Patent ID: 9253809
Filing Date: 2016-02-02
CPC Classification: H04W

Claim Text:
1. A method of random access in wireless communications, comprising: determining a user equipment (UE) capability identifier based on a UE capability and an access stratum (AS) release of the UE, wherein the UE capability identifier and the AS release uniquely identify the UE capability; transmitting a radio resource control (RRC) connection request message; receiving an RRC connection setup message; transmitting a modified RRC connection setup complete message that does not include the UE capability; and receiving a query from a network to report the UE capability after transmitting the modified RRC connection setup complete message, wherein the network sends the query in response to the RRC connection request message not including the UE capability identifier and upon receiving a common identifier (ID) message from a serving general packet radio service (GPRS) support node (SGSN), and wherein the common ID message does not include the UE capability.