# US 12,593,280 B2 · Wake up radio classification > Agents: this data is available as JSON from the patentgrep API and MCP server — see https://patentgrep.com/llms.txt - Number: US 12,593,280 B2 - Document ID: US12593280B2 - Status: Granted - Kind: B2 - Application number: 18/046,483 - Filed: 2022-10-13 - Published: 2024-04-18 - Granted: 2026-03-31 - Earliest claimed: 2022-10-13 - Assignees: QUALCOMM Incorporated - Applicants: QUALCOMM Incorporated - Inventors: Ahmed Elshafie; Linhai He; Huilin Xu; Wei Yang; Yuchul Kim - Web page: https://patentgrep.com/patent/US12593280B2 ## CPC - H04W 52/0235: {where the received signal is a power saving command} - H04W 52/0229: {where the received signal is a wanted signal} - Y02D 30/70: in wireless communication networks - H04W: WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORKS (broadcast communication H04H; communication systems using wireless links for non-selective communication, e.g. wireless extensions H04M1/72) - Y02D: CLIMATE CHANGE MITIGATION TECHNOLOGIES IN INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGIES [ICT], I.E. INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGIES AIMING AT THE REDUCTION OF THEIR OWN ENERGY USE ## Abstract Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may transmit, to a network node, a class indication that indicates a wake up radio (WUR) class associated with the UE, the UE comprising a WUR and a main radio, and the WUR class may correspond to a configuration characteristic of the WUR. The UE may perform a wireless communication action based on the configuration characteristic of the WUR. Numerous other aspects are described. ## Claims ### Claim 1 A user equipment (UE) for wireless communication, comprising: one or more memories; and one or more processors, coupled to the one or more memories, configured to: transmit, to a network node, a class indication that indicates a wake up radio (WUR) class of a WUR associated with the UE, the UE comprising the WUR and a main radio (MR), and the WUR class corresponding to a configuration characteristic of the WUR, wherein the class indication indicates a power consumption model of the WUR; and perform a wireless communication action based on the configuration characteristic of the WUR. ### Claim 2 (depends on 1) The UE of claim 1, wherein the one or more processors, to transmit the class indication, are configured to transmit the class indication using the WUR. ### Claim 3 (depends on 1) The UE of claim 1, the UE comprising a main radio (MR) that is different than the WUR, the one or more processors, to transmit the class indication, are configured to transmit the class indication using the MR. ### Claim 4 (depends on 1) The UE of claim 1, wherein the configuration characteristic corresponds to a UE capability. ### Claim 5 (depends on 4) The UE of claim 4, wherein the UE capability comprises at least one of: a capability for decoding physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) based control signals, a capability for detecting on-off keying (OOK) based control signals, a capability for decoding OOK based control signals, a capability for decoding sequence based control signals, a capability for detecting orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing (OFDM) based reference signals, a capability for detecting OOK based reference signals, a capability for detecting sequence based reference signals, a capability for detecting OFDM based synchronization signals, a capability for detecting OOK based synchronization signals, or a capability for detecting sequence based synchronization signals. ### Claim 6 (depends on 1) The UE of claim 1, wherein the one or more processors, to perform the wireless communication action, are configured to perform a class-based radio resource management (RRM) operation, wherein capability and class-based RRM operation based on at least one of a frequency range, a frequency band, or a frequency band combination. ### Claim 7 (depends on 6) The UE of claim 6, wherein the one or more processors, to perform the class-based RRM operation, are configured to perform a relaxed radio resource management (RRM) operation or offloading one or more RRM operations from the WUR to the MR. ### Claim 8 (depends on 1) The UE of claim 1, wherein the WUR comprises a passive radio frequency identification (RFID) tag radio, wherein the WUR uses an amount of energy from an energy storage unit that satisfies an energy threshold. ### Claim 9 (depends on 1) The UE of claim 1, wherein the WUR comprises a function of the MR, the function corresponding to a semi-passive radio frequency identifier (RFID) tag radio operation. ### Claim 10 (depends on 1) The UE of claim 1, wherein the configuration characteristic of the WUR corresponds to at least one of a radio frequency energy harvesting operation, a solar energy harvesting operation, a thermal energy harvesting operation, a light energy harvesting operation, or a laser energy harvesting operation. ### Claim 11 (depends on 1) The UE of claim 1, wherein the WUR comprises at least one of a semi-active radio frequency identifier (RFID) tag radio or an active RFID tag radio. ### Claim 12 (depends on 1) The UE of claim 1, wherein the WUR comprises at least one of a hardware component of the MR, a software component of the MR, a radio-frequency component of the MR, or a firmware component of the MR. ### Claim 13 (depends on 1) The UE of claim 1, wherein the UE comprises a hybrid radio that includes the WUR and the MR. ### Claim 14 (depends on 1) The UE of claim 1, wherein the configuration characteristic comprises at least one of an energy profile of the WUR or an energy profile of the MR, and wherein the one or more processors, to perform the wireless communication action, are configured to receive a signal having a signal type, wherein the signal type is based on the energy profile. ### Claim 15 (depends on 1) The UE of claim 1, wherein the one or more processors, to perform the wireless communication action, are configured to perform at least one of: an inter-frequency synchronization signal block (SSB) monitoring operation associated with a serving cell, an intra-frequency SSB monitoring operation associated with a serving cell, an inter-frequency SSB monitoring operation associated with a neighbor cell, an intra-frequency SSB monitoring operation associated with a neighbor cell, an inter-frequency radio resource management (RRM) operation associated with a serving cell, an intra-frequency RRM operation associated with a serving cell, an inter-frequency RRM operation associated with a neighbor cell, or an intra-frequency RRM operation associated with a neighbor cell. ### Claim 16 (depends on 1) The UE of claim 1, wherein an operating parameter associated with the wireless communication action is based on the WUR class. ### Claim 17 (depends on 16) The UE of claim 16, wherein the operating parameter comprises at least one of: an expected synchronization time, a minimum periodicity of a synchronization signal, a paging frequency, a modem power associated with a sleep state, a modem power associated with a wake up signal reception state, a power profile of the WUR, a power state, a power consumption associated with a power state, a wake up time based on a wake up indication, a restriction associated with a restricted wake up time, clock information, or a clock accuracy. ### Claim 18 (depends on 16) The UE of claim 16, wherein the configuration characteristic corresponds to a degree of integration between the WUR and the MR, and wherein the operating parameter comprises a switching time associated with switching operation between the WUR and the MR. ### Claim 19 (depends on 1) The UE of claim 1, wherein the one or more processors are further configured to receive an indication of a switching time associated with switching operation between the WUR and the MR. ### Claim 20 (depends on 1) The UE of claim 1, wherein the WUR class is associated with an MR type. ### Claim 21 (depends on 1) The UE of claim 1, wherein the one or more processors, to perform the wireless communication action, are configured to perform the wireless communication action based on a WUR discontinuous reception (DRX) configuration, and wherein the WUR DRX configuration is based on the WUR class. ### Claim 22 (depends on 1) The UE of claim 1, wherein the one or more processors, to perform the wireless communication action, are configured to perform the wireless communication action based on a main radio (MR) discontinuous reception (DRX) configuration, and wherein the MR DRX configuration is based on at least one of the WUR class or a UE class. ### Claim 23 (depends on 1) The UE of claim 1, wherein the configuration characteristic corresponds to at least one of a band, a band combination, a frequency range, a bandwidth part, a bandwidth combination, a component carrier, or a component carrier combination. ### Claim 24 (depends on 1) The UE of claim 1, wherein the one or more processors, to perform the wireless communication action, are configured to perform the wireless communication action based on at least one of a band, a band combination, a frequency range, a bandwidth part, a bandwidth combination, a component carrier, or a component carrier combination. ### Claim 25 A network node for wireless communication, comprising: one or more memories; and one or more processors, coupled to the one or more memories, configured to: receive, from a user equipment (UE), a class indication that indicates a wake up radio (WUR) class of a WUR associated with the UE, the UE comprising the WUR and a main radio (MR), and the WUR class corresponding to a configuration characteristic of the WUR wherein the class indication indicates a power consumption model of the WUR; and perform a wireless communication action based on the configuration characteristic of the WUR. ### Claim 26 (depends on 25) The network node of claim 25, wherein the configuration characteristic corresponds to a UE capability. ### Claim 27 A method of wireless communication performed by an apparatus of a user equipment (UE), comprising: transmitting, to a network node, a class indication that indicates a wake up radio (WUR) class of a WUR associated with the UE, the UE comprising the WUR and a main radio (MR), and the WUR class corresponding to a configuration characteristic of the WUR wherein the class indication indicates a power consumption model of the WUR; and performing a wireless communication action based on the configuration characteristic of the WUR. ### Claim 28 (depends on 27) The method of claim 27, wherein the configuration characteristic corresponds to a UE capability. ### Claim 29 A method of wireless communication performed by an apparatus of a network node, comprising: receiving, from a user equipment (UE), a class indication that indicates a wake up radio (WUR) class of a WUR associated with the UE, the UE comprising the WUR and a main radio (MR), and the WUR class corresponding to a configuration characteristic of the WUR wherein the class indication indicates a power consumption model of the WUR; and performing a wireless communication action based on the configuration characteristic of the WUR. ### Claim 30 (depends on 29) The method of claim 29, wherein the configuration characteristic corresponds to a UE capability.