IP Library Granted Patent US 11,405,829
Granted Patent B2
US 11,405,829 · App. 16/765,417 · Granted Aug 2, 2022

Communication control method for a user equipment that configures a protocol data unit session to correspond to a non-IP packet data network connection

Inventors: Yudai Kawasaki (Sakai, JP); Yasuo Sugawara (Sakai, JP); Shuichiro Chiba (Sakai, JP); Masafumi Aramoto (Sakai, JP)
Assignees: FG Innovation Company Limited; Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
H04W36/0022H04W36/14H04W88/02
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Patent No.
US 11,405,829
App. No.
16/765,417
Granted
Aug 2, 2022
Kind
B2
Abstract

A communication measure is provided that causes a PDU session established in a 5GS to return to an original state of the PDU session in a case that the PDU session is moved (handed over) to an EPS and then moved (handed over) to the 5GS again. In addition, according to the present invention, a communication measure is provided that causes a PDN connection established in the EPS to return to the PDN connection in an original state after the PDN connection established in the EPS is moved (handed over) to the 5GS and then again moved (handed over) to the EP. In addition, according to the present invention, a communication measure is provided that allows smooth mobility of the UE in an idle mode between the 5GS and the EPS. This allows a communication measure that performs a handover between the 5GS and the EPS smoothly to be provided.

Claims (11)

1. A User Equipment (UE) comprising:

a controller, wherein the controller establishes, in an Evolved Packet System (EPS), a Packet Data Network (PDN) connection of which PDN type is non-IP, and configures a PDU session type to Ethernet or Unstructured at a time of a handover from the EPS to a 5G System (5GS), and the PDU session type is configured to a PDU session corresponding to the PDN connection; and

a storage unit configured to store the PDN type and to maintain the PDN type after the handover from the EPS to the 5GS, wherein the storage unit is configured to allow information of the PDN type to be deleted from the storage unit when the PDU session corresponding to the PDN connection is released in a case that after the handover from the EPS to the 5GS the PDU session corresponding to the PDN connection is released.

2. The UE according to claim 1 , wherein the storage unit is configured to allow information of the PDN type to be deleted from the storage unit in a case that a prescribed period of time elapses after the handover from the EPS to the 5GS.

3. A communication control method for a User Equipment (UE), the communication control method comprising:

establishing, in an Evolved Packet System (EPS), a Packet Data Network (PDN) connection of which PDN type is non-IP;

configuring a PDU session type to Ethernet or Unstructured at a time of a handover from the EPS to a 5G System (5GS), wherein the PDU session type is configured to a PDU session corresponding to the PDN connection;

continuously storing the PDN type in a storage unit of the UE such that the PDN type is maintained after the handover from the EPS to the 5GS; and

deleting information of the PDN type from the storage unit when the PDU session corresponding to the PDN connection is released in a case that after the handover from the EPS to the 5GS the PDU session corresponding to the PDN connection is released.

4. The communication control method for the UE according to claim 3 , the communication control method further comprising:

deleting information of the PDN type in a case that a prescribed period of time elapses after the handover from the EPS to the 5GS.

Assignments (3)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Sep 24, 2024
From: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA; FG INNOVATION COMPANY LIMITED
To: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
Reel/Frame 069039/0324 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Mar 25, 2022
From: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
To: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA; FG INNOVATION COMPANY LIMITED
Reel/Frame 059405/0943 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Jun 18, 2020
From: KAWASAKI, YUDAI; SUGAWARA, YASUO; CHIBA, SHUICHIRO; ARAMOTO, MASAFUMI
To: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
Reel/Frame 052970/0407 →