US 12,356,504 B2
Apparatus and method of determining an operation mode on a wireless network
Hyejung Jung, Northbrook, IL (US); Joachim Löhr, Wiesbaden (DE); Ravi Kuchibhotla, Gurnee, IL (US); Hyung-Nam Choi, Ottobrunn (DE); and Prateek Basu Mallick, Langen (DE)
Assigned to Lenovo (Singapore) PTE. LTD, Singapore (SG)
Appl. No. 17/927,318
Filed by Lenovo (Singapore) PTE. LTD, Singapore (SG)
PCT Filed May 27, 2021, PCT No. PCT/US2021/034378
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Nov. 22, 2022,
PCT Pub. No. WO2021/242940, PCT Pub. Date Dec. 2, 2021.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/031,538, filed on May 28, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2023/0217240 A1, Jul. 6, 2023
Int. Cl. H04W 8/18 (2009.01)
CPC H04W 8/186 (2013.01) 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method in a user equipment, the method comprising:
determining, based on at least one traffic type originated from the user equipment, an operation mode from a plurality of operation modes; and
informing a network entity of the determined operation mode,
wherein the plurality of operation modes comprise at least one group operation mode and an individual operation mode, where the at least one group operation mode supports a plurality of user equipments grouped into a group of user equipments, where the at least one group operation mode supports at least one network entity communicating associated messages with the group of user equipments including the user equipment, and where the associated messages are associated with the group of user equipments.