Terminal device, infrastructure equipment, methods and integrated circuitry
AssigneesSony Corporation, Sony Mobile Communications Inc.
InventorsBrian Alexander Martin, Anders Berggren
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Abstract
A terminal device for use with a wireless telecommunications network, the terminal device comprising: storage configured to store ancillary information not essential to every connection between the terminal device and the wireless telecommunications network; a controller configured to produce data indicative of the stored ancillary information; a transmitter configured to transmit the produced data to the wireless telecommunication network; and a receiver configured to receive an indication from the wireless telecommunication network to transmit the ancillary information to the wireless telecommunication network, wherein in response to the indication, the transmitter is configured to transmit the ancillary information.
Claims20
A terminal device for use with a wireless telecommunications network having a network environment, the terminal device comprising:
- circuitry configured to
- store ancillary information not essential to every connection between the terminal device and the wireless telecommunications network, wherein the ancillary information is information such that failure to provide the ancillary information will not terminate a connection between the terminal device and the wireless telecommunications network;
- produce data indicative of the stored ancillary information;
- transmit the produced data to the wireless telecommunication network;
- and
- receive an indication from the wireless telecommunication network to transmit the ancillary information to the wireless telecommunication network and of whether to transmit the ancillary information using a control plane solution without security or a user plane solution with said security in accordance with whether a secure connection with the network is needed, wherein in response to the indication, the circuitry is configured to transmit the ancillary information in accordance with the indication.
Infrastructure equipment for use with a wireless telecommunications network having a network environment, the infrastructure equipment comprising:
- circuitry configured to
- receive indicative data from a terminal device indicating that the terminal device has stored ancillary information not essential to every connection between the terminal device and the wireless telecommunications network, wherein the ancillary information is information such that failure to provide the ancillary information will not terminate a connection between the terminal device and the wireless telecommunications network;
- determine whether to request the ancillary information from the terminal device;
- determine whether the ancillary information should be transmitted using a control plane solution without security or a user plane solution with said security in accordance with whether a secure connection with the network is needed;
- transmit a request for the stored ancillary information;
- and
- receive the ancillary information.
An integrated circuitry for a terminal device for use with a wireless telecommunications network having a network environment, the integrated circuitry comprising:
- integrated circuitry configured to
- store ancillary information not essential to every connection of the terminal device, wherein the ancillary information is information such that failure to provide the ancillary information will not terminate a connection between the terminal device and the wireless telecommunications network;
- produce data indicative of the stored ancillary information;
- transmit the produced data to the wireless telecommunication network;
- and
- receive an indication to transmit the ancillary information and of whether to transmit the ancillary information using a control plane solution without security or a user plane solution with said security in accordance with whether a secure connection with the network is needed, wherein in response to the indication, the circuitry is configured to transmit the ancillary information accordance with the indication.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.