US 12,425,901 B2
Communications device, infrastructure equipment, core network element and methods for minimization of drive tests, MDT, report
Vivek Sharma, Basingstoke (GB); Yuxin Wei, Basingstoke (GB); Hideji Wakabayashi, Basingstoke (GB); and Yassin Aden Awad, Basingstoke (GB)
Assigned to SONY GROUP CORPORATION, Tokyo (JP)
Appl. No. 17/789,808
Filed by Sony Group Corporation, Tokyo (JP)
PCT Filed Jan. 6, 2021, PCT No. PCT/EP2021/050138
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Jun. 29, 2022,
PCT Pub. No. WO2021/140127, PCT Pub. Date Jul. 15, 2021.
Claims priority of application No. 20151058 (EP), filed on Jan. 9, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2023/0045440 A1, Feb. 9, 2023
Int. Cl. H04W 24/10 (2009.01); H04W 24/08 (2009.01); H04W 48/02 (2009.01)
CPC H04W 24/10 (2013.01) [H04W 24/08 (2013.01); H04W 48/02 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method of operating a communications device in a wireless communications network, the method comprising:
measuring received signals transmitted in a first cell at a first location to generate a measurement result while the communications device is served by a second cell, wherein the communications device is not permitted to access the first cell, and
transmitting in the second cell a minimization of drive tests (MDT) report based on the measurement result, the report comprising an indication of the first location,
wherein the communications device measures the received signals from the first cell in response to an MDT configuration indicating that the communications device can ignore one or more restrictions pertaining to the first cell.