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US 12,621,898 · App. 18/065,583 · Granted May 5, 2026

Method and device for transmitting small data in wireless communication system

Inventors: Won Seok Lee (Seoul, KR); Dong Hyun Park (Seoul, KR); Ki Bum Kwon (Seoul, KR)
Assignee: Innovative Technology Lab Co., Ltd.
H04W76/27H04W72/1268H04W74/0833H04W74/0836H04W74/0838
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Patent No.
US 12,621,898
App. No.
18/065,583
Granted
May 5, 2026
Kind
B2
Abstract

The present disclosure may provide a method of transmitting, by a user equipment (UE), small data in a wireless communication system. Here, a small data transmission method may include enabling a small data configuration in a UE; triggering, by the UE, a small data transmission; transmitting, by the UE, a common control channel (CCCH) and buffered data information to a base station in a random access channel (RACH) procedure; receiving a random access response (RAR) including an uplink (UL) grant from the base station based on the buffered data information; and transmitting the small data based on the UL grant.

Claims (56)

1 . A method comprising:

receiving, by a wireless user device, system information indicating a plurality of physical random access channel (PRACH) configurations comprising a first PRACH configuration for small data transmission and a second PRACH configuration for small data transmission, wherein the first PRACH configuration comprises a plurality of random access channel (RACH) resources for small data transmission associated with a radio resource control (RRC) inactive state;

receiving, by the wireless user device in an RRC connected state, an RRC release message;

transitioning, by the wireless user device and based on the RRC release message, from the RRC connected state to the RRC inactive state;

transmitting, by the wireless user device in the RRC inactive state to a base station, a message A (MsgA) for a 2-step RACH procedure, wherein the MsgA comprises a preamble and MsgA physical uplink shared channel (MsgA PUSCH), wherein the MsgA PUSCH comprises a buffer status report medium access control control element (BSR MAC CE), and wherein the BSR MAC CE indicates a data size;

receiving, by the wireless user device in the RRC inactive state, a fallback random access response (RAR) comprising an uplink (UL) grant; and

based on the UL grant, transmitting, by the wireless user device in the RRC inactive state, a message 3 (Msg3) to the base station via a selected RACH resource for 4-step RACH procedure, wherein the Msg3 comprises common control channel (CCCH) data and small data,

wherein the first PRACH configuration comprises a first preamble group for 4-step RACH procedure, a second preamble group for 4-step RACH procedure, a third preamble group for 2-step RACH procedure, and a fourth preamble group for 2-step RACH procedure, and

wherein the second PRACH configuration comprises a fifth preamble group for 4-step RACH procedure, a sixth preamble group for 4-step RACH procedure, a seventh preamble group for 2-step RACH procedure, and an eighth preamble group for 2-step RACH procedure.

2 . The method of claim 1 , wherein the plurality of RACH resources for small data transmission associated with the RRC inactive state comprises at least one of:

a 2-step RACH resource; or

a 4-step RACH resource.

3 . The method of claim 1 , wherein the plurality of RACH resources for small data transmission associated with the RRC inactive state are configured on a bandwidth part (BWP).

4 . The method of claim 1 , wherein an amount of the small data does not exceed a data amount threshold.

5 . The method of claim 1 , further comprising:

retransmitting, by the wireless user device in the RRC inactive state, the Msg 3 .

6 . The method of claim 1 , further comprising:

after the transmitting the Msg 3 , maintaining, by the wireless user device, the RRC inactive state.

7 . The method of claim 1 , further comprising:

after the transmitting the small data, performing, by the wireless user device, a random access procedure to transition from the RRC inactive state to a second RRC connected state.

8 . The method of claim 1 , further comprising:

receiving, by the wireless user device, a message, for the selected RACH resource, indicating at least one of:

a mapping between one RACH occasion and one or more synchronization signal blocks (SSBs); or

a mapping between one or more contention-based preambles and one synchronization signal block (SSB).

9 . The method of claim 1 , wherein the RRC release message indicates:

a transition from the RRC connected state to the RRC inactive state; and

a small data configuration for the RRC inactive state.

10 . The method of claim 1 , further comprising:

determining, based on a measurement of a reference signal received power of a synchronization signal block (SSB), a 2-step RACH for transmission of uplink data or a 4-step RACH for transmission of the uplink data.

11 . The method of claim 1 , wherein the system information further indicates:

a second RACH resource for contention-based random access for transition to an RRC connected state; and

a third RACH resource for contention-free random access for transition to an RRC connected state.

12 . The method of claim 1 , wherein the system information further indicates:

a second RACH resource for 2-step random access for transition to an RRC connected state; and

a third RACH resource for 4-step random access for transition to an RRC connected state.

13 . A method comprising:

receiving, by a wireless user device, configuration parameters indicating a plurality of physical random access channel (PRACH) configurations, wherein the plurality of PRACH configurations comprise:

a plurality of first random access channel (RACH) resources for small data transmission associated with a radio resource control (RRC) inactive state;

a second RACH resource for contention-based random access; and

a third RACH resource for contention-free random access;

receiving, by the wireless user device in an RRC connected state, an RRC release message, wherein the RRC release message indicates transition from the RRC connected state to the RRC inactive state;

transmitting, by the wireless user device in the RRC inactive state to a base station, a message A (MsgA) for a 2-step RACH procedure, wherein the MsgA comprises a preamble and MsgA physical uplink shared channel (MsgA PUSCH), wherein the MsgA PUSCH comprises a buffer status report medium access control control element (BSR MAC CE), and wherein the BSR MAC CE indicates a data size;

receiving, by the wireless user device in the RRC inactive state, a fallback random access response (RAR) comprising an uplink (UL) grant; and

based on the UL grant, transmitting, by the wireless user device in the RRC inactive state, a message 3 (Msg3) to the base station via a selected RACH resource for 4-step RACH procedure, wherein the Msg3 comprises common control channel (CCCH) data and small data,

wherein the plurality of PRACH configurations comprises a first PRACH configuration for small data transmission, wherein the first PRACH configuration comprises a first preamble group for 4-step RACH procedure, a second preamble group for 4-step RACH procedure, a third preamble group for 2-step RACH procedure, and a fourth preamble group for 2-step RACH procedure, and

wherein the plurality of PRACH configurations further comprises a second PRACH configuration for small data transmission, and wherein the second PRACH configuration comprises a fifth preamble group for 4-step RACH procedure, a sixth preamble group for 4-step RACH procedure, a seventh preamble group for 2-step RACH procedure, and an eighth preamble group for 2-step RACH procedure.

14 . The method of claim 13 , further comprising:

after the transmitting the Msg3, maintaining, by the wireless user device, the RRC inactive state.

15 . The method of claim 13 , wherein the second RACH resource for contention-based random access comprises at least one of:

a 2-step RACH resource for contention-based random access for transition to an RRC connected state; or

a 4-step RACH resource for contention-based random access for transition to an RRC connected state.

16 . The method of claim 13 , wherein the third RACH resource for contention-free random access comprises at least one of:

a 2-step RACH resource for contention-free random access for transition to an RRC connected state; or

a 4-step RACH resource for contention-free random access for transition to an RRC connected state.

17 . The method of claim 13 , further comprising:

after the transmitting the Msg3, performing, by the wireless user device, a random access procedure to transition from the RRC inactive state to a second RRC connected state.

Assignments (2)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Mar 19, 2024
From: LEE, WON SEOK; PARK, DONG HYUN; KWON, KI BUM
To: INNOVATIVE TECHNOLOGY LAB CO., LTD.
Reel/Frame 066825/0120 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Mar 19, 2024
From: LEE, WON SEOK; PARK, DONG HYUN; KWON, KI BUM
To: INNOVATIVE TECHNOLOGY LAB CO., LTD.
Reel/Frame 066825/0442 →
Priority Claims (1)
KR 10-2020-0072274 · Jun 15, 2020 · national
Continuity (2)
Continuation PCTKR2021007330 · Jun 11, 2021
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