ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,701,636, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to MediaTek Singapore Pte. Ltd. (Singapore).
"Handling of NAS timers during unavailability period" was invented by Marko Niemi (Oulu, Finland).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In an aspect of the disclosure, a method, a computer-readable medium, and an apparatus are provided. The method may be performed by a UE. In certain configurations, the UE activates an unavailability period. The UE stops one or more first non-access stratum (NAS) timers and allows one or more second NAS timers to run when the unavailability period is activated. The unavailability period may be activated by transmitting, to a netw...