Granted Patent B2

US 12,470,347 · App. 18/006,028 · Granted Nov 11, 2025

Inventors: Srinivas Yerramalli (San Diego, CA); Alexandros Manolakos (Escondido, CA); Mukesh Kumar (Hyderabad, IN); Mohammad Tarek Fahim (San Diego, CA)

Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated

H04L5/0051H04L69/06H04W64/00

Abstract

Claims (63)

1 . A user equipment comprising:

a transceiver;

a memory; and

a processor, communicatively coupled to the transceiver and the memory, configured to:

measure a reference signal received by the transceiver;

produce a measurement report payload based on measurement of the reference signal;

encode the measurement report payload in accordance with ASN.1 (Abstract Syntax Notation One) encoding, and in accordance with a lower-layer protocol to produce an encoded payload, the lower-layer protocol being either a physical-layer protocol or a MAC-layer (Medium Access Control layer) protocol;

send a lower-layer message based on the encoded payload via the transceiver to a network entity; and

produce the lower-layer message to have a first part and a second part, the first part having a fixed quantity of bits and indicating a quantity of bits of the second part.

2 . The user equipment of claim 1 , wherein the encoded payload includes an inclusion indicator, for each optional field of the encoded payload, indicating whether data for a respective optional field are included in the encoded payload.

3 . The user equipment of claim 1 , wherein the processor is configured to produce the lower-layer message to have the first part further indicate whether data for each of a plurality of optional fields are contained in the second part.

4 . The user equipment of claim 1 , wherein the lower-layer message is a first lower-layer message, and wherein the processor is further configured, in order to respond to the encoded payload exceeding a threshold size, to at least one of:

divide the encoded payload between the first lower-layer message and a second lower-layer message that is separate from the first lower-layer message; or

omit at least a portion of the encoded payload from the first lower-layer message.

5 . The user equipment of claim 1 , wherein the lower-layer message is a first lower-layer message, and wherein the processor is configured to at least one of produce or transmit the first lower-layer message in accordance with an instruction from the network entity in response to a potential collision between the first lower-layer message and a second lower-layer message to be sent by the user equipment.

6 . The user equipment of claim 5 , wherein the processor is further configured to at least one of:

produce the first lower-layer message with the encoded payload comprising a first portion and a second portion, the first portion comprising a payload of the first lower-layer message and the second portion comprising a payload of the second lower-layer message; or

adjust a transmission time of at least one of the first lower-layer message or the second lower-layer message, based on the instruction, to avoid a collision of the first lower-layer message with the second lower-layer message; or

to produce the encoded payload, to encode the payload of the second lower-layer message together with the measurement report payload in accordance with the ASN.1 encoding.

7 . The user equipment of claim 1 , wherein the processor is configured to send the lower-layer message including a first portion of the encoded payload in the lower-layer message and to send a radio resource control message with a second portion of the encoded payload.

8 . A user equipment comprising:

means for measuring a reference signal;

means for producing a measurement report payload based on measurement of the reference signal;

means for encoding the measurement report payload in accordance with ASN.1 (Abstract Syntax Notation One) encoding, and in accordance with a lower-layer protocol to produce an encoded payload, the lower-layer protocol being either a physical-layer protocol or a MAC-layer (Medium Access Control layer) protocol;

means for sending a lower-layer message based on the encoded payload to a network entity; and

means for producing the lower-layer message to have a first part and a second part, the first part having a fixed quantity of bits and indicating a quantity of bits of the second part.

9 . The user equipment of claim 8 , wherein the encoded payload includes an inclusion indicator, for each optional field of the encoded payload, indicating whether data for a respective optional field are included in the encoded payload.

10 . The user equipment of claim 8 , wherein the means for producing the lower-layer message comprise means for producing the lower-layer message to have the first part further indicate whether data for each of a plurality of optional fields are contained in the second part.

11 . The user equipment of claim 8 , wherein the lower-layer message is a first lower-layer message, and wherein, in order to respond to the encoded payload exceeding a threshold size, the user equipment further comprises at least one of:

means for dividing the encoded payload between the first lower-layer message and a second lower-layer message that is separate from the first lower-layer message; or

means for omitting at least a portion of the encoded payload from the first lower-layer message.

12 . The user equipment of claim 8 , wherein the lower-layer message is a first lower-layer message, and wherein the user equipment comprises collision means for at least one of producing or transmitting the first lower-layer message in accordance with an instruction from the network entity in response to a potential collision between the first lower-layer message and a second lower-layer message to be sent by the user equipment or sending the first lower-layer message in accordance with the instruction from the network entity in response to the potential collision.

13 . The user equipment of claim 12 , wherein the collision means further comprise at least one of:

means for producing the first lower-layer message with the encoded payload comprising a first portion and a second portion, the first portion comprising a payload of the first lower-layer message and the second portion comprising a payload of the second lower-layer message; or

means for adjusting a transmission time of at least one of the first lower-layer message or the second lower-layer message, based on the instruction, to avoid a collision of the first lower-layer message with the second lower-layer message; or

to produce the encoded payload, means for encoding the payload of the second lower-layer message together with the measurement report payload in accordance with the ASN.1 encoding.

14 . The user equipment of claim 8 , wherein the means for sending the lower-layer message comprise means for sending the lower-layer message including a first portion of the encoded payload in the lower-layer message, and wherein the user equipment comprises means for sending a radio resource control message with a second portion of the encoded payload.

15 . A method of sending measurement information from a user equipment, the method comprising:

measuring a reference signal;

producing a measurement report payload based on measurement of the reference signal;

encoding the measurement report payload in accordance with ASN.1 (Abstract Syntax Notation One) encoding, and in accordance with a lower-layer protocol to produce an encoded payload, the lower-layer protocol being either a physical-layer protocol or a MAC-layer (Medium Access Control layer) protocol;

sending a lower-layer message based on the encoded payload from the user equipment to a network entity; and

producing the lower-layer message to have a first part and a second part, the first part having a fixed quantity of bits and indicating a quantity of bits of the second part.

16 . The method of claim 15 , wherein the encoded payload includes an inclusion indicator, for each optional field of the encoded payload, indicating whether data for a respective optional field are included in the encoded payload.

17 . The method of claim 15 , wherein producing the lower-layer message comprises producing the lower-layer message to have the first part further indicate whether data for each of a plurality of optional fields are contained in the second part.

18 . The method of claim 15 , wherein the lower-layer message is a first lower-layer message, and wherein, in response to the encoded payload exceeding a threshold size, the method further comprises at least one of:

dividing the encoded payload between the first lower-layer message and a second lower-layer message that is separate from the first lower-layer message; or

omitting at least a portion of the encoded payload from the first lower-layer message.

19 . The method of claim 15 , wherein the lower-layer message is a first lower-layer message, the method further comprising avoiding a potential collision between the first lower-layer message and a second lower-layer message to be sent by the user equipment by at least one of:

producing the first lower-layer message in accordance with an instruction from the network entity; or

sending the first lower-layer message in accordance with the instruction from the network entity.

20 . The method of claim 19 , wherein avoiding the potential collision further comprises at least one of:

producing the first lower-layer message with the encoded payload comprising a first portion and a second portion, the first portion comprising a payload of the first lower-layer message and the second portion comprising a payload of the second lower-layer message; or

adjusting a transmission time of at least one of the first lower-layer message or the second lower-layer message, based on the instruction, to avoid a collision of the first lower-layer message with the second lower-layer message; or

to produce the encoded payload, encoding the payload of the second lower-layer message together with the measurement report payload in accordance with the ASN.1 encoding.

21 . The method of claim 15 , wherein the lower-layer message includes a first portion of the encoded payload, the method further comprising sending a radio resource control message with a second portion of the encoded payload.

22 . A non-transitory, processor-readable storage medium comprising processor-readable instructions to cause a processor of a user equipment, in order to send measurement information, to:

measure a reference signal;

produce a measurement report payload based on measurement of the reference signal;

encode the measurement report payload in accordance with ASN.1 (Abstract Syntax Notation One) encoding, and in accordance with a lower-layer protocol to produce an encoded payload, the lower-layer protocol being either a physical-layer protocol or a MAC-layer (Medium Access Control layer) protocol;

send a lower-layer message based on the encoded payload from the user equipment to a network entity; and

produce the lower-layer message to have a first part and a second part, the first part having a fixed quantity of bits and indicating a quantity of bits of the second part.

23 . The storage medium of claim 22 , wherein the encoded payload includes an inclusion indicator, for each optional field of the encoded payload, indicating whether data for a respective optional field are included in the encoded payload.

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