US 12,432,617 B2
Optimized signaling for WLAN/3GPP aggregation
Jussi-Pekka Koskinen, Oulu (FI); Tero Henttonen, Espoo (FI); Daniela Laselva, Klarup (DK); and Frank Frederiksen, Klarup (DK)
Assigned to NOKIA TECHNOLOGIES OY, Espoo (FI)
Appl. No. 15/559,133
Filed by Nokia Technologies Oy, Espoo (FI)
PCT Filed Mar. 21, 2016, PCT No. PCT/US2016/023399
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Sep. 18, 2017,
PCT Pub. No. WO2016/154106, PCT Pub. Date Sep. 29, 2016.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/205,596, filed on Aug. 14, 2015.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/136,113, filed on Mar. 20, 2015.
Prior Publication US 2018/0084458 A1, Mar. 22, 2018
Int. Cl. H04W 28/08 (2023.01); H04W 28/18 (2009.01); H04W 84/12 (2009.01); H04W 88/06 (2009.01)
CPC H04W 28/0846 (2020.05) [H04W 28/18 (2013.01); H04W 88/06 (2013.01); H04W 84/12 (2013.01)] 9 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method, comprising:
receiving a traffic steering command at a user equipment; and
changing, responsive to receiving the command, at least one rule or parameter by which the user equipment performs an aggregation and/or interworking mechanism between at least two different radio access networks,
wherein the changing comprises disabling at least one rule or parameter specified by a first standard behavior in favor of at least one rule or parameter specified by a second standard behavior when the traffic steering command is received,
wherein the first standard behavior corresponds to a 3rd Generation Partnership Project Release 12 specification, and the second standard behavior corresponds to a 3rd Generation Partnership Project Release 13 specification, and
wherein the at least one rule or parameter specified by the 3rd Generation Partnership Project Release 12 specification is disabled in favor of the at least one rule or parameter specified by the 3rd Generation Partnership Project Release 13 specification when at least one of the following conditions is fulfilled:
upon reception of a measurement configuration for interworking or aggregation,
upon fulfillment of a measurement event among measurement events configured for interworking or aggregation purpose,
upon reception of a traffic steering command specified by the 3rd Generation Partnership Project Release 13 specification, or
upon reception of an aggregation configuration specified by the 3rd Generation Partnership Project Release 13 specification.