Granted Patent B2

US 12,588,100 · App. 18/523,450 · Granted Mar 24, 2026

Inventors: Xiubin Sha (Shenzhen, CN); Bo Dai (Shenzhen, CN); Ting Lu (Shenzhen, CN); Kun Liu (Shenzhen, CN); Xu Liu (Shenzhen, CN)

Assignee: ZTE Corporation

H04W76/27H04W52/0235H04W72/21H04W72/23H04W76/28H04W74/0833H04W74/0838

Abstract

Claims (66)

1 . A wireless communication method, comprising:

transmitting a first message comprising an indication of pre-configured dedicated resources for a communication between a network device and a terminal; and

receiving a second message over the pre-configured dedicated resources,

wherein a transmission of the second message by the terminal causes the terminal to switch from an idle state to a data transmission state in an idle mode,

wherein the terminal is without an established radio resource control (RRC) connection in the idle state,

wherein the pre-configured dedicated resources comprise a terminal-specific search space in the data transmission state in the idle mode (USS_IDLE), and

wherein the network device transmits a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) downlink control information (DCI) in a dedicated search space.

2 . The method of claim 1 , wherein the pre-configured dedicated resources comprise a physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH) resource, or a contention-free random access (CFRA) resource.

3 . The method of claim 1 , wherein the PDCCH DCI comprises at least one of the following information:

confirmation of uplink information sent by the terminal during the idle mode over the pre-configured dedicated resources,

an instruction that instructs the terminal to switch to the idle state,

PUSCH resource scheduling (uplink grant) for the terminal,

PDSCH resource scheduling (downlink grant) for the terminal, or

an indication for the terminal to initiate a physical random access channel (PRACH) procedure.

4 . A method for wireless communication, implemented at a terminal, comprising:

receiving a first message comprising an indication of pre-configured dedicated resources for a communication between a network device and the terminal; and

switching from an idle state to a data transmission state in an idle mode upon transmitting a second message over the pre-configured dedicated resources,

wherein, in the idle state, the terminal is without an established radio resource control (RRC) connection, and

wherein, in the data transmission state in the idle mode, the terminal is configured to:

perform the communication with the network device over the pre-configured dedicated resources; and

monitor a user-specific search space,

wherein the pre-configured dedicated resources comprise a terminal-specific search space in the data transmission state in the idle mode (USS_IDLE),

wherein the terminal monitors a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) downlink control information (DCI) in a dedicated search space.

5 . The method of claim 4 , wherein the pre-configured dedicated resources comprise a physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH) resource, or a contention-free random access (CFRA) resource.

6 . The method of claim 4 , wherein the pre-configured dedicated resources comprise the CFRA resource, and wherein the method further comprises:

transmitting a preamble in a pre-configured CFRA resource location; and

monitoring a PDCCH scrambled with the random access radio network temporary identifier (RA-RNTI) corresponding to the CFRA resource or scrambled with a terminal-specific RNTI.

7 . The method of claim 4 , wherein the PDCCH DCI comprises at least one of the following information:

confirmation of uplink information sent by the terminal during the idle mode over the pre-configured dedicated resources,

an instruction that instructs the terminal to switch to the idle state,

PUSCH resource scheduling (uplink grant) for the terminal,

PDSCH resource scheduling (downlink grant) for the terminal, or

an indication for the terminal to initiate a physical random access channel (PRACH) procedure.

8 . A wireless communication apparatus, comprising a processor configured to perform a method, the processor configured to:

transmit a first message comprising an indication of pre-configured dedicated resources for a communication between a network device and a terminal; and

receiving a second message over the pre-configured dedicated resources,

wherein a transmission of the second message by the terminal causes the terminal to switch from an idle state to a data transmission state in an idle mode,

wherein the terminal is without an established radio resource control (RRC) connection in the idle state,

wherein the pre-configured dedicated resources comprise a terminal-specific search space in the data transmission state in the idle mode (USS_IDLE), and

wherein the network device transmits a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) downlink control information (DCI) in a dedicated search space.

9 . The wireless communication apparatus of claim 8 , wherein the pre-configured dedicated resources comprise a physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH) resource, or a contention-free random access (CFRA) resource.

10 . The wireless communication apparatus of claim 8 , wherein the PDCCH DCI comprises at least one of the following information:

confirmation of uplink information sent by the terminal during the idle mode over the pre-configured dedicated resources,

an instruction that instructs the terminal to switch to the idle state,

PUSCH resource scheduling (uplink grant) for the terminal,

PDSCH resource scheduling (downlink grant) for the terminal, or

an indication for the terminal to initiate a physical random access channel (PRACH) procedure.

11 . A wireless communication apparatus, comprising a processor configured to perform a method, the processor configured to:

receive, by a terminal, a first message comprising an indication of pre-configured dedicated resources for a communication between a network device and the terminal; and

switch from an idle state to a data transmission state in an idle mode upon transmitting a second message over the pre-configured dedicated resources,

wherein, in the idle state, the terminal is without an established radio resource control (RRC) connection, and

wherein, in the data transmission state in the idle mode, the terminal is configured to:

perform the communication with the network device over the pre-configured dedicated resources; and

monitor a user-specific search space,

wherein the pre-configured dedicated resources comprise a terminal-specific search space in the data transmission state in the idle mode (USS_IDLE),

wherein the terminal monitors a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) downlink control information (DCI) in a dedicated search space.

12 . The wireless communication apparatus of claim 11 , wherein the pre-configured dedicated resources comprise a physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH) resource, or a contention-free random access (CFRA) resource.

13 . The wireless communication apparatus of claim 11 , wherein the pre-configured dedicated resources comprise the CFRA resource, and wherein the processor is further configured to:

transmit a preamble in a pre-configured CFRA resource location; and

monitor a PDCCH scrambled with the random access radio network temporary identifier (RA-RNTI) corresponding to the CFRA resource or scrambled with a terminal-specific RNTI.

14 . The wireless communication apparatus of claim 11 , wherein the PDCCH DCI comprises at least one of the following information:

confirmation of uplink information sent by the terminal during the idle mode over the pre-configured dedicated resources,

an instruction that instructs the terminal to switch to the idle state,

PUSCH resource scheduling (uplink grant) for the terminal,

PDSCH resource scheduling (downlink grant) for the terminal, or

an indication for the terminal to initiate a physical random access channel (PRACH) procedure.

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