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Granted Patent B2
US 12,426,123 · App. 18/040,107 · Granted Sep 23, 2025

Provide data transmission to avoid large transmission delay

Inventors: Liang Liu (Beijing, CN); Ningyu Chen (Beijing, CN); Xingyu Han (Beijing, CN); Nan Hu (Beijing, CN)
Assignees: CHINA MOBILE COMMUNICATION CO., LTD RESEARCH INSTITUTE; CHINA MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS GROUP CO., LTD.
H04W76/20H04W76/19H04W76/30H04W74/0833H04W74/0836
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Patent No.
US 12,426,123
App. No.
18/040,107
Granted
Sep 23, 2025
Kind
B2
Abstract

A data transmission method includes: a terminal in an RRC inactive state transmits a data packet and an RRC resume request to a first base station or the CU of the first base station or the DU of the first base station; receive an RRC release message transmitted by the first base station or the CU of the first base station or the DU of the first base station.

Claims (38)

1. A data transmission method, applied to a User Equipment (UE) in a Radio Resource Control (RRC) inactive state, the data transmission method comprising:

sending data and an RRC resume request message to a first base station or a Centralized Unit (CU) of the first base station or a Distributed Unit (DU) of the first base station; and

receiving an RRC release message from the first base station or the CU of the first base station or the DU of the first base station;

wherein before sending the data and the RRC resume request message to the first base station or the CU of the first base station or the DU of the first base station, the method further comprises:

encapsulating the data directly as a first Media Access Control (MAC) Service Data Unit (SDU) to a first MAC Protocol Data Unit (PDU);

wherein a sub-header of the first MAC SDU comprises Logical Channel Identification (LCID) information and bearer identification information, the LCID information is configured to indicate a logical channel type of the data, and the bearer identification information is configured to indicate a data bearer corresponding to the data.

2. The data transmission method according to claim 1 , wherein the RRC resume request message is an RRC resume request message in a four-step random access procedure or an RRC resume request message carried by a message A (MSG A) in a two-step random access procedure.

3. A data transmission method, applied to a first base station or a Centralized Unit (CU) of the first base station or a Distributed Unit (DU) of the first base station, the data transmission method comprising:

receiving data and a Radio Resource Control (RRC) resume request message from a User Equipment (UE) in an RRC inactive state; and

sending an RRC release message to the UE;

wherein after receiving the data and the RRC resume request message from the UE in the RRC inactive state, the method further comprises:

sending a retrieval UE context request message to a second base station;

wherein the retrieval UE context request message carries at least one of a data transmission indication, or subsequent data transmission indication information.

4. The data transmission method according to claim 3 , wherein the RRC resume request message is an RRC resume request message in a four-step random access procedure or an RRC resume request message carried by a message A (MSG A) in a two-step random access procedure.

5. The data transmission method according to claim 3 , wherein the data is encapsulated to a first Media Access Control (MAC) Protocol Data Unit (PDU) or a second MAC PDU, the first MAC PDU comprising a first MAC Service Data Unit (SDU) directly generated through the data, and the second MAC PDU comprising a second MAC SDU generated through a preprocessing using the data.

6. The data transmission method according to claim 5 , wherein the first MAC SDU comprises at least one of Logical Channel Identification (LCID) information or bearer identification information, the LCID information is configured to indicate a logical channel type of the data, and the bearer identification information is configured to indicate a data bearer corresponding to the data; or

wherein a sub-header of the second MAC SDU comprises the LCID information.

7. The data transmission method according to claim 3 , wherein after sending the retrieval UE context request message to the second base station, the method further comprises:

receiving a retrieval UE context response message from the second base station; and

sending the data to the core network.

8. The data transmission method according to claim 7 , wherein sending the data to the core network comprises:

obtaining, according to a successfully retrieved UE context, the data from the first Media Access Control (MAC) Protocol Data Unit (PDU) or the second MAC PDU sent by the UE, the first MAC PDU comprising a first MAC Service Data Unit (SDU) directly generated through the data, and the second MAC PDU comprising a second MAC SDU generated through a preprocessing using the data; and

sending the data to the core network.

9. The data transmission method according to claim 3 , wherein after sending a retrieval UE context request message to a second base station, the method further comprises:

receiving a retrieval UE context failure message from the second base station; wherein the retrieval UE context request message further carries at least one of an RRC resume cause indication, UE buffer information, the data sent by the UE, Logical Channel Identification (LCID) information of the data or bearer identification information of the data.

10. The data transmission method according to claim 9 , further comprising:

receiving data forwarding information carried by an address indication message or the retrieval UE context failure message from the second base station; and

forwarding the data sent by the UE to the second base station.

11. A data transmission method, applied to a second base station, the data transmission method comprising:

receiving a retrieval User Equipment (UE) context request message from a first base station or a Centralized Unit (CU) of the first base station, wherein the retrieval UE context request message carries at least one of a data transmission indication, subsequent data transmission indication information;

sending a retrieval UE context failure message to the first base station or the CU of the first base station; and

sending data to a core network.

12. The data transmission method according to claim 11 , wherein the retrieval UE context request message further carries at least one of a Radio Resource Control (RRC) resume cause indication, UE buffer information, data from a UE, Logical Channel Identification (LCID) information of the data or bearer identification information of the data.

13. The data transmission method according to claim 11 , wherein the retrieval UE context failure message carries data forwarding information,

wherein the data transmission method further comprises:

receiving the data sent by the first base station or the CU of the first base station according to the data forwarding information; or

sending an address indication message carrying data forwarding information to the first base station or the CU of the first base station, and receiving the data sent by the first base station or the CU of the first base station according to the data forwarding information.

14. The data transmission method according to claim 3 , wherein the retrieval UE context request message further carries at least one of an RRC resume cause indication, UE buffer information, the data sent by the UE, Logical Channel Identification (LCID) information of the data or bearer identification information of the data.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Jan 31, 2023
From: LIU, LIANG; CHEN, NINGYU; HAN, XINGYU; HU, NAN
To: CHINA MOBILE COMMUNICATION CO., LTD RESEARCH INSTITUTE; CHINA MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS GROUP CO., LTD.
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Priority Claims (1)
CN 202010757105.7 · Jul 31, 2020 · national
Continuity (1)
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