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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 17, 2026
Filed:
May. 13, 2021
Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha, Sakai City, JP;
Yung-Lan Tseng, Taipei, TW;
Hsin-Hsi Tsai, Taipei, TW;
Hung-Chen Chen, Taipei, TW;
Mei-Ju Shih, Taipei, TW;
SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Sakai City, JP;
Abstract
A method performed by a user equipment (UE) for transmitting uplink (UL) data in a radio resource control (RRC)_INACTIVE state is provided. The method includes receiving, from a serving cell, a configuration of at least one UL resource associated with a normal UL (NUL) frequency carrier and a supplementary UL (SUL) frequency carrier of a plurality of UL frequency carriers; selecting one of the NUL frequency carrier or the SUL frequency carrier; initiating a small data transmission (SDT) procedure in the RRC_INACTIVE state to transmit, to the serving cell, at least one UL packet on the selected one of the NUL frequency carrier or the SUL frequency carrier via the at least one UL resource; and stopping the SDT procedure in a case that at least one predefined condition is fulfilled.