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US 12,526,699 · App. 17/764,347 · Granted Jan 13, 2026

Cell conditional change method, user equipment and computer-readable storage medium

Inventor: Yun Deng (Shanghai, CN)
Assignee: SPREADTRUM COMMUNICATIONS (SHANGHAI) CO., LTD.
H04W36/0027H04W36/00692H04W36/362H04W76/27
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Quick Facts
Patent No.
US 12,526,699
App. No.
17/764,347
Filed
Mar 28, 2022
Granted
Jan 13, 2026
Kind
B2
Examiner
LIU, SIMING
Art Unit
2411
USPC
370/331
Abstract

A cell conditional change method, a user equipment and a computer-readable storage medium are provided. The method includes: based on determining that a candidate PSCell meets a PSCell change trigger condition, transmitting an RRC signaling to an MN, wherein a candidate PSCell or a target PSCell that meets the PSCell change trigger condition is indicated in the RRC signaling.

Claims (25)

1 . A cell conditional change method, comprising:

based on a candidate Primary Secondary Cell (PSCell) meeting a PSCell change trigger condition, performing a PSCell change, wherein the candidate PSCell corresponds to a candidate Secondary Node (SN);

during the PSCell change, determining whether a preset condition for terminating the PSCell change is met, wherein the preset condition comprises any of the following: a Radio Resource Control (RRC) signaling received from a Master Node (MN) being an RRC signaling of a preset type, wherein the RRC signaling of the preset type comprises an RRC signaling for Primary Cell (PCell) change, an RRC signaling for PSCell change, or a release signaling for PSCell; or an abnormal connection with the MN being detected, wherein the abnormal connection with the MN comprises at least one of following scenarios: detection of a radio link failure of a PCell, failure of integrity protection, receiving an RRC signaling from the MN but failing to comply with configuration parameters therein, or trigger of RRC connection reestablishment; and

based on the preset condition for terminating the PSCell change being met, terminating the PSCell change;

wherein following receiving the RRC signaling for PCell change, the method further comprises:

based on detecting that the RRC signaling for PCell change does not comprise Secondary Cell Group (SCG) information, deleting SCG information corresponding to a source SN and SCG information corresponding to the candidate SN.

2 . The method according to claim 1 , wherein following receiving the RRC signaling for PCell change, the method further comprises:

based on detecting that the RRC signaling for PCell change comprises new SCG information, accessing a target SN corresponding to the new SCG information based on the new SCG information.

3 . The method according to claim 2 , wherein said accessing a target SN corresponding to the new SCG information based on the new SCG information comprises:

based on the target SN adopting a delta signaling mode, generating target configuration information based on SCG information corresponding to a source SN and the new SCG information; and

accessing the target SN based on the target configuration information.

4 . The method according to claim 1 , wherein following receiving the RRC signaling for PCell change, the method further comprises:

based on detecting that the RRC signaling for PCell change comprises source SN information, accessing a source SN by a random access procedure.

5 . The method according to claim 4 , wherein following detecting that the RRC signaling for PCell change comprises the source SN information, the method further comprises:

saving SCG information corresponding to the candidate SN.

6 . The method according to claim 1 , further comprising:

during the PSCell change, based on detecting that a candidate PCell meets a conditional handover trigger condition, performing a PCell handover, and terminating the PSCell change.

7 . The method according to claim 1 , wherein following receiving the RRC signaling for PSCell change from the MN, the method further comprises:

accessing a PSCell indicated by the RRC signaling for PSCell change.

8 . The method according to claim 1 , wherein following receiving the release signaling for PSCell from the MN, the method further comprises:

deleting SCG information corresponding to a source SN and SCG information corresponding to the candidate SN.

9 . The method according to claim 1 , wherein following determining that the candidate PSCell meets the PSCell change trigger condition, the method further comprises:

transmitting PSCell change information to the MN, wherein the candidate PSCell or a target PSCell that meets the PSCell change trigger condition is indicated in the PSCell change information.

10 . The method according to claim 1 , wherein following terminating the PSCell change, the method further comprises:

retaining SCG information corresponding to a source SN, and deleting SCG information corresponding to the candidate SN.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Mar 28, 2022
From: DENG, YUN
To: SPREADTRUM COMMUNICATIONS (SHANGHAI) CO., LTD.
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Priority Claims (1)
CN 201910935070.9 · Sep 29, 2019 · national
Continuity (1)
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