UPDATING RICH COMMUNICATION SUITE CAPABILITY INFORMATION OVER A COMMUNICATIONS NETWORK

摘要

A method of operating a user equipment (UE) configured to implement a rich communication suite (RCS) protocol, comprising: obtaining RCS capability information for a target UE along with an indication of a time when the RCS capability information was validated by the target UE; determining a priority associated with the target UE; identifying an RCS capability information age threshold based on the determined priority; determining whether the time indication is older than the RCS capability information age threshold; and selectively triggering an RCS capability information refresh operation with the target UE based on whether the RCS capability information for the target UE is determined to be older than the RCS capability information age threshold.