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Granted Patent B2
US 11,272,564 · App. 16/347,471 · Granted Mar 8, 2022

Method and device for determining whether or not to suspend radio bearer

Inventors: Youngdae Lee (Seoul, KR); Sangwon Kim (Seoul, KR); Jaewook Lee (Seoul, KR)
Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
H04W76/27H04W72/12H04W72/1247H04W76/25H04W76/28
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Patent No.
US 11,272,564
App. No.
16/347,471
Granted
Mar 8, 2022
Kind
B2
Abstract

A method for a terminal to determine whether or not to suspend a radio bearer in a wireless communication system and a device supporting the method are provided. The method may comprise: a step of receiving, from a base station, a configuration indicating if data transmission through a certain radio bearer is permitted in an RRC_INACTIVE state; a step of entering the RRC_INACTIVE state; and a step of determining, based on the configuration, whether or not to suspend the certain radio bearer in the RRC_INACTIVE state.

Claims (28)

1. A method in which a user equipment (UE) determines whether to suspend a radio bearer in a wireless communication system, the method comprising:

establishing a radio resource control (RRC) connection with a base station (BS);

receiving, from the BS, a RRC reconfiguration message that includes (i) first information related to whether or not data transmission is allowed in an RRC_INACTIVE state, and (ii) second information related to a priority threshold value;

transmitting, to the BS, a RRC reconfiguration complete message;

entering the RRC_INACTIVE state; and

determining, by UE, whether or not the radio bearer among a plurality of radio bearers is suspended in the RRC_INACTIVE state, based on (i) the first information and (ii) the second information,

wherein based on (i) the first information representing that the data transmission is allowed in the RRC_INACTIVE state and (ii) the radio bearer having a first priority value which is smaller than the priority threshold value, the UE determines that the radio bearer is not suspended among the plurality of radio bearers in the RRC_INACTIVE state,

wherein based on (i) the first information representing that the data transmission is allowed in the RRC_INACTIVE state and (ii) the radio bearer having a second priority value which is not smaller than the priority threshold value, the UE determines that the radio bearer is suspended among the plurality of radio bearers in the RRC_INACTIVE state, and

wherein based on the first information representing that the data transmission is not allowed in the RRC_INACTIVE state, the UE determines that the plurality of radio bearers are suspended in the RRC_INACTIVE state.

2. The method of claim 1 , wherein the first information is received per radio bearer.

3. The method of claim 1 , wherein the radio bearer includes at least one data radio bearer (DRB), and

wherein the radio bearer includes no signaling radio bearer (SRB).

4. The method of claim 1 , wherein the radio bearer includes at least one signaling radio bearer (SRB), and

wherein the radio bearer includes no data radio bearer (DRB).

5. The method of claim 1 , wherein the UE communicates with at least one of a mobile terminal, a network or autonomous vehicles other than the UE.

6. A user equipment (UE) configured to determine whether to suspend a radio bearer in a wireless communication system, the UE comprising:

a memory;

a transceiver; and

a processor to connect the memory and the transceiver,

wherein the processor is configured to:

establish a radio resource control (RRC) connection with a base station (BS);

control the transceiver to receive, from the BS, a RRC reconfiguration message that includes (i) first information related to whether or not data transmission is allowed in an RRC_INACTIVE state, and (ii) second information related to a priority threshold value;

control the transceiver to transmit, to the BS, a RRC reconfiguration complete message;

enter the RRC_INACTIVE state; and

determine whether or not the radio bearer among a plurality of radio bearers is suspended in the RRC_INACTIVE state, based on (i) the first information and (ii) the second information,

wherein based on (i) the first information representing that the data transmission is allowed in the RRC_INACTIVE state and (ii) the radio bearer having a first priority value which is smaller than the priority threshold value, the UE determines that the radio bearer is not suspended among the plurality of radio bearers in the RRC_INACTIVE state,

wherein based on (i) the first information representing that the data transmission is allowed in the RRC_INACTIVE state and (ii) the radio bearer having a second priority value which is not smaller than the priority threshold value, the UE determines that the radio bearer is suspended among the plurality of radio bearers in the RRC_INACTIVE state, and

wherein based on the first information representing that the data transmission is not allowed in the RRC_INACTIVE state, the UE determines that the plurality of radio bearers are suspended in the RRC_INACTIVE state.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded May 26, 2020
From: LEE, YOUNGDAE; KIM, SANGWON; LEE, JAEWOOK
To: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
Reel/Frame 052754/0476 →
Continuity (2)
Provisional Application 62417276 · Nov 3, 2016
Related Publication 20190281651A1 · Sep 12, 2019