Method and Apparatus for User Equipment Directed Radio Resource Control in a UMTS Network
AssigneeBlackBerry Limited
InventorsMuhammad Khaledul ISLAM, Jeffrey William WIRTANEN
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Abstract
A method and apparatus for improved battery performance of user equipment in a wireless network having multiple radio resource control (RRC) states, the method comprising the steps of: monitoring, at the user equipment, application data exchange; determining when no application on the user equipment is expected to exchange data; and initiating, from the user equipment, a transition to a less battery demanding radio resource control state or mode.
Claims21
A method performed by a node of a wireless network, the method comprising:
- receiving a release indication message from a user equipment (UE), the connection release indication message indicating that the UE expects no further data;
- and
- initiating based on the release indication message a transition of the UE from a first connected state to a second connected state, wherein the second connected state is more battery efficient than the first connected state.
A node of a wireless network, the node comprising:
- a processor;
- and
- a memory storing instructions which, when executed by the processor, cause the node to perform operations of:
- receiving a release indication message from a user equipment (UE), the connection release indication message indicating that the UE expects no further data;
- and
- initiating based on the release indication message a transition of the UE from a first connected state to a second connected state, wherein the second connected state is more battery efficient than the first connected state.
A non-transitory computer readable medium storing instructions to cause a processor to perform operations comprising:
- receiving a release indication message from a user equipment (UE), the connection release indication message indicating that the UE expects no further data;
- and
- initiating based on the release indication message a transition of the UE from a first connected state to a second connected state, wherein the second connected state is more battery efficient than the first connected state.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.