IP Library Granted Patent US 11,570,694
Granted Patent B2
US 11,570,694 · App. 16/475,670 · Granted Jan 31, 2023

Access control for wireless cellular communication systems

Inventors: Hyung-Nam Choi (Hamburg, DE); Marta Martinez Tarradell (Hillsboro, OR); Sudeep Palat (Gloucestershire, GB); Robert Zaus (Munich, DE); Youn Hyoung Heo (Seoul, KR); Richard Burbidge (Oxfordshire, GB)
Assignee: Apple Inc.
H04W48/12H04W48/02H04W84/042
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Patent No.
US 11,570,694
App. No.
16/475,670
Granted
Jan 31, 2023
Kind
B2
Abstract

Described is an apparatus of a User Equipment (UE). The apparatus may comprise a first circuitry, a second circuitry, and a third circuitry. The first circuitry may be operable to determine that the UE is in an Inactive Radio Resource Control (RRC) state. The second circuitry may be operable to process a first transmission received by the UE while the UE is in the Inactive RRC state, the first transmission carrying a set of one or more Access Control (AC) parameters. The third circuitry may be operable to regulate the sending of a second transmission, in accordance with the set of one or more AC parameters, while the UE is in the Inactive RRC state.

Claims (42)

1. A User Equipment (UE) operable to communicate with a base station on a wireless network, comprising:

one or more processors configured to:

determine that the UE is in an Inactive Radio Resource Control (RRC) state;

process a first transmission received by the UE while the UE is in the Inactive RRC state, the first transmission carrying a set of Access Control (AC) parameters; and

regulate the sending of a second transmission in accordance with the set of AC parameters while the UE is in the Inactive RRC state, wherein the set of AC parameters has a hierarchical structure including a first level of AC parameters in common for a plurality of Public Land Mobile Networks (PLMNs) or based on each of the PLMNs, and a second level of AC parameters based on a plurality of network slices associated with the plurality of PLMNs; and

an interface for receiving the first transmission from a receiving circuitry and for sending the second transmission to a transmission circuitry.

2. The UE of claim 1 , wherein the hierarchical structure includes a third level of AC parameters based on a call type, a fourth level of AC parameters based on a barring type and a fifth level of AC parameters based on a barring parameter.

3. The UE of claim 1 , wherein the set of AC parameters is a first set of AC parameters, and wherein the one or more processors are further configured to:

generate a request transmission carrying a request that the base station transmit a second set of AC parameters.

4. The UE of claim 1 , wherein the set of AC parameters further includes, on a barring parameter level, at least one of: a barring factor or a barring time.

5. The UE of claim 1 , wherein the set of AC parameters further includes, on a barring parameter level, at least one of: a barring flag or a barring bitmap.

6. The UE of claim 1 , wherein the set of AC parameters includes, on a barring type level, at least one of: an Internet Protocol Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) voice call type, an IMS video call type, an IMS signaling type, an emergency call type, a real-time gaming type, a Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) based streaming type, or a best-effort Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) traffic type.

7. A non-transitory computer-readable medium storing instructions that, when executed by a processor of a user equipment (UE) operable to communicate with a base station on a wireless network, cause the processor to perform operations, comprising:

determining that the UE is in an Inactive Radio Resource Control (RRC) state;

processing a first transmission received by the UE while the UE is in the Inactive RRC state, the first transmission carrying a set of Access Control (AC) parameters; and

regulating the sending of a second transmission in accordance with the set of AC parameters while the UE is in the Inactive RRC state, wherein the set of AC parameters has a hierarchical structure including a first level of AC parameters in common for a plurality of Public Land Mobile Networks (PLMNs) or based on each of the PLMNs, and a second level of AC parameters based a plurality of network slices associated with the plurality of PLMNs.

8. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 7 , wherein the hierarchical structure includes a third level of AC parameters based on a call type, and a fourth level of AC parameters based on a barring type.

9. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 7 , the operations further comprising: generating a request transmission carrying a request that the base station transmit a second set of AC parameters.

10. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 7 , wherein the set of AC parameters includes, on a barring parameter level, at least one of: a barring factor or a barring time.

11. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 7 , wherein the set of AC parameters includes, on a barring parameter level, at least one of: a barring flag or a barring bitmap.

12. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 7 , wherein the set of AC parameters includes, on a barring type level, at least one of: an Internet Protocol Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) voice call type, an IMS video call type, an IMS signaling type, an emergency call type, a real-time gaming type, a Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) based streaming type, or a best-effort Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) traffic type.

13. A User Equipment (UE) operable to communicate with a base station on a wireless network, comprising:

one or more processors configured to:

determine that the UE is in an Inactive Radio Resource Control (RRC) state or Connected RRC state;

process a first transmission received by the UE, the first transmission carrying a set of Access Control (AC) parameters; and

regulate the sending of a second transmission in accordance with the set of AC parameters while the UE is in the Inactive RRC state or the Connected RRC state, wherein the set of AC parameters has a hierarchical structure including a first level of AC parameters in common for a plurality of Public Land Mobile Networks (PLMNs) or based on each of the PLMNs, a second level of AC parameters based on a plurality of network slices associated with the plurality of PLMNs, and a third level of AC parameters based on a call type, and a fourth level of AC parameters based on a barring type; and

an interface for receiving the first transmission from a receiving circuitry and for sending the second transmission to a transmission circuitry.

14. The UE of claim 13 , wherein the one or more processors are configured to: generate a request transmission carrying a request that the base station transmit a second set of AC parameters.

15. The UE of claim 13 , wherein the set of AC parameters further includes, on a barring parameter level, at least one of: a barring factor or a barring time.

16. The UE of claim 13 , wherein the set of AC parameters further includes, on a barring parameter level, at least one of: a barring flag, or a barring bitmap.

17. The UE of claim 13 , wherein the set of AC parameters includes, on a barring type level, at least one of: an Internet Protocol Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) voice call type, an IMS video call type, an IMS signaling type, an emergency call type, a real-time gaming type, a Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) based streaming type, or a best-effort Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) traffic type.

18. The UE of claim 13 , wherein the set of AC parameters includes, on a barring type level, a quality of service (QoS) flow marking based on at least one of: a guaranteed bit rate (GBR) flow, or a non-GBR flow.

19. A non-transitory computer-readable medium storing instructions that, when executed by a processor of a user equipment (UE) operable to communicate with a base station on a wireless network, cause the processor to perform operations, comprising:

determining that the UE is in an Inactive Radio Resource Control (RRC) state or a Connected RRC state;

processing a first transmission received by the UE, the first transmission carrying a set of Access Control (AC) parameters; and

regulating the sending of a second transmission, in accordance with the set of AC parameters, while the UE is in the Inactive RRC state or the Connected RRC state, and

wherein the set of AC parameters has a hierarchical structure including a first level of AC parameters in common for a plurality of Public Land Mobile Networks (PLMNs) or based on each of the PLMNs, a second level of AC parameters based on each of a plurality of network slices associated with the plurality of PLMNs, a third level of AC parameters based on a call type, and a fourth level of AC parameters based on a barring type.

20. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 19 , the operations further comprising: generating a request transmission carrying a request that the base station transmit a second set of AC parameters.

21. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 19 , wherein the set of AC parameters further includes, on a barring parameter level, at least one of: a barring factor or a barring time.

22. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 19 , wherein the set of AC parameters further includes, on a barring parameter level, at least one of: a barring flag or a barring bitmap.

23. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 19 , wherein the set of AC parameters includes, on a barring type level, at least one of: an Internet Protocol Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) voice call type, an IMS video call type, an IMS signaling type, an emergency call type, a real-time gaming type, a Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) based streaming type, or a best-effort Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) traffic type.

24. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 19 , wherein the set of AC parameters further includes, on a barring type level, a quality of service (QoS) flow marking based on at least one of: a guaranteed bit rate (GBR) flow, or a non-GBR flow.

Assignments (3)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Dec 14, 2022
From: CHOI, HYUNG-NAM; MARTINEZ TARRADELL, MARTA; PALAT, SUDEEP; ZAUS, ROBERT; HEO, YOUN HYOUNG; BURBIDGE, RICHARD
To: INTEL IP CORPORATION
Reel/Frame 062092/0437 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Jun 26, 2020
From: INTEL CORPORATION
To: APPLE INC.
Reel/Frame 053309/0140 →
CONFIRMATORY ASSIGNMENT Recorded Jun 25, 2020
From: INTEL IP CORPORATION
To: INTEL CORPORATION
Reel/Frame 053051/0295 →