US 12,069,525 B2
Communications device, infrastructure equipment and methods
Vivek Sharma, Basingstoke (GB); Yuxin Wei, Basingstoke (GB); Anders Berggren, Lund (SE); Yassin Aden Awad, Basingstoke (GB); and Hideji Wakabayashi, Basingstoke (GB)
Assigned to SONY GROUP CORPORATION, Tokyo (JP)
Appl. No. 17/428,982
Filed by Sony Group Corporation, Tokyo (JP)
PCT Filed Jan. 17, 2020, PCT No. PCT/EP2020/051132
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Aug. 6, 2021,
PCT Pub. No. WO2020/164856, PCT Pub. Date Aug. 20, 2020.
Claims priority of application No. 19157276 (EP), filed on Feb. 14, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2022/0030489 A1, Jan. 27, 2022
Int. Cl. H04W 36/08 (2009.01); H04W 76/10 (2018.01); H04W 76/27 (2018.01)
CPC H04W 36/08 (2013.01) [H04W 76/10 (2018.02); H04W 76/27 (2018.02)] 19 Claims
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1. A method of operating a communications device to perform cell reselection in a wireless communications network, the method comprising;
establishing a radio resource control (RRC) connection,
suspending the RRC connection,
transmitting a first message in a first cell, the message comprising a request that the RRC connection be resumed,
before the RRC connection is resumed in the first cell, selecting as a serving cell a second cell different from the first cell, and
transmitting in the second cell a request that the RRC connection be resumed.