Patent ID: 8767571

Claim:
A method to communicate capabilities of a device, comprising: generating a message to initiate a data transfer session between a mobile station and a network, the message adaptable to indicate different subsets of radio access capabilities information of the mobile station; indicating in the message a subset of a plurality of subsets, while excluding at least another subset of the plurality of subsets, each subset comprising respectively different radio access capabilities information of the mobile station, the indicated subset pertaining to a specific type of use by the mobile station for the data transfer session, and the at least another subset comprising radio access capabilities irrelevant to the specific type of use, the specific type of use being selectable at the mobile station from a group comprising (a) a first use type to transfer an amount of data less than a pre-determined threshold, (b) a second use type to transfer information generated by the mobile station, and (c) a third use type for an uplink-only transfer of user-generated information, wherein each use type is associated with a respectively different subset of radio access capabilities; and sending the message from the mobile station to the network.