Telecommunications apparatus and methods

    公开(公告)号:US11722842B2

    公开(公告)日:2023-08-08

    申请号:US16954531

    申请日:2018-12-14

    CPC classification number: H04W4/024 G01S5/0236 G01S19/48 H04W64/006

    Abstract: A method of operating a terminal device supporting a plurality of positioning techniques which use positioning measurements made by the terminal device and positioning assistance information received from a location server to determine the location of the terminal device. The method includes: establishing a target location; selecting a first positioning technique for navigating towards the target location; receiving first positioning assistance information from the location server for the first positioning technique; determining a first location of the terminal device in accordance with the first positioning technique and the first positioning assistance information; establishing a first trigger for using a second positioning technique which is associated with higher positioning accuracy than the first positioning technique; and, in response to determining the first trigger is satisfied, determining a second location of the terminal device in accordance with the second positioning technique and second positioning assistance information received from the location server.

    Communications devices and methods

    公开(公告)号:US11665691B2

    公开(公告)日:2023-05-30

    申请号:US16475691

    申请日:2017-12-05

    CPC classification number: H04W72/20 H04L5/0094 H04W88/06 H04W88/10

    Abstract: Communicating in a wireless telecommunications system comprising a communications device and one or more infrastructure equipment, wherein the communications device is configured to communicate with the infrastructure equipment via a first wireless access interface in accordance with a first radio access technology (RAT) and to communicate with the infrastructure equipment via a second wireless access interface in accordance with a second RAT. An exemplary process includes receiving, at the communications device via the first wireless access interface, control signalling from one of the infrastructure equipment, the control signalling comprising an indication of first communications resources to be used by the communications device to communicate via the second wireless access interface, and transmitting, from the communications device, the signals representing data to and/or receiving, at the communications device, the signals representing data from, using the first communications resources, the one of the infrastructure equipment via the second wireless access interface.

    Terminal device infrastructure equipment and methods for determining a spatial position of the terminal based on received signals

    公开(公告)号:US11419150B2

    公开(公告)日:2022-08-16

    申请号:US16760043

    申请日:2018-10-24

    Abstract: A terminal device for use in a wireless telecommunications network, the terminal device comprising: first receiver circuitry configured to receive a first signal from each of one or more signal emitting devices located at respective spatial positions; transmitter circuitry configured to transmit a second signal to infrastructure equipment of the wireless telecommunications network; second receiver circuitry configured to receive a third signal from the infrastructure equipment, the third signal being transmitted by the infrastructure equipment in response to the infrastructure equipment receiving the second signal, the third signal being for determining, in combination with the first signal received from each of the one or more signal emitting devices, the spatial position of the terminal device, and the third signal being comprised within a predetermined system information block (SIB); and control circuitry configured to determine a spatial position of the terminal device based on the received first and third signals.

    Methods, wireless communications networks and infrastructure equipment

    公开(公告)号:US11419033B2

    公开(公告)日:2022-08-16

    申请号:US17253139

    申请日:2019-06-12

    Abstract: A method of controlling communications within a wireless communications network is provided. The method comprises receiving, at a first of the infrastructure equipment acting as a donor node connected to a core network part of a wireless communications network, signals representing data from a second of the infrastructure equipment over a first communications path via one or more other infrastructure equipment acting as relay nodes, receiving, at the first infrastructure equipment, assistance information from at least one of the second infrastructure equipment and the one or more other infrastructure equipment acting as the relay nodes, and determining, by one of the first infrastructure equipment and the one or more other infrastructure equipment acting as the relay nodes in the case that the assistance information satisfies a trigger condition, that the second infrastructure equipment should communicate with the first infrastructure equipment over a second communications path.

    Efficiently handling communications in wireless telecommunications systems

    公开(公告)号:US11343791B2

    公开(公告)日:2022-05-24

    申请号:US17264849

    申请日:2019-08-07

    Abstract: A method of operating a terminal device to receive user plane data from a network infrastructure equipment in a wireless telecommunications network when the terminal device is not in an active radio resource connected mode, the method comprising: receiving paging message signalling from the network infrastructure equipment, wherein the paging message signalling comprises an indication the network infrastructure equipment has user plane data for transmission to the terminal device while the terminal device is not in an active radio resource connected mode; determining from the paging message signalling a set of radio resources on which the user plane data is to be transmitted by the network infrastructure equipment to the terminal device; and receiving the user plane data from the network infrastructure equipment using the determined set of radio resources while the terminal device is not in an active radio resource connected mode.

    Mobile communications network, infrastructure equipment, communications device and methods

    公开(公告)号:US11178713B2

    公开(公告)日:2021-11-16

    申请号:US16608199

    申请日:2018-03-08

    Abstract: A method for use in a mobile communications network that includes a plurality of infrastructure equipment each providing wireless connectivity within at least one cell, and a communications device configured to communicate wirelessly with at least a first infrastructure equipment including use of a radio bearer. The first infrastructure equipment performs the method including determining that there is a requirement to alter data handling resources allocated for handling the radio bearer in one or both of the first infrastructure equipment and the communications device, re-establishing, in response to the determination, its radio link control protocol layer, transmitting a reconfiguration message to the communications device to effect re-establishment of its radio link control protocol layer, and adding a new bit in the header of data packets transmitted to the communications device for a predetermined time after re-establishment of the radio link control protocol layer of the first infrastructure equipment.

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