Samsung patents 5G method to reset phone settings during group broadcasts
Samsung has been granted a patent for a method that helps 5G phones manage their internal communication settings during group broadcasts. The system allows the phone to reset certain data-handling components while keeping the broadcast signal active, ensuring the connection remains stable.
In the filing’s own words
The disclosure relates to a 5G or 6G communication system for supporting a higher data transmission rate. Accordingly, the embodiment herein is to provide a method and a User Equipment ( 100) for enhancing Medium Access Control (MAC) reset mechanism and other RRC procedures in a New Radio (NR) Multicast and broadcast service (MBS) communication. The method includes receiving a service from a network device ( 200), where the service includes an MBS multicast service and an MBS broadcast service. Furthermore, the method includes receiving a plurality of network messages from the network device. Furthermore, the method includes determining a plurality of events associated with the UE ( 100). Furthermore, the method includes performing the MAC reset mechanism in the MBS communication based on the service and/or the plurality of network messages, and/or the plurality of events.
What exactly they claim (claim 1)
1. A method performed by a terminal in a wireless communication system, the method comprising: receiving a multicast and broadcast service (MBS) broadcast based on an MBS broadcast configuration; requesting, by an upper layer, a reset of a medium access control (MAC) entity based on a reception of a radio resource control (RRC) release message with a suspend configuration; stopping, by the MAC entity, all timers, except for MBS broadcast discontinuous reception (DRX) timers; and flushing, by the MAC entity, soft buffers for all downlink (DL) hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) processes, except for a DL HARQ process being used for the MBS broadcast.
Facts
- Company
- Samsung (Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.)
- Official title
- Method and UE for medium access control (MAC) reset and other RRC procedures in NR MBS communication
- Patent number
- US12757294B2
- Application number
- 18578657
- Filed
- Jul 12, 2022
- Granted
- Oct 6, 2026
- Inventors
- 3
- Claims
- 14
Classified under
H04W 76/40 Electricity & electronicsH04L 1/1812 Electricity & electronicsH04W 76/19 Electricity & electronicsH04W 76/20 Electricity & electronicsH04W 76/30 Electricity & electronicsMore from Samsung in Networks & wireless
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Summaries are simplified from the filing’s own abstract and first claim. A patent filing is not a product announcement.
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