IP Library Granted Patent US 12,213,215
Granted Patent B2
US 12,213,215 · App. 18/203,676 · Granted Jan 28, 2025

User equipment overheating handling during LTE-new radio simultaneous UL transmission

Inventors: Vivek Sharma (Basingstoke, GB); Yuxin Wei (Basingstoke, GB); Anders Berggren (Basingstoke, GB); Hideji Wakabayashi (Basingstoke, GB); Shinichiro Tsuda (Basingstoke, GB)
Assignees: Sony Group Corporation; Sony Mobile Communications Inc.
H04W88/06H04B17/318H04L5/0051H04W8/24H04W24/10H04W88/10
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Patent No.
US 12,213,215
App. No.
18/203,676
Granted
Jan 28, 2025
Kind
B2
Abstract

The present disclosure pertains to a user equipment for a mobile telecommunications system, which has a circuitry configured to communicate with a new radio base station and a LTE base station. The circuitry is further configured to: perform simultaneous uplink communication with the LTE base station and the new radio base station; detect an overheating situation; and transmit capability information in response to detecting the overheating situation.

Claims (28)

1. A user equipment for a mobile telecommunications system comprising circuitry configured to communicate with a new radio base station and a LTE base station, wherein the circuitry is further configured to:

perform simultaneous uplink communication with the LTE base station and the new radio base station;

detect an overheating situation due to the simultaneous uplink communication using a predefined combination of a new radio base station and an LTE base station; and

transmit capability information in response to detecting the overheating situation, wherein

the capability information includes an indication of the predefined combination of a new radio base station and an LTE base station and a temporal reduced capability of the user equipment, and

the temporal reduced capability of the user equipment indicates an adjustment of an uplink configuration, the adjustment including at least one of: separate LTE and new radio (NR) uplink bands, time division multiplexing uplink sharing of a same frequency for LTE and NR band, no NR support for uplink and downlink, and simultaneous uplink for LTE and NR bands.

2. The user equipment of claim 1 , wherein the overheating situation is detected based on a decoding error.

3. The user equipment of claim 1 , wherein the overheating situation is detected based on a signal strength of a reference signal.

4. The user equipment of claim 1 , wherein the overheating situation is detected based on a temperature measurement of a receiver of the circuitry.

5. The user equipment of claim 1 , wherein the overheating situation is detected based on the simultaneous uplink communication with the LTE base station and the new radio base station.

6. The user equipment of claim 1 , wherein the overheating situation is detected based on history information indicating a previous overheating situation.

7. The user equipment of claim 1 , wherein the capability information is transmitted based on an assistance information signaling procedure.

8. The user equipment of claim 1 , wherein the capability information indicates the overheating situation.

9. The user equipment of claim 1 , wherein the capability information indicates a capability of the user equipment, based on the detected overheating situation.

10. A base station for a mobile telecommunications system comprising circuitry configured to communicate with at least one user equipment, wherein the circuitry is further configured to:

receive capability information from the at least one user equipment, wherein the capability information is transmitted by the user equipment based on a detected overheating situation due to simultaneous uplink communication using a predefined combination of a new radio base station and an LTE base station, wherein the capability information includes an indication of the predefined combination of a new radio base station and an LTE base station and a temporal reduced capability of the user equipment; and

adjust an uplink configuration for the at least one user equipment based on the received capability information, adjustment including at least one of: separate LTE and new radio (NR) uplink bands, time division multiplexing uplink sharing of a same frequency for LTE and NR band, no NR support for uplink and downlink, and simultaneous uplink for LTE and NR bands.

11. The base station of claim 10 , wherein the capability information is transmitted based on an assistance information signaling procedure.

12. The base station of claim 10 , wherein the capability information indicates the overheating situation.

13. The base station of claim 12 , wherein the capability information indicates a combination of a new radio uplink band and a LTE uplink band.

14. The base station of claim 10 , wherein the capability information indicates a capability of the user equipment, based on the detected overheating situation.

15. The base station of claim 10 , wherein the circuitry is further configured to adjust an uplink configuration for the at least one user equipment, based on the received capability information.

16. A method for determining capability information of a user equipment for a mobile telecommunications system configured to communicate with a new radio base station and a LTE base station, the method comprising:

performing simultaneous uplink communication with the LTE base station and the new radio base station;

detecting an overheating situation due to the simultaneous uplink communication using a predefined combination of a new radio base station and an LTE base station; and

transmitting capability information in response to detecting the overheating situation, wherein

the capability information includes an indication of the predefined combination of a new radio base station and an LTE base station and a temporal reduced capability of the user equipment, and

the temporal reduced capability of the user equipment indicates an adjustment of an uplink configuration, the adjustment including at least one of: separate LTE and new radio (NR) uplink bands, time division multiplexing uplink sharing of a same frequency for LTE and NR band, no NR support for uplink and downlink, and simultaneous uplink for LTE and NR bands.

Assignments (1)
CHANGE OF NAME Recorded May 31, 2023
From: SONY CORPORATION
To: SONY GROUP CORPORATION
Reel/Frame 063807/0890 →
Priority Claims (1)
EP 17195072 · Oct 5, 2017 · regional
Continuity (2)
Continuation 16651354
Related Publication 20230309193A1 · Sep 28, 2023
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