuration related to multi-SIM operation of the UE satisfies following conditions:

system frame number (SFN) mod T =FLOOR (Offset/10);

subframe=Offset mod 10; and

with T=GapRepetition/10, and

wherein the SFN indicates a system frame number of an initial gap, the subframe indicates a subframe number of the initial gap, the GapRepetition indicates a repetition period for multi-SIM operation related gap.

14 . The UE of claim 11 , wherein the at least one processor is further configured to:

in case that the information for setup or release of the gap configuration related to multi-SIM operation of the UE is set to release, release the gap configuration related to multi-SIM operation of the UE.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Mar 31, 2023
From: JUNG, SANGYEOB; KIM, SOENGHUN; AGIWAL, ANIL
To: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
Reel/Frame 063192/0732 →
Priority Claims (2)
KR 10-2020-0137136 · Oct 21, 2020 · national
KR 10-2020-0188557 · Dec 30, 2020 · national
Continuity (1)
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