Radio access fallback for internet protocol multimedia subsystem registration

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-2023073098-A1
Application number	US-202217877862-A
Country	US
Kind code	A1
Filing date	Jul 29, 2022
Priority date	Sep 3, 2021
Publication date	Mar 9, 2023
Grant date	—

Abstract

The present application relates to devices and components including apparatus, systems, and methods for IMS registration in wireless networks.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1 . One or more non-transitory, computer-readable media having instructions that, when executed by one or more processors, cause a user equipment (UE) to:
determine new radio (NR) access is blocked based on an Internet protocol multimedia subsystem (IMS) registration over NR failure; and unblock NR access and retry IMS registration over NR based on said determination that NR access is blocked based on the IMS registration over NR failure.

2 . The one or more non-transitory, computer-readable media of claim 1 , wherein the instructions, when executed, further cause the UE to:
start a blocking timer based on said determination that NR access is blocked based on the IMS registration over NR failure; detect an expiration of the blocking timer; and unblock NR access and retry IMS registration over NR based further on etection of the expiration of the blocking timer.

3 . The one or more non-transitory, computer-readable media of claim 1 , wherein the instructions, when executed, further cause the UE to:
successfully perform IMS registration over Long Term Evolution (LTE).

4 . The one or more non-transitory, computer-readable media of claim 3 , wherein the instructions, when executed, further cause the UE to:
determine, based on successful performance of the IMS registration over LTE, a retry counter is equal to zero, the retry counter to track a number of times retries of the IMS registration over NR is unsuccessful; and unblock NR access and retry IMS registration over NR based further on said determination that the retry counter is equal to zero.

5 . The one or more non-transitory, computer-readable media of claim 3 , wherein the instructions, when executed, further cause the UE to:
3 determine, based on successful performance of the IMS registration over LTE, a retry counter is not equal to zero and is less than a predetermined threshold, the retry counter to track a number of times retries of the IMS registration over NR is unsuccessful; determine an LTE cell has changed; and unblock NR access and retry IMS registration over NR based further on said determination that the retry counter is not equal to zero and is less than the predetermined threshold and said determination that the LTE cell has changed.

6 . An apparatus comprising:
a transceiver to communicate with a radio network using a first radio-access technology (RAT); and processing circuitry, coupled with the transceiver, the processing circuitry to determine access to the first RAT is blocked based on an Internet protocol multimedia subsystem (IMS) registration over the first RAT failure; and unblock access to the first RAT and retry IMS registration over the first RAT based on said determination that access to the first RAT is blocked based on the IMS registration over the first RAT failure.

7 . The apparatus of claim 6 , wherein the processing circuitry is further to:
start a blocking timer based on said determination that access to the first RAT is blocked based on the IMS registration over the first RAT failure; detect an expiration of the blocking timer; and unblock access to the first RAT and retry IMS registration over the first RAT based further on detection of the expiration of the blocking timer.

8 . The apparatus of claim 6 , wherein the processing circuity is further to:
successfully perform IMS registration over a second RAT.

9 . The apparatus of claim 8 , wherein the processing circuitry is further to:
determine, based on successful performance of the IMS registration over the second RAT, a retry counter is equal to zero, the retry counter to track a number of times retries of the IMS registration over the first RAT is unsuccessful; and unblock access to the first RAT and retry IMS registration over the first RAT based further on said determination that the retry counter is equal to zero.

10 . The apparatus of claim 8 , wherein the processing circuitry is further to:
determine, based on successful performance of the IMS registration over the second RAT, a retry counter is not equal to zero and is less than a predetermined threshold, the retry counter to track a number of times retries of the IMS registration over the first RAT is unsuccessful; determine a cell of the second RAT has changed; and unblock access to the first RAT and retry IMS registration over the first RAT based further on said determination that the retry counter is not equal to zero and is less than the predetermined threshold and said determination that the cell of the second RAT has changed.

11 . A method of operating a user equipment (UE), the method comprising:
determining an Internet protocol multimedia subsystem (IMS) registration over New Radio (NR) is not successful for a predetermined period of time; initiating an NR release based on said determining; and attempting to perform an IMS registration over Long Term Evolution (LTE) based on said determining.

12 . The method of claim 11 , wherein the predetermined period of time is 30 seconds.

13 . The method of claim 11 , further comprising:
successfully performing the IMS registration over LTE; and blocking NR access based on said successfully performing the IMS registration over LTE.

14 . The method of claim 13 , further comprising:
determining a retry counter is equal to zero, the retry counter to track a number of times retries of an IMS registration over NR is unsuccessful; and unblocking NR access and retrying IMS registration over NR based on said determining the retry counter is equal to zero.

15 . The method of claim 14 , further comprising:
determining retrying IMS registration over NR is unsuccessful; and based on said determining the retrying IMS registration over NR is unsuccessful, incrementing the retry counter and blocking NR access.

16 . The method of claim 15 , wherein retrying IMS registration over NR includes performing an LTE-to-NR reselection and the method further comprises:
attempting an IMS registration over LTE based on said determining the retrying IMS registration over NR is unsuccessful.

17 . The method of claim 13 , further comprising:
determining a retry counter is not equal to zero and is less than a predetermined threshold of retry attempts, the retry counter to track a number of times retries of an IMS registration over NR is unsuccessful; detecting, based on said determining the retry counter is less than the predetermined threshold, an LTE cell change; and unblocking NR access and retrying IMS registration over NR based on said detecting the LTE cell change.

18 . The method of claim 17 , wherein the predetermined threshold is three.

19 . The method of claim 13 , further comprising:
starting or restarting a blocking timer after said blocking NR access; determining a retry counter is not equal to zero and is not less than a predetermined threshold of retry attempts, the retry counter to track a number of times retries of an IMS registration over NR is unsuccessful; detecting, based on determining the retry counter is not less than the predetermined threshold, an expiration of the blocking timer; and unblocking NR access and retrying IMS registration over NR based on said detecting of the expiration of the blocking timer.

20 . The method of claim 19 , further comprising:
setting a value of the blocking timer to twelve minutes.

Assignees

• Apple Inc

Inventors

• Akhtar Mohammad H
• Kavuri Lakshmi N
• Haidara Mohamed L
• Rahim Syed A
• Thareja Rohit
• Zhong Yong
• Prabakar Sairamm

Classifications

• H04L65/1073

  Registration or de-registration · CPC title

• H04W60/005 Primary

  Multiple registrations, e.g. multihoming · CPC title

• H04L65/1016 Primary

  IP multimedia subsystem [IMS] · CPC title