US 12,114,235 B2 · Short Message service ability updating method, device and apparatus

Abstract

Disclosed in the present application are a short message service (SMS) ability updating method, device and apparatus. The method includes a mobility management function receives a triggering condition of an SMS function/a user data management function, and/or, the mobility management function determines that SMS over NAS ability update needs to be triggered; the mobility management function updates the SMS over NAS ability of a UE. By using the present application, when a mobility management function receives a triggering condition of an SMS function/a user data management function, and/or, the mobility management function determines that SMS over NAS ability update needs to be triggered, the mobility management function updates the SMS over NAS ability of the UE. The SMS over NAS ability update can be triggered by means of a network side, thereby preventing the UE from making an erroneous SMS transmission attempt.

Claims16

Dependent claims

A method for updating Short Message service, SMS, over Non Access Stratum, NAS, support capability of a User Equipment (UE), comprising:

determining, by an access and mobility management function (AMF), that SMS over NAS support capability update needs to be triggered;
and
updating, by the AMF, SMS over NAS support capability of the UE;
wherein the updating, by the AMF, SMS over NAS support capability of the UE comprises:
triggering, by the AMF, through a configuration update procedure, the UE to initiate a registration update procedure to update the SMS over NAS support capability;
or
updating, by the AMF, the SMS over NAS support capability of the UE through a configuration update procedure.

4 more elements

An access and mobility management function (AMF), comprising:

a processor and a memory;
wherein the processor is configured to read programs in the memory to execute the following:
determining that Short Message service, SMS, over Non Access Stratum, NAS, support capability update needs to be triggered;
updating SMS over NAS support capability of a user equipment (UE);
wherein the updating of the SMS over NAS support capability of the UE comprises:
triggering through a configuration update procedure, the UE to initiate a registration update procedure to update the SMS over NAS support capability;
or
updating the SMS over NAS support capability of the UE through a configuration update procedure.

5 more elements

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application

18/076,402Filed 7 Dec 2022 · continuation

Priority

CN 201810339633.316 Apr 2018

Published

US 2023/0098825 A130 Mar 2023

Granted

8 Oct 2024

Term ends

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Classification8 codes

H04W 4/14
Messaging; Mailboxes; Announcements: short messaging services, e.g. short message services [SMS] or unstructured supplementary service data [USSD]
H04W 8/24
Processing or transfer of terminal data, e.g. status or physical capabilities: transfer of terminal data
H04W 8/02
Network data management: processing of mobility data, e.g. registration information at HLR [Home Location Register] or VLR [Visitor Location…
H04W 8/18
Network data management: processing of user or subscriber data, e.g. subscribed services, user preferences or user profiles; Transfer of user or…

Family

PCT/CN2019/078158Parent of this continuation · filed 14 Mar 2019

US 2023/0098825 A1Pre-grant publication · published 30 Mar 2023

Application17/048,101Parent of this continuation

US 2021/0168571 A1Published application

US 12,114,235 B2This patent

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