Method and device for reporting capability of UE

• US 9,516,494 B2
• Filed: 08/02/2012
• Issued: 12/06/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 08/12/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Datang Mobile Communications Equipment Company Limited (China Information Communication Technology Group Co. Ltd.)
• Original Assignee: China Academy of Telecom Technology (China Information Communication Technology Group Co. Ltd.)
• Inventors: Zhao, Yali, Xu, Fangli, Jiang, Shouning
• Primary Examiner(s): Lai, Andrew
• Assistant Examiner(s): Henson, Jamaal
• Application Number:
  US14/238,492
• Publication Number:
  US 20140219170A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,587 Days
• Field of Search: None
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 8/24 Transfer of terminal data

Abstract

A method and device for reporting a capability of UE. A UE receives a capability querying message from a base station, and sends a capability reporting message to the base station. The capability reporting message contains multi-TA capability information of the UE through at least one of an explicit mode and an implicit mode.

Claims

1. A method for reporting a capability of User Equipment (UE), comprising:

receiving, by the UE, a capability querying message from a base station; and

sending, by the UE, a capability reporting message to the base station, wherein the capability reporting message contains multi-Time Alignment (TA) capability information of the UE through one of an explicit mode and an implicit mode;

wherein if the capability reporting message contains the multi-TA capability information of the UE through the explicit mode,

the capability reporting message contains at least one piece of;

information indicating whether the UE supports a multi-TA capability, or information indicating the number of TA groups supported by the UE;

or

the capability reporting message contains at least one piece of;

information indicating whether a multi-TA capability is supported for each BandCombination that is reported by the UE, information indicating the number of TA groups supported by each BandCombination, or information indicating whether each band in each BandCombination is a single TA group.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein if the capability reporting message contains the information indicating whether the multi-TA capability is supported for each BandCombination that is reported by the UE,

reporting, by the UE, the multi-TA capability only for the BandCombination including one band.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein if the capability reporting message contains the multi-TA capability information of the UE through the implicit mode,

the BandCombination information contained in the capability reporting message implicitly contains information indicating whether the UE supports a multi-TA capability, so that the base station can determine according to the BandCombination information whether the UE supports the multi-TA capability;

or

a relationship between UE category information of the UE and information indicating whether the UE supports a multi-TA capability is predetermined, and the capability reporting message contains the UE category information of the UE, so that the base station can determine according to the UE category information whether the UE supports the multi-TA capability.

4. The method of claim 3, wherein if the BandCombination information contained in the capability reporting message implicitly contains the information indicating whether the UE supports the multi-TA capability,

Radio Frequency (RF) capability information contained in the capability reporting message contains the BandCombination information, wherein the BandCombination information indicates whether the UE supports inter-band aggregation, and if the UE supports inter-band aggregation, the UE supports the multi-TA capability.

5. The method of claim 3, wherein if the BandCombination information contained in the capability reporting message implicitly contains the information indicating whether the UE supports the multi-TA capability, the BandCombination information indicates the number of bands that can be aggregated at most by the UE, so that the base station can determine, according to the BandCombination information, the number of TA groups that can be supported at most by the UE.

6. The method of claim 3, wherein the number of TA groups is equal to a sum of the number of Primary Cell (PCell) TA groups (PTAGs) and the number of Secondary Cell (SCell) TA groups (STAGs) or equal to the number of STAGs.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein the number of TA groups is equal to a sum of the number of Primary Cell (PCell) TA groups (PTAGs) and the number of Secondary Cell (SCell) TA groups (STAGs) or equal to the number of STAGs.

8. A User Equipment (UE), comprising:

a processor and a non-transitory storage, wherein the non-transitory storage is to store one or more instructions to be executed by the processor, and the one or more instructions comprise;

a receiving instruction, to receive a capability querying message from a base station; and

a sending instruction, to send a capability reporting message to the base station, wherein the capability reporting message contains multi-Time Alignment (TA) capability information of the UE through one of an explicit mode and an implicit mode;

wherein if the capability reporting message contains the multi-TA capability information of the UE through the explicit mode,

the capability reporting message contains at least one piece of;

information indicating whether the UE supports a multi-TA capability, or information indicating the number of TA groups supported by the UE;

or

the capability reporting message contains at least one piece of;

information indicating whether a multi-TA capability is supported for each BandCombination that is reported by the UE, information indicating the number of TA groups supported by each BandCombination, or information indicating whether each band in each BandCombination is a single TA group.

9. The UE of claim 8, wherein if the capability reporting message contains the information indicating whether a multi-TA capability is supported for each BandCombination that is reported by the UE,

reporting, by the UE, a multi-TA capability only for BandCombination including one band.

10. The UE of claim 8, wherein the sending instruction is to send the capability reporting message containing BandCombination information supported by the UE, so that the base station can determine according to the BandCombination information whether the UE supports a multi-TA capability;

or

the sending instruction is to send the capability reporting message containing UE category information of the UE, wherein a relationship between the UE category information and information indicating whether the UE supports a multi-TA capability is predetermined, so that the base station can determine according to the UE category information whether the UE supports the multi-TA capability.

11. A method for reporting a capability of User Equipment (UE), comprising:

sending, by a base station, a capability querying message to the UE;

receiving, by the base station, a capability reporting message from the UE, wherein the capability reporting message contains multi-Time Alignment (TA) capability information of the UE through one of an explicit mode and an implicit mode; and

determining, by the base station according to the multi-TA capability information of the UE contained in the capability reporting message, whether the UE supports a multi-TA capability;

wherein if the capability reporting message contains the multi-TA capability information of the UE through the explicit mode,

the capability reporting message contains at least one piece of;

information indicating whether the UE supports the multi-TA capability, or information indicating the number of TA groups supported by the UE;

or

the capability reporting message contains at least one piece of;

information indicating whether a multi-TA capability is supported for each BandCombination that is reported by the UE, information indicating the number of TA groups supported by each BandCombination, or information indicating whether each band in each BandCombination is a single TA group.

12. The method of claim 11, wherein if the capability reporting message contains the information indicating whether the multi-TA capability is supported for each BandCombination that is reported by the UE,

reporting, by the UE, the multi-TA capability only for BandCombination including one band.

13. The method of claim 11, wherein if the capability reporting message contains the multi-TA capability information of the UE through the implicit mode,

BandCombination information contained in the capability reporting message implicitly contains information indicating whether the UE supports a multi-TA capability, so that the base station can determine according to the BandCombination information whether the UE supports the multi-TA capability;

or

a relationship between UE category information of the UE and information indicating whether the UE supports a multi-TA capability is predetermined, and the capability reporting message contains the UE category information of the UE, so that the base station can determine according to the UE category information whether the UE supports the multi-TA capability.

14. The method of claim 13, wherein if the BandCombination information contained in the capability reporting message implicitly contains the information indicating whether the UE supports the multi-TA capability, Radio Frequency (RF) capability information contained in the capability reporting message contains the BandCombination information, wherein the BandCombination information indicates whether the UE supports inter-band aggregation, and if the UE supports inter-band aggregation, the UE supports the multi-TA capability.

15. The method of claim 13, wherein if the BandCombination information contained in the capability reporting message implicitly contains the information indicating whether the UE supports the multi-TA capability, the BandCombination information indicates the number of bands that can be aggregated at most by the UE, so that the base station can determine, according to the BandCombination information, the number of TA groups that can be supported at most by the UE.

16. The method of claim 13, wherein the number of TA groups is equal to a sum of the number of Primary Cell (PCell) TA groups (PTAGs) and the number of Secondary Cell (SCell) TA groups (STAGs) or equal to the number of STAGs.

17. The method of claim 11, wherein the number of TA groups is equal to a sum of the number of Primary Cell (PCell) TA groups (PTAGs) and the number of Secondary Cell (SCell) TA groups (STAGs) or equal to the number of STAGs.