User equipment network radio link state management for ambient electromagnetic power harvesting chip reader applications and devices

1. A system for user equipment network radio link state management, the system comprising:

one or more processors; and

one or more computer-readable media storing computer-usable instructions that, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to:

communicate between a first user equipment (UE) and a radio access network of a telecommunications network through a UE radio link, the UE radio link comprising one or more data channels;

determine when an ambient electromagnetic power harvesting (AEPH) chip communication event is pending;

suspend a UE connection state of at least one data channel of the one or more data channels of the UE radio link in response to the determining when the AEPH chip communication event is pending;

perform the AEPH chip communication event; and

release suspension of the UE connection state of the at least one data channel of the one or more data channels of the UE radio link;

wherein the AEPH chip communication event includes:

transmission of an interrogation signal to an AEPH chip; and

reception of a response signal from the AEPH chip.

2. The system of claim 1 , the one or more processors further to:

perform the AEPH chip communication event during a network interrupt duration, wherein the UE connection state remains suspended for the network interrupt duration; and

release suspension of the UE connection state after an expiration of the network interrupt duration.

3. The system of claim 2 , wherein the expiration of the network interrupt duration is based on one or both of a time duration or an event.

4. The system of claim 1 , wherein one or both of the interrogation signal or the interrogation signal comprise a frequency used by at least one of the one or more data channels.

5. The system of claim 1 , wherein the AEPH chip communication event includes communicating with an AEPH chip using at least one frequency used by at least one of the one or more data channels.

6. The system of claim 1 , wherein the AEPH chip communication event comprises communicating with an Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) chip.

7. The system of claim 1 , further comprising:

a radio module circuit that includes at least a radio frequency (RF) transmit (TX) path and an RF receive path, wherein the one or more processors further to:

control the radio module circuit to communicate with the radio access network using uplink (UL) radio frequency (RF) signals and downlink (DL) RF signals; and

control the radio module circuit to perform the AEPH chip communication event to transmit one or more interrogation signals to an AEPH chip and receive one or more response signals from the AEPH chip.

8. The system of claim 1 , the one or more processors further to suspend the UE connection state of the at least one data channel by communicating a network interrupt request to a network function of an operator core network of the telecommunications network.

9. The system of claim 1 , the one or more processors further to:

determine when the AEPH chip communication event is pending based on data from a trustlet executing in a trusted execution environment of the first UE.

10. The system of claim 1 , the one or more processors further to:

communicate between the first UE and the radio access network using a second UE radio link in response to suspending the UE connection state of at least one data channel.

11. A system for user equipment network radio link state management, the system comprising:

one or more processors; and

one or more computer-readable media storing computer-usable instructions that, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to:

communicate between a first user equipment (UE) and a radio access network of a telecommunications network through a UE radio link, the UE radio link comprising one or more data channels;

determine when an ambient electromagnetic power harvesting (AEPH) chip communication event is pending;

suspend a UE connection state of at least one data channel of the one or more data channels of the UE radio link in response to the determining when the AEPH chip communication event is pending;

perform the AEPH chip communication event;

release suspension of the UE connection state of the at least one data channel of the one or more data channels of the UE radio link; and

query a ledger using the at least one data channel after release of suspension of the UE connection state, in response to information received by the first UE from the AEPH chip communication event.

12. The system of claim 11 , the one or more processors further to:

perform the AEPH chip communication event during a network interrupt duration, wherein the UE connection state remains suspended for the network interrupt duration; and

release suspension of the UE connection state after an expiration of the network interrupt duration.

13. The system of claim 11 , wherein the AEPH chip communication event includes communicating with an AEPH chip using at least one frequency used by at least one of the one or more data channels.

14. The system of claim 11 , the one or more processors further to suspend the UE connection state of the at least one data channel by communicating a network interrupt request to a network function of an operator core network of the telecommunications network.

15. The system of claim 11 , the one or more processors further to:

communicate between the first UE and the radio access network using a second UE radio link in response to suspending the UE connection state of at least one data channel.

16. A method for user equipment network radio link state management, the method comprising:

communicating between a first user equipment (UE) and a radio access network of a telecommunications network through a UE radio link, the UE radio link comprising one or more data channels;

determining when an ambient electromagnetic power harvesting (AEPH) chip communication event is pending;

suspending a UE connection state of at least one data channel of the one or more data channels of the UE radio link in response to the determining that the AEPH chip communication event is pending;

performing the AEPH chip communication event;

releasing suspension of the UE connection state of the at least one data channel of the one or more data channels of the UE radio link; and

querying a ledger using the at least one data channel after releasing suspension of the UE connection state, in response to information received by the first UE from the AEPH chip communication event.

17. The method of claim 16 , further comprising:

performing the AEPH chip communication event during a network interrupt duration, wherein the UE connection state remains suspended for the network interrupt duration; and

releasing suspension of the UE connection state after an expiration of the network interrupt duration.

18. The method of claim 16 , further comprising:

controlling a radio module circuit to communicate with the radio access network using uplink (UL) radio frequency (RF) signals and downlink (DL) RF signals; and

controlling the radio module circuit to perform the AEPH chip communication event to transmit one or more interrogation signal to an AEPH chip and receive one or more response signals from the AEPH chip.

19. The method of claim 16 , further comprising sending a network interrupt request to a network function of an operator core network of the telecommunications network.

20. The method of claim 16 , further comprising:

suspending the UE connection state of the at least one data channel by sending a radio link suspend message to a radio resource control protocol stack layer, and

releasing suspension of the UE connection state of the at least one data channel by sending a radio link suspension release message to the radio resource control protocol stack layer.