CN109076623A - Improved signaling for the battery-efficient state transformation under PCH state - Google Patents

Abstract

User equipment (UE) may include: memory devices；And processing equipment, it is operatively coupled to memory devices.The processing equipment can encode the CELL UPDATE message of the trial of instruction release signaling connection, and be decoded to the confirmation message for carrying out automatic network.The processing equipment can make UE be converted to the second connection status from the first connection status in response to receiving confirmation message.Second connection status can be associated with the second power consumption levels, and the second power consumption levels are less than and associated first power consumption levels of the first connection status.

Description

Improved signaling for the battery-efficient state transformation under PCH state

Background technique

This disclosure relates to the field of wireless communication, including the control of the network connection carried out to user equipment.

Detailed description of the invention

From detailed description given below and from the attached drawing of each embodiment of the disclosure, this public affairs will be more fully appreciated Open each embodiment.

Fig. 1 is the block diagram for showing the component of the electronic equipment according to the embodiment for realizing various aspects of the present disclosure.

Fig. 2 is the block diagram for showing the component of network according to the embodiment.

Fig. 3 shows the state diagram of the connection status of user equipment according to the embodiment.

Fig. 4 shows the flow chart of the exemplary method according to the embodiment for executing cell updating course.

Fig. 5 shows the flow chart of the exemplary method according to the embodiment for executing cell updating course.

Fig. 6 shows the exemplary communication timing using specific congestion control according to the embodiment shown for data communication Figure.

Specific embodiment

It may operate in several function by the user equipment (UE) that Universal Mobile Communication System (UMTS) technology accesses network Rate state once.Power rating indicates that UE can send and receive power, UE consumed by the speed of data, UE by network To Internet resources using and network to compromise between the distribution of the UE Internet resources carried out.UE can be by that will request hair Network is sent to so that UE to be placed under different capacity state, is switched between various power ratings.In addition, network can be based on The activity of UE, under UE is placed in particular power state in the case where the request not from UE, to reduce to Internet resources It utilizes.

In the umts system, UE may operate under idle mode or under connection mode.In the connection mode, network can be with Logical connection is kept with UE.For example, network can be established with UE and keep wirelessly providing while UE is under connection status Source controls (RRC) connection.At the idling mode, UE can monitor paging route, and network can not keep the logic to UE Connection.UE under connection mode may be at URA-PCH state, CELL-PCH state, CELL-DCH state or CELL-FACH shape Under state.The connection status of UE can indicate that UE is to be under free time or connection mode, and if be under connection mode, UE Under which kind of RRC state.

At the idling mode, UE does not connect the transmission of network.There is no logical connection to make network to Internet resources It uses and distributes and the power consumption of UE minimizes.UE under idle mode can execute public land mobile network (PLMN) choosing It selects, cell selection, cell reselection, band of position update, routing region updating, receive paging or receive system information broadcast (SIB) process.UE can indicate channel (PICH) in predetermined time listening paging, to reduce power consumption.Predetermined time can be by Network settings, and it is known as discontinuous reception (DRX) period.Packet switch (PS) communication and circuit switching (CS) are communicated, Individual DRX cycle can be set.It can be for DRX cycle set by the UE under idle mode than under connection mode The long time interval of the DRX cycle of UE.

State for the UE under connection mode may include URA-PCH, CELL-PCH, CELL-DCH and CELL-FACH. Under CELL-DCH state, UE has the dedicated transmission channel that is distributed of network.Under CELL-DCH state, UE can also with it is special With transmission channel utilized in combination available shared uplink and downlink channel.Network can have a large amount of in response to UE The data instruction to be sent or received and UE is converted under CELL-DCH state.UE under CELL-DCH state may be consumed greatly Power is measured to keep the dedicated connection to network.In addition, network can make big quantity when UE is converted to CELL-DCH state Resource is exclusively used in UE.Therefore, when uplink or downlink communication are completed, network or UE can make UE be converted to another shape State.

Under CELL-FACH state, UE may have dedicated physics letter not as being under CELL-DCH state it Road.UE can continuously listen to forward access channel (FACH), to be used for downlink communication.Network can also distribute default Public or shared transmission channel, to be used for uplink communication.For example, UE can be sent on random access channel (RACH) Communications uplink.Network can track UE based on the place for carrying out last time cell update UE in cell hierarchy.Continuous prison Listen FACH downlink that can increase the battery utilization rate of UE.In addition, network may be by some resource allocations to UE, to build Vertical RACH and FACH communication.Therefore, if UE is not utilizing connection, network or UE can make UE be converted to another shape State.

Under CELL-PCH state, UE can not have dedicated physical channel.UE or network can select paging channel for UE (PCH).Then, UE can receive paging using DRX by monitoring associated Page Indication Channel (PICH) on PCH.? Under CELL-PCH state, UE can not send network for uplink communication.The last time that network can be executed based on UE Cell update keeps the instruction of the position of UE.URA-PCH state can have characteristic identical with CELL-PCH state, in addition to Network can be more newly arrived based on the last time user's registration region (URA) executed UE except the instruction for keeping the position of UE.UE May be at URA-PCH state rather than under CELL-PCH state, with reduce UE execution cell update quantity.For example, mobile UE can execute less URA under URA-PCH state and update, rather than if UE is under CELL-PCH state, it is held in URA The many cell updates of row.

Under CELL-PCH or URA-PCH state (being referred to as PCH state), UE may be more more than consuming under idle state Power.Therefore, if UE not yet using paging channel or is converted to CELL-DCH or CELL-FACH state in threshold amount of time To send uplink data, then UE or network can make UE be converted to idle state from PCH state.

Lower-wattage shape can be converted to based on the request from UE to execute by establishing transmission connection with network first The process of state.UE can initiate following procedure: by by CELL UPDATE (cell update) message be sent to network come with network Establish transmission connection.CELL UPDATE message can be sent to network for various reasons.For example, in order to change state, it is right Paging is responded, and is reported mistake, is updated the position of UE, or for other reasons, CELL UPDATE message can be generated in UE. In order to which to the purpose of network advertisement CELL UPDATE message, UE can send the message with " reason " for indicating the purpose.Example Such as, in some embodiments, reason may include " uplink data transmission ", " page response ", " radio link failure ", " MBMS ptp RB request ", " reentering coverage ", " RLC irrecoverable error ", " cell reselection ", " periodicity is small Area's update ", " MBMS reception " etc..

In order to establish connection to transmit data to network, the reason of UE can be generated including " uplink data transmission " CELL UPDATE message.Then, network can allocate resources to UE, and UE is allowed to send data.Connect establishing transmission After connecing, UE can send signaling connection release instruction (SCRI).SCRI is seeking release signaling connection to network advertisement UE. Then, network can discharge the signaling connection for UE, and UE is converted under lower power state.For example, UE can turn It changes under idle state.

It is several to request the process of release signaling connection to have the shortcomings that this establishes transmission connection.For example, in order to send SCRI, UE and network must be set up transmission connection.It establishes connection and needs several communications between UE and network, this may consume UE Take battery life and utilizes Internet resources.It establishes transmission connection and also adds network signalling load.In addition, establish connection it Afterwards, network must distribute Internet resources to keep the connection with UE and communicate.In addition, being sent by network connection Whether SCRI, confirmation SCRI and confirmation UE will be converted under lower power state and produce the exchange of Additional signaling messages.

In order to improve the process for being converted to lower power state, UE can be in the case where not establishing signaling connection with network Request transformation.In some embodiments, UE can be provided to network instruction in CELL UPDATE message and be had sent CELL The reason of UPDATE message is to be converted to different capacity state.For example, reason can be set as " the PS data meeting of UE request by UE Words terminate ".Network can receive the CELL UPDATE message with " the PS data session of UE request terminates " reason, and will UE is converted to lower power state, and the signaling connection for UE is established without added communications.In some embodiments, message Different sentences (language) can be used and convey identical information.For example, UE can instead of " the PS data session of UE request terminates " To send the reason of being interpreted as the different sentences for the instruction that UE is just attempting release signaling connection with network.

The CELL UPDATE message of " the PS data session of UE request terminates " reason is had in response to receiving, network can To determine whether for UE to be converted under lower power state.In some embodiments, network can be in response to the message and by UE It is converted under idle state.However, in some embodiments, network can be based on the network of available Internet resources and UE benefit With rate, UE is not converted under lower power state by determination.Prevent UE in threshold amount of time from even for example, network can have The state of connecing is converted to the strategy of idle state.Therefore, if UE is converted to idle state and returns to connection status, network can UE can not be allowed to be converted to idle state again, until predetermined time amount is pass by.

Following specific embodiments are referring to attached drawing.Identical label can be used in different figures, same or similar to identify Element.In the following description, in order to explain rather than the purpose that limits, sets forth specific details are (for example, specific structure, framework, connect Mouth, technology etc.), to provide the thorough understanding to various aspects of the disclosure.However, it is possible to be detached from these details its The various aspects of the disclosed embodiments are practiced in its example.In particular instances, it omits to known device, circuit and method Description, in order to avoid the description of the present disclosure is covered because of unnecessary details.

As used herein such, term " circuit " may refer to following item or as part of it or including them: Specific integrated circuit (ASIC), electronic circuit execute one or more softwares or the processor of firmware program is (shared, dedicated Or group) and/or memory (shared, dedicated or group), combinational logic circuit and/or provide described function Other suitable hardware components.In some embodiments, circuit may be implemented in one or more softwares or firmware module, or Person can be realized with the associated function of circuit by one or more softwares or firmware module.In some embodiments, circuit can To include the logic that can at least partly operate within hardware.

Embodiment described herein is embodied as system by the hardware and/or software that any suitable configurations can be used.Fig. 1 The exemplary components of UE equipment 100 are shown about one embodiment.In some embodiments, UE equipment 100 may include using electricity Road 102, baseband circuit 104, radio frequency (RF) circuit 106, front-end module (FEM) circuit 108 and one or more antennas 110, until It is coupled as shown less together.

Application circuit 102 may include one or more application processor.For example, application circuit 102 may include for example But it is not limited to the circuit of one or more single or multiple core processors.Processor may include general processor and application specific processor Any combination of (for example, graphics processor, application processor etc.).Processor can be coupled in and/or may include memory/ Storage, and can be configured as: the instruction stored in memory/storage is executed, so that various applications and/or operation system System can operate in system.

Baseband circuit 104 may include the circuit of such as, but not limited to one or more single or multiple core processors.Base band Circuit 104 may include one or more baseband processor and/or control logic, to handle the reception signal from RF circuit 106 Baseband signal of the baseband signal and generation that path receives for the transmission signal path of RF circuit 106.Baseband circuit 104 Interface can be carried out with application circuit 102, for generating and handling baseband signal and control the operation of RF circuit 106.Example Such as, in some embodiments, baseband circuit 104 may include the second generation (2G) baseband processor 104a, the third generation (3G) base band Processor 104b, forth generation (4G) baseband processor 104c and/or in other existing generations, exploitation or will be opened in future Other baseband processor 104d in the generation (such as the 5th generation (5G), 6G etc.) of hair.Baseband circuit 104 is (for example, baseband processor One or more of 104a-d) can handle so that via RF circuit 106 and one or more radio nets communication at For possible various radio control functions.Radio control functions can include but is not limited to signal modulation/demodulation, coding/ Decoding, radio frequency displacement etc..In some embodiments, the modulation/demodulation circuit of baseband circuit 104 may include fast Flourier Convert (FFT), precoding and/or constellation mapping/demapping function.In some embodiments, coding/solution of baseband circuit 104 Code circuit may include convolution, tail biting convolution, turbo, Viterbi and/or low-density checksum (LDPC) encoder/decoding Device function.The embodiment of modulating/demodulating and coder/decoder functionalities is not limited to these examples, and in other embodiments It may include other suitable functions.

In some embodiments, baseband circuit 104 may include the element of protocol stack, such as evolved universal terrestrial wirelessly connects Network (EUTRAN) agreement element, including for example physics (PHY), M AC (MAC), wireless spread-spectrum technology (RLC), Packet Data Convergence Protocol (PDCP) and/or wireless heterogeneous networks (RRC) element.The central processing unit of baseband circuit 104 (CPU) 104e can be configured as: the element of protocol stack be run, for PHY, MAC, RLC, PDCP, NAS and/or rrc layer Signaling.In some embodiments, baseband circuit may include one or more audio digital signal processors (DSP) 104f.Sound Frequency DSP 104f may include the element for compression/de-compression and echo cancellor, and may include in other embodiments Other suitable processing elements.In some embodiments, the component of baseband circuit can be combined suitably in one single chip, individually In chipset, or it is deployed on same circuit board.It in some embodiments, can be for example on system on chip (SoC) together Realize some or all of composition components of baseband circuit 104 and application circuit 102.

In some embodiments, baseband circuit 104 can provide the communication compatible with one or more radio technologies.Example Such as, in some embodiments, baseband circuit 104 can support with evolved universal terrestrial wireless access network (EUTRAN) and/or its The communication of its wireless MAN (WMAN), WLAN (WLAN), wireless personal area network (WPAN).Baseband circuit 104 is configured To support the embodiment of the radio communication of more than one wireless protocols to be properly termed as multimode baseband circuit.

RF circuit 106 can enable to use the electromagnetic radiation progress and wireless network modulated by non-solid medium Communication.In various embodiments, RF circuit 106 may include switch, filter, amplifier etc., to promote and wireless network Communication.RF circuit 106 may include receiving signal path, may include the RF received for down coversion from FEM circuit 108 Signal and the circuit that baseband signal is supplied to baseband circuit 104.RF circuit 106 can further include sending signal path, It may include that for baseband signal provided by up-conversion baseband circuit 104 and RF output signal is supplied to FEM circuit 108 With the circuit for transmission.

In some embodiments, RF circuit 106 may include receiving signal path and transmission signal path.RF circuit 106 Reception signal path may include mixer 106a, amplifier circuit 106b and filter circuit 106c.RF circuit 106 Transmission signal path may include filter circuit 106c and mixer 106a.RF circuit 106 can further include synthesis Device circuit 106d, the frequency used with the mixer 106a for synthesized received signal path and transmission signal path.? In some embodiments, the mixer 106a for receiving signal path be can be configured as: be mentioned based on synthesizer circuit 106d The RF signal that the frequency synthesis down coversion of confession is received from FEM circuit 108.Amplifier circuit 106b can be configured as: amplification The signal of down coversion, and filter circuit 106c can be low-pass filter (LPF) or bandpass filter (BPF), be configured Are as follows: undesired signal is removed, from the signal of down coversion to generate output baseband signal.Output baseband signal can be supplied to Baseband circuit 104, with for further processing.In some embodiments, output baseband signal can be zero frequency baseband signal, But this is not required that.In some embodiments, the mixer 106a for receiving signal path may include passive frequency mixer, but The range of embodiment is without being limited thereto.

In some embodiments, the mixer 106a for sending signal path can be configured as: based on synthesizer electricity Frequency synthesis up-conversion provided by the 106d of road inputs baseband signal, to generate the RF output signal for being used for FEM circuit 108.Base Band signal can be provided by baseband circuit 104, and can be filtered by filter circuit 106c.Filter circuit 106c can wrap Low-pass filter (LPF) is included, but the range of embodiment is without being limited thereto.

In some embodiments, it receives the mixer 106a of signal path and sends the mixer of signal path 106a may include two or more frequency mixers, and can be arranged to quadrature frequency conversion and/or up-conversion respectively.? In some embodiments, the mixer 106a for receiving signal path and the mixer 106a for sending signal path be can wrap Two or more frequency mixers are included, and mirror image can be arranged to and inhibit (for example, Hartley mirror image inhibits).Some In embodiment, receive signal path mixer 106a and mixer 106a can be arranged to respectively directly under Frequency conversion and/or Direct conversion.In some embodiments, it receives the mixer 106a of signal path and sends signal path Mixer 106a can be configured for superheterodyne operation.

In some embodiments, output baseband signal and input baseband signal can be analog baseband signal, but embodiment Range it is without being limited thereto.In some alternative embodiments, output baseband signal and input baseband signal can be digital baseband letter Number.In these alternative embodiments, RF circuit 106 may include analog-digital converter (ADC) and digital analog converter (DAC) circuit, And baseband circuit 104 may include digital baseband interface, to be communicated with RF circuit 106.

In some bimodulus embodiments, individual radio IC circuit can be provided, for about each frequency spectrum processing Signal, but the range of embodiment is without being limited thereto.

In some embodiments, synthesizer circuit 106d can be decimal N synthesizer or decimal N/N+1 synthesizer, but real The range for applying example is without being limited thereto, because other types of frequency synthesizer can be suitably.For example, synthesizer circuit 106d can To be delta-sigma synthesizer, frequency multiplier or the synthesizer including having the phaselocked loop of frequency divider.

Synthesizer circuit 106d can be configured as: synthesize RF circuit based on frequency input and divider control input The output frequency that 106 mixer 106a is used.In some embodiments, synthesizer circuit 106d can be decimal N/N+ 1 synthesizer.

In some embodiments, frequency input can be provided by voltage controlled oscillator (VCO), but this is not required that.It depends on Desired output frequency, divider control input can be provided by baseband circuit 104 or application processor 102.In some implementations In example, divider control input (for example, N) can be determined from look-up table based on channel indicated by application processor 102.

The synthesizer circuit 106d of RF circuit 106 may include divider, delay lock loop (DLL), multiplexer and phase Accumulator.In some embodiments, divider can be bimodulus divider (DMD), and phase accumulator can be digital phase Bit accumulator (DPA).In some embodiments, DMD can be configured as: (for example, be based on carry) by input signal divided by N or N+1, to provide division of decimal ratio.In some example embodiments, DLL may include one group of cascade tunable delay member Part, phase detectors, charge pump and D flip-flop.In these embodiments, delay element can be configured as the VCO period It is decomposed into Nd equal phase groupings, wherein Nd is the quantity of the delay element in delay line.By this method, DLL provides negative Feedback, to assist ensuring to be a VCO period by the total delay of delay line.

In some embodiments, synthesizer circuit 106d can be configured as: carrier frequency is generated as output frequency, and In other embodiments, output frequency can be carrier frequency multiple (for example, twice of carrier frequency, carrier frequency four Times), and be used in combination with quadrature generator and divider circuit, to generate relative to each other in carrier frequency with multiple Multiple signals of out of phase.In some embodiments, output frequency can be LO frequency (f_LO).In some embodiments, RF Circuit 106 may include IQ/ polar converter.

FEM circuit 108 may include receiving signal path, may include being configured as to from one or more antennas The 110 RF signals received are operated, and are amplified the signal received and are supplied to the amplified version of the signal received RF circuit 106 is with circuit for further processing.FEM circuit 108 can further include send signal path, may include by Be configured to the signal provided by amplification RF circuit 106 for transmission, with for by one in one or more antennas 110 or The circuit of the transmission of multiple progress.

In some embodiments, FEM circuit 108 may include TX/RX switch, to grasp in sending mode and reception pattern It is switched between work.FEM circuit may include receiving signal path and transmission signal path.The reception signal road of FEM circuit Diameter may include low-noise amplifier (LNA), and to amplify the RF signal received, and (for example, to RF circuit 106) offer is put The big RF signal received is as output.The transmission signal path of FEM circuit 108 may include: power amplifier (PA), use In amplification (for example, provided by RF circuit 106) input rf signal；And one or more filters, for generating RF signal, Then to be sent for (for example, what the one or more in one or more antennas 110 carried out).

In some embodiments, UE equipment 100 may include add ons, for example, memory/storage, display, camera, Sensor and/or input/output (I/O) interface.

Fig. 2 shows example network environments 200 according to the embodiment.Network environment 200 may include radio network controller (RNC) 210, NodeB 220 and multiple user equipmenies (UE) unit 230.In other network environments, other networking components can To execute operation similar with the operation that the RNC 210 referring to Fig. 2 is discussed.In some embodiments, network environment 200 includes Other elements.For example, RNC 210 can be with network operator (for example, core network element in UMTS system or other systems) It is communicated, additional control or service is supplied to UE 230.

RNC 210 can determine the connection status that the UE 230 of RNC is connected to by NodeB 220.In some embodiments In, RNC 210 can be communicated via radio up-line and downlink transmission with UE 230 by NodeB 220.RNC 210 can be communicated by one or more wired or wireless communications with NodeB 220.

NodeB 220 may include RF circuit 217, enable to the electromagnetic radiation by non-solid medium using modulation Carry out the communication with wireless network.RF circuit 217 can send and receive RF transmission.RF circuit 217 may include with referring to Fig.1 The similar component of component that is discussed of RF circuit 106.For example, RF circuit may include mixer, amplifier circuit, filter Wave device circuit or synthesizer circuit.NodeB can further include front-end module and antenna, with for being sent by non-solid medium and Receive RF signal.For example, believing for sending signal to one or more UE 230 and being received from one or more UE 230 Number.

RNC 210 and UE 230 establish network communication.For example, communication can be established based on UMTS network standard.RNC 210 UE 230 can be made to be connectable to packet switching network component or circuit-switched network component.As shown in Fig. 2, RNC 210 It may include network monitor 212, processing equipment 213, memory devices 215 and UE state control system 216.RNC 210 Access request can be received from UE 230, by broadcast periodicity provide system information, and keep RNC 210 and each UE Connection state information between 230.In some embodiments, RNC 210 may include: application circuit, for executing RNC 210 The one or more application of upper operation；Baseband circuit, the base band that the reception signal path for handling from RF circuit 217 receives Signal, and generate the baseband signal of the transmission signal path for RF circuit 217.

In some embodiments, RNC 210 can be or may include the component of NodeB 220.For example, RNC 210 can To include: one or more antennas, for sending and receiving RF transmission；And front-end module circuit, have and receives signal road Diameter, for being operated to the RF signal received from one or more antennas.Front-end module circuit can further include sending letter Number path, for amplifying the signal provided by RF circuit for transmission, with for by one in one or more antennas or It is multiple to be sent.In some embodiments, communication can be supplied to RF circuit and front-end module by RNC 210 NodeB, to send and receive transmission from UE 230.For example, as shown in Fig. 2, RNC 210 may include processing equipment 213 and Memory devices 215.In some embodiments, RNC 210 can further include to RF circuit 217 included in NodeB 220 For be additional or the RF circuit of alternative.Processing equipment 213 may include one or more central processing unit, and can be by The element of operation protocol stack is configured that, with the signaling for PHY, MAC, RLC, PDCP, NAS and/or rrc layer.Processing equipment 213 can execute the one or more application on RNC 210, execute the baseband circuit as described RNC 210 referring to Fig.1 Part operation, or execute other operations.Processing equipment 213 can be coupled in and/or may include memory devices 215, It and can be configured as: executing the instruction stored in memory/storage, so that various applications and/or operating system energy Enough operate in system.Memory devices 215 also can store by using data (for example, UE state control system 216, parameter used in network monitor 212 or be supplied to the parameter of UE 230).

In some embodiments, network monitor 212 can monitor various network performance parameters.Parameter can be based on user Equipment 230 is to the access of network, NodeB 220 or overall network performance.Some example performance statistics may include from UE The percentage of random access channel resource occupied by 230 access attempts, the random access unserviced based on conflict Ratio, packet queue delay, receiver noise ratio can indicate that the congestion level of network and the other performance of performance measure. Statistics can be supplied to the other components and/or other network elements of RNC 210 by network monitor 212.For example, network monitoring The information for indicating the operation of network can be supplied to UE state control system 216 by device 212.

The process of the state for monitoring the UE 230 for being connected to network may be implemented in UE state control system 216.For example, UE state control system 216 can track the connection status of the position of UE 230, UE 230, and monitor the logical of the progress of UE 220 Letter.UE state control system 216 can based on about UE data and/or network monitor 212 provided by data determine Whether UE 230 is converted under different connection status.UE state control system 216 can be in response to receiving from UE 230 CELL UPDATE message or in response to other excitations, periodically carries out this determination.For example, if from UE's 230 The reason of CELL UPDATE message includes the PS data session of request " UE terminate " indicate, then UE state control system 216 can be with Determine whether for UE to be converted to different connection status.

UE 230 may include the circuit above by reference to described in Fig. 1.UE 230 can execute request network service with The various applications that network is communicated.In addition, the information of identity and ability including UE 230 can be supplied to RNC by UE 230 210.In some embodiments, one or more UE 230 can be able to carry out operation to be converted to difference described herein even Connect state.

Fig. 3 describes the state diagram 300 for showing the various connection status of the UE according to the operation of UMTS agreement.As described above, UE It may operate under idle mode 310 or connection mode 320.Connection mode may include four states: URA-PCH 330, CELL-PCH 340, CELL-FACH 360 and CELL-DCH 350.UE can arrow according to Fig.3, each state it Between change.In some systems, the UE under PCH state 330,340 can will be converted to sky receiving instruction UE from network Idle mode 310 is to a transition directly to after the cell of not busy mode.For example, in case of congestion, network can be by one or more A UE is converted to idle state from PCH state.UE can also request to be converted to idle mode in response to one or more conditions 310.For example, being not present if there is no expected uplink or downlink transmission, or in the set period Transmission, then UE can request to be converted to idle mode.In some embodiments, if at the idling mode used in network DRX cycle length is longer than the cycle length of the DRX cycle length for the UE under PCH state, then UE can request to be converted to sky Not busy mode.Therefore, UE, which can request to be converted to, utilizes the state of less power because DRX cycle length is longer.In some implementations In example, UE can request the state being converted to other than idle mode.For example, UE can determine the DRX under URA-PCH state DRX cycle length under cycle length ratio CELL-PCH state is long.In these cases, UE can request to be converted to URA-PCH State rather than idle state.In some embodiments, UE can send to be converted to other states or from other states change Request.

In order to be converted to idle mode 310 from PCH state 330,340, UE can send net for CELL UPDATE message Network.In CELL UPDATE message, UE may include indicating the cell the reason is that " the PS data session of UE request terminates ".Net UE can be converted under idle mode based on message to determine by network.Because UE indicates it in CELL UPDATE message It attempts to terminate RRC connection, so UE can be converted to idle state 320 by network, without establishing for the dedicated or shared of UE Communication channel.Based on CELL UPDATE CONFIRM (cell update confirmation) message for carrying out automatic network, then UE can discharge RRC connection is to be converted under idle mode.

Fig. 4 describes the flow chart for the exemplary method for being converted to battery-efficient state that UE is executed.Start from box 410 In, UE determines that it will be converted under battery-efficient state.For example, UE can determine that it will be converted to the free time from PCH state State, as discussed with respect to Figure 3 as.It can carry out being converted to battery-efficient state really by the hardware or component software of UE It is fixed.It can carry out for example, referring to Fig. 1 baseband circuit discussed or application circuit about being converted to battery-efficient state really It is fixed.UE can current connection state based on UE, the DRX cycle length of the UE under current state and under other states, UE one The expected uplink or downlink transmission, net of the uplink or downlink transmission, UE progress that are carried out on the section time Network statistics or instruction be converted to idle state will reduce UE power utilization rate or UE network utilization other information into Row determines.In some embodiments, UE can pass by since the last one uplink or downlink transmission Determine that it will be converted under battery-efficient state after threshold amount of time.In some embodiments, for uplink under Uplink transmission, threshold amount of time can be different.

Box 420 is proceeded to, the CELL indicated with the reason of " the PS data session of UE request terminates " can be generated in UE UPDATE message.CELL UPDATE message can also include other information.In some embodiments, UE can be provided to have and be removed The reason of sentence except " the PS data session of UE request terminates ", to convey same or similar information.For example, reason can be with It is listed as any instruction that network interpretation is request release RRC connection.Therefore, UE can be generated connects with instruction release signaling The CELL UDPATE of any reason of the trial connect.In some embodiments, instead of CELL UPDATE message, UE can be sent With the reason of being set as the PS data session of request " UE terminate " URA UPDATE message or another type of message.One In a little embodiments, CELL UPDATE message can be RRC information.Then, generating CELL UPDATE message may include: UE's Baseband circuit encodes CELL UPDATE message.

In box 430, CELL UPDATE message is sent network by UE.In order to send message, UE can pass through RACH Message is sent, or can be converted under CELL-FACH state to send message.For example, UE can be by CELL-FACH It distributes to the mode of the time-division of UE rather than CELL UPDATE message is sent by connection at random.However, when sending CELL When UPDATE message, UE can not establish dedicated channel with network.

In box 440, UE receives the CELL UPDATE with the instruction for being converted to battery-efficient state from network CONFIRM message.UE can be received while under CELL-FACH state or while under CELL-PCH state CELL UPDATE CONFIRM message.For example, network can send a message to UE by FACH, or pass through paging channel Send message.CELL UPDATE CONFIRM message may include the cell for indicating the state of UE.For example, CELL UPDATE CONFIRM message may include the cell for indicating to be converted under idle mode to UE.In some embodiments, CELL UPDATE CONFIRM message can be RRC information.Then, the base band electricity that CELL UPDATE CONFIRM message may include: UE is received Road is decoded CELL UPDATE CONFIRM message.In response to CELL UPDATE CONFIRM message, in box 450 In, UE can be converted to battery-efficient state indicated by message.For example, if in CELL UPDATE CONFIRM message Idle state is indicated in cell, then UE can be converted to idle state from PCH or CELL-FACH state.

Fig. 5 describes the exemplary method 500 for being used to for UE being converted to battery-efficient state that network executes.Start from box In 510, network receives the CELL UPDATE message indicated with the reason of " the PS data session that UE is requested terminates " from UE.? In some embodiments, network can receive message by wireless medium at the antenna of NodeB.Then, RNC or other network elements can To receive CELL UPDATE message from NodeB or another intermediate module.In some embodiments, the CELL that network receives UPDATE message is RRC information.Then, in the box 510 of method 500, RNC or another network element can be to CELL UPDATE Message is decoded.

It proceeds on box 520, network, which is determined, is converted to battery-efficient state for UE.For example, RNC can have determining UE State UE state control system.In some embodiments, network can determine that UE can be converted to another connection status, remove It is non-to there is the reason of not changing.For example, network can have instruction to a group policy or rule for the available state of UE.For example, Network can have following rule: prevent UE from PCH if UE previously has transitioned to idle state in special time period State is converted to idle state.This rule can reduce because for just frequent transitions to idle state and from idle state turn The UE of change establishes connection and the unnecessary business on the network that generates.In some embodiments, network can be applied different Or additional rule or tactful, to determine whether for UE to be converted to battery-efficient state.

In box 530, network generates the CELL UPDATE of the cell of the battery-efficient state with instruction UE CONFIRM message.For example, the CELL UPDATE CONFIRM of the cell of the idle state with instruction UE can be generated in network Message.In some embodiments, CELL UPDATE CONFRIM message can be generated in RNC.In some embodiments, another net Member generates CELL UPDATE CONFIRM message.Network can be sent out CELL UPDATE CONFIRM message by wireless signal It is sent to UE.For example, network can generate signal in the rnc, and pass through the RF circuit of NodeB, front-end circuit and antenna hair Give the signal.In some embodiments, other components of network can be generated or send CELL UPDATE CONFIRM message. In some embodiments, CELL UPDATE CONFIRM message is RRC information.Then, CELL UPDATE CONFIRM is generated Message may include: to encode to CELL UPDATE CONFIRM message, for transmission to UE.

If the reason of CELL UPDATE message is different from " the PS data session of UE request terminates ", network can be incited somebody to action Resource allocation configures communication channel so that UE can send uplink data to UE.For example, not for CELL In the system of the reason of UPDATE message available " the PS data session of UE request terminates ", UE, which can be sent, has " UL data The CELL UPDATE message of the reason of transmission ".Therefore, network can distribute resource so that UE can send uplink number According to.Then, after in network and UE, the allocated resource is to establish connection to be used to send uplink data, UE can be sent The SCRI of the reason of with " the PS data session of UE request terminates ".Therefore, if UE is sent with " the PS data meeting of UE request Words terminate " the reason of CELL UPDATE message, and Network Recognition goes out the reason, then network and UE, which can be reduced, is used Time and resource to terminate signaling connection.

Other than generating CELL UPDATE CONFIRM message in box 530, network can also be in box 540 UE is converted to battery-efficient state in network side.For example, network can be released to the reserved Internet resources of UE, changes and be used for UE Paging scheduling, update position or data structure of logical address etc. of description UE.In some embodiments, in connection Before UE is converted to idle state by network side, network can wait confirmation message (for example, the UPLINK from UE RESPONSE (uplink response) message).

Fig. 6 is the example for showing the communication according to the embodiment for being converted between the UE and network of battery-efficient state Communication sequential chart.Timing illustrates the communication between UE 610 and network 615.Network may include NodeB, RNC, core net Other elements of element or UMTS network.In some embodiments, network may include other posterior members (for example, with RNC or NodeB is communicated to execute the evolution block core of the function of network (EPC)).For example, EPC can determine network settings, or Person generates the response to the communication received from UE.In some embodiments, the mobility management entity (MME) of EPC can be located Manage signaling related with CELL UPDATE process.Various communications shown in timing diagram can be by one or more of UMTS network A element is handled.In some embodiments, network 615 may include and the associated other elements of other network configurations.

After at the first time 620, UE 610 is under CELL-PCH/URA-PCH state.Then, in the time 625, UE Determine that it will be converted to battery-efficient state.For example, UE can determine that it was not carried out within the set period Line link or downlink transmission, and will be more efficient in idle mode.Therefore, UE can attempt to be converted to battery height Effect state.

In order to request the message for being converted to battery-efficient state to be sent to network instruction UE, UE can be in the time 630 are converted to CELL-FACH state.From CELL-FACH state, UE can send a message to network.For example, UE can pass through RACH sends a message to network.In the time 630, CELL UPDATE message is sent network by UE.CELL UPDATE message The reason of may include " the PS data session of UE request terminates "." the PS data session of UE request terminates " reason can be to network The reason of indicating CELL UPDATE is to request to be converted to idle state from connection status.

Network can receive to disappear with CELL UPDATE the reason of being set as " the PS data session of UE request terminates " Breath, and determine how and responded.Network can with otherwise determine by UE be converted to idle state or determination UE is stayed in into company It connects under state.For example, if UE in threshold time period from idle state transition, UE can be stayed in connection status by network Under.If the network determine that not UE will be converted under idle state, then it can not send the response to UE, or can be with It sends instruction network and does not receive response of the UE to the request being converted under idle state.If the network determine that UE is converted to the free time Under state, then network can disappear the CELL UPDATE CONFIRM of the cell with instruction battery-efficient state in the time 640 Breath is sent to UE.For example, CELL UPDATE CONFIRM message may include the status indicator of idle state.

In the time 645, UE, which can be sent, indicates that it receives CELL UPDATE CONFIRM message from network and it will Continue the response message being converted under idle mode.In some embodiments, network can also send uplink in the time 650 The confirmation of response message.Then, UE can be in the case where 655 be converted to idle state.In some embodiments, it is converted to idle state It may include: monitoring of the UE change to paging channel or other channels.When CELL UPDATE message or other message are sent to When network, UE can also stop specific operation or update.Network can be discharged to be connect with the RRC of UE, and UE is converted to the free time Mode.Network can also send UE for reconfiguration message.Reconfiguration message can indicate to be in idle mode or another as UE When under connection status, additional parameter that UE is used.For example, parameter may include that instruction UE will be executed under new connection status Measurement measuring control information.After the transition, then UE can execute measurement according to the measuring control information of new state.

Although the present disclosure describes many embodiments, it will be understood by those skilled in the art that a large amount of modifications and change accordingly Change.Appended claims are intended to cover all such modifications and variations, in the true spirit and range as fallen into the disclosure that Sample.

Following example belongs to the other embodiments of the disclosure.

Example 1 is the device of UE a kind of, comprising: memory devices；And processing equipment, it is operatively coupled to the storage Device equipment, the processing equipment are used for: being encoded to the CELL UPDATE message of the trial of instruction release signaling connection；It is right The confirmation message in response to the CELL UPDATE message for carrying out automatic network is decoded；And it is described true in response to receiving Recognize message, the UE is made to be converted to the second connection status from the first connection status, wherein second connection status and the second function Horizontal relevance is consumed, second power consumption levels are less than and associated first power consumption levels of first connection status.

In example 2, in the device of example 1 or any of the examples described herein, the processing equipment is used for: response In determining first connection status power more more than second connection status consumption, to the CELL UPDATE message It is encoded.

In example 3, in the device of example 2 or any of the examples described herein, first connection status is CELL-PCH or URA-PCH state, wherein the processing equipment is also used to: make UE in CELL-PCH the or URA-PCH state Lower monitoring paging channel.

In example 4, in the device of example 2 or any of the examples described herein, second connection status is empty Not busy mode, wherein the UE does not have logical connection with the network under the idle mode.

In example 5, in the device of example 2 or any of the examples described herein, the processing equipment is based on described The first discontinuous the second discontinuous reception period received under period and second connection status under first connection status, Determine that first connection status consumes more power than the second connection status.

In example 6, in the device of example 1 or any of the examples described herein, the UE further include: radio frequency electrical The processing equipment is coupled on road；Front-end module circuit is coupled to the radio circuit；And antenna, it is coupled to the front end mould Block circuit.

In example 7, in the device of example 6 or any of the examples described herein, UE described in example 6, the place Reason equipment is also used to: determining that the UE will be converted to idle connection status；The UE is set to be converted to CELL-FACH connection shape State；And the antenna is made to send the network for the CELL UPDATE message.

In example 8, in the device of example 1 or any of the examples described herein, the UE further include: radio frequency electrical Road, for sending the CELL UPDATE message of coding.

In example 9, in the device of example 1 or any of the examples described herein, in order to connect the UE from first The state of connecing is converted to the second connection status, and the processing equipment does not make the UE and the network establish signaling connection.

Example 10 is a kind of component of radio network controller (RNC), comprising: memory devices；Processing equipment can operate Ground is coupled to the memory devices, and the processing equipment is used for: being sent in the connection mode to user equipment (UE) and institute The CELL UPDATE message for stating the associated network of RNC is decoded；Determine the CELL UPDATE message instruction release signaling The trial of connection；It determines and the UE is converted to battery-efficient state；And it generates with the instruction battery-efficient state The confirmation message of cell.

In example 11, in the component of the RNC of example 10 or any of the examples described herein, the processing equipment is also For: so that the confirmation message is sent to the UE.

In example 12, in the component of the RNC of example 10 or any of the examples described herein, in order to which determination will be described UE is converted to battery-efficient state, and the processing equipment is used for: determining since the last one uplink from the UE passes Time span since defeated or CELL UPDATE message is greater than threshold length of time.

In example 13, in the component of the RNC of example 10 or any of the examples described herein, the processing equipment is also For: reconfiguration message is generated, the UE is configured at the battery-efficient state.

In example 14, in the component of the RNC of example 10 or any of the examples described herein, the processing equipment is not The RNC is set to establish connection with the UE in response to the CELL UPDATE message.

In example 15, in the component of the RNC of example 10 or any of the examples described herein, the processing equipment is also For: the 2nd CELL UPDATE message from the 2nd UE is decoded；Determine that the CELL UPDATE message includes referring to The reason of showing the trial of release signaling connection；The UE is not converted to battery-efficient state by determination；And it generates with instruction The confirmation message of the cell of the CELL-PCH or URA-PCH state of the UE.

In example 16, in the component of the RNC of example 10 or any of the examples described herein, the component of the RNC It is operably coupled to NodeB, send the UE for radiofrequency signal and receives radiofrequency signal from the UE.

Example 17 is one or more computer-readable mediums, has instruction, makes user equipment (UE) upon being performed: Determine that the UE will be converted to battery-efficient state；To the CELL with the reason of trial for indicating release signaling connection element UPDATE message is encoded；And send the CELL UPDATE of the reason of trial with instruction release signaling connection element Message.

In example 18, the instruction in example 17 or any other example described herein also makes the UE: to having The confirmation message of the instruction of the battery-efficient state is decoded；And it in response to receiving confirmation message, is converted to described Battery-efficient state.

In example 19, the instruction in example 17 or any other example described herein is for determining the UE transformation To the battery-efficient state, described instruction also makes the UE: determining the current connection state of the UE；And determine the electricity Pond efficient state consumes less power than the current connection state.

In example 20, the instruction in example 19 or any other example described herein is for determining that the battery is high Effect state consumes less power than first connection status, and described instruction also makes the UE: determining and currently connects for described The the first discontinuous reception period for connecing state is longer than the second discontinuous reception period for the battery-efficient state.

Example 21 is a kind of method, comprising: determines that user equipment (UE) will be converted to battery-efficient state；Generation has The CELL UPDATE message of the reason of trial of release signaling connection element instruction；And sending, there is instruction release signaling to connect The reason of trial connect element CELL UPDATE message.

In example 22, the method for example 21 or any of the examples described herein further include: receiving has the battery The confirmation message of the instruction of efficient state；And in response to receiving the confirmation message, it is converted to the battery-efficient state.

In example 23, in the method for example 21 or any of the examples described herein, it is converted to battery-efficient state The UE and the network is not set to establish signaling connection.

In example 24, in the method for example 21 or any of the examples described herein, determine that the UE will change The current connection state of the UE is comprised determining that the battery-efficient state；And determine that the battery-efficient state compares institute It states current connection state and consumes less power.

In example 25, in the method for example 24 or any of the examples described herein, the battery-efficient shape is determined State than the current connection state consumes less power and comprises determining that discontinuously to be connect for the first of the current connection state It is longer than the second discontinuous reception period for the battery-efficient state to receive the period.

In example 26, in example 24 or any other exemplary method described herein, the current connection shape State is CELL-PCH or URA-PCH state, and wherein, and the battery-efficient state is idle mode, wherein the UE is in institute Stating under idle mode does not have logical connection with the network.

Example 27 is a kind of machine readable media, including code, and machine is made to execute such as example 21 to 26 upon being performed Or method described in any one of any of the examples described herein.

Example 28 is a kind of device, including for executing as any in example 21 to 26 or any of the examples described herein The module of method described in.

Example 29 is a kind of device, including processor, is configured as: executing such as example 21 to 26 or described herein Method described in any one of what example.

Example 30 is a kind of method, comprising: reception user equipment (UE) is sent in the connection mode to be associated with the RNC Network CELL UPDATE message；Determine the trial of the CELL UPDATE message instruction release signaling connection；Determining will The UE is converted to battery-efficient state；And generate the confirmation message with the cell for indicating the battery-efficient state.

In example 31, the method for example 30 or any of the examples described herein further include: send out the confirmation message It is sent to the UE.

In example 32, in the method for example 30 or any of the examples described herein, the UE is converted to by determination Battery-efficient state comprise determining that since from the UE the last one uplink transmission or CELL UPDATE message with The time span come is bigger than threshold length of time.

In example 33, the method for example 30 or any of the examples described herein further include: reconfiguration message is generated, with The UE is configured at the battery-efficient state.

In example 34, the method for example 30 or any of the examples described herein further include: receive the 2nd CELL from UE UPDATE message；Determine that the CELL UPDATE message includes the reason of indicating the trial of release signaling connection；It determines not by institute It states UE and is converted to battery-efficient state；And generate the cell with CELL-PCH the or URA-PCH state for indicating the UE Confirmation message.

Example 35 is a kind of device, comprising: the method for executing example 30 to 34 or any of the examples described herein Module.

Example 36 is one or more non-transient computer-readable mediums, has instruction, makes user upon being performed Equipment (UE): determine that the UE will be converted to battery-efficient state；The reason of to the trial with instruction release signaling connection The CELL UPDATE message of element is encoded；And send the reason of trial with instruction release signaling connection element CELL UPDATE message.

In example 37, one or more non-transients of example 36 or any of the examples described herein are computer-readable Medium, described instruction also make the UE: being decoded to the confirmation message of the instruction with the battery-efficient state；And it rings Ying Yu receives the confirmation message, is converted to the battery-efficient state.

In example 38, one or more non-transient computers of example 36 or any of the examples described herein can It reads in medium, in order to determine that the UE will be converted to the battery-efficient state, described instruction also makes the UE: described in determining The current connection state of UE；And determine that the battery-efficient state consumes less power than the current connection state.

Example 39 is the device of UE a kind of, comprising: for generating the CELL UPDATE of the trial of instruction release signaling connection The module of message；For receiving the module of the confirmation message in response to the CELL UPDATE message from network；And for ringing Ying Yu receives the confirmation message, and the UE is made to be converted to the module of the second connection status from the first connection status, wherein institute It states the second connection status to be associated with the second power consumption levels, second power consumption levels are less than associated with first connection status First power consumption levels.

In example 40, the device of example 39 or any of the examples described herein further include: in response to determining institute It states the first connection status and consumes more power than second connection status, generate the module of the CELL UPDATE message.

In example 41, the device of example 39 or 40 or any of the examples described herein further include: for making the UE Send the module of the CELL UPDATE message of coding.

In description herein, illustrate a large amount of details (for example, certain types of processor and system configuration, specific Hardware configuration, certain architectures and micro-architecture details, particular register configuration, specific instruction type, particular system components, specific survey The example of amount/height, par-ticular processor pipeline stages and operation etc.), in order to provide the thorough understanding to the disclosure.However, answering Understand, carrys out various aspects of the disclosure without these specific details.In other examples, being not described in known group Part or method are (for example, specific and alternative process device framework, particular logic circuit/code, specific solid for described algorithm Part code, specific interconnected operation, particular logic configuration, certain fabrication techniques and material, specific compiler implementation, in code The particular expression of algorithm, certain power reduces and other specific operations of gating technique/logic and computer system are thin Section), in order to avoid unnecessarily cover the disclosure.

Instruction for executing embodiment of the disclosure to programming in logic can store memory (example in systems Such as, DRAM, caching, flash memory or other storages) in.It can be via network or by other computer-readable mediums in addition, instructing Form and distribute.Therefore, machine readable media may include any for depositing in the readable form of machine (for example, computer) Storage or send information mechanism, but be not limited to floppy disk, CD, compact disk read-only memory (CD-ROM) and magneto-optical disk, only Reading memory (ROM), random access memory (RAM), Erasable Programmable Read Only Memory EPROM (EPROM), electric erasable can be compiled Journey read-only memory (EEPROM), magnetic or optical card, flash memory or via electricity, light, sound or other forms transmitting signal (for example, Carrier wave, infrared signal, digital signal etc.) pass through the tangible machine readable storage that uses when the Internet transmission information.Therefore, it calculates Machine readable medium includes times for being suitable for the readable form storage of machine (for example, computer) or sending e-command or information The tangible machine-readable medium of what type.

Module used herein refers to any combination of hardware, software and/or firmware.As an example, module include with Non-transient medium is associated for storing the hardware (for example, microcontroller) for being suitable for the code executed by microcontroller.Therefore, The reference of module is referred in one embodiment and is particularly configured to identify and execute on non-transient medium to be stored in Code hardware.In addition, in another embodiment, being referred to using module includes being particularly adapted to be executed by microcontroller to hold The non-transient medium of the code of row predetermined operation.And it is inferred that in another embodiment, term module is (in the example In) it may refer to the combination of microcontroller and non-transient medium.Generally, the module alignment for being shown as isolated usually changes and dives It is overlapped on ground.For example, the first module and the second module can share hardware, software, firmware or combinations thereof, while potentially retaining Certain separate hardwares, software or firmware.It in one embodiment, the use of terminological logic include hardware (for example, transistor, deposit Device) or other hardware (for example, programmable logic device).

Arrangement, together placement, manufacture, offering for sale, import are referred to using phrase " being configured as " in one embodiment And/or it is designed to carry out device, hardware, logic or the element of task that is specified or determining.In this example, if not The device just operated or its element are designed, couple and/or are interconnected into execution appointed task, then its still " being configured as " execution The appointed task.As pure illustrated examples, logic gate can provide 0 or 1 during operation.But " being configured as " will enable The logic gate that signal is supplied to clock does not include each potential logic gate that can provide 1 or 0.But logic gate is to operate Period by 1 or 0 output for enable clock certain in a manner of the logic gate that couples.Again, it is to be noted that " being configured as " using term It does not require that operation, but focuses on the sneak condition of device, hardware and/or element, wherein is device, hard under sneak condition Part and/or element are designed to: when device, hardware and/or element just operate, executing particular task.

In addition, in one embodiment using phrase " in order to/be used for ", " can " and/or " being operable as " refer to such as Certain device, logic, hardware and/or element designed by under type: make it possible to specific mode use device, logic, hard Part and/or element.As described above, in one embodiment using for/in order to, can or be operable as refer to device, patrol Volume, the sneak condition of hardware and/or element, wherein device, logic, hardware and/or element are not just operating, but with this side Formula is designed so that can be with specific mode use device.

It can be accessed via the executable machineaccessible of processing element, machine readable, computer, computer-readable Jie The instruction that is stored in matter or code realize method explained above, hardware, software, firmware or the embodiment of code.It is non- Instantaneity machineaccessible/readable medium includes (being deposited with the readable form offer of machine (example, such as computer or electronic system) Storage and/or send) any mechanism of information.For example, non-transient machine-accessible medium includes random access memory (RAM) (for example, static state RAM (SRAM) or dynamic ram (DRAM))；ROM；Magnetically or optically storage medium；Flash memory device；Storage device electric, light Store equipment；Acoustics stores equipment；It is connect for saving from instantaneous (propagation) signal (for example, carrier wave, infrared signal, digital signal) The storage equipment of the other forms of the information received；Deng with the non-transient medium differentiation that can receive from it information.

Instruction for executing embodiment of the disclosure to programming in logic can store memory (example in systems Such as, DRAM, caching, flash memory or other storaging pieces) in.It can be via network or by other computer-readable Jie in addition, instructing The form of matter and distribute.Therefore, machine readable media may include any for the form readable with machine (for example, computer) Storage or send information mechanism, but be not limited to floppy disk, CD, compact disk read-only memory (CD-ROM) and magneto-optic disk, only Reading memory (ROM), random access memory (RAM), Erasable Programmable Read Only Memory EPROM (EPROM), electric erasable can be compiled Journey read-only memory (EEPROM), magnetic or optical card, flash memory or via electricity, light, sound or other forms transmitting signal (for example, Carrier wave, infrared signal, digital signal etc.) pass through the tangible machine readable storage that uses when the Internet transmission information.Therefore, it calculates Machine readable medium includes times for being suitable for the readable form storage of machine (for example, computer) or sending e-command or information The tangible machine-readable medium of what type.

The reference of " one embodiment " or " embodiment " is indicated to wrap at least one embodiment of the disclosure through specification Include a particular feature, structure, or characteristic described in conjunction with the embodiments.Therefore, through the specification each place occur phrase " In one embodiment " or " in embodiment " or be not necessarily all referring to " in some embodiments " for the same embodiment.Furthermore, it is possible to Combine a particular feature, structure, or characteristic by any suitable means in one or more embodiments.

In specification in front, detailed description is provided referring to certain exemplary embodiments.However, will be apparent from It, can be to it in the case where being the wider range of spirit and scope of the disclosure illustrated in not departing from appended claims It carry out various modifications and changes.Correspondingly, the description and the appended drawings are counted as descriptive sense rather than restrictive sense.This Outside, the aforementioned use of embodiment and other examples language is not necessarily referring to the same embodiment or same example, and can refer to For different and unique embodiment and potentially identical embodiment.

About the operation to the data bit in computer storage algorithm and symbolic expression and propose detailed description Some parts.These algorithm descriptions and statement are to be used for by data processing field technical staff most effectively by their work Essence is communicated to the means of other those skilled in the art.Algorithm be contemplated that herein and usually bring expected result itself one The sequence of operation of cause.Operation is the operation for needing to carry out physical quantity physical manipulation.Although in general, not necessarily, this tittle Taking can be by storage, the form of the electrical or magnetic signal for transmission, combining, comparing and in addition manipulating.It is convenient always to have proved , primarily for commonly used reason, these signals are referred to as bit, value, element, symbol, character, item, number etc.. Described herein piece can be hardware, software, firmware or combinations thereof.

However, it should be understood that all of these and similar terms be with register appropriate, and be only applied to The convenient label of this tittle.Unless in addition specifically state, from it is described above obviously, it should be appreciated that run through specification, use example Such as " definition " " reception ", " determination ", " distribution ", " link ", " association ", " acquisition ", " certification ", " forbidding ", " execution ", " is asked Ask ", the discussion of the term of " communication " etc. refer to physics (such as electricity in the register and memory that will be indicated as computing system Son) data manipulation and being transformed to of amount is similarly expressed as computing system memory or register or other such information are deposited The computing system of other data of storage, transmission or the physical quantity in display equipment or movement and the place of similar electronic computing device Reason.

Word " example " or " exemplary " are used to indicate to serve as example, example or explanation herein.It is described herein as " showing Example " or the aspect or design of " exemplary " are not necessarily to be construed as preferred or advantageous over other aspects or design.In addition, using word " example " or " exemplary " intention propose design in specific ways.As used in this application, term "or" is intended to Indicate inclusive "or" and non-exclusive "or".That is, unless specified otherwise or based on context obvious, " X includes A or B " is intended to indicate any naturally inclusive arrangement.That is, under any previous examples, if X includes A；X includes B；Or X includes A and B both, then meets " X includes A or B ".In addition, this application and numeral-classifier compound as used in the appended claims "one" and " some " it is generally understood that indicate " one or more ", unless specified otherwise or it is obvious from context be for list Number form formula.In addition, in the whole text not using term " embodiment ", " one embodiment " or " implementation " or " implementation " It is intended to indicate the same embodiment or implementation, except description of being far from it.In addition, term as used herein " first ", " second ", " third ", " 4th " etc. are expressed as the label for distinguishing between different elements, and may not necessarily have according to it Number designation ordinal number meaning.

Claims (25)

1. a kind of device of user equipment (UE), comprising:

Memory devices；With

Processing equipment is operatively coupled to the memory devices, and the processing equipment is used for:

The CELL UPDATE message of the trial of instruction release signaling connection is encoded；

The confirmation message in response to the CELL UPDATE message for carrying out automatic network is decoded；And

In response to receiving the confirmation message, the UE is made to be converted to the second connection status from the first connection status, wherein institute It states the second connection status to be associated with the second power consumption levels, second power consumption levels are less than associated with first connection status First power consumption levels, and wherein, first connection status is wireless heterogeneous networks (RRC) state.

2. device as described in claim 1, wherein the processing equipment is used for:

More power are consumed than second connection status in response to determination first connection status, to the CELL UPDATE message is encoded.

3. device as claimed in claim 1 or 2, wherein first connection status is CELL-PCH or URA-PCH state, Wherein, the processing equipment is also used to:

UE is set to monitor paging channel under CELL-PCH the or URA-PCH state.

4. device as claimed in claim 1 or 2, wherein second connection status is idle mode, wherein the UE exists There is no RRC connection with the network under the idle mode.

5. device as claimed in claim 2, wherein the processing equipment is not connected based on first under first connection status The second discontinuous reception period under continued access time receiving section and second connection status, determine that first connection status compares institute It states the second connection status and consumes more power, wherein the reception more discontinuous than described second of the described first discontinuous reception period Period is short.

6. device as described in claim 1, further includes:

Radio circuit is coupled to the processing equipment；

Front-end module circuit is coupled to the radio circuit；With

Antenna is coupled to the front-end module circuit.

7. device as claimed in claim 6, wherein the processing equipment is also used to:

Determine that the UE will be converted to idle connection status；

The UE is set to be converted to CELL-FACH connection status；And

The antenna is set to send the network for the CELL UPDATE message.

8. device as described in claim 1, further includes: radio circuit, for sending the CELL UPDATE message of coding.

9. device as described in claim 1, wherein in order to make the UE be converted to the second connection shape from the first connection status State, the processing equipment signal to radio circuit: supervising by with the second connection status associated discontinuous reception period Paging channel is listened, measurement, or release RRC connection are executed according to the measuring control information of second connection status.

10. a kind of device of radio network controller (RNC), comprising:

Memory devices；

Processing equipment is operatively coupled to the memory devices, and the processing equipment is used for:

Processing user equipment (UE) is sent to the CELL UPDATE message with the associated network of the RNC in the connection mode；

Determine the trial of the CELL UPDATE message instruction release signaling connection；

It determines and the UE is converted to battery-efficient state；And

Confirmation message with the cell for indicating the battery-efficient state is encoded.

11. the device of RNC as claimed in claim 10, wherein the processing equipment is also used to:

The confirmation message is set to be sent to the UE.

12. the device of RNC as claimed in claim 10, wherein in order to which the UE is converted to battery-efficient state, institute by determination Processing equipment is stated to be used for:

Determine that the time span since the last one uplink transmission from the UE or CELL UPDATE message is big In threshold length of time.

13. the device of RNC as claimed in claim 10, wherein the processing equipment is also used to:

Reconfiguration message is generated, the UE is configured at the battery-efficient state.

14. the device of RNC as claimed in claim 10, wherein the processing equipment does not make the RNC in response to the CELL UPDATE message establishes the connection with the UE.

15. the device of RNC as claimed in claim 10, wherein the processing equipment is also used to:

The 2nd CELL UPDATE message from the 2nd UE is decoded；

Determine that the CELL UPDATE message includes the reason of indicating the trial of release signaling connection；

The UE is not converted to battery-efficient state by determination；And

Generate the confirmation message of the cell with CELL-PCH the or URA-PCH state for indicating the UE.

16. the device of RNC as claimed in claim 10, wherein the component of the RNC is operatively coupled to NodeB, will Radiofrequency signal is sent to the UE and receives radiofrequency signal from the UE.

17. one or more computer-readable mediums have instruction, described instruction makes user equipment (UE) upon being performed:

Determine that the UE will be converted to battery-efficient state；

The CELL UPDATE message for having the reason of trial for indicating release signaling connection element is encoded；And

Send the CELL UPDATE message of the reason of trial with instruction release signaling connection element.

18. one or more computer-readable mediums as claimed in claim 16, wherein described instruction also makes the UE:

The confirmation message of instruction with the battery-efficient state is decoded；And

In response to receiving confirmation message, it is converted to the battery-efficient state.

19. one or more computer-readable mediums as claimed in claim 16, wherein in order to determine that the UE will change To the battery-efficient state, described instruction also makes the UE:

Determine the current connection state of the UE；And

Determine that the battery-efficient state consumes less power than the current connection state.

20. a kind of device, comprising:

For being sent in the connection mode and the CELL of radio network controller (RNC) associated network to user equipment (UE) The module that UPDATE message is decoded；

For determining the module of the trial of the CELL UPDATE message instruction release signaling connection；

For determining the module that the UE is converted to battery-efficient state；And

Module for being encoded to the confirmation message with the cell for indicating the battery-efficient state.

21. device as claimed in claim 20, wherein the UE is converted to the module of battery-efficient state also for determining For: determine the time span since the last one uplink transmission from the UE or CELL UPDATE message Greater than threshold length of time.

22. the device as described in claim 20 or 21, further includes:

For generating reconfiguration message so that the UE to be configured to the module of the battery-efficient state.

23. a kind of device of UE, comprising:

The module that CELL UPDATE message for the trial to instruction release signaling connection is encoded；

For to the module being decoded in response to the confirmation message of the CELL UPDATE message for carrying out automatic network；And

For making the UE be converted to the second connection status from the first connection status in response to receiving the confirmation message Module, wherein second connection status is associated with the second power consumption levels, and second power consumption levels are less than to be connected with described first The first power consumption levels of state relation are connect, and wherein, first connection status is wireless heterogeneous networks (RRC) state.

24. the device of UE as claimed in claim 23, further includes:

For consuming more power than second connection status in response to determination first connection status, to the CELL The module that UPDATE message is encoded.

25. the device of the UE as described in claim 23 or 24, further includes:

The module of the CELL UPDATE message encoded for sending the UE.