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US 11,638,235 B2Granted
Indicating properties of a user equipment to a network control node
AssigneeNokia Technologies Oy
InventorsSeau Sian Lim, Sudeep Palat, Shin Horng Wong
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Abstract
A method, computer program, network control node, user equipment and base station are disclosed which allow a wireless communication network to support different types of user equipment which have particular signalling requirements. In particular, low complexity devices that require signals having low transport block sizes and those that require a coverage enhanced mode where messages are repeated are supported. Information regarding their particular capabilities are transmitted to and stored in the network control node which then transmits this information as paging information with any paging request.
Claims12
A method comprising:
- receiving, at a network control node relayed from at least one of a plurality of base stations, a static indication as to whether a user equipment supports a coverage enhanced mode utilizing repetition of some messaging to increase coverage;
- receiving, at the network control node relayed from the at least one plurality of base stations, a dynamic indication as to whether the user equipment is currently in an area requiring the coverage enhanced mode that utilises repetition of some messaging to increase coverage,
- storing said static and dynamic indications as paging property information for said user equipment at said network control node;
- and
- transmitting said paging property information to at least one of said base stations when instructing paging of said user equipment that is currently in idle mode.
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An apparatus comprising:
- at least one processor;
- and
- at least one memory including computer program code;
- the at least one memory and the computer program code configured to, with the at least one processor, cause the apparatus at least to perform:
- receiving, relayed from at least one of a plurality of base stations a static indication as to whether a user equipment supports a coverage enhanced mode requiring utilising repetition of some messaging to increase coverage,
- receive, relayed from the at least one of the plurality the base stations, a dynamic indication as to whether the user equipment is currently in an area requiring said coverage enhanced mode utilising repetition of some messaging to increase coverage,
- store said static and dynamic indications as paging property information for said user equipment, and
- transmit said paging property information to at least one of said base stations when instructing paging of said user equipment that is currently in idle mode.
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A method comprising:
- receiving, at a network control node relayed from at least one of a plurality of base stations, a static indication of static information as to whether a user equipment supports a coverage enhanced mode that utilises repetition of some messaging to increase coverage,
- based on whether the user equipment supports the coverage enhanced mode, receiving, at the network control node relayed from the at least one of the plurality of base stations, dynamic indication of dynamic information as to whether the user equipment is currently in an area requiring the coverage enhanced mode;
- in response to the static indication indicating that the user equipment supports the coverage enhanced mode, storing said static and indications as paging property information for said user equipment at said network control node;
- and
- transmitting said paging property information to at least one of said base stations when instructing paging of said user equipment that is currently in idle mode.
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An apparatus comprising:
- at least one processor;
- and
- at least one memory including computer program code;
- the at least one memory and the computer program code configured to, with the at least one processor, cause the apparatus at least to perform:
- receive, at a network control node relayed from at least one of a plurality of base stations, a static indication of static information as to whether a user equipment supports a coverage enhanced mode that utilises repetition of some messaging to increase coverage,
- based on whether the user equipment supports the coverage enhanced mode, receiving at the network control node relayed from the at least one of the plurality of base stations a dynamic indication of dynamic information as to whether the user equipment is currently in an area requiring the coverage enhanced mode,
- in response to the static indication indicating that the user equipment supports the coverage enhanced mode, store said static and dynamic indications as paging property information for said user equipment at said network control node, and
- transmit said paging property information to at least one of said base stations when instructing paging of said user equipment that is currently in idle mode.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.