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Granted Patent B2
US 11,863,381 · App. 17/164,372 · Granted Jan 2, 2024

Reconfiguration method and terminal

Inventors: Wei Bao (Chang'an Dongguan, CN); Xiaodong Yang (Chang'an Dongguan, CN)
Assignee: VIVO MOBILE COMMUNICATION CO., LTD.
H04L41/0816H04L5/0048H04W74/0833H04W76/18H04W76/19
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Patent No.
US 11,863,381
App. No.
17/164,372
Granted
Jan 2, 2024
Kind
B2
Abstract

Provided in the present disclosure is a redistribution method and terminal, which solve the problem of the transmission currently carried out by a UE needing to be stopped during the process of re-establishing an RRC connection. The processing method of the present disclosure comprises: when the wireless connection between a terminal and a master node (MN) is lost, reporting an MN wireless connection lost indication to a secondary node (SN); if an RRC redistribution message is received before a target timer times out, carrying out redistribution processing according to said RRC redistribution message.

Claims (61)

1. A reconfiguration method, applied to a terminal, wherein the terminal is connected to at least two base stations, and the method comprises:

in response to that a connection failure occurred between the terminal and a master base station MN, reporting a radio connection failure indication of the MN to a secondary base station SN; and

in response to receiving an RRC reconfiguration message before a target timer expires, performing reconfiguration processing according to the RRC reconfiguration message;

wherein a start time of the target timer comprises:

a preset moment in a process of generating the radio connection failure indication of the MN; or

a moment at which a radio resource control RRC layer of the terminal submits the radio connection failure indication of the MN to a lower layer; or

a moment at which the radio connection failure indication of the MN is sent at an air interface.

2. The reconfiguration method according to claim 1 , wherein

the RRC reconfiguration message is a reconfiguration message comprising a specific information element IE, and the specific information element IE is a synchronous reconfiguration IE, or a full configuration IE, or a master cell group IE, or a failure indication response IE; or

the RRC reconfiguration message is a reconfiguration message for instructing the terminal to modify a primary cell Pcell; or

the RRC reconfiguration message is a reconfiguration message for instructing the terminal to modify a radio link monitoring reference signal RS of a primary cell Pcell.

3. The reconfiguration method according to claim 1 , further comprising:

in response to that the RRC layer receives the RRC reconfiguration message or performs the reconfiguration processing according to the RRC reconfiguration message, stopping the target timer.

4. The reconfiguration method according to claim 2 , wherein in response to that the RRC reconfiguration message is a reconfiguration message comprising a synchronous reconfiguration IE;

after the performing reconfiguration processing according to the RRC reconfiguration message, the method further comprises:

initiating a random access procedure according to the RRC reconfiguration message; and

in response to that the RRC layer of the terminal receives, before the target timer expires, a random access success indication sent by a media access control MAC layer, stopping the target timer.

5. The reconfiguration method according to claim 1 , after the reporting a radio connection failure indication of the MN to a secondary base station SN, further comprising:

in response to that the target timer expires, initiating an RRC connection re-establishment procedure.

6. The reconfiguration method according to claim 1 , wherein the radio connection failure indication of the MN comprises:

at least one of an MN radio connection failure reason or a measurement result of the terminal.

7. A terminal, wherein the terminal is connected to at least two base stations, and comprises: a memory, a processor, and a computer program stored in the memory and executable on the processor, wherein the computer program is executed by the processor to:

in response to that a connection failure occurred between the terminal and a master base station MN, report a radio connection failure indication of the MN to a secondary base station SN; and

in response to receiving an RRC reconfiguration message before a target timer expires, perform reconfiguration processing according to the RRC reconfiguration message;

wherein a start time of the target timer comprises:

a preset moment in a process of generating the radio connection failure indication of the MN; or

a moment at which a radio resource control RRC layer of the terminal submits the radio connection failure indication of the MN to a lower layer; or

a moment at which the radio connection failure indication of the MN is sent at an air interface.

8. The terminal according to claim 7 , wherein

the RRC reconfiguration message is a reconfiguration message comprising a specific information element IE, and the specific information element IE is a synchronous reconfiguration IE, or a full configuration IE, or a master cell group IE, or a failure indication response IE; or

the RRC reconfiguration message is a reconfiguration message for instructing the terminal to modify a primary cell Pcell; or

the RRC reconfiguration message is a reconfiguration message for instructing the terminal to modify a radio link monitoring reference signal RS of a primary cell Pcell.

9. The terminal according to claim 7 , wherein the computer program is executed by the processor to:

in response to that the RRC layer receives the RRC reconfiguration message or performs the reconfiguration processing according to the RRC reconfiguration message, stop the target timer.

10. The terminal according to claim 8 , wherein in response to that the RRC reconfiguration message is a reconfiguration message comprising a synchronous reconfiguration IE, the computer program is executed by the processor to:

after performing reconfiguration processing according to the RRC reconfiguration message, initiate a random access process according to the RRC reconfiguration message; and

in response to that the RRC layer of the terminal receives, before the target timer expires, a random access success indication sent by a media access control MAC layer, stop the target timer.

11. The terminal according to claim 7 , wherein the computer program is executed by the processor to:

after reporting the MN radio link failure indication to the secondary base station SN, in response to that the target timer expires, initiate an RRC connection re-establishment process.

12. The terminal according to claim 7 , wherein the radio connection failure indication of the MN comprises:

at least one of an MN radio connection failure reason or a measurement result of the terminal.

13. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium, wherein the non-transitory computer-readable storage medium stores a computer program, and the computer program is executed by a processor to:

in response to that a connection failure occurred between the terminal and a master base station MN, report a radio connection failure indication of the MN to a secondary base station SN; and

in response to receiving an RRC reconfiguration message before a target timer expires, perform reconfiguration processing according to the RRC reconfiguration message;

wherein a start time of the target timer comprises:

a preset moment in a process of generating the radio connection failure indication of the MN; or

a moment at which a radio resource control RRC layer of the terminal submits the radio connection failure indication of the MN to a lower layer; or

a moment at which the radio connection failure indication of the MN is sent at an air interface.

14. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium according to claim 13 , wherein

the RRC reconfiguration message is a reconfiguration message comprising a specific information element IE, and the specific information element IE is a synchronous reconfiguration IE, or a full configuration IE, or a master cell group IE, or a failure indication response IE; or

the RRC reconfiguration message is a reconfiguration message for instructing the terminal to modify a primary cell Pcell; or

the RRC reconfiguration message is a reconfiguration message for instructing the terminal to modify a radio link monitoring reference signal RS of a primary cell Pcell.

15. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium according to claim 13 , wherein the computer program is executed by the processor to:

in response to that the RRC layer receives the RRC reconfiguration message or performs the reconfiguration processing according to the RRC reconfiguration message, stop the target timer.

16. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium according to claim 13 , wherein after the radio connection failure indication of the MN is reported to a secondary base station SN, the computer program is executed by the processor to:

in response to that the target timer expires, initiate an RRC connection re-establishment procedure.

17. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium according to claim 13 , wherein the radio connection failure indication of the MN comprises:

at least one of an MN radio connection failure reason or a measurement result of the terminal.

18. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium according to claim 14 , wherein in response to that the RRC reconfiguration message is a reconfiguration message comprising a synchronous reconfiguration IE, the computer program is executed by the processor to:

after performing reconfiguration processing according to the RRC reconfiguration message, initiate a random access process according to the RRC reconfiguration message; and

in response to that the RRC layer of the terminal receives, before the target timer expires, a random access success indication sent by a media access control MAC layer, stop the target timer.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Feb 2, 2021
From: BAO, WEI; YANG, XIAODONG
To: VIVO MOBILE COMMUNICATION CO.,LTD.
Reel/Frame 055117/0302 →
Priority Claims (1)
CN 201810864515.4 · Aug 1, 2018 · national
Continuity (2)
Continuation PCTCN2019096704 · Jul 19, 2019
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