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Granted Patent B2
US 12,273,948 · App. 17/783,714 · Granted Apr 8, 2025

Method for radio link failure recovery and user equipment

Inventors: Ningjuan Chang (Shanghai, CN); Renmao Liu (Shanghai, CN)
Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
H04W76/19H04W76/18H04W36/0069H04W36/08
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Patent No.
US 12,273,948
App. No.
17/783,714
Granted
Apr 8, 2025
Kind
B2
Abstract

Provided in the present disclosure are a method for radio link failure recovery and user equipment. In the method for radio link failure recovery, a user equipment (UE) detects that a handover failure occurs, and when the UE has a stored conditional handover (CHO) configuration, or when the UE has a stored conditional handover (CHO) configuration and CHO recovery is enabled, the UE reverts back to a configuration used in a source cell. The configuration used in the source cell includes one or more of a physical layer dedicated configuration, a medium access control (MAC) layer configuration, or a semi-persistent SPS configuration.

Claims (18)

1. A user equipment (UE), comprising:

receiving circuitry configured to receive a radio resource control (RRC) message which carries one or more execution conditions corresponding to a candidate cell;

a processor configured to perform execution condition evaluation for a conditional reconfiguration according to the one or more execution conditions; and

transmitting circuitry, wherein

the processor is configured to, upon detecting a radio link failure of a master cell group (MCG) when an MCG transmission is not suspended, initiate an MCG failure information procedure to inform a network of the radio link failure of the MCG the UE has experienced,

the processor is configured to stop the execution condition evaluation in the MCG failure information procedure, and

the transmitting circuitry is configured to transmit an MCG failure information message in the MCG failure information procedure.

2. A method performed on a user equipment (UE), comprising:

receiving a radio resource control (RRC) message which carries one or more execution conditions corresponding to a candidate cell;

performing execution condition evaluation for a conditional reconfiguration according to the one or more execution conditions;

upon detecting a radio link failure of a master cell group (MCG) when an MCG transmission is not suspended, initiating an MCG failure information procedure to inform a network of the radio link failure of the MCG the UE has experienced;

stopping the execution condition evaluation in the MCG failure information procedure; and

transmitting an MCG failure information message in the MCG failure information procedure.

3. The UE according to claim 1 , wherein

the conditional reconfiguration is a conditional handover or a conditional primary secondary cell (PSCell) change, and

the execution condition evaluation is stopped in the MCG failure information procedure regardless of whether the conditional reconfiguration is the conditional handover or the conditional PSCell change.

4. The UE according to claim 1 , wherein

the execution condition evaluation is a measurement event evaluation.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Jun 9, 2022
From: CHANG, NINGJUAN; LIU, RENMAO
To: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
Reel/Frame 060147/0131 →
Priority Claims (1)
CN 201911297038.9 · Dec 12, 2019 · national
Continuity (1)
Related Publication 20230022967A1 · Jan 26, 2023
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