UE Dual Registration Handling for Tracking Area Rejects

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Solution Overview

Problem

Current wireless communication systems face challenges in maintaining service continuity for User Equipment (UE) during mobility between tracking areas, particularly when operating in dual registration mode, leading to data loss due to network rejections and deactivation of context information in alternate radio access technologies.

Innovation Solution

The UE is equipped with a service continuity controller and registration engine that detect location changes and trigger appropriate registration procedures, allowing it to maintain dual registration even when the network indicates single registration, thereby preventing context information loss by including alternate radio access technology status in registration requests.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Reliability

If the UE triggers a tracking area update procedure when moving to a new tracking area, then the service continuity is maintained, but the network may reject the update and deactivate the context information in alternate RAT

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveservice continuityVSAvoidcontext information
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSLoss of information

Solution Approach 1:

The patent applies preliminary action by having the UE include alternate RAT registration status information in the tracking area update request message before the network makes a rejection decision. This advance inclusion of dual registration status allows the network to process and preserve context information across RATs, preventing deactivation while maintaining service continuity during mobility.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

2Adaptability or versatility

If the UE operates in dual registration mode to maintain service continuity, then the service availability is improved, but the network complexity increases due to additional registration management

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveservice availabilityVSAvoidregistration management
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent applies universality by enabling the UE to maintain dual registration status across different RATs (e.g., LTE and 5G NR) through a unified registration management approach. The UE includes its alternate RAT registration status in the tracking area update request, allowing the network to universally manage multi-RAT contexts without requiring separate complex management procedures for each RAT combination.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #6Universality (Multi-functionality)

Data Source

PatentEP4236504B1Method and system for maintaining service continuity by user equipment (UE) in wireless communication system
Publication Date: 2025.11.26 SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO LTD
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AI summary

Embodiments herein provide a method for maintaining service continuity by a User Equipment (UE) in a wireless communication system. The method includes detecting, by the UE, a change in location during a mobility of the UE from one tracking are to another tracking are within a radio access technology which is referred here as a first radio access technology. Further, on receiving the Registration or Tracking area reject from the core network of first radio access technology, the method includes initiating, by the UE, Initial Registration Request or Initial Attach Request procedure, wherein the UE sends an Registration Request or Attach Request message with other registered radio access technology information referred here as second radio access technology to a core network associated with the first radio access technology.