Method and apparatus for optimizing power consumption of a terminal in a mobile communication system

• US 9,629,081 B2
• Filed: 10/05/2015
• Issued: 04/18/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 11/15/2010
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Inventors: Kim, Sang Bum, Kim, Soeng Hun, Jeong, Kyeong In, Jung, Jung Soo, Cho, Joon Young, Van Lieshout, Gert Jan, Van Der Velde, Himke, Ng, Boon Loong
• Primary Examiner(s): Crutchfield, Christopher
• Application Number:
  US14/875,650
• Publication Number:
  US 20160029310A1
• Time in Patent Office: 561 Days
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 36/14 Reselecting a network or an air interface
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 52/0203 in the radio access network or backbone network of wireless communication networks
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 52/0209 in terminal devices terminal devices per se H04W88/02
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 52/0212 managed by the network, e.g. network or access point is master and terminal is slave
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 52/0216 using a pre-established activity schedule, e.g. traffic indication frame
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 52/0229 where the received signal is a wanted signal
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 52/0235 where the received signal is a power saving command
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 52/0258 controlling an operation mode according to history or models of usage information, e.g. activity schedule or time of day
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 72/0473 the resource being transmission power
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 72/20 Control channels or signalling for resource management
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 76/28 Discontinuous transmission [DTX]; Discontinuous reception [DRX]
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 88/02 Terminal devices
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 88/08 Access point devices
• CPC Class Codes: Y02D 30/70 in wireless communication networks

Abstract

The present invention relates to a method and to an apparatus for optimizing the power consumption of a terminal in a mobile communication system. The method for optimizing power consumption of a terminal in a mobile communication system comprises: a determination step of determining whether there is a need for changing a configuration for a discontinuous reception operation of the terminal; and a transmission step of transmitting, to a base station, a request message for a change in the discontinuous reception operation, if it is determined that the change is needed.

Claims

1. A method for providing preferred power information by a terminal in a wireless communication system, the method comprising:

receiving, from a base station, information that indicates to provide preferred power information via radio resource control (RRC) signaling;

determining whether current preferred power information is different from previous preferred power information;

determining whether a timer is running; and

transmitting, to the base station, a message including the current preferred power information if the current preferred power information is different from the previous preferred power information and the timer is not running,

wherein the timer starts or restarts if the message is transmitted.

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

determining to transmit the message if the terminal has no data to be transmitted.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the power information includes at least one of a predetermined discontinuous reception inactivity timer value, a discontinuous reception cycle value, and an on-duration timer value.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the terminal is connected to the base station by a hand over.

5. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

receiving a response message of the message from the base station; and

changing power saving configuration of the terminal using power information included in the response message.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein transmitting the message to the base station comprises transmitting the message to the base station on a data channel.

7. A terminal for providing preferred power information in a wireless communication system, the terminal comprising:

a transceiver configured to transmit and receive a signal; and

a controller configured to control;

receiving, from a base station, information that indicates to provide preferred power information via radio resource control (RRC) signaling,

determining whether current preferred power information is different from previous preferred power information,

determining whether a timer is running, and

transmitting, to the base station, a message including the current preferred power information if the current preferred power information is different from the previous preferred power information and the timer is not running,

wherein the timer starts or restarts if the message is transmitted.

8. The terminal of claim 7, wherein the controller is configured to control the transmission of the message if the terminal has no data to be transmitted.

9. The terminal of claim 7, wherein the power information comprises at least one of a predetermined discontinuous reception inactivity timer value, a discontinuous reception cycle value, and an on-duration timer value.

10. The terminal of claim 7, wherein the terminal is connected to the base station by a handover.

11. The terminal of claim 7, wherein the controller is further configured to control a reception of a response message from the base station in response to the message and change a power saving configuration of the terminal using power information included in the response message.

12. The terminal of claim 7, wherein the controller is configured to transmit the message to the base station on a data channel.