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US 10,873,982 · App. 15/328,567 · Granted Dec 22, 2020

Terminal apparatus, control method, and integrated circuit

Inventors: Hidekazu Tsuboi (Sakai, JP); Katsunari Uemura (Sakai, JP)
Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
H04W76/14H04W72/0413H04W72/1284H04W76/20H04W76/25H04W92/18
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Patent No.
US 10,873,982
App. No.
15/328,567
Granted
Dec 22, 2020
Kind
B2
Abstract

Provided is a technique related to a terminal apparatus, a control method, and an integrated circuit that are able to efficiently perform connection control when performing device-to-device communication. At a time of re-establishing radio resource control connection, at least on a basis of whether or not device-to-device data communication is able to be performed in a selected cell and whether or not there is data of the device-to-device data communication in the terminal apparatus, the terminal apparatus selects information about the device-to-device data communication, which is to be notified to the base station apparatus.

Claims (18)

1. A terminal apparatus that performs data communication with a base station apparatus and device-to-device data communication that is direct data communication between terminal apparatuses with use of a radio resource configured by the base station apparatus, comprising:

a transmitter that determines whether or not to make a notification, to the base station apparatus, of information indicating that the terminal apparatus is interested in the data communication between terminal apparatuses, wherein:

the information includes a frequency of the data communication between terminal apparatuses,

whether or not the information is notified to the base station apparatus is determined at least on a basis of (i) whether or not a system information block is being broadcasted in a cell of the base station apparatus, the system information block indicating that the base station apparatus supports the device-to-device data communication by the terminal apparatus and (ii) whether or not transmission, by the terminal apparatus, of the device-to-device data communication is configured, and

in a case where the cell does not support the notification of the information, connection with the base station apparatus is reestablishes by ending a connection re-establishment procedure without carrying out the notification of the information to the base station apparatus.

2. A control method applied to a terminal apparatus that performs data communication with a base station apparatus and device-to-device data communication that is direct data communication between terminal apparatuses with use of a radio resource configured by the base station apparatus, comprising at least the step of:

determining, whether or not to make a notification, by a transmitter to the base station apparatus, of information indicating that the terminal apparatus is interested in the data communication between terminal apparatuses, wherein:

the information includes a frequency of the data communication between terminal apparatuses,

whether or not the information is notified to the base station apparatus is determined at least on a basis of (i) whether or not a system information block is being broadcasted in a cell of the base station apparatus, the system information block indicating that the base station apparatus supports the device-to-device data communication by the terminal apparatus and (ii) whether or not transmission, by the terminal apparatus, of the device-to-device data communication is configured, and

in a case where the cell does not support the notification of the information, connection with the base station a aratus is reestablished b ending a connection re-establishment procedure without cam in out the notification of the information to the base station apparatus.

3. An integrated circuit mounted in a terminal apparatus that performs data communication with a base station apparatus and device-to-device data communication that is direct data communication between terminal apparatuses with use of a radio resource configured by the base station apparatus, the integrated circuit causing the terminal apparatus to exert the function of:

determining whether or not to make a notification, by a transmitter to the base station apparatus, of information indicating that the terminal apparatus is interested in the data communication between terminal apparatuses, wherein:

the information includes a frequency of the data communication between terminal apparatuses,

whether or not the information is notified to the base station apparatus is determined at least on a basis of (i) whether or not a system information block is being broadcasted in a cell of the base station apparatus, the system information block indicating that the base station apparatus supports the device-to-device data communication by the terminal apparatus and (ii) whether or not transmission, by the terminal apparatus, of the device-to-device data communication is configured, and

in a case where the cell does not support the notification of the information, connection with the base station apparatus k reestablished by ending a connection re-establishment procedure without carrying out the notification of the information to the base station apparatus.

4. The terminal apparatus of claim 1 , wherein the terminal apparatus performs data communication with the base station apparatus which has a plurality of cells having different frequencies.

5. The control method of claim 2 , wherein the terminal apparatus performs data communication with the base station apparatus which has a plurality of cells having different frequencies.

6. The integrated circuit of claim 3 , wherein the terminal apparatus performs data communication with the base station apparatus which has a plurality of cells having different frequencies.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Jan 24, 2017
From: TSUBOI, HIDEKAZU; UEMURA, KATSUNARI
To: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
Reel/Frame 041061/0435 →
Priority Claims (1)
JP 2014-155639 · Jul 31, 2014 · national
Continuity (1)
Related Publication 20170223757A1 · Aug 3, 2017