US 12,471,007 B2
Communications devices, infrastructure equipment and methods
Yuxin Wei, Basingstoke (GB); Vivek Sharma, Basingstoke (GB); Hideji Wakabayashi, Basingstoke (GB); and Yassin Aden Awad, Basingstoke (GB)
Assigned to Sony Group Corporation, Tokyo (JP)
Appl. No. 17/918,138
Filed by Sony Group Corporation, Tokyo (JP)
PCT Filed Mar. 15, 2021, PCT No. PCT/EP2021/056532
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Oct. 11, 2022,
PCT Pub. No. WO2021/223928, PCT Pub. Date Nov. 11, 2021.
Claims priority of application No. 20173581 (EP), filed on May 7, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2023/0133355 A1, May 4, 2023
Int. Cl. H04W 48/12 (2009.01); H04W 48/02 (2009.01); H04W 48/16 (2009.01)
CPC H04W 48/12 (2013.01) [H04W 48/02 (2013.01); H04W 48/16 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A communications device comprising
transceiver circuitry configured to transmit signals to and/or to receive signals from wireless communications networks, and
controller circuitry configured in combination with the transceiver circuitry
to determine that the communications device is within a coverage area of a cell of a wireless communications network,
to receive a downlink signal from the cell of the wireless communications network, the downlink signal indicating whether or not the communications device can connect to the cell in order to transmit signals to and/or receive signals from the wireless communications network, and
to detect, based on the downlink signal, whether or not the wireless communications network is an on-demand network and/or a temporary network.