US 11,838,810 B2
Report NSA/SA NR indicator
Parisa Pakniat, Norrkoping (SE); Icaro L. J. Da Silva, Solna (SE); and Gunnar Mildh, Sollentuna (SE)
Assigned to TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON (PUBL), Stockholm (SE)
Filed by TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON (PUBL), Stockholm (SE)
Filed on Oct. 18, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/968,715.
Application 17/968,715 is a continuation of application No. 17/147,706, filed on Jan. 13, 2021.
Application 17/147,706 is a continuation of application No. 16/479,486, granted, now 10,911,993, issued on Feb. 2, 2021, previously published as PCT/EP2018/077572, filed on Oct. 10, 2018.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/570,341, filed on Oct. 10, 2017.
Prior Publication US 2023/0044100 A1, Feb. 9, 2023
This patent is subject to a terminal disclaimer.
Int. Cl. H04W 36/00 (2009.01); H04W 92/20 (2009.01)
CPC H04W 36/0061 (2013.01) [H04W 36/0083 (2013.01); H04W 92/20 (2013.01)] 8 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A host computer, comprising:
processing circuitry configured to provide user data; and
a communication interface in communication with the processing circuitry, the communication interface configured to initiate a transmission of the user data to a cellular network, the cellular network comprising a serving base station of a serving cell serving a user equipment (UE) and a neighbor base station of a neighbor cell, wherein
the neighbor base station comprises a radio interface, memory configured to store instructions and processing circuitry configured to execute the instructions, wherein the neighbor base station is configured to:
transmit network support information associated with the neighbor cell, wherein the network support information indicates that the neighbor cell supports a Stand-Alone (SA) mode of operation and/or a Non-Stand-Alone (NSA) mode of operation, and wherein, if the neighbor cell supports the SA mode of operation, then the neighbor cell has a control plane connection to a core network, and, if the neighbor cell supports the NSA mode operation, then the neighbor cell is operable to rely on a serving network node as a master node, and
the UE is configured such that, after receiving the network support information transmitted by the neighbor base station, the UE transmits to the serving base station a report comprising i) identification information associated with the neighbor cell and ii) the network support information indicating that the neighbor cell supports the SA mode of operation and/or the NSA mode of operation.