US 12,225,610 B2
RRC reestablishment between TN and NTN
Bharat Shrestha, San Diego, CA (US); Mungal Singh Dhanda, Slough (GB); and Umesh Phuyal, San Diego, CA (US)
Assigned to QUALCOMM Incorporated, San Diego, CA (US)
Filed by QUALCOMM Incorporated, San Diego, CA (US)
Filed on Mar. 30, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/657,334.
Prior Publication US 2023/0319929 A1, Oct. 5, 2023
Int. Cl. H04W 76/16 (2018.01); H04W 36/00 (2009.01); H04W 76/19 (2018.01)
CPC H04W 76/16 (2018.02) [H04W 36/0027 (2013.01); H04W 36/0069 (2018.08); H04W 36/00835 (2018.08); H04W 76/19 (2018.02)] 28 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An apparatus for wireless communication at a user equipment (UE) on a first network associated with one of a terrestrial network (TN) or a non-terrestrial network (NTN), comprising:
a memory; and
at least one processor coupled to the memory and, base at least in part on information stored in the memory, the at least one processor is configured to:
transmit a radio resource control (RRC) connection request to establish a connection with a second network associated with one of the NTN or the TN, wherein the RRC connection request comprises a network field that indicates that the UE was previously connected to the TN or the NTN, wherein the network field comprises a one-bit field;
receive an RRC reconnection message from a network entity associated with the second network; and
transmit an RRC reconnection complete message to the network entity associated with one of the NTN or the TN of the second network.