BANDWIDTH UTILIZATION DURING SILENCE FRAMES

• US 20200137623A1
• Filed: 05/11/2017
• Published: 04/30/2020
• Est. Priority Date: 05/11/2017
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Apple Inc.
• Original Assignee: Intel IP Corporation (Intel Corporation)
• Inventors: NIRWANI, Anand, GIRIDHAR, Alvandar Narasimhan, SHIVALINGAIAH, Ganesh
• Application Number:
  US16/605,681
• Publication Number:
  US 20200137623A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 47/803 Application aware
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/1016 IP multimedia subsystem [IMS]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/1069 Session establishment or de-establishment
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/1083 In-session procedures
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/1104 Session initiation protocol [SIP]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/65 Network streaming protocols, e.g. real-time transport protocol [RTP] or real-time control protocol [RTCP]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/80 Responding to QoS
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 69/24 Negotiation of communication capabilities
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 7/0006 where voice calls cross both networks
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 7/0081 Network operation, administration, maintenance, or provisioning
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 28/06 Optimizing the usage of the radio link, e.g. header compression, information sizing , discarding information system modifying transmission characteristic according to link quality by modifying frame length H04L1/0007; dynamic adaptation of the packet size for flow control or congestion control H04L47/365
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 72/23 in the downlink direction of a wireless link, i.e. towards a terminal
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 80/08 Upper layer protocols network arrangements or communication protocols for networked applications H04L67/00

Abstract

Briefly, in accordance with one or more embodiments, an apparatus of a user equipment (UE) comprises one or more baseband processors to generate a voice call invite message for a remote UE, and a memory to store the voice call invite message. The voice call invite message includes a header p-use-silence-period to indicate that the UE is configured to transmit or receive non-voice data during a silence period of the voice call.

Claims

1-30. -30. (canceled)

31. An apparatus of a user equipment (UE), comprising:

one or more baseband processors to generate a voice call invite message for a remote UE; and

a memory to store the voice call invite message;

wherein the voice call invite message includes a header p-use-silence-period to indicate that the UE is configured to transmit or receive non-voice data during a silence period of the voice call.

32. The apparatus of claim 31, further comprising a radio-frequency (RF) transceiver to transmit the voice call invite message to the remote UE via a core network.

33. The apparatus of claim 31, wherein the header indicates a type of non-voice data to be transmitted or received during a silence period.

34. The apparatus of claim 31, wherein the one or more baseband processor are to generate one or more non-voice data packets to be sent to the remote UE during a silence period of the UE.

35. The apparatus of claim 31, wherein the one or more baseband processors are to decode one or more non-voice data packets received from the remote UE during a silence period of the remote UE.

36. The apparatus of claim 31, wherein the one or more baseband processors are to generate a Silence Indicator Description (SID) frame to be sent from the UE to the remote UE prior to sending one or more non-voice data packets to the remote UE during a silence period of the UE.

37. The apparatus of claim 31, wherein the voice call comprises a Voice over Long Term Evolution (VoLTE) call.

38. The apparatus of claim 31, wherein the non-voice data comprises message data, location data, or time data, or a combination thereof.

39. An apparatus of a user equipment (UE), comprising:

one or more baseband processors to decode a voice call invite message from a remote UE; and

a memory to store the call invite message;

wherein the call invite message includes a header p-use-silence-period to indicate that the UE is configured to transmit or receive non-voice data during a silence period of the voice call.

40. The apparatus of claim 39, further comprising a radio-frequency (RF) transceiver to receive the voice call invite message from the remote UE via a core network, and to transmit a 200 OK message to the remote UE via the core network in reply to the voice call invite message.

41. The apparatus of claim 39, wherein the header indicates a type of non-voice data to be transmitted or received during a silence period.

42. The apparatus of claim 39, wherein the one or more baseband processor are to generate one or more non-voice data packets to be sent to the remote UE during a silence period of the UE.

43. The apparatus of claim 39, wherein the one or more baseband processors are to decode one or more non-voice data packets received from the remote UE during a silence period of the remote UE.

44. The apparatus of claim 39, wherein the one or more baseband processors are to process a Silence Indicator Description (SID) frame received from the remote UE prior to receiving one or more non-voice data packets from the remote UE during a silence period of the remote UE.

45. The apparatus of claim 39, wherein the voice call comprises a Voice over Long Term Evolution (VoLTE) call.

46. The apparatus of any of claim 39, wherein the non-voice data comprises message data, location data, or time data, or a combination thereof.

47. One or more non-transitory computer readable media having instructions stored thereon that, if executed by a user equipment (UE), result in:

generating a voice call invite message for a remote UE; and

storing the voice call invite message in a memory;

wherein the voice call invite message includes a header p-use-silence-period to indicate that the UE is configured to transmit or receive non-voice data during a silence period of the voice call.

48. The one or more non-transitory computer readable media of claim 47, wherein the header indicates a type of non-voice data to be transmitted or received during a silence period.

49. The one or more non-transitory computer readable media of claim 47, wherein the instructions, if executed, further result in generating one or more non-voice data packets to be sent to the remote UE during a silence period of the UE.

50. The one or more non-transitory computer readable media of claim 47, wherein the instructions, if executed, further result in decoding one or more non-voice data packets received from the remote UE during a silence period of the remote UE.

51. The one or more non-transitory computer readable media of claim 47, wherein the instructions, if executed, further result in generating a Silence Indicator Description (SID) frame to be sent from the UE to the remote UE prior to sending one or more non-voice data packets to the remote UE during a silence period of the UE.

52. The one or more non-transitory computer readable media of claim 47, wherein the voice call comprises a Voice over Long Term Evolution (VoLTE) call.

53. The one or more non-transitory computer readable media of claim 47, wherein the non-voice data comprises message data, location data, or time data, or a combination thereof.