US 12,382,369 B2
Broadcasting of a non-terrestrial network system information block
Xiao Feng Wang, San Diego, CA (US); Liangping Ma, San Diego, CA (US); Bharat Shrestha, San Diego, CA (US); Umesh Phuyal, San Diego, CA (US); Alberto Rico Alvarino, San Diego, CA (US); Ayan Sengupta, San Diego, CA (US); Peter Gaal, San Diego, CA (US); Wanshi Chen, San Diego, CA (US); and Juan Montojo, San Diego, CA (US)
Assigned to QUALCOMM Incorporated, San Diego, CA (US)
Filed by QUALCOMM Incorporated, San Diego, CA (US)
Filed on Feb. 15, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/169,428.
Application 18/169,428 is a continuation of application No. 17/661,996, filed on May 4, 2022, granted, now 11,589,292.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/203,961, filed on Aug. 5, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2023/0276349 A1, Aug. 31, 2023
This patent is subject to a terminal disclaimer.
Int. Cl. H04B 7/185 (2006.01); H04W 48/10 (2009.01)
CPC H04W 48/10 (2013.01) [H04B 7/18513 (2013.01)] 23 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An apparatus for wireless communication, comprising:
one or more memories comprising instructions; and
one or more processors configured to execute the instructions and cause the apparatus to:
obtain a system information block (SIB) that indicates information relating to one or more non-terrestrial network (NTN) SIBs;
obtain the one or more NTN SIBs based at least in part on the information, said one or more NTN SIBs including at least one of ephemeris information or feeder link timing advance information; and
communicate with one or more entities of an NTN based at least in part on the one or more NTN SIBs, wherein at least one of:
a reference time for the at least one of the ephemeris information or the feeder link timing advance information is based at least in part on a particular downlink transmit timepoint,
an update to the at least one of the ephemeris information or the feeder link timing advance information is independent of triggering a system information update procedure, or
the one or more NTN SIBs include a single NTN SIB that includes the ephemeris information and the feeder link timing advance information.