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US 12,684,485 · App. 18/498,195 · Granted Jul 14, 2026

Enhanced wake-up signal handling

Inventors: Jussi-Pekka Koskinen (Oulu, FI); Jarkko Koskela (Oulu, FI)
Assignee: NOKIA TECHNOLOGIES OY
H04W52/0235H04W68/005H04W76/28
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Quick Facts
Patent No.
US 12,684,485
App. No.
18/498,195
Filed
Oct 31, 2023
Granted
Jul 14, 2026
Kind
B2
Art Unit
2411
USPC
370/311
Abstract

According to a first embodiment, a method may include receiving, by a user equipment, at least one indication that the user equipment is allowed to skip paging monitoring after a paging message is successfully decoded. The method may further include determining, by the user equipment, that the user equipment can end paging monitoring based upon received wake-up signaling configuration data. The method may further include entering, by the user equipment, an extended discontinuous reception sleep mode.

Claims (35)

1 . An apparatus comprising:

at least one processor; and

at least one memory including computer program code;

the at least one memory and the computer program code configured to, with the at least one processor, cause the apparatus at least to

receive at least one indication indicating that the apparatus is allowed to skip paging monitoring after a paging message is successfully decoded;

receive, from a network entity, an indication of a number of paging messages for the apparatus to successfully decode;

determine to end paging monitoring based upon the received indication; and

enter an extended discontinuous reception sleep mode.

2 . The apparatus of claim 1 , wherein the at least one indication is received as part of at least one of broadcast signaling or dedicated signaling.

3 . The apparatus of claim 2 , wherein the broadcast signaling comprises system information.

4 . The apparatus of claim 2 , wherein the dedicated signaling comprises at least one radio resource control message, and the at least one radio resource control message comprises one or more of at least one radio resource control reconfiguration, radio resource control setup, radio resource control resume, or radio resource control re-establishment.

5 . The apparatus of claim 1 , wherein the at least one memory and the computer program code configured to, with the at least one processor, cause the apparatus at least to receive at least one indication indicating that at least two paging occasions, received after receiving at least one wake-up signal, comprise same paging messages.

6 . The apparatus of claim 1 , wherein the at least one memory and the computer program code configured to, with the at least one processor, cause the apparatus at least to, after receiving at least one wake-up signal, receive at least one indication indicating whether at least one paging occasion comprises paging data for the apparatus after receiving a first paging message.

7 . The apparatus of claim 6 , wherein the paging data comprises user equipment identifier.

8 . The apparatus of claim 1 , wherein the at least one memory and the computer program code configured to, with the at least one processor, cause the apparatus at least to receive at least one indication indicating that at least two paging occasions include same user equipment identities after receiving at least one wake-up signal.

9 . The apparatus of claim 1 , wherein the at least one memory and the computer program code configured to, with the at least one processor, cause the apparatus at least to enter a sleep mode when the paging message does not include a user equipment non-access stratum identity and/or when a number of paging messages successfully received equals an indication of a number of paging messages.

10 . The apparatus of claim 1 , wherein the at least one memory and the computer program code configured to, with the at least one processor, cause the apparatus at least to receive at least one indication configuring the apparatus to know whether any subsequent paging occasion includes paging for the apparatus, after receiving at least one wake-up signal.

11 . The apparatus of claim 1 , wherein the apparatus is configured at least one of in an idle mode, in an inactive mode, in a connected mode, or with an extended discontinuous reception functionality.

12 . The apparatus of claim 1 , wherein the at least one memory and the computer program code configured to, with the at least one processor, cause the apparatus at least to receive at least one indication comprising the wake-up signaling configuration data from a network entity.

13 . The apparatus of claim 1 , wherein the at least one memory and the computer program code configured to, with the at least one processor, cause the apparatus at least to receive at least one wake-up signal from a network entity.

14 . The apparatus of claim 1 , wherein the at least one memory and the computer program code configured to, with the at least one processor, cause the apparatus at least to receive a first paging message comprising at least one non-access-stratum identity for a plurality of user equipment.

15 . The apparatus of claim 14 , wherein the at least one memory and the computer program code configured to, with the at least one processor, cause the apparatus at least to determine the first paging message cannot be decoded.

16 . The apparatus of claim 14 , wherein the at least one memory and the computer program code configured to, with the at least one processor, cause the apparatus at least to receive a second paging message comprising at least some same data as the first paging message.

17 . The apparatus of claim 16 , wherein the at least one memory and the computer program code configured to, with the at least one processor, cause the apparatus at least to determine that the second paging message is not addressed to the apparatus.

18 . A method, comprising:

receiving, by a user equipment, at least one indication indicating that the user equipment is allowed to skip paging monitoring after a paging message is successfully decoded;

receive, from a network entity, an indication of a number of paging messages for the apparatus to successfully decode;

determining, by the user equipment, to end paging monitoring based upon the received indication; and

entering, by the user equipment, an extended discontinuous reception sleep mode.

19 . An apparatus comprising:

at least one processor; and

at least one memory including computer program code;

the at least one memory and the computer program code configured to, with the at least one processor, cause the apparatus at least to

transmit, from the apparatus to a user equipment, at least one indication indicating that the user equipment is allowed to skip paging monitoring after a paging message is successfully decoded, wherein the at least one indication includes wake-up signaling configuration data; and

transmit, from the apparatus to the user equipment, an indication of a number of paging messages for the user equipment to successfully decode.

Continuity (3)
Continuation 17277172 · Sep 20, 2019
Provisional Application 62734716 · Sep 21, 2018
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