Patent ID: 11895620
Assignee: APPLE INC.
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 13:
14. An apparatus, comprising:
at least one processor configured to cause a base station central unit (CU) to:
receive a first paging message from an access management function (AMF) entity to initiate paging of a User Equipment (UE), wherein the first paging message includes:
a UE paging identity that identifies the UE; and
a first information element (IE) pertaining to an access type, wherein the first IE indicates whether the paging of the UE pertains to a protocol data unit (PDU) session from a non-Third Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) access network; and

send a second paging message for transmission to a base station distributed unit (DU), wherein the second paging message includes:
the UE paging identity, and
a second IE pertaining to an access type which indicates whether the paging of the UE pertains to a PDU session from a non-3GPP access network.