US 11,985,626 B2
Paging cause determination for an inactive device in a 5G system
Alexandre Stojanovski, Paris (FR)
Assigned to Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US)
Appl. No. 17/309,336
Filed by Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US)
PCT Filed Nov. 18, 2019, PCT No. PCT/US2019/061971
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date May 19, 2021,
PCT Pub. No. WO2020/106611, PCT Pub. Date May 28, 2020.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/769,312, filed on Nov. 19, 2018.
Prior Publication US 2021/0392616 A1, Dec. 16, 2021
Int. Cl. H04W 68/02 (2009.01); H04W 52/02 (2009.01); H04W 68/00 (2009.01); H04W 88/06 (2009.01)
CPC H04W 68/02 (2013.01) [H04W 52/0209 (2013.01); H04W 68/005 (2013.01); H04W 88/06 (2013.01)] 16 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An apparatus of a next generation NodeB (gNB), comprising:
radio frequency circuitry configured to communicate with a user equipment (UE); and
one or more baseband processors communicatively coupled to the radio frequency circuitry and configured to perform operations comprising:
receiving a downlink (DL) Protocol Data Unit (PDU) from a User Plane Function (UPF) for the UE in a Radio Resource Control Inactive (RRC_INACTIVE) state, wherein the DL PDU includes a paging policy indicator (PPI) and a Paging Cause to indicate to the UE a reason for a page; and
sending the Paging Cause in a paging message to the UE.