US 11,930,418 B2
Wireless communications apparatus and methods
Yuxin Wei, Basingstoke (GB); and Samuel Asangbeng Atungsiri, Basingstoke (GB)
Assigned to SONY GROUP CORPORATION, Tokyo (JP)
Filed by Sony Group Corporation, Tokyo (JP)
Filed on Apr. 22, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/726,648.
Application 17/726,648 is a continuation of application No. 17/047,401, granted, now 11,337,130, previously published as PCT/EP2019/059550, filed on Apr. 12, 2019.
Claims priority of application No. 18167616 (EP), filed on Apr. 16, 2018.
Prior Publication US 2022/0248297 A1, Aug. 4, 2022
This patent is subject to a terminal disclaimer.
Int. Cl. H04L 12/28 (2006.01); H04W 16/28 (2009.01); H04W 36/08 (2009.01); H04W 36/32 (2009.01); H04W 84/06 (2009.01)
CPC H04W 36/32 (2013.01) [H04W 16/28 (2013.01); H04W 36/08 (2013.01); H04W 84/06 (2013.01)] 18 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
9. A communications device for acting as a relay node for one or more terminal devices in a wireless telecommunications network, the wireless telecommunications network comprising a base station and a non-terrestrial network part, the communications device comprising:
controller circuitry and transceiver circuitry configured to operate together to:
establish a radio resource control (RRC) connection between the communications device acting as the relay node and the one or more terminal devices;
establish a first connection in a cell or a spot beam with the base station via the non-terrestrial network part;
determine a first location of the communications device at a first time;
determine at least one of a second location of the communications device at a second time, and a speed and a direction of a motion of the communications device;
transmit an indication of the first location to the non-terrestrial network part;
transmit the at least one of the second location and the speed and the direction of the motion to the non-terrestrial network part;
receive another indication to perform a handover to another cell or another spot beam; and
establish a second connection in the other cell or the other spot beam in response to receiving the other indication while maintaining the RRC connection with the one or more terminal devices.