IP Library Granted Patent US 12,256,366
Granted Patent B2
US 12,256,366 · App. 18/401,145 · Granted Mar 18, 2025

Wireless communication method, terminal, and network device

Inventors: Ling Lyu (Shanghai, CN); Zheng Zhao (Shanghai, CN); Zhongzhi Yang (Shanghai, CN)
Assignee: QUECTEL WIRELESS SOLUTIONS CO., LTD.
H04W68/02H04W72/232H04W76/20
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Patent No.
US 12,256,366
App. No.
18/401,145
Granted
Mar 18, 2025
Kind
B2
Abstract

The present application provides a wireless communication method, a terminal, and a network device. One example method includes: receiving, by a terminal in a first terminal group, PEI sent by a network device, wherein terminal belongs to a terminal group, the PEI indicates whether at least one terminal in the terminal group is to receive paging indication information, and the terminal group corresponds to a paging occasion (PO) group.

Claims (31)

1. A wireless communication method, comprising:

receiving, by a terminal, a paging early indication (PEI) sent by a network device, wherein the terminal belongs to a terminal group in multiple terminal groups, the PEI indicates whether at least one terminal in the terminal group is to receive paging indication information, and wherein a paging cycle comprises a plurality of paging occasion (PO) groups;

determining, by the terminal, based on the PEI, whether to monitor a PO group in the plurality of PO groups; and

in response to determining to monitor the PO group based on the PEI, monitoring, by the terminal, the PO group to receive the paging indication information, wherein the monitoring the PO group comprises calculating an index of a paging occasion (PO) based on an index of the terminal group, a number of paging frames in the paging cycle, a number of POs in a paging frame, and a number of the multiple terminal groups, wherein the terminal group comprises more than one terminal.

2. The method according to claim 1 , wherein each of the plurality of PO groups has a same quantity of POs.

3. The method according to claim 1 , wherein POs in the plurality of PO groups do not overlap.

4. The method according to claim 3 , wherein POs in the paging cycle sequentially form the plurality of PO groups.

5. The method according to claim 1 , wherein a start physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) monitoring occasion of a PO in the PO group is determined based on a parameter firstPDCCH-MonitoringOccasionOfPO.

6. The method according to claim 1 , wherein a resource location at which the terminal receives the PEI is indicated in a system information block (SIB1).

7. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the terminal is allocated to the terminal group based on at least one of a capability, a mode, and service information of the terminal.

8. The method according to claim 1 , wherein identification (ID) information of the terminal group is received by the terminal through a radio resource control (RRC) connection configuration message.

9. The method according to claim 1 , wherein ID information of the terminal group is received by the terminal group from a core network device through a registration accepted message.

10. A terminal, comprising:

at least one processor; and

one or more memories coupled to the at least one processor and storing programming instructions for execution by the at least one processor to cause the terminal to perform operations comprising:

receiving, by the terminal, a paging early indication (PEI) sent by a network device, wherein the terminal belongs to a terminal group in multiple terminal groups, the PEI indicates whether at least one terminal in the terminal group is to receive paging indication information, and wherein a paging cycle comprises a plurality of paging occasion (PO) groups;

determining, by the terminal, based on the PEI, whether to monitor a PO group in the plurality of PO groups; and

in response to determining to monitor the PO group based on the PEI, monitoring, by the terminal, the PO group to receive the paging indication information, wherein the monitoring the PO group comprises calculating an index of a paging occasion (PO) based on an index of the terminal group, a number of paging frames in the paging cycle, a number of POs in a paging frame, and a number of the multiple terminal groups, wherein the terminal group comprises more than one terminal.

11. The terminal according to claim 10 , wherein each of the plurality of PO groups has a same quantity of POs.

12. The terminal according to claim 10 , wherein POs in the plurality of PO groups do not overlap.

13. The terminal according to claim 12 , wherein POs in the paging cycle sequentially form the plurality of PO groups.

14. The terminal according to claim 10 , wherein a start physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) monitoring occasion of a PO in the PO group is determined based on a parameter firstPDCCH-MonitoringOccasionOfPO.

15. The terminal according to claim 10 , wherein a resource location at which the terminal receives the PEI is indicated in a system information block (SIB1).

16. The terminal according to claim 10 , wherein the terminal is allocated to the terminal group based on at least one of a capability, a mode, and service information of the terminal.

17. The terminal according to claim 10 , wherein identification (ID) information of the terminal group is received by the terminal through a radio resource control (RRC) connection configuration message.

18. The terminal according to claim 10 , wherein ID information of the terminal group is received by the terminal group from a core network device through a registration accepted message.

19. One or more non-transitory computer-readable media storing computer instructions, that when executed by one or more processors, cause a computer to perform operations comprising:

receiving, by a terminal, a paging early indication (PEI) sent by a network device, wherein the terminal belongs to a terminal group in multiple terminal groups, the PEI indicates whether at least one terminal in the terminal group is to receive paging indication information, and wherein a paging cycle comprises a plurality of paging occasion (PO) groups;

determining, by the terminal, based on the PEI, whether to monitor a PO group in the plurality of PO groups; and

in response to determining to monitor the PO group based on the PEI, monitoring, by the terminal, the PO group to receive the paging indication information, wherein the monitoring the PO group comprises calculating an index of a paging occasion (PO) based on an index of the terminal group, a number of paging frames in the paging cycle, a number of POs in a paging frame, and a number of the multiple terminal groups, wherein the terminal group comprises more than one terminal.

20. The one or more non-transitory computer-readable media according to claim 19 , wherein each of the plurality of PO groups has a same quantity of POs.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Oct 15, 2024
From: LYU, LING; ZHAO, ZHENG; YANG, ZHONGZHI
To: QUECTEL WIRELESS SOLUTIONS CO., LTD.
Reel/Frame 068901/0261 →
Priority Claims (1)
CN 202111455574.4 · Dec 1, 2021 · national
Continuity (3)
Continuation 18326707 · May 31, 2023
Continuation PCTCN2021139940 · Dec 21, 2021
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