US 12,010,575 B2
Communications with non-terrestrial networks
Vivek Sharma, Basingstoke (GB); Yuxin Wei, Basingstoke (GB); Hideji Wakabayashi, Basingstoke (GB); and Samuel Asangbeng Atungsiri, Basingstoke (JP)
Assigned to SONY CORPORATION, Tokyo (JP)
Appl. No. 17/268,086
Filed by Sony Corporation, Tokyo (JP)
PCT Filed Aug. 15, 2019, PCT No. PCT/EP2019/071929
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Feb. 12, 2021,
PCT Pub. No. WO2020/038824, PCT Pub. Date Feb. 27, 2020.
Claims priority of application No. 18189822 (EP), filed on Aug. 20, 2018.
Prior Publication US 2021/0329518 A1, Oct. 21, 2021
Int. Cl. H04W 4/00 (2018.01); H04W 36/00 (2009.01); H04W 36/08 (2009.01); H04W 36/32 (2009.01); H04W 48/16 (2009.01); H04W 84/06 (2009.01)
CPC H04W 36/08 (2013.01) [H04W 36/0061 (2013.01); H04W 36/32 (2013.01); H04W 48/16 (2013.01); H04W 84/06 (2013.01)] 18 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method for an infrastructure equipment of a wireless communications network, comprising:
receiving a request to enter a connected mode from a communications device in a first cell; and
in response to receiving the request,
selecting, independently of a time at which cell reselection is to occur, a second cell to be a next serving cell for the communications device based on at least a direction of movement of the communications device, and
transmitting an indication of an identity of the second cell to the communications device.