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US 12,382,350 · App. 17/862,864 · Granted Aug 5, 2025

Information configuration method and apparatus, and communication device

Inventors: Shukun Wang (Dongguan, CN); Haitao Li (Dongguan, CN)
Assignee: GUANGDONG OPPO MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATIONS CORP., LTD.
H04W36/0058H04W36/0069
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Patent No.
US 12,382,350
App. No.
17/862,864
Granted
Aug 5, 2025
Kind
B2
Abstract

Embodiments of the present disclosure provide an information configuration method and apparatus, and a communication device. The method includes: transmitting, by a Master Node (MN), a first request message to a Secondary Node (SN), wherein the first request message is used to request for configuring a conditional Primary Secondary Cell (PSCell) change; receiving, by the MN, a first response message transmitted by the SN, wherein the first response message is used for indicating that the SN accepts the first request message; and transmitting, by the MN to a terminal device, at least one of a PSCell change condition configuration, a target PSCell configuration, and a radio resource configuration on an MN side.

Claims (28)

1. An information configuration method, comprising:

transmitting, by a Master Node (MN), a first request message to a Secondary Node (SN), wherein the first request message is used to request for configuring a conditional Primary Secondary Cell (PSCell) change; receiving, by the MN, a first response message transmitted by the SN, wherein the first response message is used for indicating that the SN accepts the first request message; and transmitting, by the MN to a terminal device, at least one of a PSCell change condition configuration, a target PSCell configuration, and a radio resource configuration on an MN side, wherein the first request message carries a first PSCell change condition configuration, the first PSCell change condition configuration is a PSCell change condition configuration proposed by the MN, the first request message further carries first indication information that indicates a PSCell change type, and the PSCell change type is one of: an intra-SN PSCell change, an inter-SN PSCell change, an intra-SN PSCell change without affecting MN, and an intra-SN PSCell change affecting MN.

2. The method according to claim 1 , wherein when the SN accepts the first PSCell change condition configuration, the PSCell change condition configuration transmitted by the MN to the terminal device is the first PSCell change condition configuration.

3. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the first request message further carries a measurement result of the terminal device, and the measurement result is used by the SN for configuring the target PSCell configuration.

4. The method according to claim 1 , wherein said transmitting, by the MN to the terminal device, at least one of the PSCell change condition configuration, the target PSCell configuration, and the radio resource configuration on the MN side comprises:

transmitting, by the MN to the terminal device, the PSCell change condition configuration, the target PSCell configuration, and the radio resource configuration on the MN side.

5. The method according to claim 1 , wherein said transmitting, by the MN to the terminal device, at least one of the PSCell change condition configuration, the target PSCell configuration, and the radio resource configuration on the MN side comprises:

transmitting, by the MN to the terminal device, the PSCell change condition configuration and the radio resource configuration on the MN side, wherein the target PSCell configuration is transmitted by the SN to the terminal device.

6. A communication device, comprising:

a memory having a computer program stored thereon; and

a processor configured to invoke and execute the computer program stored in the memory to perform the method according to claim 1 .

7. An information configuration method, comprising:

receiving, by a Master Node (MN), a first request message transmitted by a Secondary Node (SN), wherein the first request message is used to request for configuring a conditional Primary Secondary Cell (PSCell) change; transmitting, by the MN, a first response message to the SN, wherein the first response message is used for indicating that the MN accepts the first request message; and transmitting, by the MN to the terminal device, at least one of a PSCell change condition configuration, a target PSCell configuration, and a radio resource configuration on an MN side, wherein the first request message carries a first PSCell change condition configuration, the first PSCell change condition configuration is a PSCell change condition configuration proposed by the SN, the first request message further carries first indication information that indicates a PSCell change type, and the PSCell change type is one of: an intra-SN PSCell change, an inter-SN PSCell change, an intra-SN PSCell change without affecting MN, and an intra-SN PSCell change affecting MN.

8. A communication device, comprising:

a memory having a computer program stored thereon; and

a processor configured to invoke and execute the computer program stored in the memory to perform the method according to claim 7 .

9. An information configuration method, comprising:

receiving, by a Master Node (MN), a third request message transmitted by an original Secondary Node (SN), wherein the third request message carries first indication information that indicates a PSCell change type, and the third request message is used to request for configuring a conditional PSCell change; transmitting, by the MN, a third response message to the original SN, wherein the third response message is used for indicating that the MN accepts the third request message; transmitting, by the MN, a second request message to a target SN, wherein the second request message is used to request for configuring a conditional SN addition; receiving, by the MN, a second response message transmitted by the target SN, wherein the second response message is used for indicating that the target SN accepts the second request message; and transmitting, by the MN to a terminal device, at least one of an SN addition condition configuration, a target SN configuration, a target Primary Secondary Cell (PSCell) configuration, and a radio resource configuration on an MN side, wherein the second request message carries a first SN addition condition configuration, and the first SN addition condition configuration is an SN addition condition configuration proposed by the MN.

10. The method according to claim 9 , wherein the second request message further carries a measurement result of the terminal device, and the measurement result is used by the target SN for configuring at least one of the target SN configuration and the target PSCell configuration.

11. The method according to claim 9 , wherein the second response message carries at least one of the target SN configuration configured by the target SN and the target PSCell configuration configured by the target SN.

12. The method according to claim 9 , wherein the third request message further carries: a first PSCell change condition configuration, wherein the first PSCell change condition configuration is a PSCell change condition configuration proposed by the original SN.

13. The method according to claim 9 , wherein the third request message further carries identification information of a target PSCell corresponding to the first PSCell change condition configuration, and the target PSCell is one of cells of the target SN.

14. The method according to claim 13 , wherein the identification information of the target PSCell comprises at least one of a Physical Cell Identity (PCI), a frequency point, a New Radio-Cell Global Identity (N-CGI), and a base station identifier.

15. The method according to claim 9 , further comprising, when the terminal device triggers, based on the SN addition condition configuration, initiation of a random access procedure to the target SN:

transmitting, by the target SN, an original SN release request message to the MN, to trigger the MN to request an original SN to release a resource.

16. A communication device, comprising:

a memory having a computer program stored thereon; and

a processor configured to invoke and execute the computer program stored in the memory to perform the method according to claim 9 .

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Jul 12, 2022
From: WANG, SHUKUN; LI, HAITAO
To: GUANGDONG OPPO MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATIONS CORP., LTD.
Reel/Frame 060485/0451 →
Continuity (2)
Continuation PCTCN2020072445 · Jan 16, 2020
Related Publication 20220353769A1 · Nov 3, 2022
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