IP Library Granted Patent US 12,336,048
Granted Patent B2
US 12,336,048 · App. 18/138,460 · Granted Jun 17, 2025

Releasing wireless device context

Inventors: Kyungmin Park (Vienna, VA); Esmael Hejazi Dinan (McLean, VA); Taehun Kim (Fairfax, VA); Hyoungsuk Jeon (Centreville, VA); Jinsook Ryu (Oakton, VA); Peyman Talebi Fard (Vienna, VA)
Assignee: Ofinno, LLC
H04W76/36H04L5/0012H04W68/005H04W72/23H04W76/20
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Quick Facts
Patent No.
US 12,336,048
App. No.
18/138,460
Filed
Apr 24, 2023
Granted
Jun 17, 2025
Kind
B2
Art Unit
2479
USPC
370/329
Abstract

A method may include receiving, by a base station central unit from a base station distributed unit, a configuration of a periodic resource for a wireless device. The method may also include sending, by the base station central unit to the wireless device, a radio resource control message comprising the configuration of the periodic resource. The method may further include receiving, by the base station central unit from the base station distributed unit, one or more messages requesting the base station central unit to release a wireless device context, the one or more messages including a cause value indicating that the release of the wireless device context is based on an expiration of a time alignment timer associated with the periodic resource of the wireless device. The method additionally include releasing the wireless device context by the base station central unit.

Claims (15)

1. A method comprising:

receiving, by a wireless device from a base station central unit, a radio resource control release message comprising a configuration of a periodic resource, wherein the configuration of the periodic resource comprises:

a parameter indicating a time alignment timer associated with the periodic resource; and

a radio network temporary identifier (RNTI) associated with the periodic resource;

transmitting, by the wireless device, one or more transport blocks via the periodic resource; and

receiving, by the wireless device, a hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) feedback associated with the one or more transport blocks and scrambled with the RNTI, wherein a wireless device context comprising the configuration of the periodic resource is released based on an expiration of the time alignment timer associated with the periodic resource of the wireless device.

2. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:

receiving, from the base station central unit, a paging message, wherein the paging message is sent:

after reception of one or more messages comprising a cause value indicating the release of the periodic resource; and

before a next occasion of the periodic resource.

3. The method of claim 2 , wherein the one or more messages indicate at least one of:

release of the periodic resource configured for the wireless device;

release of the periodic resource for a packet flow of the wireless device;

release of the periodic resource from a cell of a base station distributed unit; or

exclusion of the wireless device from a plurality of wireless devices allowed to use the periodic resource.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Jun 22, 2023
From: PARK, KYUNGMIN; DINAN, ESMAEL HEJAZI; KIM, TAEHUN; JEON, HYOUNGSUK; RYU, JINSOOK; TALEBI FARD, PEYMAN
To: OFINNO, LLC
Reel/Frame 064024/0860 →
Continuity (4)
Continuation 17710227 · Mar 31, 2022
Continuation PCTUS2021044764 · Aug 5, 2021
Provisional Application 63062307 · Aug 6, 2020
Related Publication 20230262839A1 · Aug 17, 2023
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