US 12,127,067 B2
Communications device, infrastructure equipment, core network equipment and methods
Yuxin Wei, Basingstoke (GB); Samuel Asangbeng Atungsiri, Basingstoke (GB); Hideji Wakabayashi, Basingstoke (GB); and Vivek Sharma, Basingstoke (GB)
Assigned to SONY GROUP CORPORATION, Tokyo (JP)
Filed by Sony Group Corporation, Tokyo (JP)
Filed on Jul. 18, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/353,910.
Application 18/353,910 is a continuation of application No. 17/264,846, granted, now 11,743,799, previously published as PCT/EP2019/071260, filed on Aug. 7, 2019.
Claims priority of application No. 18188073 (EP), filed on Aug. 8, 2018.
Prior Publication US 2023/0362776 A1, Nov. 9, 2023
This patent is subject to a terminal disclaimer.
Int. Cl. H04W 4/00 (2018.01); H04W 8/02 (2009.01); H04W 36/00 (2009.01); H04W 36/32 (2009.01); H04W 48/12 (2009.01); H04W 64/00 (2009.01); H04W 84/00 (2009.01)
CPC H04W 36/32 (2013.01) [H04W 8/02 (2013.01); H04W 36/0088 (2013.01); H04W 48/12 (2013.01); H04W 64/003 (2013.01); H04W 84/005 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A communications device for use in a wireless communications network, wherein the communications device comprises controller circuitry and transceiver circuitry configured such that when the terminal device is in a coverage region of a first cell generated by a non-terrestrial network part of a wireless communications network, the first cell being a serving cell for the communications device, the communications device is operable to:
determine whether the coverage area of the first cell overlaps with a region associated with a coverage area of at least one non-serving cell, and
in response to determining that the coverage area of the serving cell overlaps with a region associated with a coverage area of at least one non-serving cell, initiate measurements of signals transmitted on a frequency which is used for transmissions by infrastructure equipment associated with the at least one non-serving cell.