Techniques and apparatuses for providing notifications in short paging messages

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10517067-B2
Application number	US-201816141631-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Sep 25, 2018
Priority date	Apr 6, 2018
Publication date	Dec 24, 2019
Grant date	Dec 24, 2019

Abstract

Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may receive a paging grant that includes a short paging message and a notification of a reason that the short paging message was triggered; determine that the paging grant includes the short paging message; and obtain the notification of the reason that the short paging message was triggered based at least in part on determining that the paging grant includes the short paging message. Numerous other aspects are provided.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A method of wireless communication performed by a user equipment (UE), comprising:
receiving a paging grant that includes a short paging message and a notification of a reason that the short paging message was triggered;
determining that the paging grant includes the short paging message; and
obtaining the notification of the reason that the short paging message was triggered based at least in part on determining that the paging grant includes the short paging message.

2. The method of claim 1 , wherein the notification is obtained without obtaining a separate paging message on a physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH) based at least in part on determining that the paging grant includes the short paging message.

3. The method of claim 1 , wherein the notification indicates that the UE is to obtain a separate paging message or a system information block to obtain additional information regarding the reason of the short paging message.

4. The method of claim 3 , wherein the paging grant further includes at least one of scheduling information for obtaining the separate paging message or an indication of the system information block that includes the additional information.

5. The method of claim 1 , wherein the notification indicates that the notification of the reason is self-contained in the short paging message and that there is no additional information, regarding the reason of the short paging message, available in at least one of a separate paging message or a system information block.

6. The method of claim 1 , wherein the notification is included in downlink control information (DCI) content included in the paging grant.

7. The method of claim 1 , wherein the paging grant is a paging physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) communication with cyclic redundancy check (CRC) bits that are scrambled with a paging radio network temporary identifier (P-RNTI).

8. The method of claim 1 , wherein the notification includes at least one of:
an earthquake and tsunami warning system (ETWS) notification,
a commercial mobile alert system (CMAS) notification,
a notification of a change to system information, or
some combination thereof.

9. The method of claim 1 , wherein the notification is two bits in length.

10. The method of claim 1 , wherein the notification indicates at least one of:
a primary type of earthquake and tsunami warning system (ETWS) notification,
a secondary type of ETWS notification,
a first type of a commercial mobile alert system (CMAS) notification that indicates an order issues by a president or highest authority,
a second type of CMAS notification that indicates a threat to residents of an area in which the UE is located, wherein the notification further indicates whether the threat is severe or extreme,
a third type of CMAS notification that includes an amber alert indicating a child abduction, or
some combination thereof.

11. The method of claim 1 , wherein the notification indicates a change to remaining minimum system information (RMSI) or other system information (OSI).

12. The method of claim 1 , wherein the notification includes a first set of bits to indicate an earthquake and tsunami warning system (ETWS) notification, a commercial mobile alert system (CMAS) notification, or a notification of a change to system information, and wherein the notification further includes a second set of bits to indicate additional information regarding the ETWS notification, the CMAS notification, or the notification of the change to system information.

13. The method of claim 12 , wherein the first set of bits and the second set of bits are jointly encoded.

14. The method of claim 12 , wherein the UE is configured to interpret the second set of bits based at least in part on the first set of bits.

15. The method of claim 1 , further comprising performing an operation based at least in part on the notification.

16. The method of claim 15 , wherein the operation is performed without obtaining a separate paging message on a physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH) based at least in part on determining that the paging grant includes the short paging message.

17. The method of claim 15 , wherein performing the operation comprises outputting information indicated in the notification based at least in part on a determination that the notification is an earthquake and tsunami warning system (ETWS) notification or a commercial mobile alert system (CMAS) notification.

18. The method of claim 17 , wherein outputting the information indicated in the notification comprises providing the information for display.

19. The method of claim 15 , wherein performing the operation comprises obtaining a system information block based at least in part on a determination that the notification is a notification of a change to system information.

20. A method of wireless communication performed by a base station, comprising:
determining a reason for triggering a short paging message; and
transmitting a paging grant that includes the short paging message and a notification of the reason for triggering the short paging message.

21. The method of claim 20 , wherein the reason for triggering the short paging message is determined based at least in part on information included in an instruction that triggers the short paging message.

22. The method of claim 20 , wherein the notification indicates that a user equipment (UE) is to obtain a separate paging message or a system information block to obtain additional information regarding the reason of the short paging message.

23. The method of claim 22 , wherein the paging grant further includes scheduling information for obtaining the separate paging message or an indication of the system information block that includes the additional information.

24. The method of claim 20 , wherein the notification indicates that the notification of the reason is self-contained in the short paging message and that there is no additional information, regarding the reason of the short paging message, available in at least one of a separate paging message or a system information block.

25. The method of claim 20 , wherein the notification is included in downlink control information (DCI) content included in the paging grant.

26. The method of claim 20 , wherein the notification includes at least one of:
an earthquake and tsunami warning system (ETWS) notification,
a commercial mobile alert system (CMAS) notification,
a notification of a change to system information, or
some combination thereof.

27. The method of claim 20 , wherein the notification is two bits in length.

28. The method of claim 20 , wherein the notification indicates at least one of:
a primary type of earthquake and tsunami warning system (ETWS) notification,
a secondary type of ETWS notification,
a first type of a commercial mobile alert system (CMAS) notification that indicates an order issues by a president or highest authority,
a second type of CMAS notification that indicates a threat to residents of an area in which the base station is located, wherein the notification further indicates whether the threat is severe or extreme,
a third type of CMAS notification that includes an amber alert indicating a child abduction, or
some combination thereof.

29. The method of claim 20 , wherein the notification indica

Assignees

• Qualcomm Inc

Inventors

• Islam Muhammad Nazmul
• Luo Tao
• Ozturk Ozcan

Classifications

• H04W4/90

  Services for handling of emergency or hazardous situations, e.g. earthquake and tsunami warning systems [ETWS] · CPC title

• H04W4/70

  Services for machine-to-machine communication [M2M] or machine type communication [MTC] · CPC title

• H04W72/23

  in the downlink direction of a wireless link, i.e. towards a terminal · CPC title

• H04W48/12

  using downlink control channel · CPC title

• H04W76/50

  for emergency connections · CPC title