Session establishment method, relay device selection method, registration method, and device

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-12464446-B2
Application number	US-202217662525-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	May 9, 2022
Priority date	Apr 25, 2018
Publication date	Nov 4, 2025
Grant date	Nov 4, 2025

Abstract

Embodiments of this application relate to the field of communications technologies, and disclose a session establishment method, and a user equipment. The method may include: receiving, by a relay device, a reconfiguration request message sent by an access network device, wherein the reconfiguration request message comprises data resource bearer (DRB) configuration information and an identity of user equipment (UE), wherein the DRB configuration information is information about a DRB corresponding to single-network slice selection assistance information (S-NSSAI) requested by the UE; and transmitting, by the relay device, signaling and/or data of the UE on the DRB corresponding to the DRB configuration information.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1 . A session establishment method by an access network device, comprising:
receiving, by the access network device from a user equipment (UE), a first message sent comprising a first session establishment request message and single-network slice selection assistance information (S-NSSAI) that is requested by the UE; in response to that no session data resource bearer (DRB) corresponding to the S-NSSAI requested by the UE is established for a relay device associated with the UE, in the S-NSSAI requested by the UE, receiving, by the access network device from the relay device, a second message comprising a session establishment request message and the S-NSSAI that is requested by the UE sending, by the access network device to the relay device, a third reconfiguration request message indicating the relay device to establish the DRB; sending, by the access network device to the UE, a first reconfiguration request message comprising a first session establishment response message and data resource bearer (DRB) configuration information, wherein the DRB configuration information is information about the DRB corresponding to the S-NSSAI; and sending, by the access network device to the relay device, a second reconfiguration request message comprising the DRB configuration information and an identity of the UE.

2 . A session establishment method by a relay device,
comprising: receiving, by the relay device from a user equipment (UE), a first request message comprising single-network slice selection assistance information (S-NSSAI) requested by the UE; in response to determining that no session is established for the relay device in the S-NSSAI requested by the UE, sending, by the relay device to an access network device, a second message comprising a session establishment request message and the S-NSSAI that is requested by the UE; and sending, by the relay device to the UE, a first response message comprising first indication information indicating that the relay device has successfully established a session in the S-NSSAI; receiving, by the relay device from the access network device, a reconfiguration request message comprising data resource bearer (DRB) configuration information and an identity of user equipment (UE), wherein the DRB configuration information is information about a DRB corresponding to the single-network slice selection assistance information (S-NSSAI) requested by the UE; and transmitting, by the relay device, signaling and/or data of the UE on the DRB corresponding to the DRB configuration information.

3 . The session establishment method according to claim 2 , wherein before the sending, by the relay device, the first response message to the UE, the method further comprises:
receiving, by the relay device from the access network device, a fourth reconfiguration request message comprising a second session establishment response message.

4 . A session establishment method by a user equipment (UE), comprising:
sending, by the user equipment (UE) to a relay device, a first request message comprising single-network slice selection assistance information (S-NSSAI) requested by the UE; receiving, by the UE from the relay device, a first response message comprising first indication information indicating that the relay device has successfully established a session in the S-NSSAI; sending, by the user equipment (UE), a first message to the access network device, wherein the first message comprises a first session establishment request message and the single-network slice selection assistance information (S-NSSAI) that is requested by the UE; receiving, by the UE, a first reconfiguration request message sent by the access network device, wherein the first reconfiguration request message comprises a first session establishment response message and data resource bearer (DRB) configuration information, wherein the DRB configuration information is information about a DRB corresponding to the S-NSSAI; and transmitting, by the UE, signaling and/or data on the DRB corresponding to the DRB configuration information.

Assignees

• Huawei Tech Co Ltd

Inventors

• Yang Haorui
• Jin Hui
• Dou Fenghui
• Duan Xiaoyan
• Li Xiaojuan
• Ouyang Guowei

Classifications

• H04W60/00

  Affiliation to network, e.g. registration; Terminating affiliation with the network, e.g. de-registration · CPC title

• H04W48/16

  Discovering, processing access restriction or access information · CPC title

• H04W8/08

  Mobility data transfer · CPC title

• H04W76/10

  Connection setup · CPC title

• H04W88/04

  adapted for relaying to or from another terminal or user · CPC title