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Granted Patent B2
US 11,337,117 · App. 16/172,881 · Granted May 17, 2022

Device and method of handling radio bearer configurations of radio access technologies

Inventor: Chih-Hsiang Wu (Taoyuan, TW)
Assignee: HTC Corporation
H04W36/0016H04W28/06H04W36/0027H04W36/0033H04W76/11H04W76/15H04W36/08H04W80/08
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Patent No.
US 11,337,117
App. No.
16/172,881
Granted
May 17, 2022
Kind
B2
Abstract

A first base station (BS) for handling radio bearer (RB) configurations of radio access technologies (RATs) comprises at least one storage device; and at least one processing circuit, coupled to the at least one storage device. The at least one storage device stores, and the at least one processing circuit is configured to execute instructions of: configuring a first RB configuration of a first RAT and a second RB configuration of a second RAT to a first communication device, wherein the first RB configuration and the second RB configuration are associated to a first RB; communicating first data associated to the first RB with the first communication device according to the first RB configuration and the second RB configuration; and transmitting the first RB configuration and the second RB configuration to a second BS in a handover preparation procedure for the first communication device.

Claims (32)

1. A first base station (BS) for handling radio bearer (RB) configurations of radio access technologies (RATs), comprising:

at least one storage device; and

at least one processing circuit, coupled to the at least one storage device, wherein the at least one storage device stores, and the at least one processing circuit is configured to execute instructions of:

configuring a first RB configuration of a first RAT and a second RB configuration of a second RAT to a first communication device, wherein the first RB configuration and the second RB configuration are associated to a first RB, and the first RB configuration comprises a first PDCP configuration which is different from a second PDCP configuration in the second RB configuration;

communicating first data associated to the first RB with the first communication device, according to the first RB configuration and the second RB configuration; and

transmitting the first RB configuration and the second RB configuration to a second BS in a first handover preparation procedure for the first communication device;

wherein the first RB configuration comprises a first RB identity identifying the first RB, and the second RB configuration comprises the first RB identity.

2. The first BS of claim 1 , wherein the first RB configuration comprises at least one of a radio link control (RLC) configuration, a logical channel configuration and a logical channel identity associated to the first RB.

3. The first BS of claim 1 , wherein the instructions further comprise:

configuring the first RB configuration comprising a PDCP configuration and not configuring the second RB configuration, to a second communication device.

4. The first BS of claim 3 , wherein the instructions further comprise:

communicating second data associated to the first RB with the second communication device according to at least one of a RLC configuration, a logical channel configuration and a logical channel identity in the first RB configuration.

5. The first BS of claim 3 , wherein the instructions further comprise:

transmitting the first RB configuration comprising the PDCP configuration to the second BS in a second handover preparation procedure for the second communication device; and

not transmitting the second RB configuration in the handover preparation procedure for the second communication device.

6. The first BS of claim 1 , wherein the instructions further comprise:

transmitting a Handover Request message comprising the first RB configuration and the second RB configuration to the second BS in the first handover preparation procedure.

7. A method for a first base station (BS) to handle radio bearer (RB) configurations of radio access technologies (RATs), comprising:

the first BS configuring a first RB configuration of a first RAT and a second RB configuration of a second RAT to a first communication device, wherein the first RB configuration and the second RB configuration are associated to a first RB, and the first RB configuration comprises a first PDCP configuration which is different from a second PDCP configuration in the second RB configuration;

the first BS communicating first data associated to the first RB with the first communication device, according to the first RB configuration and the second RB configuration; and

the first BS transmitting the first RB configuration and the second RB configuration to a second BS in a first handover preparation procedure for the first communication device;

wherein the first RB configuration comprises a first RB identity identifying the first RB, and the second RB configuration comprises the first RB identity.

8. The method of claim 7 , wherein the first RB configuration comprises at least one of a radio link control (RLC) configuration, a logical channel configuration and a logical channel identity associated to the first RB.

9. The method of claim 7 , further comprising:

the first BS configuring the first RB configuration comprising a PDCP configuration and not configuring the second RB configuration, to a second communication device.

10. The method of claim 9 , further comprising:

the first BS communicating second data associated to the first RB with the second communication device according to at least one of a RLC configuration, a logical channel configuration and a logical channel identity in the first RB configuration.

11. The method of claim 9 , further comprising:

the first BS transmitting the first RB configuration comprising the PDCP configuration to the second BS in a second handover preparation procedure for the second communication device; and

the first BS not transmitting the second RB configuration in the handover preparation procedure for the second communication device.

12. The method of claim 7 , further comprising:

the first BS transmitting a Handover Request message comprising the first RB configuration and the second RB configuration to the second BS in the first handover preparation procedure.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Oct 29, 2018
From: WU, CHIH-HSIANG
To: HTC CORPORATION
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Continuity (2)
Provisional Application 62578512 · Oct 29, 2017
Related Publication 20190132773A1 · May 2, 2019