Granted Patent B2

US 11,463,979 · App. 17/090,567 · Granted Oct 4, 2022

Inventors: Myungjune Youn (Seoul, KR); Laeyoung Kim (Seoul, KR); Jaehyun Kim (Seoul, KR); Hyunsook Kim (Seoul, KR); Jinsook Ryu (Seoul, KR); Sangmin Park (Seoul, KR)

Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.

H04W60/005H04W36/0027H04W68/02

Abstract

Claims (40)

1. An operation method of a user equipment (UE), the method comprising:

performing, by the UE, a registration procedure over a 3rd generation partnership project (3GPP) access and a non-3GPP access in a same Public Land Mobile Network (PLMN);

receiving, by the UE from an Access and Mobility Management Function (AMF) node, a paging message while in an idle state in both of the 3GPP access and the non-3GPP access,

wherein the paging message includes access type information informing that the paging message is originated due to a protocol data unit (PDU) session over the non-3GPP access; and

transmitting, by the UE, a service request message including a list of allowed PDU sessions, upon receiving the paging message,

wherein based on that there is no PDU session to be reactivated over the 3GPP access, the service request message includes an empty list of allowed PDU sessions, and

wherein all bits of PDU session identifiers (PSIs) in the empty list of the allowed PDU sessions are coded as zero (0).

2. The method of claim 1 , wherein the empty list of the allowed PDU sessions including no PSI is used for the AMF to notify a session management function (SMF) that the UE was reachable but did not accept to reactive the PDU session.

3. The method of claim 1 , wherein based on that the PDU session over the non-3GPP access is to be reactivated over the 3GPP access, the service request message includes the list of the allowed PDU sessions which includes a PSI of the PDU session.

4. A user equipment (UE), the UE comprising:

a transceiver; and

a processor configured to control the transceiver,

wherein the processor performs a registration procedure over a 3rd generation partnership project (3GPP) access and a non-3GPP access in a same Public Land Mobile Network (PLMN),

wherein the processor receives, through the transceiver from an Access and Mobility Management Function (AMF) node, a paging message while in an idle state in both of the 3GPP access and the non-3GPP access,

wherein the paging message includes access type information informing that the paging message is originated due to a protocol data unit (PDU) session over the non-3GPP access,

wherein the processor transmits, through the transceiver, a service request message including a list of allowed PDU sessions, upon receiving the paging message,

wherein based on that there is no PDU session which is to be reactivated over the 3GPP access, the service request message includes an empty list of allowed PDU sessions, and

wherein all bits of PDU session identifiers (PSIs) in the empty list of the allowed PDU sessions are coded as zero (0).

5. The UE of claim 4 , wherein the empty list of the allowed PDU sessions including no PSI is used for the AMF to notify a session management function (SMF) that the UE was reachable but did not accept to reactive the PDU session.

6. The UE of claim 4 , wherein, based on that the PDU session over the non-3GPP access is to be reactivated over the 3GPP access, the service request message includes the list of the allowed PDU sessions which includes a PSI of the PDU session.

7. An operation method of an access and mobility management function (AMF) node, the method comprising:

transmitting a paging message for a user equipment (UE),

wherein the UE is registered in both of a 3rd generation partnership project (3GPP) access and a non-3GPP access in a same Public Land Mobile Network (PLMN),

wherein the UE is in an idle state in the both of the 3GPP access and the non-3GPP access, and

wherein the paging message includes an access type information informing that the paging message is originated due to a protocol data unit (PDU) session over the non-3GPP access; and

receiving, from the UE, a service request message including a list of allowed PDU sessions, upon the UE receiving the paging message,

wherein based on that the service request message includes an empty list of allowed PDU sessions, there is no PDU session which is to be reactivated over the 3GPP access, and

wherein all bits of PDU session identifiers (PSIs) in the empty list of the allowed PDU sessions are coded as zero (0).

8. The method AMF node of claim 7 , further comprising:

notifying a session management function (SMF) that the UE was reachable but did not accept to reactive the PDU session, based on the empty list of the allowed PDU sessions including no PSI.

9. An access and mobility management function (AMF) node, the AMF node comprising:

a transceiver; and

a processor operably coupled to the transceiver,

wherein the processor is configured to control the transceiver to transmit a paging message for a user equipment (UE),

wherein the UE is registered in both of a 3rd generation partnership project (3GPP) access and a non-3GPP access in a same Public Land Mobile Network (PLMN),

wherein the UE is in an idle state in the both of the 3GPP access and the non-3GPP access, and

wherein the paging message includes an access type information informing that the paging message is originated due to a protocol data unit (PDU) session over the non-3GPP access;

wherein the processor is configured to control the transceiver to receive, from the UE, a service request message including a list of allowed PDU sessions, upon the UE receiving the paging message,

wherein based on that the service request message includes an empty list of allowed PDU sessions, there is no PDU session which is to be reactivated over the 3GPP access, and

wherein all bits of PDU session identifiers (PSIs) in the empty list of the allowed PDU sessions are coded as zero (0).

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