Paging indication method, apparatus, terminal and network-side device

Abstract

The application discloses a paging indication method and device, a terminal and a network side equipment, and belongs to the technical field of communication. The paging indication method comprises the following steps: a terminal receives paging indication information, wherein the paging indication information is used for indicating a paging cause; and the terminal determines whether to listen to a paging occasion according to the paging cause.

Description

TECHNICAL FIELD

[0001] The present application belongs to the technical field of communication, and particularly relates to a paging indication method and device, a terminal and a network side equipment. BACKGROUND

[0002] When a network side equipment such as a base station needs to communicate with a terminal, the network side equipment can first send a paging message to the terminal. After receiving the paging message, the terminal can establish a communication connection with the network side equipment if it determines to respond to the paging message. In order to reduce the power consumption of the terminal, the network side equipment can first send paging indication information to the terminal, and the terminal can determine whether to receive the paging message according to the paging indication information. If the paging indication is true, the terminal receives the paging message, otherwise, the terminal does not receive the paging message.

[0003] In the above scheme, if the paging indication is true, the terminal receives the paging message. If the terminal further determines that it does not need to respond to the paging message according to the paging message, it will consume a certain amount of power because it has already received the paging message. Therefore, how to further reduce the power consumption of the terminal is a problem that needs to be solved by those skilled in the art. SUMMARY

[0004] The embodiments of the present application provide a paging indication method, device, terminal and network side equipment, which can reduce the power consumption and service interruption of the terminal.

[0005] In a first aspect, a paging indication method is provided, which is applied to a terminal and includes the following steps.

[0006] The terminal receives paging indication information, and the paging indication information is used to indicate a paging cause.

[0007] The terminal determines whether to listen to a paging occasion according to the paging cause.

[0008] In a second aspect, a paging indication method is provided, which is applied to a network side equipment and includes the following steps.

[0009] The network side equipment obtains paging indication information, and the paging indication information is used to indicate a paging cause.

[0010] The network side equipment sends the paging indication information to the terminal, and the paging indication information is used for the terminal to determine whether to listen to a paging occasion according to the paging cause.

[0011] In a third aspect, a paging indication device is provided, which includes the following modules.

[0012] A receiving module is configured to receive paging indication information, and the paging indication information is used to indicate a paging cause.

[0013] The processing module is configured to determine whether to listen to a paging occasion according to the paging cause.

[0014] In a fourth aspect, a paging indication apparatus is provided, comprising:

[0015] The obtaining module is configured to obtain paging indication information, the paging indication information being used to indicate a paging cause.

[0016] The sending module is configured to send the paging indication information to the terminal, the paging indication information being used for the terminal to determine whether to listen to a paging occasion according to the paging cause.

[0017] In a fifth aspect, a terminal is provided, comprising a processor, a memory, and a program or instructions stored in the memory and executable on the processor, the program or instructions being executed by the processor to implement the steps of the method according to the first aspect.

[0018] In a sixth aspect, a terminal is provided, comprising a processor and a communication interface, wherein the communication interface is configured to receive paging indication information, the paging indication information being used to indicate a paging cause, and the processor is configured to determine whether to listen to a paging occasion according to the paging cause.

[0019] In a seventh aspect, a network-side device is provided, comprising a processor, a memory, and a program or instructions stored in the memory and executable on the processor, the program or instructions being executed by the processor to implement the steps of the method according to the second aspect.

[0020] In an eighth aspect, a network-side device is provided, comprising a processor and a communication interface, wherein the processor is configured to obtain paging indication information, the paging indication information being used to indicate a paging cause, and the communication interface is configured to send the paging indication information to the terminal, the paging indication information being used for the terminal to determine whether to listen to a paging occasion according to the paging cause.

[0021] In a ninth aspect, a readable storage medium is provided, the readable storage medium storing a program or instructions, the program or instructions being executed by a processor to implement the steps of the method according to the first aspect, or to implement the steps of the method according to the second aspect.

[0022] In a tenth aspect, a chip is provided, the chip comprising a processor and a communication interface, the communication interface being coupled to the processor, the processor being configured to run a program or instructions to implement the method according to the first aspect, or to implement the method according to the second aspect.

[0023] In an eleventh aspect, a computer program / program product is provided, which is stored in a non-transitory storage medium, and which is executed by at least one processor to implement the steps of the paging indication method according to the first aspect or the second aspect.

[0024] In the embodiments of the present application, whether to listen to the paging occasion is determined according to the paging cause in the paging indication information. If there is no need to listen to the paging occasion, the listening to the paging occasion can be ignored, and then there is no need to receive the paging message, which can reduce the terminal power consumption and service interruption. BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF DRAWINGS

[0025] Figure 1 is a structure diagram of a wireless communication system to which the embodiments of the present application can be applied;

[0026] Figure 2 is one of flow diagrams of the paging indication method provided by the embodiments of the present application;

[0027] Figure 3 is one of interactive flow diagrams of the paging indication method provided by the embodiments of the present application;

[0028] Figure 4 is the second flow diagram of the paging indication method provided by the embodiments of the present application;

[0029] Figure 5 is one of structure diagrams of the paging indication apparatus provided by the embodiments of the present application;

[0030] Figure 6 is the second structure diagram of the paging indication apparatus provided by the embodiments of the present application;

[0031] Figure 7 is a structure diagram of a communication device provided by the embodiments of the present application;

[0032] Figure 8 is a hardware structure diagram of a terminal provided by the embodiments of the present application;

[0033] Figure 9 is a structure diagram of a network device of the embodiments of the present application. DETAILED DESCRIPTION

[0034] The technical solutions in the embodiments of the present application will be described clearly below with reference to the accompanying drawings in the embodiments of the present application. Obviously, the described embodiments are only some of the embodiments of the present application, but not all the embodiments of the present application. Based on the embodiments in the present application, all other embodiments obtained by those of ordinary skill in the art belong to the scope of protection of the present application.

[0035] The terms "first," "second," etc., used in the specification and claims of this application are used to distinguish similar objects and not to describe a specific order or sequence. It should be understood that such terms can be used interchangeably where appropriate so that embodiments of this application can be implemented in orders other than those illustrated or described herein, and the objects distinguished by "first" and "second" are generally of the same class, not limited in number; for example, a first object can be one or more. Furthermore, in the specification and claims, "and / or" indicates at least one of the connected objects, and the character " / " generally indicates that the preceding and following objects are in an "or" relationship.

[0036] It is worth noting that the technologies described in this application are not limited to Long Term Evolution (LTE) / LTE-Advanced (LTE-A) systems, but can also be used in other wireless communication systems, such as Code Division Multiple Access (CDMA), Time Division Multiple Access (TDMA), Frequency Division Multiple Access (FDMA), Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiple Access (OFDMA), Single-carrier Frequency-Division Multiple Access (SC-FDMA), and other systems. The terms "system" and "network" in this application are often used interchangeably, and the described technologies can be used with the systems and radio technologies mentioned above, as well as with other systems and radio technologies. The following description describes New Radio (NR) systems for illustrative purposes, and the term NR is used in most of the following description; however, these technologies can also be applied to applications other than NR systems, such as 6th generation (6G) radio systems. th Generation 6G communication system.

[0037] Figure 1A structure diagram of a wireless communication system to which embodiments of the present application can be applied is shown. The wireless communication system includes a terminal 11 and a network side device 12. The terminal 11 can also be referred to as a terminal device or a user terminal (User Equipment, UE). The terminal 11 can be a terminal side device such as a mobile phone, a tablet personal computer (Tablet Personal Computer), a laptop computer (Laptop Computer), a personal digital assistant (Personal Digital Assistant, PDA), a palm computer, a netbook, an ultra-mobile personal computer (ultra-mobile personal computer, UMPC), a mobile Internet device (Mobile Internet Device, MID), an augmented reality (augmented reality, AR) / virtual reality (virtual reality, VR) device, a robot, a wearable device, a vehicle-mounted device (VUE), a pedestrian terminal (PUE), a smart home (a home device with wireless communication function, such as a refrigerator, a television, a washing machine, or furniture, etc.), and the like. The wearable device includes a smart watch, a smart bracelet, a smart earphone, smart glasses, smart jewelry (smart bracelet, smart necklace, smart ring, smart necklace, smart ankle bracelet, smart necklace, etc.), a smart wristband, smart clothing, a game console, and the like. It should be noted that the specific type of the terminal 11 is not limited in the embodiments of the present application. The network side device 12 can be a base station or a core network. The base station can be referred to as a node B, an evolved node B, an access point, a base transceiver station (Base Transceiver Station, BTS), a radio base station, a radio transceiver, a basic service set (Basic Service Set, BSS), an extended service set (Extended Service Set, ESS), a node B, an evolved node B (eNB), a home node B, a home evolved node B, a WLAN access point, a WiFi node, a transmitting receiving point (Transmitting Receiving Point, TRP), or some other appropriate term in the art, as long as the same technical effect is achieved. The base station is not limited to a specific technical term, and it should be noted that only the base station in the NR system is taken as an example in the embodiments of the present application, but the specific type of the base station is not limited.

[0038] In order to realize the communication between the network side device and the terminal, the network side can send a paging to the UE in an idle state, an inactive state and a connected state. The paging process can be triggered by the core network to inform a certain UE to receive a paging request, or triggered by the eNodeB / gNB to inform the system information update, and to inform the UE to receive the information of the Earthquake and Tsunami Warning System (ETWS) and the Commercial Mobile Alert System (CMAS).

[0039] In a discontinuous reception (DRX) cycle, the UE can only listen to the physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) in the paging occasion (PO) on the corresponding paging frame (PF) to determine whether the corresponding physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH) carries the paging message.

[0040] If the UE parses the P-RNTI on the PDCCH, the UE receives the data on the PDSCH according to the parameters of the PDSCH indicated on the PDCCH. If the UE ID list is carried in the paging message (data on the PDSCH) received by the UE, the terminal needs to match the UE ID of the terminal with the UE ID carried in the paging message to determine whether the paging message is calling itself.

[0041] If the UE does not parse the P-RNTI on the PDCCH, the UE does not need to receive the PDSCH physical channel, and can enter sleep according to the DRX cycle. By using this mechanism, in a DRX cycle, the UE can only receive the PDCCH at the time position of the PO, and then receive the PDSCH according to the need. At other times, the UE can sleep to achieve the purpose of power saving.

[0042] The paging indication can be used to inform the UE whether there is a paging message related to the UE, and the P-RNTI is used to scramble the paging PDCCH in the PO.

[0043] In an embodiment, the UE can be informed whether to listen to the paging occasion to receive the paging message by the paging indication information, wherein the paging indication information can be the indication information sent to the terminal before the PO.

[0044] Optionally, if the paging indication is detected or the paging indication is true, it means that there is a paging message for the UE related to the paging indication in the next paging occasion (PO). The UE continues to monitor the next PO to receive the paging message.

[0045] If the paging indication is not detected or the paging indication is false, it means that there is no paging message for the corresponding UE in the paging occasion (PO). The UE does not monitor the next PO, i.e., the paging message reception in the PO can be omitted, to achieve the purpose of power saving.

[0046] The network can also group UEs monitoring the same PO and send a paging indication for the UE group.

[0047] With the continuous development of wireless communication technology, more and more users hold multi-card terminals. For multi-card terminals, after receiving the paging indication, if the paging indication is true, the multi-card terminal will continue to receive the paging message. If the paging cause in the paging message is not voice service, the terminal in the connected state can decide not to respond to the paging message. However, since the paging message has been received, power consumption and certain service interruption will occur.

[0048] A multi-card terminal can be regarded as containing multiple UEs, and the multi-card terminal can be referred to as a Multi-SIM UE. It should be noted that a UE can be regarded as a subscription subject. A terminal device can be configured with multiple subscription subjects. A subscription subject can be embodied by a subscriber identity module (SIM) card. One SIM card corresponds to one network subscription subject. The SIM card stores the identity of the subscription subject, i.e., the identity of the UE, such as a subscription permanent identifier (SUPI) or an international mobile subscription identity (IMSI). Therefore, when multiple SIM cards or multiple electronic SIM card information are inserted into or configured on a terminal, the terminal and different subscription subjects can constitute different UEs.

[0049] The capability of a multi-card terminal can be single-transmit single-receive, single-transmit dual-receive, and dual-transmit dual-receive, etc.

[0050] One feature of the multi-card terminal is that it can camp on multiple networks simultaneously, but the implementation of the multi-card terminal is different. Some multi-card terminals can send and receive simultaneously on multiple networks without affecting each other. Some multi-card terminals can camp on different networks in a time-division manner, such as camping on network A for a period of time, listening to the paging message of network A, camping on network B for another period of time, listening to the paging message of network B; or connecting to receive and transmit data on network A for a period of time, and then going to network B to receive paging; or receiving data on network A for a period of time, and then going to network B to establish a connection or transmit and receive data.

[0051] Some multi-card terminals supporting dual transmission and dual reception can send and receive simultaneously on multiple networks without affecting each other on a specific frequency band. On some other frequency bands, a time-division manner can be used to transmit and receive data on different networks.

[0052] The paging indication provided by the embodiments of the present application will be described in detail below in combination with the accompanying drawings and some embodiments and application scenarios.

[0053] Figure 2 is one of the flow diagrams of the paging indication method provided by the embodiments of the present application. As shown in Figure 2 The paging indication method provided by the embodiments of the present application includes the following steps.

[0054] Step 101, the terminal receives paging indication information, and the paging indication information is used to indicate a paging cause.

[0055] Specifically, after the terminal receives the paging indication information, if the paging indication information is used to indicate information related to the paging cause, the terminal determines whether to listen to the paging occasion according to the information related to the paging cause. If the paging cause indicated by the paging indication information is a non-voice service or a service with low priority, the terminal in the connected state can decide not to respond to the paging indication information, that is, it is not necessary to listen to the paging occasion, so as to avoid service interruption. Moreover, the terminal can omit the reception of the subsequent paging message, so as to further reduce power consumption.

[0056] Optionally, the paging indication information includes at least one of the following:

[0057] paging cause; the paging cause includes at least one of the following: service information, service priority information;

[0058] voice service indication; the voice service indication is used to indicate whether there is a paging cause of voice service in the paging message;

[0059] a paging cause indication, the paging cause indication indicating whether a paging cause exists in a paging message or indicating whether a paging cause existing in the paging message is a voice service;

[0060] a first indication, the first indication indicating whether a paging cause of the terminal exists in a paging message or indicating whether the terminal needs to monitor a paging occasion.

[0061] The paging cause includes service information and / or service priority information. The service information can indicate a service name and a service type, such as a voice service and a non-voice service. The service priority information can indicate a service priority, such as a high priority service, such as a voice service, and a low priority service, such as a data service.

[0062] The voice service indication can indicate whether a paging cause in a paging message is a voice service. For example, a paging message can include multiple paging causes. A paging cause of UE1 can be a voice service, and a paging cause of UE2 can be another cause. In this case, the voice service indication in the paging message can be True.

[0063] The paging cause indication can indicate whether a paging cause exists in a paging message. The paging message can carry a paging cause, and the paging cause can be a voice service by default. Alternatively, the paging message can include a paging cause of a UE associated with paging indication information, and the paging cause indication can indicate whether the paging cause is a voice service. For example, the paging indication information can be associated with a part of UEs. The paging message can carry a paging cause for the part of UEs, and the paging cause can be a voice service.

[0064] The first indication can indicate whether a terminal needs to monitor a paging occasion PO or indicate whether a paging cause of the terminal exists in a paging message. For example, the first indication can indicate whether a paging cause of a multi-card terminal exists in a paging message.

[0065] In step 102, a terminal determines whether to monitor a paging occasion according to a paging cause.

[0066] Specifically, the terminal monitors or does not monitor a paging occasion according to a paging cause.

[0067] If the paging indication information indicates that the paging cause is voice service, the terminal listens to the next paging occasion to receive the paging message, otherwise it does not listen to the paging occasion; if the paging indication information indicates that the paging cause is high priority service, the terminal listens to the next paging occasion to receive the paging message, otherwise it does not listen to the paging occasion; if the paging indication information carries voice service indication, the voice service indication is used to indicate that the paging cause in the paging message is voice service, the terminal listens to the next paging occasion to receive the paging message, otherwise it does not listen to the paging occasion; if the paging indication information carries paging cause indication, the paging cause indication is used to indicate that the paging cause exists in the paging message or the paging cause existing in the paging message is voice service, the terminal listens to the next paging occasion to receive the paging message, otherwise it does not listen to the paging occasion; if the paging indication information carries the first indication, the first indication is used to indicate that the paging cause of the terminal exists in the paging message or to indicate that the terminal needs to listen to the paging occasion, the terminal listens to the next paging occasion to receive the paging message; otherwise, the terminal can not listen to the next PO and does not need to receive the paging message.

[0068] It should be noted that the paging indication information is indication information sent to the terminal before the PO.

[0069] The method of the embodiment determines whether to listen to the paging occasion according to the paging cause in the paging indication information, if it is not necessary to listen, it can be ignored to listen to the paging occasion, and then it is not necessary to receive the paging message, which can reduce the terminal power consumption and service interruption.

[0070] In an embodiment, step 102 can be implemented in the following way:

[0071] In the case where the service priority of the paging cause indication is higher than the service priority of the service executed by the terminal, the terminal listens to the paging occasion; or,

[0072] In the case where the paging indication information is used to indicate at least one of the following information, the terminal listens to the paging occasion; wherein the at least one information includes: the paging cause is voice service, the paging cause exists in the paging message, the paging cause existing in the paging message is voice service, the paging cause of the terminal exists in the paging message or the terminal needs to listen to the paging occasion.

[0073] Optionally, the paging indication information is associated with at least one group of terminals listening to the same paging occasion.

[0074] Specifically, the paging indication information is associated with all terminals or one or more groups of terminals detecting the same paging occasion (PO). Optionally, the terminals can be pre-grouped, so as to receive the paging indication information, or the paging indication information carries the group identifier of the terminal receiving the paging indication information, or the terminal identifier.

[0075] In an embodiment, the paging indication method is applied to a multi-card terminal, the multi-card terminal receives the paging indication information; and the multi-card terminal determines whether to listen to a paging occasion according to a paging cause.

[0076] Optionally, the multi-card terminal comprises at least a first subscriber identity module (SIM) card and a second SIM card, and the multi-card terminal can be regarded as comprising a plurality of UEs, a first UE corresponding to the first SIM card is in a connected state, and a second UE corresponding to the second SIM card is in an idle state, the second UE receives the paging indication information; and the second UE listens to the paging occasion according to the paging cause.

[0077] For example, the first UE is performing a data service, and the second UE is in an idle state, the second UE receives the paging indication information, and determines whether to listen to the paging occasion according to the paging cause indicated by the paging indication information, if it is determined that the paging occasion needs to be listened to, the second UE listens to the next paging occasion, if it is determined that the paging occasion does not need to be listened to, the second UE does not need to listen to the next paging occasion, that is, does not need to receive a paging message.

[0078] In the above embodiment, the UE corresponding to the second SIM card in the idle state avoids interrupting the service performed by the UE corresponding to the first SIM card in the connected state by receiving the paging indication information, if it is determined that the paging occasion does not need to be listened to according to the paging cause, the UE corresponding to the second SIM card does not need to listen to the paging occasion, and the power consumption of the terminal can be further reduced.

[0079] Optionally, the paging indication information is carried in downlink control information (DCI) or a sequence; wherein at least one bit of the DCI is used to indicate that there is a paging cause or to represent the paging cause; or the sequence is used to indicate the paging cause or whether there is a paging cause.

[0080] Specifically, 1 bit or multiple bits in the DCI can be used to indicate that there is a paging cause, for example, 1 bit is used to represent a voice service indication or a paging cause indication or a first indication; or 1 bit or multiple bits are used to represent a paging cause, such as a voice service or a high-priority service.

[0081] The sequence can indicate the paging cause, or indicate whether there is a paging cause. For example, sequence 0 represents paging indication information in which there is no paging cause;

[0082] Sequence 1 represents paging indication information carrying cause 1;

[0083] Sequence 2 represents paging indication information carrying cause 2;

[0084] Sequence 3 represents the paging indication information, in which there is a paging cause.

[0085] In the above embodiment, the paging indication information can be carried by DCI or sequence Sequence, which is simple to implement.

[0086] For example, for the paging indication information without grouping indication, the paging indication method comprises:

[0087] Step 1a, the terminal receives the paging indication information.

[0088] In this embodiment, the network does not group the terminals listening to the same PO, and one paging indication information is used to indicate all terminals listening to the PO.

[0089] The paging indication information includes paging cause indication, which indicates whether the paging message carries paging cause, or whether the paging cause in the paging message is voice service paging cause.

[0090] Step 2a, the terminal determines whether to listen to the paging occasion according to the paging indication information.

[0091] For a multi-card terminal, the conditions for performing the above step 1a and step 2a processing procedures are: when the multi-card terminal is in a connected state or has ongoing services. The multi-card terminal can be regarded as containing multiple UEs (one SIM card corresponds to one UE). Alternatively, one UE in the multi-card terminal is in a connected state (referred to as a connected state UE), and the other UE is in an idle state (referred to as an idle state UE). Then for the idle state UE:

[0092] If the paging cause indication is True, the UE listens to the next PO to receive the paging message on the PDSCH.

[0093] If the paging cause indication is False, the UE does not listen to the next PO, i.e. does not need to receive the paging message.

[0094] For example, for the paging indication with grouping, the paging indication method comprises:

[0095] Step 1b, the terminal receives the paging indication information.

[0096] Alternatively, the network groups the terminals listening to the same PO, and one paging indication information is used to indicate one or more grouped terminals.

[0097] The paging indication information includes a paging cause indicator, which indicates whether the paging cause in the paging message corresponds to the UE group.

[0098] Step 2b, the terminal determines whether to listen to the paging occasion according to the paging indication information.

[0099] The terminal can be a multi-card terminal, which is regarded as including multiple UEs (one SIM card corresponds to one UE), and one UE is in a connected state or has ongoing services.

[0100] If the paging cause indicator is True, the UE listens to the next PO to receive the paging message on the PDSCH.

[0101] If the paging cause indicator is False, the UE does not listen to the next PO, i.e., does not need to receive the paging message.

[0102] The exemplary paging indication method includes the following steps:

[0103] Step 1c, the terminal receives paging indication information. The paging indication information includes a paging cause.

[0104] Step 2c, the terminal determines whether to listen to the paging occasion according to the paging indication information.

[0105] Specifically, the ongoing service of the terminal is referred to as a first service, and the terminal can be a multi-card terminal Multi-SIM UE.

[0106] If the priority of the paging cause is higher than the priority of the first service (for example, the paging cause is Voice service, and the first service is Data service), the terminal listens to the next PO to receive the paging message on the PDSCH.

[0107] Otherwise, the terminal does not listen to the next PO, i.e., does not need to receive the paging message.

[0108] In an embodiment, as shown in Figure 3 The method includes the following steps:

[0109] Step 100a, a network side device sends paging indication information to a terminal;

[0110] Step 100b, the terminal receives the paging indication information, which is used to indicate the paging cause;

[0111] Step 100c, the terminal determines whether to listen to the paging occasion according to the paging cause.

[0112] Wherein, the steps 100b and 100c can refer to the description of the steps 101-102, and will not be repeated here.

[0113] Further, if the terminal needs to monitor the paging occasion, the terminal monitors the paging message sent by the network side device in the corresponding paging occasion.

[0114] Figure 4 Figure 2 is a flowchart of a paging indication method provided by an embodiment of the present application. As shown in the figure, the paging indication method provided by the embodiment includes the following steps. Figure 4

[0115] In step 201, the network side device acquires paging indication information, which is used to indicate the paging cause.

[0116] Specifically, the network side device, such as gNB, sets the paging cause in the paging indication information to the paging cause with the highest priority. For example, there are multiple paging records in the paging message, the paging cause of UE1 is voice service, and the paging cause of UE2 is data service. If the priority of voice service is defined to be higher than that of data service, the paging cause is set to voice service.

[0117] If the paging cause in the paging message contains voice service, the paging indication information contains voice service information, for example, the paging cause is set to voice service, or the voice service indication is set to True, or the high-priority service in the paging cause is set to True.

[0118] If the paging cause exists, the paging indication information contains the paging cause indication, or the first indication.

[0119] Optionally, the gNB sets the paging cause according to the paging cause in the paging message received from the core network CN or other gNB, or the paging message generated by itself.

[0120] In step 102, the network side device sends the paging indication information to the terminal, which is used for the terminal to determine whether to monitor the paging occasion according to the paging cause.

[0121] Optionally, step 101 can be implemented in the following way:

[0122] The network side device generates the paging indication information; or,

[0123] The network side device receives the paging indication information sent by other network side devices.

[0124] The network side device acquires the information related to the paging cause from the paging message received from other network side devices or the paging message generated by itself, and generates the paging indication information. ​

[0125] Optionally, the paging indication information comprises at least one of the following:

[0126] a paging cause; the paging cause comprises at least one of the following: service information, service priority information;

[0127] a voice service indication; the voice service indication is used to indicate whether the paging cause in the paging message is a voice service;

[0128] a paging cause indication; the paging cause indication is used to indicate whether the paging cause in the paging message is a voice service, or to indicate whether the paging cause in the paging message is a voice service;

[0129] a first indication; the first indication is used to indicate whether the paging cause in the paging message is for the terminal, or to indicate whether the terminal needs to monitor the paging occasion.

[0130] Optionally, the terminal is a multi-card terminal, and optionally, the multi-card terminal comprises at least a first subscriber identity module (SIM) card and a second SIM card.

[0131] Optionally, the paging indication information is carried in a downlink control information (DCI) or a sequence; wherein at least one bit of the DCI is used to indicate the paging cause or represent the paging cause; or the sequence is used to indicate the paging cause or whether the paging cause exists.

[0132] The method of the embodiment has similar implementation process and technical effects to the terminal-side method embodiment, and specific details can be referred to the detailed description in the terminal-side method embodiment, which will not be repeated here.

[0133] It should be noted that the paging indication method provided in the embodiment can be executed by a paging indication device, or a processing module in the paging indication device for executing the paging indication method. In the embodiment, the paging indication device executes the paging indication method as an example to illustrate the paging indication device provided in the embodiment.

[0134] Figure 5 is one of the structures of the paging indication device provided in the application. As shown in Figure 5 the paging indication device 500 provided in the embodiment comprises:

[0135] a receiving module 501, configured to receive paging indication information, the paging indication information being used to indicate a paging cause;

[0136] a processing module 502, configured to determine whether to monitor a paging occasion according to the paging cause.

[0137] In the embodiment, whether to listen to the paging occasion is determined according to the paging cause in the paging indication information, if there is no need to listen to the paging occasion, the terminal can ignore the paging occasion, and further, there is no need to receive the paging message, so that the terminal power consumption and service interruption can be reduced.

[0138] Optionally, the paging indication information comprises at least one of:

[0139] a paging cause; the paging cause comprises at least one of: service information, service priority information;

[0140] a voice service indication; the voice service indication is used to indicate whether there is a paging cause of voice service in the paging message;

[0141] a paging cause indication; the paging cause indication is used to indicate whether there is a paging cause in the paging message, or used to indicate whether the paging cause existing in the paging message is a voice service;

[0142] a first indication; the first indication is used to indicate whether there is a paging cause of the terminal in the paging message, or used to indicate whether the terminal needs to listen to the paging occasion.

[0143] Optionally, the processing module 502 is specifically used for:

[0144] in a case that the service priority of the paging cause indication is higher than the service priority of the service executed by the terminal, the terminal listens to the paging occasion; or,

[0145] in a case that the paging indication information is used to indicate at least one of: a paging cause of voice service, a paging cause existing in the paging message, a paging cause of voice service existing in the paging message, a paging cause of the terminal existing in the paging message or the terminal needing to listen to the paging occasion, the terminal listens to the paging occasion.

[0146] Optionally, the paging indication information is associated with at least one group of terminals listening to the same paging occasion.

[0147] Optionally, the paging indication device is applied to a multi-card terminal.

[0148] Optionally, the multi-card terminal comprises at least a first subscriber identity module (SIM) card and a second SIM card, the UE corresponding to the first SIM card is in a connected state, and the UE corresponding to the second SIM card is in an idle state.

[0149] Optionally, the paging indication information is carried in downlink control information (DCI) or a sequence; at least one bit of the DCI is used to indicate that there is a paging cause or represent a paging cause; or the sequence is used to indicate a paging cause or whether there is a paging cause.

[0150] The apparatus of the embodiment can be used to execute the method of any of the foregoing terminal-side method embodiments, and the specific implementation process and technical effects are similar to those of the terminal-side method embodiments. For details, refer to the detailed description in the terminal-side method embodiments, which will not be repeated here.

[0151] Figure 6 FIG. 2 is a structural schematic diagram of a paging indication device provided by the present application. As shown in FIG. 2, the paging indication device 600 provided by the embodiment includes: Figure 6

[0152] The obtaining module 601 is configured to obtain paging indication information, the paging indication information being used to indicate a paging cause.

[0153] The sending module 602 is configured to send the paging indication information to the terminal, the paging indication information being used by the terminal to determine whether to listen to a paging occasion according to the paging cause.

[0154] Optionally, the obtaining module 601 is specifically configured to:

[0155] The network-side device generates the paging indication information; or,

[0156] The network-side device receives the paging indication information sent by another network-side device.

[0157] The network-side device obtains information related to a paging cause from a paging message received from another network-side device or a paging message generated by itself, and generates the paging indication information.

[0158] Optionally, the paging indication information includes at least one of the following:

[0159] a paging cause; the paging cause includes at least one of the following: service information, service priority information;

[0160] a voice service indication; the voice service indication is used to indicate whether there is a paging cause for voice service in a paging message;

[0161] a paging cause indication; the paging cause indication is used to indicate whether there is a paging cause for voice service in a paging message, or to indicate whether the paging cause existing in the paging message is for voice service;

[0162] ​The first indication is used to indicate whether the paging cause of the terminal exists in the paging message or is used to indicate whether the terminal needs to monitor the paging occasion.

[0163] Optionally, the terminal is a multi-card terminal, and the multi-card terminal includes at least a first subscriber identity module (SIM) card and a second SIM card.

[0164] Optionally, the paging indication information is carried in downlink control information (DCI) or a sequence, at least one bit of the DCI is used to indicate the paging cause or represent the paging cause, or the sequence is used to indicate the paging cause or whether the paging cause exists.

[0165] The apparatus of the embodiment can be used to execute the method of any of the foregoing network-side method embodiments, and the specific implementation process and technical effects are similar to those of the network-side method embodiments. For details, refer to the detailed description in the network-side method embodiments, which will not be repeated here.

[0166] The paging indication apparatus in the embodiment of the application can be an apparatus, an apparatus with an operating system, or an electronic device, and can also be a component in a terminal, an integrated circuit, or a chip. The apparatus or electronic device can be a mobile terminal or a non-mobile terminal. Exemplarily, the mobile terminal can include, but is not limited to, the types of the terminal 11 listed above, and the non-mobile terminal can be a server, a network attached storage (NAS), a personal computer (PC), a television (TV), a teller machine, or a self-service machine, and the like, which are not limited in the embodiment of the application.

[0167] The paging indication apparatus provided in the embodiment of the application can implement each process of the method embodiment and achieve the same technical effects. To avoid repetition, details will not be repeated here. Figures 2 to 4

[0168] Optionally, as shown in Figure 7 the embodiment of the application further provides a communication device 700, which includes a processor 701, a memory 702, a program or instruction stored in the memory 702 and executable on the processor 701. For example, when the communication device 700 is a terminal, the program or instruction is executed by the processor 701 to implement each process of the paging indication method embodiment described above and achieve the same technical effects. When the communication device 700 is a network-side device, the program or instruction is executed by the processor 701 to implement each process of the paging indication method embodiment described above and achieve the same technical effects. To avoid repetition, details will not be repeated here.

[0169] ​The terminal provided in the embodiments of the present application also includes a processor and a communication interface. The communication interface is configured to receive paging indication information, and the paging indication information is used to indicate a paging cause. The processor is configured to determine whether to listen to a paging occasion according to the paging cause. The terminal embodiment corresponds to the terminal-side method embodiment described above. Each implementation process and implementation manner of the method embodiment described above can be applied to the terminal embodiment, and the same technical effects can be achieved. Specifically, Figure 8 A hardware structure diagram of a terminal according to an embodiment of the present application is shown in FIG. 10.

[0170] The terminal 1000 includes, but is not limited to, at least part of components such as a radio frequency unit 1001, a network module 1002, an audio output unit 1003, an input unit 1004, a sensor 1005, a display unit 1006, a user input unit 1007, an interface unit 1008, a memory 1009, and a processor 1010.

[0171] Those skilled in the art can understand that the terminal 1000 can also include a power supply (such as a battery) for supplying power to each component. The power supply can be logically connected to the processor 1010 through a power management system, so as to realize functions such as management of charging, discharging, and power consumption management through the power management system. Figure 8 The terminal structure shown in FIG. 10 does not constitute a limitation on the terminal. The terminal can include more or fewer components than those shown in the figure, or combine certain components, or arrange different components, which will not be described here.

[0172] It should be understood that in the embodiments of the present application, the input unit 1004 can include a graphics processing unit (GPU) 10041 and a microphone 10042. The graphics processing unit 10041 processes image data of a still picture or a video obtained by an image capture device (such as a camera) in a video capture mode or an image capture mode. The display unit 1006 can include a display panel 10061, which can be configured in the form of a liquid crystal display, an organic light-emitting diode, etc. The user input unit 1007 includes a touch panel 10071 and other input devices 10072. The touch panel 10071 is also called a touch screen. The touch panel 10071 can include two parts of a touch detection device and a touch controller. The other input devices 10072 can include, but are not limited to, a physical keyboard, function keys (such as volume control keys, on-off keys, etc.), a trackball, a mouse, a joystick, etc., which will not be described here.

[0173] In the embodiment of the present application, the radio frequency unit 1001 receives the downlink data from the network side device and sends the uplink data to the network side device. Generally, the radio frequency unit 1001 includes but is not limited to an antenna, at least one amplifier, a transceiver, a coupler, a low noise amplifier, a duplexer, etc.

[0174] The memory 1009 can be used to store software programs or instructions and various data. The memory 1009 can mainly include a program or instruction storage area and a data storage area, wherein the program or instruction storage area can store an operating system, application programs or instructions required by at least one function (such as a sound playing function, an image playing function, etc.), etc. In addition, the memory 1009 can include a high-speed random access memory and can also include a non-volatile memory, which can be a Read-Only Memory (ROM), a Programmable ROM (PROM), an Erasable Programmable ROM (EPROM), an Electrically EPROM (EEPROM), or a flash memory. For example, at least one magnetic disk storage device, a flash memory device, or other non-volatile solid-state memory device.

[0175] The processor 1010 can include one or more processing units; optionally, the processor 1010 can integrate an application processor and a modem processor, wherein the application processor mainly processes an operating system, a user interface, and application programs or instructions, etc., and the modem processor mainly processes wireless communication, such as a baseband processor. It can be understood that the above-mentioned modem processor can also not be integrated into the processor 1010.

[0176] The radio frequency unit 1001 is configured to receive, by a terminal, paging indication information, wherein the paging indication information is used to indicate a paging cause.

[0177] The processor 1010 is configured to determine whether to listen to a paging occasion according to the paging cause.

[0178] In the embodiment, whether to listen to the paging occasion is determined according to the paging cause in the paging indication information, if there is no need to listen, the listening to the paging occasion can be ignored, and then the paging message does not need to be received, which can reduce the terminal power consumption and service interruption.

[0179] Optionally, the paging indication information includes at least one of the following:

[0180] The paging cause includes at least one of the following: service information, service priority information.

[0181] a voice service indication, the voice service indication being used to indicate whether a paging cause in a paging message is a voice service;

[0182] a paging cause indication, the paging cause indication being used to indicate whether a paging cause exists in a paging message or whether a paging cause existing in the paging message is a voice service;

[0183] a first indication, the first indication being used to indicate whether a paging cause of the terminal exists in a paging message or whether the terminal needs to monitor a paging occasion.

[0184] Optionally, the processing module 502 is specifically configured to:

[0185] in a case where the service priority of the paging cause indication is higher than the service priority of the service performed by the terminal, the terminal monitors a paging occasion; or,

[0186] in a case where the paging indication information is used to indicate at least one of the following information, the terminal monitors a paging occasion; the at least one of the following information includes: a paging cause is a voice service, a paging cause exists in a paging message, a paging cause existing in the paging message is a voice service, a paging cause of the terminal exists in the paging message or the terminal needs to monitor a paging occasion.

[0187] Optionally, the paging indication information is associated with at least one group of terminals that monitor a same paging occasion.

[0188] Optionally, the method is applied to a multi-card terminal. Optionally, the multi-card terminal includes at least a first SIM card and a second SIM card, a UE corresponding to the first SIM card is in a connected state, and a UE corresponding to the second SIM card is in an idle state.

[0189] Optionally, the paging indication information is carried in a DCI or a sequence, at least one bit of the DCI is used to indicate that a paging cause exists or a paging cause is represented, or the sequence is used to indicate a paging cause or whether a paging cause exists.

[0190] The embodiment of the application further provides a network side device, including a processor and a communication interface, the processor is used for acquiring paging indication information, the paging indication information is used to indicate a paging cause; the communication interface is used for sending the paging indication information to the terminal, the paging indication information is used for the terminal to determine whether to monitor a paging occasion according to the paging cause. The network side device embodiment is corresponding to the network side device method embodiment, each implementation process and implementation manner of the above method embodiment can be applied to the network side device embodiment, and the same technical effects can be achieved.

[0191] Specifically, the embodiment of the present application also provides a network side device. As shown in the Figure 9 The network device 700 includes an antenna 71, a radio frequency device 72, and a baseband device 73. The antenna 71 is connected to the radio frequency device 72. In the uplink direction, the radio frequency device 72 receives information through the antenna 71 and sends the received information to the baseband device 73 for processing. In the downlink direction, the baseband device 73 processes information to be sent and sends the information to the radio frequency device 72, which processes the received information and sends it out through the antenna 71.

[0192] The above frequency band processing device can be located in the baseband device 73. The method performed by the network side device in the above embodiment can be implemented in the baseband device 73, which includes a processor 74 and a memory 75.

[0193] The baseband device 73 may, for example, include at least one baseband board on which a plurality of chips are arranged, as shown in the Figure 9 One of the chips is, for example, a processor 74 connected to the memory 75 to call programs in the memory 75 and perform the operations of the network device shown in the above method embodiment.

[0194] The baseband device 73 can also include a network interface 76 for interacting with the radio frequency device 72, which is, for example, a common public radio interface (CPRI).

[0195] Specifically, the network side device of the embodiment of the present application also includes instructions or programs stored in the memory 75 and executable on the processor 74, and the processor 74 calls the instructions or programs in the memory 75 to perform the method shown in the Figure 6 The modules shown in the above method embodiment achieve the same technical effects, and thus are not described here again.

[0196] The embodiment of the present application also provides a readable storage medium having programs or instructions stored thereon, which are executed by a processor to implement the above-mentioned processes of the paging indication method embodiment and achieve the same technical effects. To avoid repetition, they are not described here again.

[0197] The processor is the processor in the terminal described in the above embodiment. The readable storage medium includes a computer readable storage medium, such as a computer readable memory (ROM), a random access memory (RAM), a magnetic disk or an optical disk, etc.

[0198] The embodiment of the present application further provides a chip, which comprises a processor and a communication interface, the communication interface is coupled with the processor, the processor is used for running programs or instructions, realizes various processes of the paging indication method embodiment, and can achieve the same technical effects. To avoid repetition, details are not described here.

[0199] It should be understood that the chip mentioned in the embodiment of the present application can also be referred to as a system chip, a system chip, a chip system or a system on chip, etc.

[0200] The embodiment of the present application further provides a computer program / program product, which is stored in a non-transient storage medium, and the program / program product is executed by at least one processor to realize various processes of the paging indication method embodiment and achieve the same technical effects. To avoid repetition, details are not described here.

[0201] It should be noted that in this paper, the term "includes", "contains" or any other variant thereof is intended to cover non-exclusive inclusion, so that the process, method, article or device including a series of elements not only includes those elements, but also includes other elements not explicitly listed or inherent to such process, method, article or device. Without more limitations, the element defined by the statement "includes a" does not exclude the presence of another identical element in the process, method, article or device including the element. In addition, it should be pointed out that the scope of the method and device in the embodiment of the present application is not limited to the order of functions shown or discussed, but can also include functions performed in a substantially simultaneous manner or in reverse order according to the functions involved, for example, the described method can be performed in an order different from the described order, and various steps can also be added, omitted or combined. In addition, the features described with reference to some examples can be combined in other examples.

[0202] From the above description of the embodiments, those skilled in the art can clearly understand that the above-mentioned embodiment method can be realized by software and necessary general hardware platform, of course, it can also be realized by hardware, but in many cases, the former is a better embodiment. Based on such understanding, the technical solutions of the present application can be embodied in the form of a computer software product, which is stored in a storage medium (such as ROM / RAM, magnetic disk, optical disk), including a plurality of instructions for making a terminal (which can be a mobile phone, computer, server or network equipment, etc.) execute the method described in each embodiment of the present application.

[0203] The embodiments of the present application are described above with reference to the accompanying drawings, but the present application is not limited to the specific embodiments described above, and the specific embodiments described above are merely illustrative, but not restrictive, and a person of ordinary skill in the art can make many forms under the inspiration of the present application without departing from the purpose of the present application and the scope protected by the claims.

Claims

1. A paging indication method, characterized in that, include: The terminal receives paging indication information, which is used to indicate the reason for paging; The terminal determines whether to listen to the paging timing based on the paging reason; The paging instruction information includes at least one of the following: Paging reason; the paging reason includes at least one of the following: service information, service priority information; Voice service indication; the voice service indication is used to indicate whether there is a paging reason in the paging message that is a voice service. Paging reason indication; the paging reason indication is used to indicate whether there is a paging reason in the paging message, or to indicate whether the paging reason in the paging message is a voice service; First indication; the first indication is used to indicate whether there is a paging reason for the terminal in the paging message.

2. The paging indication method according to claim 1, characterized in that, The terminal determines whether to listen to the paging timing based on the paging reason, including: If the service priority indicated by the paging reason is higher than the service priority of the terminal performing the service, then the terminal listens for the paging timing; or, The terminal listens for paging timing when the paging indication information is used to indicate at least one of the following: the paging reason is voice service, the paging message contains a paging reason, the paging reason in the paging message is voice service, the paging message contains the terminal's paging reason, or the terminal needs to listen for paging timing.

3. The paging indication method according to claim 1, characterized in that, The paging indication information is associated with at least one group of terminals that are listening for the same paging time.

4. The paging indication method according to claim 1, characterized in that, The terminal is a multi-SIM terminal, and the terminal receives paging indication information, including: The multi-card terminal receives the paging instruction information; The terminal determines whether to listen to the paging timing based on the paging reason, including: The multi-card terminal determines whether to listen to the paging timing based on the paging reason.

5. The paging indication method according to claim 1, characterized in that, The paging indication information is carried in downlink control information (DCI) or a sequence; wherein at least one bit of the DCI is used to indicate the existence of a paging reason or to represent the paging reason; or, the sequence is used to indicate the paging reason or whether a paging reason exists.

6. A paging indication method, characterized in that, include: The network-side device obtains paging indication information, which is used to indicate the reason for paging; The network-side device sends the paging indication information to the terminal, and the paging indication information is used by the terminal to determine whether to listen to the paging timing based on the paging reason; The paging instruction information includes at least one of the following: Paging reason; the paging reason includes at least one of the following: service information, service priority information; Voice service indication; the voice service indication is used to indicate whether there is a paging reason in the paging message that is a voice service. Paging reason indication; the paging reason indication is used to indicate whether there is a paging reason in the paging message that is a voice service, or to indicate whether the paging reason in the paging message is a voice service; First indication; the first indication is used to indicate whether there is a paging reason for the terminal in the paging message.

7. The paging indication method according to claim 6, characterized in that, The network-side device acquires paging indication information, including: The network-side device generates the paging indication information; or... The network-side device receives the paging instruction information sent by other network-side devices.

8. The paging indication method according to claim 6 or 7, characterized in that, The terminal is a multi-SIM terminal.

9. The paging indication method according to claim 6 or 7, characterized in that, The paging indication information is carried in downlink control information (DCI) or a sequence; wherein at least one bit of the DCI is used to indicate the existence of a paging reason or to represent the paging reason; or, the sequence is used to indicate the paging reason or whether a paging reason exists.

10. A paging indicator device, characterized in that, Applied to terminals, including: The receiving module is used to receive paging indication information, which is used to indicate the reason for paging; The processing module is used to determine whether to listen to the paging timing based on the paging reason; The paging instruction information includes at least one of the following: Paging reason; the paging reason includes at least one of the following: service information, service priority information; Voice service indication; the voice service indication is used to indicate whether there is a paging reason in the paging message that is a voice service. Paging reason indication; the paging reason indication is used to indicate whether there is a paging reason in the paging message, or to indicate whether the paging reason in the paging message is a voice service; First indication; the first indication is used to indicate whether there is a paging reason for the terminal in the paging message.

11. The paging indicator device according to claim 10, characterized in that, The processing module is specifically used for: If the service priority indicated by the paging reason is higher than the service priority of the terminal performing the service, then the terminal listens for the paging timing; or, The terminal listens for paging timing when the paging indication information is used to indicate at least one of the following: the paging reason is voice service, the paging message contains a paging reason, the paging reason in the paging message is voice service, the paging message contains the terminal's paging reason, or the terminal needs to listen for paging timing.

12. The paging indicator device according to claim 10, characterized in that, The paging indication information is associated with at least one group of terminals that are listening for the same paging time.

13. The paging indicator device according to claim 10, characterized in that, Applied to multi-card terminals.

14. The paging indicator device according to claim 10, characterized in that, The paging indication information is carried in downlink control information (DCI) or a sequence; wherein at least one bit of the DCI is used to indicate the existence of a paging reason or to represent a paging reason; or, the sequence is used to indicate the paging reason or whether a paging reason exists.

15. A paging indicator device, characterized in that, include: The acquisition module is used to acquire paging indication information, which is used to indicate the paging reason; The sending module is used to send the paging indication information to the terminal, and the paging indication information is used by the terminal to determine whether to listen to the paging timing based on the paging reason; The paging instruction information includes at least one of the following: Paging reason; the paging reason includes at least one of the following: service information, service priority information; Voice service indication; the voice service indication is used to indicate whether there is a paging reason in the paging message that is a voice service. Paging reason indication; the paging reason indication is used to indicate whether there is a paging reason in the paging message that is a voice service, or to indicate whether the paging reason in the paging message is a voice service; First indication; the first indication is used to indicate whether there is a paging reason for the terminal in the paging message.

16. The paging indicator device according to claim 15, characterized in that, The acquisition module is specifically used for: Generate the paging instruction information; or, Receive the paging instruction information sent by other network-side devices.

17. The paging indicator device according to claim 15 or 16, characterized in that, The terminal is a multi-SIM terminal.

18. The paging indicator device according to claim 15 or 16, characterized in that, The paging indication information is carried in downlink control information (DCI) or a sequence; wherein at least one bit of the DCI is used to indicate the existence of a paging reason or to represent the paging reason; or, the sequence is used to indicate the paging reason or whether a paging reason exists.

19. A terminal, characterized in that, It includes a processor, a memory, and a program or instructions stored in the memory and executable on the processor, wherein the program or instructions, when executed by the processor, implement the steps of the paging indication method as described in any one of claims 1 to 5.

20. A network-side device, characterized in that, It includes a processor, a memory, and a program or instructions stored in the memory and executable on the processor, wherein the program or instructions, when executed by the processor, implement the steps of the paging indication method as described in any one of claims 6 to 9.

21. A readable storage medium, characterized in that, The readable storage medium stores a program or instructions that, when executed by a processor, implement the paging indication method as described in any one of claims 1 to 5, or implement the steps of the paging indication method as described in any one of claims 6 to 9.

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