Patent ID: 11895550
Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 10:
11. A terminal in a wireless communication network, the terminal comprising:
a transceiver; and
at least one processor coupled to the transceiver, the at least one processor configured to:
control the transceiver to receive, from a base station, a Radio Resource control (RRC) reconfiguration message including information indicating the terminal is allowed to transmit preferred state information to leave a connected state,
identify whether the terminal prefers to transition out of a connected state, and
control the transceiver to transmit, to the base station, assistance information including the preferred state information in case that the terminal prefers to transition out of the connected state,
wherein the preferred state information includes information indicating an idle state, information indicating an inactive state, or information indicating out of the connected state.