US 11,838,954 B2
Terminal device, infrastructure equipment, methods and integrated circuitry
Brian Alexander Martin, Basingstoke (GB); and Anders Berggren, Lundavägen (SE)
Assigned to SONY GROUP CORPORATION, Tokyo (JP); and SONY MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS INC., Tokyo (JP)
Filed by Sony Group Corporation, Tokyo (JP); and Sony Mobile Communications Inc., Tokyo (JP)
Filed on Oct. 18, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/503,423.
Application 17/503,423 is a continuation of application No. 16/077,282, granted, now 11,153,910, previously published as PCT/EP2017/051086, filed on Jan. 19, 2017.
Claims priority of application No. 16155580 (EP), filed on Feb. 12, 2016.
Prior Publication US 2022/0039173 A1, Feb. 3, 2022
This patent is subject to a terminal disclaimer.
Int. Cl. H04W 74/08 (2009.01); H04W 88/02 (2009.01)
CPC H04W 74/0833 (2013.01) [H04W 88/02 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method of controlling a terminal device for use with a wireless telecommunications network, the method comprising:
storing ancillary information not essential to every connection between the terminal device and the wireless telecommunications network;
producing data indicative of the stored ancillary information;
transmitting the produced data to the wireless telecommunication network;
receiving an indication from the wireless telecommunication network to transmit the ancillary information to the wireless telecommunication network;
determining, in accordance with whether the ancillary information requires security, whether to transmit the ancillary information using a control plane solution or a user plane solution; and
transmitting the ancillary information using a determined one of the control plane solution or the user plane solution.