Alcatel Lucent

Intellectual Ventures Ii LLC

Sony Corporation

Nokia Technologies Oy

Intellectual Ventures Holding 81 LLC

Wireless Technology Solutions LLC

Chandrika Kumudinie Worrall

Sudeep K Palat

Haris Zisimopoulos

Alan Edward Jones

Seau Sian Lim

Pingping Wen

He Wang

Haris Zisimopoulous

Fang-Chen Cheng

Nicholas William Anderson

Tao Yang

Matthew Baker

Philippe Godin

Yun Deng

Patrick Georges Charriere

Nicola Puddle

Patrick Charriere

A user equipment (UE) is configured to communicate, using a first radio access technology (RAT) having a first paired spectrum, wherein the first paired spectrum has a first frequency for downlink and a second frequency for uplink. The UE is further configured to transmit, using the first radio access technology (RAT), a service request message including information associated with at least one UE service. The UE is configured to receive, based on the transmitted service request message, a message with information to setup a bearer for a second RAT, wherein the second RAT is a different RAT than the first RAT. The UE is configured to receive multimedia data using the second RAT and simultaneously receive data using the first RAT.

Communicating over multiple radio access technologies (RATS)

A network node comprising a network interface, receiving circuitry, transmitting circuitry, and a processor. The network interface configured to receive a first paging message for a user equipment (UE). The processor is configured to determine a paging occasion for the UE based on a user identity of the UE known to a core network. The processor and the transmitting circuitry configured to transmit to the UE, a control channel having a paging identity and a shared channel. Further, recover an indication of a shared channel resource from the control channel and recover a paging message for the UE from a shared channel signal received using the indication of the shared channel resource.

Paging in a wireless network

A base station (BS) comprising a processor and a communication interface configured to transmit a paging identity to user equipment (UE) to recover a shared channel allocation from a control channel from among the control channels having the paging identity. Further, the BS is further configured to transmit, using the communication interface, a shared channel based on the shared channel allocation and transmit a radio network temporary identifier (RNTI) assigned to the UE when the UE is in a second state, different than an idle state, and has a radio access network connection.

A device for use in a base station receives, via the communication interface, a service request message from a first radio access technology (RAT) from a user equipment (UE), wherein the service request message includes information associated with at least one UE service, transmit, via the communication interface, based on the service request message, a message with information to setup a bearer for a second RAT to the UE, wherein the second RAT is a different RAT than the first RAT. The device for use in a base station transmits, via the communication interface, multimedia data using the second RAT to the UE, and transmit, via the communication interface, data using the first RAT to the UE, wherein the data and multimedia data are transmitted simultaneously and use a same packet data protocol and same security keys to recover the multimedia data.

Communicating over multiple radio access technologies (RATs)

The invention proposes a method of transmitting a multimedia broadcast multicast service reception status message, wherein a terminal receives a radio resource control message from a base station; determines whether the radio resource control message satisfies a predetermined condition; and if the radio resource control message satisfies the predetermined condition, then the terminal transmits the multimedia broadcast multicast service reception status message to the base station, wherein the multimedia broadcast multicast service reception status message is used for identifying a multimedia broadcast multicast service being received by the terminal With the technical solution of the invention, the base station can obtain a reception status message, transmitted by the terminal, of at least one multimedia broadcast multicast service at the terminal side to thereby count the number of broadcast or multicast receiving users of the multimedia broadcast multicast service in operation and perform other relevant processes.

Method of and apparatus for transmitting multimedia broadcast multicast service reception status

A user equipment (UE) is configured to determine paging occasions based on a discontinuous reception (DRX) and a UE identification. Further, the UE is configured to monitor control channel signals in the paging occasions for an identifier associated with paging which is based on one of the control channel signals having the identifier associated with paging and to recover an indication of a shared channel resource from the one control channel. The UE is further configured to recover a paging message for the UE from a shared channel signal received using the indication of the shared channel resource.

A user equipment (UE) may transmit, using a first radio access technology (RAT), a service request message including information associated with at least one UE service. Based on the transmitted service request message, a message with information to setup a bearer for a second RAT, wherein the second RAT is a different RAT than the first RAT. The UE may receive multimedia data using the second RAT and simultaneously receive data using the first RAT.

A user equipment method, user equipment, a base station method, a base station and computer program products are disclosed. The user equipment method, comprises in response to a radio resource control connection re-establishment procedure being initiated when operating in a dual-connectivity mode, retaining configuration information of at least one data bearer utilised in the dual-connectivity mode for subsequent re-use. In this way, rather than losing all the data radio bearer configuration during the RRC connection re-establishment procedure, some of this bearer configuration is retained so that it may be subsequently re-used, thereby improving the speed and efficiency of the RRC connection re-establishment procedure.

Dual connectivity network

A user equipment (UE) is configured to monitor control channels for a paging identity and in response to detecting a paging identity from a network node, to recover a shared channel allocation from a control channel from the control channels having the detected paging identity. A UE is further configured to receive a shared channel based on the shared channel allocation and to recover a paging message for the UE from the received shared channel, when the UE is in a second state different than an idle state, the paging message having a radio network temporary identifier (RNTI) assigned to the UE from a base station, the UE in the second state has a radio access network connection.

A user equipment (UE) may transmit a service request using a first frequency band, the first frequency band being paired to a second frequency band to operate using frequency division duplex (FDD). The UE may further transmit a setup message over the second frequency band, the setup message indicating a third time division duplex (TDD) frequency band for communication. The UE may receive downlink data simultaneously over the second frequency band and the third TDD frequency band, wherein multimedia data is received on the third TDD frequency band.

A network node determines a paging occasion of a user equipment (UE). In response to a received paging message, the network node transmits on a control channel in the determined paging occasion a signal including an indication of shared channel resources. The signal may be derived from a radio network temporary identifier (RNTI).

A method of transmitting an indication of user equipment uplink buffer status in a wireless communications network in which user equipment is configured to communicate with one or more base stations using dual connectivity techniques, a computer program product and user equipment operable to perform that method. The method comprises: receiving an indication of a dual connectivity configuration to be used by the user equipment for uplink transmission; structuring an uplink buffer status report to group uplink buffer status by one or more scheduler to be used by the user equipment according to the received indication of a dual connectivity configuration; and transmitting the structured uplink buffer status report to the one or more base stations. Aspects and embodiments provide a method for providing buffer status reports in a network offering dual connectivity functionality according to which user equipment is served by multiple independent schedulers which may be connected via a non-ideal backhaul link.

A user equipment (UE) may communicate using a first radio access technology (RAT) having paired spectrum. The UE may receive first data over a frequency for downlink including configuration information for a second RAT. The UE may also receive second data over the second RAT having another frequency based on the received configuration information. A portion of the first data received over the first RAT may be received simultaneously with a portion of the second data over the second RAT.

The present invention discloses a method of notifying a user terminal of MBMS service information of at least one neighboring cell of a cell of a base station where the user terminal camps, and a method of receiving from the base station where the user terminal camps the MBMS service information of at least one neighboring cell of the cell of the base station, and a corresponding user terminal and a base station. In the present invention, in a system information block SIB, the multimedia broadcast multicast service MBMS service information of the at least one neighboring cell is transmitted to the user terminal. According to the present invention, regardless of whether a current cell has MBMS service transmission or not, the MBMS service information (if any) of at least one neighboring cell of the current cell is transmitted to the UE camping on the current cell so that the UE can know in advance which neighboring cell the MBMS service of its interest is located in so as to better achieve continuity of the MBMS service.

Method of notifying MBMS service information of a neighboring cell and corresponding apparatus

A telecommunications method for a telecommunications system comprising a user equipment () in dual connection with a primary node () and a secondary node () is disclosed. The method comprises generating configuration information for the user equipment at a virtual radio resource control entity () of the secondary node or at the user equipment; transmitting the configuration information from the secondary node or the user equipment to a radio resource control entity () of the primary node; and transmitting the configuration information from the primary node to the other of the user equipment or secondary node from where the configuration information is received.

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Chandrika Kumudinie Worrall