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US 10,873,924 B2Granted
Paging message transmission method, base station, mobility management entity, and user equipment
AssigneeHuawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
InventorsZheng Yu, Yongqiang Gao, Xingqing Cheng, Fang Nan
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Abstract
A paging message transmission method, a base station, a mobility management entity, and user equipment are provided. In an embodiment, the method includes receiving, by a terminal device, a paging message from a base station, wherein the paging message is sent according to a number of paging attempts on the terminal device performed by a mobility management entity (MME) which initiated paging to the terminal device.
Claims8
An apparatus for initiating a paging to a terminal device, the apparatus comprising:
- a processor;
- and
- a non-transitory memory storing programming for execution by the processor, the programming includes instructions for:
- receiving coverage enhancement information of a base station, wherein the coverage enhancement information of the base station indicates that the base station supports coverage enhancement;
- determining a number of continuous attempts about the terminal device;
- and
- sending a first paging message to the base station, wherein the first paging message comprises the number of continuous attempts on the terminal device, wherein the sending the first paging message to the base station causes the base station to:
- avoid sending, in response to the base station determining that the base station does not support the terminal device, a second paging message to the terminal device;
- and
- send, in response to the base station determining that the base station supports the terminal device, the second paging message to the terminal device by using a coverage enhancement measure, wherein the coverage enhancement measure is determined by the base station, in response to the base station determining that the base station supports coverage enhancement, to be a coverage enhancement selected according to the highest coverage enhancement level supported by the base station and further according to a coverage enhancement level needed by the UE and that is selected according to a number of continuous attempts about the terminal device, and wherein the coverage enhancement measure is determined, by the base station, in response to the base station determining that the base station does not support coverage enhancement, to be transmission without coverage enhancement;
- wherein the base station is located in a tracking area in which the terminal device is located.
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A base station comprising:
- a processor;
- and
- a non-transitory memory storing programming for execution by the processor, the programming includes instructions for:
- receiving a first paging message, wherein the first paging message comprises a number of continuous attempts about a user equipment (UE);
- determining, according to supported-terminal information of the base station, whether the base station supports the UE;
- determining whether the base station supports coverage enhancement;
- determining, in response to determining that the base station supports coverage enhancement, a highest level of coverage enhancement supported by the base station;
- determining, in response to determining that the base station supports coverage enhancement, a coverage enhancement measure to be a coverage enhancement selected according to the highest coverage enhancement level supported by the base station and further according to a coverage enhancement level needed by the UE and that is selected according to the number of continuous attempts about the UE;
- determining, in response to determining that the base station does not support coverage enhancement, the coverage enhancement measure to be transmission without coverage enhancement;
- sending, in response to determining that the base station supports the UE, a second paging message to the UE by using the coverage enhancement measure;
- and
- avoiding sending, in response to determining that the base station does not support the UE, the second paging message to the UE.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.