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US 12,628,055 · App. 18/035,792 · Granted May 12, 2026

Method, device and computer storage medium of communication

Inventors: Da Wang (Beijing, CN); Gang Wang (Beijing, CN)
Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
H04W36/00837H04W76/30H04L5/0007H04W36/00692
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Patent No.
US 12,628,055
App. No.
18/035,792
Granted
May 12, 2026
Kind
B2
Abstract

Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to methods, devices and computer readable media for communication. A method of communication comprises generating, at a terminal device, information of a scheduling gap of the first network device, the first network device being associated with a first subscriber identity module of the terminal device and the second network device being associated with a second subscriber identity module of the terminal device; and transmitting the information of the scheduling gap to the first network device for requesting a switch from the first network device to a second network device without releasing a radio resource control connection with the first network device. Thereby, only traffic on a part of serving cells of the first network device is interrupted.

Claims (10)

1 . A method performed by a multi-universal subscriber identity module (MUSIM) terminal device, the method comprising:

transmitting gap preference information for first gaps for MUSIM in the MUSIM terminal device to a first network device; and

receiving configuration information for second gaps for the MUSIM from the first network device, each of the second gaps for the MUSIM having a gap identity (ID).

2 . A method performed by a master node (MN), the method comprising:

receiving a gap preference information for first gaps for multi-universal subscriber identity module (MUSIM) in a MUSIM terminal device, from the MUSIM terminal device; and

transmitting configuration information for second gaps for the MUSIM to the MUSIM terminal device, each of the second gaps for the MUSIM having a gap identity (ID).

3 . The method of claim 2 , further comprising transmitting the configuration information for the second gaps for the MUSIM to a secondary node (SN).

4 . A multi-universal subscriber identity module (MUSIM) terminal device comprising a processor configured to cause the terminal device to:

transmit gap preference information for first gaps for MUSIM in the MUSIM terminal device to a first network device; and

receive configuration information for second gaps for the MUSIM from the first network device, each of the second gaps for the MUSIM having a gap identity (ID).

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded May 8, 2023
From: WANG, DA; WANG, GANG
To: NEC CORPORATION
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Continuity (1)
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