US 12,245,191 B2
Downlink control monitoring operations in wireless communication
Hong He, Sunnyvale, CA (US); Chunhai Yao, Beijing (CN); Chunxuan Ye, San Diego, CA (US); Dawei Zhang, Saratoga, CA (US); Haitong Sun, Cupertino, CA (US); Jie Cui, San Jose, CA (US); Oghenekome Oteri, San Diego, CA (US); Wei Zeng, Saratoga, CA (US); Weidong Yang, San Diego, CA (US); Yang Tang, San Jose, CA (US); Yuchul Kim, San Jose, CA (US); and Yushu Zhang, Beijing (CN)
Assigned to Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US)
Appl. No. 17/442,539
Filed by Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US)
PCT Filed May 14, 2020, PCT No. PCT/CN2020/090275
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Sep. 23, 2021,
PCT Pub. No. WO2021/226938, PCT Pub. Date Nov. 18, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2023/0067433 A1, Mar. 2, 2023
Int. Cl. H04W 68/02 (2009.01); H04W 24/08 (2009.01); H04W 74/0816 (2024.01); H04W 76/28 (2018.01)
CPC H04W 68/02 (2013.01) [H04W 24/08 (2013.01); H04W 74/0816 (2013.01); H04W 76/28 (2018.02)] 15 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A user equipment (UE), comprising:
a transceiver configured to wirelessly communicate with a wireless network; and
a processor, communicatively coupled to the transceiver, configured to:
monitor, using the transceiver, a shared downlink control channel for downlink control information (DCI) in a discontinuous repetition (DRX) cycle, the DCI having a paging message that indicates the UE is to enter a skip paging monitoring mode;
start a paging inactivity timer in response to detecting the paging message in the DRX cycle does not include an address associated with the UE;
skip one or more paging occasions within the DRX cycle in response to an expiration of the paging inactivity timer in the DRX cycle; and
process the paging message in response to detecting the paging message in the DRX cycle includes the address associated with the UE.