US 11,895,620 B2
Next generation Node-B (GNB) and methods to indicate a type of access for paging of a user equipment (UE)
Alexandre Saso Stojanovski, Paris (FR); and Alexander Sirotkin, Tel-Aviv (IL)
Assigned to Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US)
Filed by Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US)
Filed on Oct. 18, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/967,982.
Application 17/967,982 is a continuation of application No. 17/017,301, filed on Sep. 10, 2020, granted, now 11,496,993.
Application 17/017,301 is a continuation of application No. 16/408,265, filed on May 9, 2019, granted, now 10,813,075, issued on Oct. 20, 2020.
Application 16/408,265 is a continuation of application No. 16/245,089, filed on Jan. 10, 2019, granted, now 10,820,297, issued on Oct. 27, 2020.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/616,955, filed on Jan. 12, 2018.
Prior Publication US 2023/0053774 A1, Feb. 23, 2023
This patent is subject to a terminal disclaimer.
Int. Cl. H04W 68/00 (2009.01); H04W 8/08 (2009.01); H04W 76/28 (2018.01); H04W 80/10 (2009.01); H04W 72/23 (2023.01); H04W 84/12 (2009.01)
CPC H04W 68/005 (2013.01) [H04W 8/08 (2013.01); H04W 72/23 (2023.01); H04W 76/28 (2018.02); H04W 80/10 (2013.01); H04W 84/12 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method, comprising:
by a base station central unit (CU):
receiving a first paging message from an access management function (AMF) entity to initiate paging of a User Equipment (UE), wherein the first paging message includes:
a UE paging identity that identifies the UE; and
a first information element (IE) pertaining to an access type, wherein the first IE indicates whether the paging of the UE pertains to a protocol data unit (PDU) session from a non-Third Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) access network; and
sending a second paging message for transmission to a base station distributed unit (DU), wherein the second paging message includes:
the UE paging identity, and
a second IE pertaining to an access type which indicates whether the paging of the UE pertains to a PDU session from a non-3GPP access network.