User equipment having virtual mobile terminals

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9420634-B2
Application number	US-201113995915-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Dec 9, 2011
Priority date	Dec 9, 2011
Publication date	Aug 16, 2016
Grant date	Aug 16, 2016

Abstract

Embodiments of the present disclosure describe methods, apparatuses, and systems related to a user equipment having virtual mobile terminals. Other embodiments may be described and/or claimed.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A user equipment comprising:
a radio transceiver to communicatively couple the user equipment to a radio access network;
a first virtual mobile terminal to establish a first connection with the radio access network via the radio transceiver;
a second virtual mobile terminal to establish a second connection with the radio access network via the radio transceiver, wherein the first connection is active concurrent with the second connection to enable transmission or reception of first data via the first connection simultaneously with transmission or reception of second data via the second connection,
wherein:
the first virtual mobile terminal is configured to use a first communication protocol stack including layer 2 and higher protocol layers including a first radio resource control (RRC) layer;
the second virtual mobile terminal is configured to use a second communication protocol stack including layer 2 and higher protocol layers including a second RRC layer; and
both the first virtual mobile and the second virtual mobile terminal are configured to use a common physical layer; and

a combined RRC layer to manage radio procedures of the radio access network for both the first and second virtual mobile terminals, the combined RRC layer to include state machines that are supersets of state machines of the first and second RRC layers.

2. The user equipment of claim 1 , wherein:
the first virtual mobile terminal is to establish the first connection with a first set of profiles including a first subscription profile, a first quality of service (QoS) profile, and a first billing profile; and
the second virtual mobile terminal is to establish the second connection with a second set of profiles including a second subscription profile, a second QoS profile, and a second billing profile.

3. The user equipment of claim 1 , further comprising:
a mobile terminal having one or more mobile terminal processors to provide the first and second virtual mobile terminals; and
terminal equipment having one or more terminal equipment processors to provide a first virtual machine and a second virtual machine, wherein the first virtual machine is communicatively coupled with the first virtual mobile terminal and the second virtual machine is communicatively coupled with the second virtual mobile terminal.

4. The user equipment of claim 1 , further comprising:
a first universal subscriber identity module associated with the first virtual mobile terminal; and
a second universal subscriber identity module associated with the second virtual mobile terminal.

5. The user equipment of claim 1 , wherein the first connection and the second connection are to be activated in a time-division multiplexing activation sequence.

6. A user equipment comprising:
one or more storage media having logic stored therein;
one or more processors to operate the logic to provide:
a first virtual mobile terminal to establish a first connection with a radio access network via a radio transceiver;
a second virtual mobile terminal to establish a second connection with the radio access network via the radio transceiver, wherein the first connection is to be established in a manner to be active concurrent with the second connection to enable transmission or reception of first data via the first connection simultaneously with transmission or reception of second data via the second connection,
wherein:
the first virtual mobile terminal is to use a first communication protocol stack including layer 2 and higher protocol layers including a first radio resource control (RRC) layer;
the second virtual mobile terminal is to use a second communication protocol stack including layer 2 and higher protocol layers including a second RRC layer; and
both the first virtual mobile and the second virtual mobile terminal are to use a common physical layer; and

a combined RRC layer to manage radio procedures of the radio access network for both the first and second virtual mobile terminals, the combined RRC layer to include state machines that are supersets of state machines of the first and second RRC layers.

7. The user equipment of claim 6 , wherein:
the first virtual mobile terminal is to establish the first connection with a first set of profiles including a first subscription profile, a first quality of service (QoS) profile, and a first billing profile; and
the second virtual mobile terminal is to establish the second connection with a second set of profiles including a second subscription profile, a second QoS profile, and a second billing profile.

8. The user equipment of claim 6 , further comprising:
a first universal subscriber identity module associated with the first virtual mobile terminal; and
a second universal subscriber identity module associated with the second virtual mobile terminal.

Assignees

• Sajadieh Masoud
• Yang Xue
• Gopalakrishnan Praveen
• Intel Corp

Inventors

• Sajadieh Masoud
• Yang Xue
• Gopalakrishnan Praveen

Classifications

• H04W8/18

  Processing of user or subscriber data, e.g. subscribed services, user preferences or user profiles; Transfer of user or subscriber data · CPC title

• H04W88/06 Primary

  adapted for operation in multiple networks {or having at least two operational modes}, e.g. multi-mode terminals · CPC title

• H04W76/025

  Electricity · mapped topic

• H04W76/15 Primary

  Setup of multiple wireless link connections · CPC title