Patent ID: 9420622
Filing Date: 2016-08-16
CPC Classification: H04W

Claim Text:
1. A downlink data transmission method on a long term evolution (LTE) network, the method comprising: determining, by a base station, that an S1 bearer between the base station and a serving gateway (S-GW) for a user equipment (UE) is retained and, at the same time, a radio bearer between the base station and the UE has been released, wherein the determining is performed at the base station after receiving downlink data, to be sent to the UE, at a serving gateway (S-GW); based on the determining, paging, by the base station, the UE and re-establishing a radio bearer between the base station and the UE, wherein the paging the UE comprises: sending, by the base station, the downlink data, to the UE through the re-established radio bearer.