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

Claim 15:
16. A base station (BS) in a wireless communication network, comprising:
a transceiver; and
at least one processor coupled to the transceiver, the at least one processor configured to:
control the transceiver to transmit, to a terminal, a Radio Resource control (RRC) reconfiguration message including information indicating the terminal is allowed to transmit preferred state information to leave a connected state, and
control the transceiver to receive, from the terminal, 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.