Granted Patent B2

US 12,231,952 · App. 17/607,525 · Granted Feb 18, 2025

Inventors: Seungri Jin (Gyeonggi-do, KR); Soenghun Kim (Gyeonggi-do, KR); Himke Van Der Velde (Zwolle, NL)

Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.

H04W28/065H04W8/24H04W80/02

Abstract

Claims (53)

1. A method of reporting user equipment (UE) capability information, the method comprising:

receiving a UE capability information request message from a base station;

generating a UE capability information message, based on the received UE capability information request message;

determining whether the generated UE capability information message exceeds a configured largest size of a packet data convergence protocol (PDCP) protocol data unit (PDU);

segmenting the generated UE capability information message into a plurality of segments, based on a result of the determining; and

transmitting at least one of the plurality of segments to the base station, wherein transmitting the at least one of the plurality of segments to the base station comprises transmitting the plurality of segments via a signaling radio bearer (SRB) 2 and transmitting a radio resource control (RRC) message via an SRB 1,

wherein transmitting the at least one of the plurality of segments to the base station comprises:

transmitting, to the base station via the SRB 1, a first segment from among the plurality of segments generated by segmenting the UE capability information message;

generating an RRC message to be transmitted via the SRB 1; and

transmitting the generated RRC message first before a second segment from among the plurality of segments generated by segmenting the UE capability information message is transmitted, based on a priority of the generated RRC message.

2. The method of claim 1 , wherein segmenting the generated UE capability information message comprises segmenting UE-CapabilityRAT-ContainerList in the generated UE capability information message into the plurality of segments or segmenting a result of encoding the entire UE capability information message into the plurality of segments,

wherein sizes of the plurality of segments are remaining sizes obtained by excluding a message header size from the configured largest size of the PDCP PDU.

3. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:

receiving, from the base station, a plurality of segments generated by segmenting an RRC reconfiguration message; and

reassembling the plurality of segments.

4. The method of claim 3 , wherein receiving, from the base station, the plurality of segments generated by segmenting the RRC reconfiguration message comprises:

receiving, from the base station via the SRB 1, a first segment from among the plurality of segments generated by segmenting the RRC reconfiguration message; and

receiving an RRC message via the SRB 1, after the first segment is received and before a second segment is received.

5. The method of claim 3 , wherein receiving, from the base station, the plurality of segments generated by segmenting the RRC reconfiguration message comprises receiving the plurality of segments via the SRB 2 and receiving an RRC message via the SRB 1.

6. A method of obtaining user equipment (UE) capability information, the method comprising:

transmitting a UE capability information request message to a UE;

receiving, from the UE, a plurality of segments generated by segmenting a UE capability information message;

storing the plurality of segments in a buffer; and

reassembling the plurality of segments,

wherein receiving, from the UE, the plurality of segments generated by segmenting the UE capability information message comprises receiving the plurality of segments via a signaling radio bearer (SRB) 2 and receiving a radio resource control (RRC) message via an SRB 1, and

wherein receiving, from the UE, the plurality of segments generated by segmenting the UE capability information message further comprises:

receiving, from the UE via the SRB 1, a first segment from among the plurality of segments generated by segmenting the UE capability information message; and

receiving the RRC message via the SRB 1, after the first segment is received and before a second segment is received.

7. The method of claim 6 , further comprising:

generating an RRC reconfiguration message;

determining whether the generated RRC reconfiguration message exceeds a configured largest size of a packet data convergence protocol (PDCP) protocol data unit (PDU);

segmenting the generated RRC reconfiguration message into a plurality of segments, based on a result of the determining; and

transmitting at least one of the plurality of segments to the UE.

8. The method of claim 7 , wherein transmitting the at least one of the plurality of segments to the UE comprises:

transmitting, to the UE via the SRB 1, a first segment from among the plurality of segments generated by segmenting the RRC reconfiguration message;

generating an RRC message to be transmitted via the SRB 1; and

transmitting the generated RRC message first before a second segment from among the plurality of segments generated by segmenting the RRC reconfiguration message is transmitted, based on a priority of the generated RRC message.

9. The method of claim 7 , wherein transmitting the at least one of the plurality of segments to the UE comprises transmitting the plurality of segments via the SRB 2, and transmitting the RRC message via the SRB 1.

10. A user equipment (UE) for reporting UE capability information, the UE comprising:

a transceiver; and

a processor coupled to the transceiver and configured to receive a UE capability information request message from a base station, generate a UE capability information message based on the received UE capability information request message, determine whether the generated UE capability information message exceeds a configured largest size of a packet data convergence protocol (PDCP) protocol data unit (PDU), segment the generated UE capability information message into a plurality of segments based on a result of the determination, and transmit at least one of the plurality of segments to the base station,

wherein transmitting the at least one of the plurality of segments to the base station comprises transmitting the plurality of segments via a signaling radio bearer (SRB) 2, and transmitting a radio resource control (RRC) message via an SRB 1, and

wherein transmitting the at least one of the plurality of segments to the base station further comprises:

transmitting, to the base station via the SRB 1, a first segment from among the plurality of segments generated by segmenting the UE capability information message:

generating an RRC message to be transmitted via the SRB 1; and

transmitting the generated RRC message first before a second segment from among the plurality of segments generated by segmenting the UE capability information message is transmitted, based on a priority of the generated RRC message.

11. A base station for obtaining user equipment (UE) capability information, the base station comprising:

a transceiver; and

a processor coupled to the transceiver and configured to transmit a UE capability information request message to a UE, receive, from the UE, a plurality of segments generated by segmenting a UE capability information message, store the plurality of segments in a buffer, and reassemble the plurality of segments,

wherein receiving, from the UE, the plurality of segments generated by segmenting the UE capability information message comprises receiving the plurality of segments via a signaling radio bearer (SRB) 2 and receiving a radio resource control (RRC) message via an SRB 1, and

wherein receiving, from the UE, the plurality of segments generated by segmenting the UE capability information message further comprises:

receiving, from the UE via the SRB 1, a first segment from among the plurality of segments generated by segmenting the UE capability information message; and

receiving the RRC message via the SRB 1, after the first segment is received and before a second segment is received.

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