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US 12,256,451 · App. 17/599,902 · Granted Mar 18, 2025

UE and communication control method for controlling transmitting PDU session request message

Inventors: Yudai Kawasaki (Osaka, JP); Masafumi Aramoto (Osaka, JP)
Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
H04W76/18H04W84/042
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Patent No.
US 12,256,451
App. No.
17/599,902
Granted
Mar 18, 2025
Kind
B2
Abstract

According to one aspect of the present invention, a communication control method is provided that determines whether congestion control is to be continued in a destination PLMN in a case that a PLMN is changed during the application of congestion control and the PLMN before the change is a home PLMN. In a case that the PLMN is changed while a back-off timer received along with a cause value for the congestion control is running and the PLMN before the change is a home PLMN, it is determined whether to allow UE to transmit an SM request message in the destination, based on the presence or absence of an information element notified from the network.

Claims (17)

1. A User Equipment (UE) comprising:

transmission and reception circuitry configured to receive, from a control device, a Protocol Data Unit (PDU) session establishment reject message in a PDU session establishment procedure; and

a controller configured to start a back-off timer with a back-off timer value in a case that first information and the back-off timer value are included in the PDU session establishment reject message, and in a case that no Single Network Slice Selection Assistance information (S-NSSAI) and no Data Network Name (DNN) combination was provided during the PDU session establishment procedure,

wherein

the first information is a cause value indicating insufficient resources for specific slice and DNN,

the back-off timer is a timer for S-NSSAI based congestion control, and

in a case that the first information and second information indicating whether the back-off timer being associated with the no S-NSSAI and no DNN combination that the UE provided during the PDU session establishment procedure is applied in a registered Public Land Mobile Network (PLMN) or all PLMNs are included in the PDU session establishment reject message, another PDU session establishment request message or a PDU session modification request message for the same no S-NSSAI and no DNN combination is not sent in the registered PLMN or in the all PLMNs while the back-off timer is running, and

in a case that the back-off timer is deactivated and is associated with the no S-NSSAI and no DNN combination, neither a PDU session establishment procedure nor a PDU session modification procedure is allowed to be initiated.

2. The UE according to claim 1 , wherein in a case that the first information and the second information indicating that the back-off timer is applied in all PLMNs are included in the PDU session establishment reject message, and upon a PLMN change, another PDU session establishment request message or a PDU session modification request message for the same no S-NSSAI and no DNN combination is not sent while the back-off timer is running.

3. A communication control method performed by a User Equipment (UE), the communication control method comprising:

receiving, from a control device, a Protocol Data Unit (PDU) session establishment reject message in a PDU session establishment procedure; and

starting a back-off timer with a back-off timer value in a case that first information and the back-off timer value are included in the PDU session establishment reject message, and in a case that no Single Network Slice Selection Assistance information (S-NSSAI) and no Data Network Name (DNN) combination was provided during the PDU session establishment procedure,

wherein

the first information is a cause value indicating insufficient resources for specific slice and DNN,

the back-off timer is a timer for S-NSSAI based congestion control, and

in a case that the first information and second information indicating whether the back-off timer being associated with the no S-NSSAI and no DNN combination that the UE provided during the PDU session establishment procedure is applied in a registered Public Land Mobile Network (PLMN) or all PLMNs are included in the PDU session establishment reject message, another PDU session establishment request message or a PDU session modification request message for the same no S-NSSAI and no DNN combination is not sent in the registered PLMN or in the all PLMNs while the back-off timer is running, and

in a case that the back-off timer is deactivated and is associated with the no S-NSSAI and no DNN combination, neither a PDU session establishment procedure nor a PDU session modification procedure is allowed to be initiated.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Sep 29, 2021
From: KAWASAKI, YUDAI; ARAMOTO, MASAFUMI
To: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
Reel/Frame 057643/0625 →
Priority Claims (1)
JP 2019-070077 · Apr 1, 2019 · national
Continuity (1)
Related Publication 20220201787A1 · Jun 23, 2022
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