# US 11,310,728 B2 · Management of system information area > Agents: this data is available as JSON from the patentgrep API and MCP server — see https://patentgrep.com/llms.txt - Number: US 11,310,728 B2 - Document ID: US11310728B2 - Status: Granted - Kind: B2 - Application number: 16/978,544 - Filed: 2018-04-04 - Published: 2021-01-28 - Granted: 2022-04-19 - Earliest claimed: 2018-04-04 - Assignees: Nokia Technologies Oy - Applicants: Nokia Technologies Oy - Inventors: Ahmad Awada; Ingo Viering - Web page: https://patentgrep.com/patent/US11310728B2 ## CPC - H04W 48/16: Discovering, processing access restriction or access information - H04W 24/10: Scheduling measurement reports {; Arrangements for measurement reports} - H04W 28/16: Central resource management; Negotiation of resources or communication parameters, e.g. negotiating bandwidth or QoS [Quality of Service] - H04W 72/0446: Resources in time domain, e.g. slots or frames - H04W: WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORKS (broadcast communication H04H; communication systems using wireless links for non-selective communication, e.g. wireless extensions H04M1/72) ## Abstract Method, apparatus and computer program product able to determining whether a user equipment in a wireless communications network has applied a stored or acquired system information message of a new system information area within a predefined time, where the user equipment replaced a system information message of an initial system information area with a system information message of another system information area or with a cell-specific system information message of another cell. If the new system information area is equivalent to the system information area of the initial system information area, then the system information message for the initial system information area is applied. If the new system information area is different from the system information area of the initial system information area, then a system information message for that different system information area is applied. ## Claims ### Claim 1 A method comprising: determining whether a user equipment, where the user equipment is in a cell of a wireless communications network and where the user equipment replaced a system information message of a first system information area with a system information message of a second system information area or with a cell-specific system information message of another cell, applied a stored or acquired system information message of a third system information area within a predefined time, wherein the predefined time is based on a start and expiration time of a timer by the user equipment, wherein, when the third system information area being the same system information area as the first system information area, the system information message for the first system information area is applied; and wherein, when the third system information area being a different system information area from the first system information area, a system information message for the different system information area is applied. ### Claim 2 (depends on 1) The method of claim 1, where the determining is performed by a network management entity. ### Claim 3 (depends on 1) The method of claim 1, wherein the predefined time is based on timestamps. ### Claim 4 (depends on 3) The method of claim 3, wherein the timestamps comprise indications of system information requests by the user equipment to a serving base station of the user equipment. ### Claim 5 (depends on 4) The method of claim 4, wherein the timestamps indicating the system information requests along with system information messages associated with the requests are forwarded to the network management entity for the network management entity to ascertain the predefined time being met. ### Claim 6 (depends on 1) The method of claim 1, where the determining is performed by the user equipment. ### Claim 7 (depends on 6) The method of claim 6, wherein a timer is started when the user equipment replaces the system information message of the first system information area with the system information message of the second system information area or with the cell-specific system information message of the other cell, and wherein the expiration of the timer is the predefined time. ### Claim 8 (depends on 7) The method of claim 7, wherein if the user equipment replaces a system information message while the timer is running, then the user equipment will stop the timer and create and/or store a report. ### Claim 9 (depends on 8) The method of claim 8, wherein the user equipment sends the created and/or stored report to the network upon receiving a network request. ### Claim 10 (depends on 7) The method of claim 7, wherein when the timer expires, then any report is discarded. ### Claim 11 An apparatus comprising: at least one processor and at least one memory including computer program code, wherein the at least one memory and the computer code are configured, with the at least one processor, to cause the apparatus to at least: determine whether a user equipment, where the user equipment is in a cell of a wireless communications network and where the user equipment replaced a system information message of a first system information area with a system information message of a second system information area or with a cell-specific system information message of another cell, applied a stored or acquired system information message of a third system information area within a predefined time, wherein the predefined time is based on a start and expiration time of a timer by the user equipment, wherein, when the third system information area being the same system information area as the first system information area, the system information message for the first system information area is applied; and wherein, when the third system information area being a different system information area from the first system information area, a system information message for the different system information area is applied. ### Claim 12 (depends on 11) The apparatus of claim 11, wherein the apparatus is a network management entity. ### Claim 13 (depends on 11) The apparatus of claim 11, wherein the predefined time is based on timestamps. ### Claim 14 (depends on 13) The apparatus of claim 13, wherein the timestamps comprise indications of system information requests by the user equipment to a serving base station of the user equipment. ### Claim 15 (depends on 14) The apparatus of claim 14, wherein the timestamps indicating the system information requests along with system information messages associated with the requests are forwarded to the network management entity for the network management entity to ascertain the predefined time being met. ### Claim 16 (depends on 11) The apparatus of claim 11, wherein the apparatus is the user equipment. ### Claim 17 (depends on 16) The apparatus of claim 16, wherein a timer is started when the user equipment replaces the system information message of the first system information area with the system information message of the second system information area or with the cell-specific system information message of the other cell, and wherein the expiration of the timer is the predefined time. ### Claim 18 (depends on 17) The apparatus of claim 17, wherein if the user equipment replaces a system information message while the timer is running, then the user equipment will stop the timer and create and/or store a report. ### Claim 19 (depends on 18) The apparatus of claim 18, wherein user equipment sends the created and/or stored report to the network upon receiving a network request. ### Claim 20 (depends on 17) The apparatus of claim 17, wherein when the timer expires, then any report is discarded.