US 11,799,607 B2
System and method of UE-centric radio access procedure
Kelvin Kar Kin Au, Ottawa (CA); Liqing Zhang, Ottawa (CA); Mohammadhadi Baligh, Ottawa (CA); Jianglei Ma, Ottawa (CA); and Wen Tong, Ottawa (CA)
Assigned to HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD., Shenzhen (CN)
Filed by Kelvin Kar Kin Au, Ottawa (CA); Liqing Zhang, Ottawa (CA); Mohammadhadi Baligh, Ottawa (CA); Jianglei Ma, Ottawa (CA); and Wen Tong, Ottawa (CA)
Filed on Jun. 17, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/351,191.
Application 17/351,191 is a continuation of application No. 16/165,780, filed on Oct. 19, 2018, granted, now 11,070,339.
Application 16/165,780 is a continuation of application No. 15/165,985, filed on May 26, 2016, granted, now 10,735,166, issued on Aug. 4, 2020.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/168,658, filed on May 29, 2015.
Prior Publication US 2021/0314119 A1, Oct. 7, 2021
This patent is subject to a terminal disclaimer.
Int. Cl. H04L 5/00 (2006.01); H04W 74/00 (2009.01)
CPC H04L 5/0051 (2013.01) [H04W 74/006 (2013.01); H04L 5/0073 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method, at a user equipment device, the method comprising:
receiving, by the user equipment device that is in an energy economizing (ECO) operating state from a network element, a message indicating that there is downlink data to be received, the message being received on a downlink channel monitored by the user equipment device, wherein the message includes an identifier of the user equipment device that is used by the user equipment device in the ECO operating state for receiving the downlink data and that was received by the user equipment device while the user equipment device was in an ACTIVE operating state; and
receiving, by the user equipment device, downlink grant-free transmissions in the ECO operating state, the downlink grant-free transmissions including transmission of the downlink data.