Patent ID: 11910397
Assignee: LENOVO (SINGAPORE) PTE. LTD.
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 0:
1. A method performed by a user equipment (UE), the method comprising:
receiving configuration information, the configuration information indicating a mapping of one or more actions pertaining to configured grant-small data transmission functionality of the UE to respective short message bit positions;
receiving, while the UE is in an inactive state, a notification in a form of downlink control information with a short message field including one or more bits, the notification including an instruction indicating to perform an action of the one or more actions pertaining to the configured grant-small data transmission functionality of the UE;
identifying, using the mapping of the one or more actions pertaining to the configured grant-small data transmission functionality of the UE to the respective short message bit positions, the action from at least one short message bit position of the one or more bits; and
performing the action according to the instruction as pertaining to the configured grant-small data transmission functionality while the UE is in the inactive state.