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- Nachgewiesen in: USPTO Patent Applications
- Sprachen: English
- Document Number: 20240098532
- Publication Date: March 21, 2024
- Appl. No: 18/275126
- Application Filed: January 31, 2022
- Claim: 1. A method, for a first node in a radio access network, RAN, for managing quality-of-experience, QoE, measurements by a user equipment, UE, the method comprising: transmitting (1010), to a second node in the RAN, configuration information for one or more RAN-visible QoE measurements configured for the UE by the first node.
- Claim: 2. The method of claim 1, wherein the second node is associated with the first node with respect to at least one of: changing a configuration for the UE for multi-connectivity; mobility for the UE; RRC resume or RRC reestablishment for the UE; and switching transfer of data for the service from a path going to the UE via the first RAN node to a path going to the UE via the second RAN node.
- Claim: 3. The method of claim 1 or 2, wherein the method comprises, prior to said transmitting, configuring the UE for the one or more RAN-visible QoE measurements.
- Claim: 4. The method of any one of claims 1-3, wherein the configuration information comprises one or more of any of the following: an indication of a service type for which the RAN-visible QoE is configured; an indication of whether a session pertained to an application from the service type for which the RAN-visible QoE configuration is configured is ongoing or not; an indication of a type of the QoE measurement; an indication of whether the first RAN node is interested to receive the RAN-visible QoE measurement results upon delivery of the RAN-visible QoE measurements from the wireless terminal to the second RAN node; an indication that a RAN-visible QoE report with information pertaining to the second RAN node has been received; an indication, signalled together with a RAN-visible QoE report, of whether the report has been already signalled to the TCE; and a RAN-visible QoE report received from a wireless terminal.
- Claim: 5. The method of any one of claims 1-4, wherein the status information is transmitted to the second node along with status information pertaining to one or more additional UEs.
- Claim: 6. The method of any one of claims 1-5, wherein the method further comprises sending (1020), to the second node, a request regarding the one or more RAN-visible QoE measurements, wherein the request comprises any one of: a request to send to the first RAN node the QoE reports received by the second RAN node; a request to support reception of RAN-visible QoE reporting; a request to suspend one or a list of the activated RAN-visible QoE measurements; a request to resume one or a list of the suspended RAN-visible QoE measurements; a request to release or to pause one or a list of the activated RAN-visible QoE measurements; and a request to configure the UE with a certain configuration of RAN-visible measurements or certain configuration of radio measurements linked to the QoE measurements.
- Claim: 7. The method of claim 6, wherein the request comprises additional conditions associated to the start and the stop of reporting, including at least one of any of: a reconfiguration of radio bearers at the UE which results in the switch of RAN node receiving the QoE reports; an overload indication sent from the first RAN node to the second RAN node; a period of time; until session end; until a subsequent mobility event is triggered; until further UE reconfiguration; a service type or service subtype; and a slice or list of slices.
- Claim: 8. The method of any of claim 6 or 7, wherein the method comprises receiving (1030), from the second node, a message acknowledging the request or indicating failure or inability to comply with the request.
- Claim: 9. The method of any one of claims 6-8, wherein the request pertains to multiple UEs.
- Claim: 10. A method, for a second node in a radio access network, RAN, for managing quality-of-experience, QoE, measurements by a user equipment, UE, the method comprising: receiving (1110), from a first node in the RAN, configuration information for one or more RAN-visible QoE measurements configured for the UE by the first node.
- Claim: 11. The method of claim 10, wherein the second node is associated with the first node with respect to at least one: changing a configuration for the UE for multi-connectivity; mobility for the UE; RRC resume or RRC reestablishment for the UE; and switching transfer of data for the service from a path going to the UE via the first RAN node to a path going to the UE via the second RAN node.
- Claim: 12. The method of claim 10 or 11, wherein the configuration information comprises one or more of any of the following: an indication of a service type for which the RAN-visible QoE is configured; an indication of whether a session pertained to an application from the service type for which the RAN-visible QoE configuration is configured is ongoing or not; an indication of a type of the QoE measurement; an indication of whether the first RAN node is interested to receive the RAN-visible QoE measurement results upon delivery of the RAN-visible QoE measurements from the wireless terminal to the second RAN node; an indication that a RAN-visible QoE report with information pertaining to the second RAN node has been received; an indication, signalled together with a RAN-visible QoE report, of whether the report has been already signalled to the TCE; and a RAN-visible QoE report received from a wireless terminal.
- Claim: 13. The method of any one of claims 10-12, wherein the method comprises refraining from configuring or changing a configuration of QoE measurements by the UE, in response to the status information.
- Claim: 14. The method of any one of claims 10-13, wherein the method further comprises receiving (1120), from the first node, a request regarding the one or more RAN-visible QoE measurements, wherein the request comprises any one of: a request to send to the first RAN node the QoE reports received by the second RAN node; a request to support reception of RAN-visible QoE reporting; a request to suspend one or a list of the activated RAN-visible QoE measurements; a request to resume one or a list of the suspended RAN-visible QoE measurements; a request to release or to pause one or a list of the activated RAN-visible QoE measurements; and a request to configure the UE with a certain configuration of RAN-visible measurements or certain configuration of radio measurements linked to the QoE measurements.
- Claim: 15. The method of claim 14, wherein the request comprises additional conditions associated to the start and the stop of reporting, including at least one of any of: a reconfiguration of radio bearers at the UE which results in the switch of RAN node receiving the QoE reports; an overload indication sent from the first RAN node to the second RAN node; a period of time; until session end; until a subsequent mobility event is triggered; until further UE reconfiguration; a service type or service subtype; and a slice or list of slices.
- Claim: 16. The method of claim 14 or 15, the method further comprising responding with an indication of a status of execution of the request.
- Claim: 17. The method of claim 14 or 15, wherein the method comprises sending (1130) to the first node, in response to the request, a message acknowledging the request or indicating failure or inability to comply with the request.
- Claim: 18. The method of any one of claims 10-17, wherein the request pertains to multiple UEs.
- Claim: 19. A radio access network, RAN, node (1400) arranged to configure a user equipment, UE, to perform quality-of-experience, QoE, measurements, the RAN node (1400) comprising: communication interface circuitry (1440, 1450) configured to communicate with UEs and with a network node or function outside the RAN; and processing circuitry (1410, 1420, 1430) operatively coupled to the communication interface circuitry, whereby the processing circuitry and the communication interface circuitry are configured to carry out a method according to any of claims 1-18.
- Claim: 20. A radio access network, RAN, node (1400) arranged to configure user equipment (UEs) to perform quality-of-experience, QoE, measurements, the RAN node (1400) being further arranged to carry out a method according to any of claims 1-18.
- Claim: 21. A non-transitory, computer-readable medium storing computer-executable instructions that, when executed by processing circuitry of a radio access network, RAN, node arranged to configure user equipment (UEs) to perform quality-of-experience, QoE, measurements, configure the RAN node to carry out a method according to any of claims 1-18.
- Claim: 22. A computer program product comprising computer-executable instructions that, when executed by processing circuitry of a radio access network, RAN, node arranged to configure user equipment (UEs) to perform quality-of-experience, QoE, measurements, configure the RAN node to carry out a method according to any of claims 1-18.
- Claim: 23. A method for a user equipment, UE, for handling configurations of quality-of-experience, QoE, measurements in a radio access network, RAN, the method comprising: receiving (1210), from a RAN node, a RAN-visible QoE configuration; determining (1220) that the UE already has a RAN-visible QoE configuration for the same service type or application; and upon said determining, taking (1230) one or more of the following actions: discarding the new RAN-visible QoE configuration; releasing the old RAN-visible QoE configuration and configuring itself and the upper layers with the new RAN-visible QoE configuration; suspending the new configuration; suspending the old configuration and activating the new configuration; if the old configuration is already in a suspended state when the new configuration is received, keeping the new configuration active and either releasing the old configuration or keeping the old configuration suspended; if the type of the services/applications or a subtype of services is specified by the new RAN-visible QoE configuration, configuring itself and the upper layers of the targeted type or subtype of the services and/or targeted applications with the mentioned services and keeping the old RAN-visible QoE configuration for the rest of the applications; in a dual-connectivity scenario, if one of the RAN-visible QoE configurations was received from a master node while the other was received from a secondary node, releasing the RAN-visible QoE configuration received from the secondary node and keeping the RAN-visible QoE configuration received from the master node; in a dual-connectivity scenario, if one of the RAN-visible QoE configurations was received from a master node while the other was received from a secondary node, suspending the RAN-visible QoE configuration received from the secondary node and keeping the RAN-visible QoE configuration received from the master node active; if an ongoing application session of the type of service and/or subtype of service that the RAN-visible QoE configurations target (or all such ongoing applications sessions in case more than one is ongoing) is currently using radio bearer(s) towards the RAN node from which the old configuration was received, keeping the old configuration and either releasing or suspending the new configuration; and if an ongoing application session of the type of service and/or subtype of service that the RAN-visible QoE configurations target (or all such ongoing applications sessions in case more than one is ongoing) is currently using radio bearer(s) towards the RAN node from which the new configuration was received, keeping the new configuration and either releasing or suspending the old configuration.
- Claim: 24. A user equipment, UE, (1300) configured to perform quality-of-experience, QoE, measurements in a radio access network, RAN, the UE (1300) comprising: radio transceiver circuitry (1340) configured to communicate with at least one RAN node; and processing circuitry (1310, 1320, 1330) operatively coupled to the radio transceiver circuitry, whereby the processing circuitry and the radio transceiver circuitry are configured to carry out the method of claim 23.
- Claim: 25. A user equipment, UE, (1300) configured to perform quality-of-experience, QoE, measurements in a radio access network, RAN, the UE being further arranged to carry out the method of claim 23.
- Claim: 26. A non-transitory, computer-readable medium storing computer-executable instructions that, when executed by processing circuitry of a user equipment, UE, configured to perform quality-of-experience, QoE, measurements in a radio access network, RAN, configure the UE to carry out the method of claim 23.
- Claim: 27. A computer program product comprising computer-executable instructions that, when executed by processing circuitry of a user equipment, UE, configured to perform quality-of-experience, QoE, measurements in a radio access network, RAN, configure the UE to carry out the method of claim 23.
- Current International Class: 04
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