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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 20, 2026
Filed:
Sep. 02, 2021
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Pavan Nuggehalli, San Carlos, CA (US);
Fangli Xu, Beijing, CN;
Haijing Hu, Los Gatos, CA (US);
Ralf Rossbach, Munich, DE;
Vijay Venkataraman, San Jose, CA (US);
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Abstract
A base station (BS) may receive, from a network node, one or more data packets including one or more reflective quality of service (QoS) indicator (RQI) markings. The base station may then determine, based on a value of the one or more RQI markings, one or more active uplink (UL) QoS rules associated with a user equipment (UE). The base station may further determine, based on at least one of one or more timers, the one or more active UL QoS rules, and status information received from the UE, to include or refrain from including the one or more RQI markings in a transmission of the one or more data packets to the UE. Accordingly, in response to the determining that the RQI markings should be included, the base station may then transmit the one or more packets including the RQI markings to the UE.