US 12,022,418 B2
Establishing a multiple access connection
Yifan Zhu, San Jose, CA (US); Cahya A Masputra, San Jose, CA (US); Krisztian Kiss, Hayward, CA (US); Lakshmi N. Kavuri, Cupertino, CA (US); Srinivasan Nimmala, San Jose, CA (US); Srirang A. Lovlekar, Cupertino, CA (US); Utkarsh Kumar, Fremont, CA (US); and Vijay Venkataraman, San Jose, CA (US)
Assigned to Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US)
Filed by Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US)
Filed on Oct. 30, 2020, as Appl. No. 16/949,499.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/981,486, filed on Feb. 25, 2020.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/929,420, filed on Nov. 1, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2021/0136717 A1, May 6, 2021
Int. Cl. H04W 76/12 (2018.01); H04L 69/322 (2022.01); H04W 8/08 (2009.01); H04W 60/00 (2009.01)
CPC H04W 60/005 (2013.01) [H04L 69/322 (2013.01); H04W 8/08 (2013.01); H04W 76/12 (2018.02)] 16 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A user equipment (UE), comprising:
a transceiver configured to communicate with a network; and
a processor communicatively coupled to the transceiver and configured to perform operations comprising:
performing a registration procedure with an access and mobility management function (AMF);
receiving, during the registration procedure, an indication that access traffic steering, switching and splitting (ATSSS) is not supported in a registration area from the AMF;
determining a trigger condition for a request for addition of user plane resources for an existing multiple access (MA) packet data unit (PDU) session is satisfied; and
when the indication that ATSSS in not supported is received and the trigger condition is satisfied, omitting transmitting the request for the addition of user plane resources for the existing MA PDU session to a network when the UE is deployed within the registration area based on the indication, despite the trigger condition being satisfied.