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Matched Legal Cases: ['Application No. 61', 'Application No. 2015', 'Application No. 2015', 'Application No. 2015', 'Application No. 2015', 'Application No. 201510181710', 'Application No. 201510182419', 'Application No. 10', 'Application No. 10']

US10051682B2 - Deterministic RRC connections - Google Patents
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This application is a divisional of U.S. patent application Ser. No. 14/683,493 titled “Deterministic RRC Connections” and filed on Apr. 10, 2015, whose inventors are Sarma V. Vangala, Tarik Tabet, Venkateswara Rao Manepalli, Madhusudan Chaudhary, Faraz Faheem, Syed Aon Mujtaba, Jianxiong Shi, and Sreevalsan Vallath, which claims benefit of priority to U.S. Provisional Application No. 61/981,447 titled “Wireless Device Power Consumption Optimizations” and filed on Apr. 18, 2014, all of which are hereby incorporated by reference in their entirety as if fully and completely set forth herein.
As shown, a UE 106 may be in communication with a base station, shown in this exemplary embodiment as an eNodeB 102. In turn, the eNodeB may be coupled to a core network, shown in this exemplary embodiment as an evolved packet core (EPC) 300. As shown, the EPC 300 may include mobility management entity (MME) 322, home subscriber server (HSS) 324, and serving gateway (SGW) 326. The EPC 300 may include various other devices and/or entities known to those skilled in the art as well.
Class B: Traffic non-priority high bandwidth 2 time_units no_cdrx network_rrc_tear_cfg_4 traffic_type_y delay_tolerence_cfg_2
As one possibility, the handshake mechanism may include an exchange of information during radio resource control (RRC) connection establishment. For example, UE support of such a feature may be indicated in a UE capabilities information element (LE), while BS support of such a feature may be indicated in an RRC connection reconfiguration message which may follow the exchange of UE capability information. Other mechanisms are also possible.
According to some embodiments, the request is provided to the BS using one of: a media access control (MAC) control element (CE); a power preference indicator (PPI) bit; or a radio resource control (RRC) information element (LE).
1. A wireless user equipment device (UE) comprising:
while in radio resource control (RRC) idle mode, transmit an indication of one or more types of upcoming data traffic to a cellular network entity;
receive an indication of a scheduled upcoming RRC connection from the cellular network entity, wherein a type of data traffic to be transmitted is indicated in conjunction with the scheduled upcoming RRC connection; and
in response to receiving the indication of the scheduled upcoming RRC connection, transition from the RRC idle mode to RRC connected mode.
2. The UE of claim 1, wherein the indication of a scheduled upcoming RRC connection indicates a time of the scheduled upcoming RRC connection, wherein the radio and the processing element are further configured to:
enter a sleep mode until the time of the scheduled upcoming RRC connection;
wake up at the time of the scheduled upcoming RRC connection;
establish the scheduled RRC connection;
communicate data traffic of the indicated type of data traffic to be transmitted with the cellular network entity via the RRC connection.
3. The UE of claim 1, wherein the one or more types of upcoming data traffic indicated comprise one or more of:
one or more quality of service (QoS) classes;
one or more application types;
one or more priority levels.
4. The UE of claim 1, wherein the radio and the processing element are further configured to:
monitor application traffic patterns of user data of the UE; and
determining application priority levels for a plurality of application types based on monitoring application traffic patterns of user data of the UE,
wherein the indication of one or more types of upcoming data traffic is generated based at least in part on determining application priority levels for the plurality of application types.
5. The UE of claim 1, wherein the indication of the scheduled upcoming RRC connection further comprises an indication of an RRC connection type and/or one or more RRC connection parameters of the scheduled upcoming RRC connection.
6. The UE of claim 1, wherein the indication of one or more types of upcoming data traffic comprises one of:
a media access control (MAC) control element (CE);
a RRC information element (IE); or
7. The UE of claim 1, wherein the indication of one or more types of upcoming data traffic comprises a scheduling window indicating delay sensitivity of each type of upcoming data traffic.
8. The UE of claim 1, wherein the indication of one or more types of upcoming traffic indicates one or more priority levels associated with the upcoming data traffic.
9. The UE of claim 1, wherein the indication of the one or more types of upcoming traffic indicates one or more application types associated with the upcoming data traffic.
10. An apparatus for inclusion in a wireless user equipment device (UE) comprising:
11. The apparatus of claim 10, wherein the indication of a scheduled upcoming RRC connection indicates a time of the scheduled upcoming RRC connection, wherein the one or more processing elements are further configured to:
12. The apparatus of claim 10, wherein the one or more types of upcoming data traffic indicated comprise one or more of:
13. The apparatus of claim 10, wherein the indication of the scheduled upcoming RRC connection further comprises an indication of an RRC connection type and/or one or more RRC connection parameters of the scheduled upcoming RRC connection.
14. The apparatus of claim 10, wherein the indication of one or more types of upcoming data traffic comprises a scheduling window indicating delay sensitivity of each type of upcoming data traffic.
15. A method of operating a wireless user equipment device (UE), comprising:
while in radio resource control (RRC) idle mode, transmitting an indication of one or more types of upcoming data traffic to a cellular network entity;
receiving an indication of a scheduled upcoming RRC connection from the cellular network entity, wherein a type of data traffic to be transmitted is indicated in conjunction with the scheduled upcoming RRC connection; and
in response to receiving the indication of the scheduled upcoming RRC connection, transitioning from the RRC idle mode to RRC connected mode.
16. The method of claim 15, wherein the indication of a scheduled upcoming RRC connection indicates a time of the scheduled upcoming RRC connection, wherein the method further comprises:
entering a sleep mode until the time of the scheduled upcoming RRC connection;
waking up at the time of the scheduled upcoming RRC connection;
establishing the scheduled RRC connection;
communicating data traffic of the indicated type of data traffic to be transmitted with the cellular network entity via the RRC connection.
17. The method of claim 15, wherein the one or more types of upcoming data traffic indicated comprise one or more of:
18. The method of claim 15, wherein the indication of the scheduled upcoming RRC connection further comprises an indication of an RRC connection type and/or one or more RRC connection parameters of the scheduled upcoming RRC connection.
19. The method of claim 15, wherein the indication of one or more types of upcoming data traffic comprises a scheduling window indicating delay sensitivity of each type of upcoming data traffic.
20. The method of claim 15, wherein the indication of one or more types of upcoming traffic indicates one or more priority levels associated with the upcoming data traffic.
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