Information obtaining method and apparatus, electronic device, and computer readable storage medium

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-12279338-B2
Application number	US-202117907701-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Feb 5, 2021
Priority date	Apr 14, 2020
Publication date	Apr 15, 2025
Grant date	Apr 15, 2025

Abstract

Disclosed are an information acquisition method and apparatus, an electronic device, a terminal device, and a computer-readable storage medium. The information acquisition method may include: acquiring paging identifiers corresponding to M cards respectively from global unique temporary user equipment identities (GUTIs) allocated by networks corresponding to the M cards; wherein M is an integer greater than or equal to 2; and in response to determining that paging identifiers corresponding to N cards among the paging identifiers corresponding to the M cards are the same, selecting (N−1) cards from the N cards and triggering networks corresponding to the selected (N−1) cards to re-allocate GUTIs; wherein N is an integer greater than or equal to 2 and less than or equal to M.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. An information acquisition method, comprising:
acquiring paging identifiers corresponding to M cards respectively from global unique temporary user equipment identities (GUTIs) allocated by networks corresponding to the M cards;
wherein M is an integer greater than or equal to 2; and

in response to determining that paging identifiers corresponding to N cards among the paging identifiers corresponding to the M cards are the same, selecting (N−1) cards from the N cards and triggering networks corresponding to the selected (N−1) cards to re-allocate GUTIs;
wherein Nis an integer greater than or equal to 2 and less than or equal to M.

2. The method of claim 1 , after triggering networks corresponding to the selected (N−1) cards to re-allocate GUTIs, the method further comprising:
continuing the step of acquiring paging identifiers corresponding to M cards respectively from GUTIs allocated by networks corresponding to the M cards, until paging identifiers corresponding to any two cards among the paging identifiers corresponding to the M cards are different from each other.

3. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:
in response to determining that the M cards are camped on one and the same cell which is shared by operators corresponding to the M cards, continuing the step of acquiring paging identifiers corresponding to M cards respectively from GUTIs allocated by networks corresponding to the M cards.

4. The method of claim 1 , wherein selecting (N−1) cards from the N cards comprises:
selecting (N−1) cards from the N cards according to service statuses of the N cards.

5. The method of claim 4 , wherein selecting (N−1) cards from the N cards according to service statuses of the N cards comprises:
in response to determining that all the N cards are in a service idle state or all the N cards are processing a non-real-time service, randomly selecting (N−1) cards from the N cards.

6. The method of claim 4 , wherein selecting (N−1) cards from the N cards according to service statuses of the N cards comprises:
in response to determining that one of the N cards is performing a real-time service, selecting, from the N cards, (N−1) cards except the card which is performing the real-time service.

7. The method of claim 4 , wherein selecting (N−1) cards from the N cards according to service statuses of the N cards comprises:
in response to determining that one of the N cards is in a non-service idle state and the remaining (N−1) cards are in the service idle state, selecting the (N−1) cards in the service idle state from the N cards.

8. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium comprising a computer program stored thereon which, when executed by a processor, causes the processor to carry out the information acquisition method of claim 1 .

9. The method of claim 2 , wherein selecting (N−1) cards from the N cards comprises:
selecting (N−1) cards from the N cards according to service statuses of the N cards.

10. The method of claim 3 , wherein selecting (N−1) cards from the N cards comprises:
selecting (N−1) cards from the N cards according to service statuses of the N cards.

11. The method of claim 1 , wherein the step of re-allocating GUTIs is triggered in a manner comprising at least one of:
initiating a re-registration process,
initiating a handover process, or
initiating signaling related to mobility management to trigger the networks to update the GUTIs.

12. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:
in response to determining that paging identifiers corresponding to any two cards among the paging identifiers corresponding to the M cards are different from each other, ending the step of acquiring paging identifiers corresponding to M cards respectively from GUTIs allocated by networks corresponding to the M cards.

13. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:
in response to determining that the M cards are not camped on one and the same cell or the cell is not shared by operators corresponding to the M cards, ending the step of acquiring paging identifiers corresponding to M cards respectively from GUTIs allocated by networks corresponding to the M cards.

14. An electronic device, comprising:
at least one processor; and
a storage device storing at least one program which, when executed by the at least one processor, causes the at least one processor to carry out an information acquisition method, the information acquisition method comprising:
acquiring paging identifiers corresponding to M cards respectively from global unique temporary user equipment identities (GUTIs) allocated by networks corresponding to the M cards; wherein M is an integer greater than or equal to 2; and
in response to determining that paging identifiers corresponding to N cards among the paging identifiers corresponding to the M cards are the same, selecting (N−1) cards from the N cards and triggering networks corresponding to the selected (N−1) cards to re-allocate GUTIs; wherein N is an integer greater than or equal to 2 and less than or equal to M.

15. A terminal device, comprising:
at least two card slots for accommodating cards;
at least one processor; and
a storage device storing at least one program which, when executed by the at least one processor, causes the at least one processor to carry out an information acquisition method, the information acquisition method comprising:
acquiring paging identifiers corresponding to M cards respectively from global unique temporary user equipment identities (GUTIs) allocated by networks corresponding to the M cards;
wherein M is an integer greater than or equal to 2; and

in response to determining that paging identifiers corresponding to N cards among the paging identifiers corresponding to the M cards are the same, selecting (N−1) cards from the N cards and triggering networks corresponding to the selected (N−1) cards to re-allocate GUTIs;
wherein N is an integer greater than or equal to 2 and less than or equal to M.

Assignees

• Zte Corp

Inventors

• Gao Minggang
• Ni Qingyu
• Ding Xuemei
• Wei Mingye

Classifications

• H04W68/00

  User notification, e.g. alerting and paging, for incoming communication, change of service or the like · CPC title

• H04W76/27

  Transitions between radio resource control [RRC] states · CPC title

• H04W68/005

  Transmission of information for alerting of incoming communication · CPC title

• H04W8/26

  Network addressing or numbering for mobility support · CPC title

• H04W8/183 Primary

  Processing at user equipment or user record carrier · CPC title