US Patent Issued to MediaTek on May 20 for "MUSIM IMSI offset value handling for paging timing collision control" (Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,309,742, issued on May 20, was assigned to MediaTek Inc. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"MUSIM IMSI offset value handling for paging timing collision control" was invented by Yuan-Chieh Lin (Hsin-Chu, Taiwan), Yu-Chieh Tien (Hsin-Chu, Taiwan) and Pan-Yen Chiang (Hsin-Chu, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of handling (alternative) IMSI value for MUSIM UEs supporting paging timing collision control in an EPS network is proposed. For a MUSIM UE and EPS supporting paging timing collision control, the MUSIM UE and the network can request and negotiate an IMSI offset for the IMSI value on one of the USIM card through a TAU or ATTACH procedur...