US 2021/0176729 A1 · TERMINAL DEVICE GROUPING METHOD, RELATED APPARATUS, AND SYSTEM

Abstract

This application discloses a terminal device grouping method. The method may include: First, a network device groups, one or more times according to a grouping rule, terminal devices associated with a first paging occasion PO. Then, the network device notifies all terminal devices associated with the first PO of the grouping rule and power saving signal receiving location information of each group of terminal devices. Next, the terminal device determines, according to the grouping rule, a group number of a group to which the terminal device belongs, and determines, based on the group number, a power saving signal receiving location corresponding to the group number.

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Dependent claims

A terminal device grouping method, comprising:

grouping, by a network device according to a grouping rule, terminal devices associated with a first paging occasion (PO) one or more times;
and
notifying, by the network device, all terminal devices associated with the first PO of the grouping rule.

A terminal device grouping method, comprising:

receiving, by a first terminal device, a grouping rule used to group terminal devices associated with a first paging occasion (PO) one or more times that are notified by a network device;
determining, by the first terminal device according to the grouping rule, a group number of a group to which the first terminal device belongs.

A communication apparatus, comprising:

a processor, configured to group, one or more times according to a grouping rule, terminal devices associated with a first paging occasion (PO);
and
a transmitter, configured to notify all terminal devices associated with the first PO of the grouping rule obtained through one or more times of grouping by the processor.

A communication apparatus, comprising:

a receiver, configured to receive a grouping rule used to group terminal devices associated with a first paging occasion (PO) one or more times that are notified by a network device;
and
a processor, configured to:
determine, according to the grouping rule received by the receiver, a group number of a group to which a first terminal device belongs.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application

17/176,830Filed 16 Feb 2021

Priority

CN 201810947642.017 Aug 2018

Published

10 Jun 2021

Term ends

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Classification7 codes

H04W 68/005
User notification, e.g. alerting and paging, for incoming communication, change of service or the like: transmission of information for alerting…
H04W 52/0235
Where the received signal is a wanted signal: where the received signal is a power saving command
H04W 68/02
User notification, e.g. alerting and paging, for incoming communication, change of service or the like: arrangements for increasing efficiency of…
H04W 76/28
Manipulation of established connections: discontinuous transmission [DTX]; Discontinuous reception [DRX]

Terminal device grouping method, related apparatus, and system

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Terminal device grouping method, related apparatus, and system

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Abstract

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