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US 12,401,561 · App. 17/912,294 · Granted Aug 26, 2025

Radio link failure reporting method and user equipment

Inventors: Ningjuan Chang (Shanghai, CN); Renmao Liu (Shanghai, CN)
Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
H04L41/00H04W76/20H04W76/38
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Patent No.
US 12,401,561
App. No.
17/912,294
Granted
Aug 26, 2025
Kind
B2
Abstract

The present disclosure provides a radio link failure reporting method and user equipment. The radio link failure reporting method comprises: user equipment (UE) detecting a radio link failure (RLF) of a master cell group (MCG); the UE initiating a fast MCG link recovery procedure to recover a connection to a network side; the UE transmitting a radio link failure report to the network side, wherein the radio link failure report comprises first fast MCG link recovery information, and the first fast MCG link recovery information is used to indicate that the UE has attempted a fast MCG link recovery function based on the fast MCG link recovery procedure after a radio link corresponding to the radio link failure report fails.

Claims (15)

1. A user equipment (UE), comprising:

a processor; and

a memory storing instructions, wherein, on the basis of the instructions, the processor is configured to:

store a radio link failure (RLF) report in a variable VarRLF-Report upon a radio link failure;

upon initiating a master cell group (MCG) failure information procedure, send an MCG failure information message to a network, and start a timer T316; and

in a case that the processor receives, from the network and while the timer T316 is running, an RRC release message, or an RRC reconfiguration message comprising a reconfiguration with sync information element, upon receiving the RRC release message or the RRC reconfiguration message, clear the RLF report stored in the variable VarRLF-Report.

2. A method performed by a user equipment (UE), comprising:

storing a radio link failure (RLF) report in a variable VarRLF-Report upon a radio link failure;

upon initiating a master cell group (MCG) failure information procedure, sending an MCG failure information message to a network, and starting a timer T316; and

upon receiving, from the network and while the timer T316 is running, an RRC release message, or an RRC reconfiguration message comprising a reconfiguration with sync information element, clearing the RLF report stored in the variable VarRLF-Report.

3. The UE according to claim 1 , wherein

the processor is further configured to, in a case that the timer T316 expires:

trigger an RRC connection reestablishment procedure; and

transmit the RLF report to the network,

wherein the transmitted RLF report includes information used to indicate that the timer T316 expires and the MCG failure information procedure is unsuccessful.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Sep 16, 2022
From: CHANG, NINGJUAN; LIU, RENMAO
To: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
Reel/Frame 061123/0171 →
Priority Claims (1)
CN 202010226127.0 · Mar 26, 2020 · national
Continuity (1)
Related Publication 20230164866A1 · May 25, 2023
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