US 11,956,828 B2
Sensor-data batching for efficient early data
Tuomas Tirronen, Helsinki (FI); and Ari Keränen, Helsinki (FI)
Assigned to Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ), Stockholm (SE)
Appl. No. 16/975,596
Filed by Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ), Stockholm (SE)
PCT Filed Feb. 25, 2019, PCT No. PCT/EP2019/054577
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Aug. 25, 2020,
PCT Pub. No. WO2019/162495, PCT Pub. Date Aug. 29, 2019.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/635,027, filed on Feb. 26, 2018.
Prior Publication US 2020/0396772 A1, Dec. 17, 2020
Int. Cl. H04W 74/08 (2009.01); H04W 4/38 (2018.01); H04W 4/70 (2018.01); H04W 72/04 (2023.01); H04W 72/1263 (2023.01); H04W 74/0833 (2024.01)
CPC H04W 74/0833 (2013.01) [H04W 4/38 (2018.02); H04W 4/70 (2018.02); H04W 72/04 (2013.01); H04W 72/1263 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method of operating a user equipment, UE, that is operating in a network, the method comprising:
determining whether the UE and/or an application that is running on the UE is using or planning to use an early data transmission, EDT, to transmit sensor data via the network;
responsive to determining that the UE and/or the application that is running on the UE is using or planning to use the EDT, informing the application of configuration parameters corresponding to the EDT; and
altering, by the application and based on the configuration parameters corresponding to the EDT, properties of the sensor data, that is provided to the UE for transmission to the network, to include revised sensor data, wherein the altering comprises omitting non-essential metadata when sensor data size is larger than available early data transmission size so that the non-essential metadata is not transmitted.