US 11,895,578 B2
User equipment dual connectivity with a terrestrial base station and a satellite or a high-altitude platform
Jibing Wang, San Jose, CA (US); Erik Richard Stauffer, Sunnyvale, CA (US); and Aamir Akram, San Jose, CA (US)
Assigned to Google LLC, Mountain View, CA (US)
Appl. No. 17/298,474
Filed by Google LLC, Mountain View, CA (US)
PCT Filed Dec. 10, 2019, PCT No. PCT/US2019/065360
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date May 28, 2021,
PCT Pub. No. WO2020/123434, PCT Pub. Date Jun. 18, 2020.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/777,698, filed on Dec. 10, 2018.
Prior Publication US 2022/0030511 A1, Jan. 27, 2022
Int. Cl. H04W 84/06 (2009.01); H04W 88/06 (2009.01); H04W 48/18 (2009.01); H04W 40/02 (2009.01)
CPC H04W 48/18 (2013.01) [H04W 40/02 (2013.01); H04W 84/06 (2013.01); H04W 88/06 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
17. A terrestrial platform that is part of a first wireless-communication network and comprising:
a microprocessor and a computer-readable storage media, the computer-readable storage media comprising a routing manager having instructions that, upon execution by the microprocessor, direct the terrestrial platform to:
receive, from a user equipment that is in a first connected mode with the terrestrial platform, a message that indicates an upcoming transmission of data from the user equipment;
assess, based on contents of the message, that:
the first wireless-communication network has a first quality of service that is suitable for transmitting a first subset of the data; and
a second wireless-communication network has a second quality of service that is suitable for transmitting a second subset of the data; and
transmit, to the user equipment, a routing command message that directs the user equipment to:
enter a second connected mode with a non-terrestrial platform supporting the second wireless-communication network while maintaining the first connected mode with the terrestrial platform;
transmit the first subset of the data to the terrestrial platform supporting the first wireless-communication network; and
transmit the second subset of the data to the non-terrestrial platform supporting the second wireless-communication network.