US 11,785,540 B2
UE power saving in NR using UE assistance information
Sethuraman Gurumoorthy, Cupertino, CA (US); Birgit Breining, Bavaria-Bayern (DE); Dawei Zhang, Cupertino, CA (US); Fangli Xu, Beijing (CN); Haijing Hu, Cupertino, CA (US); Longda Xing, Cupertino, CA (US); Rama Diwakara Rao Noolu, Cupertino, CA (US); Srirang A. Lovlekar, Cupertino, CA (US); Yuqin Chen, Beijing (CN); and Zhibin Wu, Cupertino, CA (US)
Assigned to APPLE INC., Cupertino, CA (US)
Appl. No. 17/593,122
Filed by APPLE INC., Cupertino, CA (US)
PCT Filed Apr. 8, 2020, PCT No. PCT/CN2020/083750
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Sep. 9, 2021,
PCT Pub. No. WO2021/203292, PCT Pub. Date Oct. 14, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2022/0312312 A1, Sep. 29, 2022
Int. Cl. H04W 76/10 (2018.01); H04W 52/02 (2009.01); H04W 76/27 (2018.01); H04W 24/08 (2009.01)
CPC H04W 52/0209 (2013.01) [H04W 24/08 (2013.01); H04W 76/27 (2018.02)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium, the non-transitory computer-readable storage medium including instructions that when executed by a processor of a wireless communication network configured to manage user equipment (UE) upgrade requests, cause the processor to:
perform a first radio resource control (RRC) CONNECTED mode signaling procedure with the UE;
determine a current network loading and resource usage of the wireless communication network; and
during the first RRC CONNECTED mode signaling procedure, generate a first message to the UE to indicate, based on the current network loading and resource usage, whether a preferred metric indicated by the UE in UE assistance information (UAI) is to be determined by a current active configuration or by a supported UE capability.