Terminal device, infrastructure equipment and methods

    公开(公告)号:US11698463B2

    公开(公告)日:2023-07-11

    申请号:US16763988

    申请日:2018-11-09

    CPC classification number: G01S19/05 G01S19/34 H04W4/20 H04W64/00 H04W88/02

    Abstract: A receiver circuitry configured to receive, from infrastructure equipment of the wireless telecommunications network, a signal comprising positioning information for allowing a spatial position of the terminal device to be determined using the positioning information and a predetermined positioning scheme associated with the positioning information, the positioning scheme comprising one or more of instructions and additional information for determining the position of the terminal device using the positioning information, wherein the positioning information is comprised within a system information block (SIB) of the received signal; and processing circuitry configured: to determine, based on a characteristic of the SIB, a temporal validity of the received positioning information, and to determine, at a time at which the received positioning information is temporally valid, the spatial position of the terminal device using the received positioning information and the predetermined positioning scheme.

    Infrastructure equipment, communications devices and methods

    公开(公告)号:US11683699B2

    公开(公告)日:2023-06-20

    申请号:US17266613

    申请日:2019-08-07

    CPC classification number: H04W16/28 H04B7/1851 H04W48/10

    Abstract: A method for operating an infrastructure equipment forming part of a wireless communications network is provided. The infrastructure equipment is a non-terrestrial network part of the wireless communications network configured to transmit one or more spot beams to provide a wireless access interface for transmitting signals to and receiving signals representing data from a communications device within a coverage region of a cell or one of the spot beams, the spot beam forming a cell. The method comprises broadcasting system information for receipt by the communications device, the system information including information relating to at least one of a cell or a spot beam of a neighbouring infrastructure equipment and a second spot beam of the infrastructure equipment, wherein the system information is broadcast in accordance with at least one predetermined condition.

    Communications methods and infrastructure equipment for providing an indication of data transmission without a radio connection

    公开(公告)号:US11528753B2

    公开(公告)日:2022-12-13

    申请号:US17265219

    申请日:2019-08-07

    Abstract: A method for transmitting data by an infrastructure equipment in a wireless communications network to a communications device, the method comprising transmitting by the infrastructure equipment a paging message; receiving by the infrastructure equipment a random access request, the random access request transmitted by the communications device in response to the paging message; in response to receiving the random access request, transmitting by the infrastructure equipment an indication of communications resources allocated for a transmission by the infrastructure equipment and transmitting by the infrastructure equipment an indication that the transmission by the infrastructure equipment comprises data to be transmitted while no radio connection is established between the communications device and the infrastructure equipment: and transmitting by the infrastructure equipment the data using the allocated communications resources.

    Infrastructure equipment, communications device and methods

    公开(公告)号:US11368899B2

    公开(公告)日:2022-06-21

    申请号:US17101916

    申请日:2020-11-23

    Abstract: An infrastructure equipment (eNodeB) is configured to transmit a paging notification which indicates that configuration information which is broadcast in a cell to all communications devices which are configured to operate in accordance with a network controlled function has changed. Communications devices which are configured to perform the network controlled function are provided with an indication that they should receive the configuration information which is broadcast in order to reconfigure the network controlled function. A communications device which is not configured to perform the network controlled function may not recognise the paging notification or at least may detect that it does not need to receive the updated configuration information for the network controlled service. Such communications devices may therefore remain in an idle mode thereby saving power.

    Communications device, infrastructure equipment and methods

    公开(公告)号:US11296770B2

    公开(公告)日:2022-04-05

    申请号:US16346137

    申请日:2017-11-01

    Abstract: A method of transmitting data to a communications device from a wireless communications network comprising one or more infrastructure equipment, the method comprises configuring one or more of the infrastructure equipment for transmitting one or more candidate beams of signals which can be used to transmit the data to the communications device from each of one or more cells of the wireless communications device formed by the infrastructure equipment. Each of the candidate beams is configured with a different directional bias with respect to a location of the one or more cells from which the signals of the candidate beam can be received when transmitted.

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