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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 15, 2026
Filed:
Aug. 06, 2020
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Fangli Xu, Beijing, CN;
Chunhai Yao, Beijing, CN;
Dawei Zhang, Cupertino, CA (US);
Haijing Hu, Los Gatos, CA (US);
Longda Xing, Cupertino, CA (US);
Murtaza A. Shikari, Mountain View, CA (US);
Sarma V. Vangala, Cupertino, CA (US);
Srinivasan Nimmala, Cupertino, CA (US);
Wei Zeng, Cupertino, CA (US);
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Abstract
Systems, methods, and circuitries are provided for direct transmission of uplink data by an INACTIVE UE using a contention free random access (CFRA) process. In one example, a method, includes, receiving uplink data from transmitted by a user equipment (UE) device while the UE is in a radio resource control (RRC) INACTIVE state, wherein the UE uses a contention-free random access (CFRA) process to transmit the uplink data using a dedicated physical random access channel (PRACH) resource or a dedicated preamble resource (dedicated PRACH/preamble resource) assigned to the UE by a network.
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