Method for increasing paging response speed of terminal and terminal

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-12464495-B2
Application number	US-202117801472-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Mar 5, 2021
Priority date	Jun 23, 2020
Publication date	Nov 4, 2025
Grant date	Nov 4, 2025

Abstract

A method for improving a paging response speed of a user equipment (UE), includes: camping, by the UE on a first cell of a first network, the UE being in an RRC connected state; when a first preset condition is met, sending, by an access network device, a first message to the UE, the first message being used to indicate the UE to enter an RRC inactive state; recording, by the access network device, that the UE is in an RRC inactive state; and in response to the first message that is received, entering, by the UE, the RRC inactive state; and when a second preset condition is met, camping, by the UE, on a second cell of the first network, where the UE is in an RRC inactive state, and the first cell and the second cell are the same or different.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1 . A method for increasing a paging response speed of user equipment (UE), comprising:
camping, by the UE, on a first cell of a first network, wherein the UE is in a Radio Resource Control (RRC) connected state; in response to an indication for switching to an RRC inactive state that is received from an access network device, entering, by the UE, the RRC inactive state; and when a preset condition is met, detecting a second cell of the first network that meets a camping condition and camping, by the UE, on the second cell of the first network, wherein the UE stays in an RRC inactive state, and the first cell and the second cell are different; wherein the preset condition comprises: the UE is powered off and then restarted, or the UE enables an airplane mode and then disables the airplane mode.

2 . The method according to claim 1 , wherein the camping, by the UE, on the second cell of the first network when the preset condition is met, wherein the UE is in the RRC inactive state, comprises:
after the preset condition is met, camping, by the UE, first on a third cell of a second network, and then on the second cell of the first network, wherein the UE is in the RRC inactive state.

3 . The method according to claim 1 , wherein the camping, by the UE, on the second cell of the first network when the preset condition is met, wherein the UE is in the RRC inactive state, further comprises:
when the UE determines that a signal of the first cell meets cell reselection criteria, reselecting, by the UE, a third cell of a second network first and then the second cell of the first network, wherein the UE is in the RRC inactive state, and a network type of the second network is different from a network type of the first network.

4 . The method according to claim 1 , wherein the camping, by the UE, on the second cell of the first network when the preset condition is met, wherein the UE is in the RRC inactive state, comprises:
when the preset condition is met, camping, by the UE, on the second cell of the first network, wherein the UE does not enter an RRC idle state; or when the preset condition is met, camping, by the UE, on the second cell of the first network, and entering the RRC idle state and then the RRC inactive state.

5 . The method according to claim 1 , wherein after the camping, by the UE, on the second cell of the first network, wherein the UE is in the RRC inactive state, the method further comprises:
in response to first RAN paging that is sent by an access network device and that is received by the UE, resuming, by the UE, an RRC connection to the access network device, and switching from the RRC inactive state to the RRC connected state.

6 . The method according to claim 1 , wherein the method further comprises:
when the UE camps on the second cell of the first network and the UE is in the RRC inactive state, sending, by the UE, a registration request to the access network device; and in response to a registration success response that is received from the access network device, deleting, by the UE, a UE context of the UE in the RRC inactive state, and entering the RRC idle state.

7 . The method according to claim 1 , wherein the method further comprises:
when the UE camps on the second cell of the first network and the UE is in the RRC inactive state, receiving, by the UE, a second message that is sent by the access network device, wherein the second message is used to indicate to the UE to enter the RRC idle state; and deleting, by the UE, the UE context of the UE in the RRC inactive state, and switching to the RRC idle state.

8 . The method according to claim 7 , wherein an indication for entering the RRC idle state comprises release signaling and core network paging, wherein the release signaling does not comprise a suspend configuration.

9 . The method according to claim 1 , wherein the method further comprises:
when the UE camps on the second cell of the first network and the UE is in the RRC inactive state, receiving, by the UE, a user operation; sending, by the UE, an RRC connection resume request to the access network device; switching, by the UE, from the RRC inactive state to the RRC connected state; and sending, by the UE, uplink data to the access network device.

10 . A UE (user equipment), comprising a processor and a memory, wherein the memory is coupled to the processor, the memory is configured to store computer program codes, the computer program codes comprise computer instructions, wherein when the computer instructions are executed the processor reads the computer instructions from the memory, the UE is caused to perform operations of the UE according to claim 1 .

11 . A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium, comprising computer instructions, wherein when the computer instructions are executed on an electronic device, the electronic device is caused to perform the method for increasing the paging response speed of the UE according to claim 1 .

12 . A system on chip, comprising one or more processors, wherein when instructions are executed by the one or more processors, the one or more processors perform the method for increasing a paging response speed of the UE according to claim 1 .

Assignees

• Honor Device Co Ltd

Inventors

• Sui Feifei
• Kong Lingshuai
• Yang Fan
• Yao Qinbo

Classifications

• H04W36/0064

  of control information between different access points · CPC title

• H04W76/27

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

• Y02D30/70

  in wireless communication networks · CPC title

• H04W68/06

  using multi-step notification by changing the notification area · CPC title

• H04W68/04

  multi-step notification using statistical or historical mobility data · CPC title