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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 24, 2026
Filed:
Jul. 11, 2022
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Vivek G. Gupta, San Jose, CA (US);
Sridhar Prakasam, Woodside, CA (US);
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Abstract
The present application relates to small data transmission (SDT). In an example, SDT is available for transferring information between a UE and a network, where a NAS layer of the UE is in a 5GMM-CONNECTED mode with an RRC inactive indication and an AS layer of the UE is in an RRC_INACTIVE state. To do so, the UE can be pre-configured to classify the information as qualifying for SDT. In addition, resources can be pre-configured for the SDT. For instance, the UE can maintain a set of radio bearers in a suspended state. While the NAS layer is in the 5GMM-CONNECTED mode with the inactive indication and the AS layer is in the RRC_INACTIVE state, one or more of the pre-configured resources can be used to transmit the information between the UE and the network.