US 11,895,706 B2
Methods, communications device and infrastructure equipment
Shin Horng Wong, Basingstoke (GB); and Martin Warwick Beale, Basingstoke (GB)
Assigned to SONY CORPORATION, Tokyo (JP)
Appl. No. 17/276,158
Filed by Sony Corporation, Tokyo (JP)
PCT Filed Sep. 24, 2019, PCT No. PCT/EP2019/075723
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Mar. 15, 2021,
PCT Pub. No. WO2020/064739, PCT Pub. Date Apr. 2, 2020.
Claims priority of application No. 18197768 (EP), filed on Sep. 28, 2018.
Prior Publication US 2021/0274563 A1, Sep. 2, 2021
Int. Cl. H04W 74/08 (2009.01); H04W 68/02 (2009.01)
CPC H04W 74/0833 (2013.01) [H04W 68/02 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method of operating a communications device for transmitting user plane data to a wireless communications network via a wireless access interface provided by a cell of the wireless communications network when the communications device is not in an active radio resource connected mode, the method comprising
transmitting the user plane data using one of a preconfigured set of uplink radio resources of the wireless access interface and a scheduled random access procedure message, and
monitoring a preconfigured set of downlink radio resources of the wireless access interface for a downlink signal, the preconfigured set of downlink radio resources being provided in response to the transmitted user plane data.