Sony Corporation

Sony Group Corporation

Sony Mobile Communications Inc.

Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki Kaisha

Convida Wireless, LLC

Research in Motion Corporation

Mitsubishi Electric Corporation

Blackberry Corporation

Interdigital Patent Holdings, Inc.

Sony Europe Limited

Sony Europe B.v.

Hideji Wakabayashi

Yuxin Wei

Vivek Sharma

Shinichiro Tsuda

Brian Alexander Martin

Matthew William Webb

Yassin Aden Awad

Anders Berggren

Jussi Tapani Kahtava

Shin Horng Wong

Martin Warwick Beale

Yuichi Morioka

Samuel Asangbeng Atungsiri

Stephen Truelove

Dimitris Koulakiotis

Chrysovalantis Kosta

Lars Nord

Muhammad Ali Imran

Koutarou Sugisawa

Atta Ul Quddus

Hiromasa Uchiyama

Miho Maeda

Kazuhito Niwano

Svante Alnås

Ayesha Ijaz

Kazuyuki Shimezawa

Yinan Qi

Lei Zhang

Naoki Kusashima

Stephen Trulove

Sharma Vivek

Brian Alexande Martin

Kosta Chrysovalantis

A communications device, and method, is configured with at least one of an indication of first communications resources of the wireless access interface which can be allocated on request to the communications device by a mobile communications network for transmitting signals to one or more other communications devices in accordance with the first mode of operation or an indication of second communications resources of the wireless access interface, which can be used by the communications device for transmitting signals to one or more other communications devices in accordance with a second mode of operation using a device to device communications protocol.

Communications device and methods

Methods are provided for communicating in a mobile network, the mobile network comprising a plurality of infrastructure equipment, each providing wireless connectivity within at least one cell, and a device configured to communicate wirelessly with at least a first of the infrastructure equipment in control of a first cell. In some embodiments, the method comprises determining, at the device, whether a second cell under control of a second of the infrastructure equipment is connected to a first core network operating in accordance with a first protocol or both of the first core network and a second core network operating in accordance with a second protocol, and transmitting, by the device, an automatic neighbour relation report to the first infrastructure equipment, a report comprising an indication of whether the second cell is connected to the first core network or both of the first core network and the second core network.

Mobile communications network, communications device, infrastructure equipment and methods

A wireless telecommunication system comprising a terminal device, a first network access node and a second network access node, wherein the first and second network access nodes are configured to support a dual connectivity mode of operation for the terminal device in which the first network access node acts as a master network access node and the second network access node acts as a secondary network access node and in which the same data are communicated between the terminal device and the first network access node and between the terminal device and the second network access node.

Telecommunications apparatus and methods

The present disclosure generally pertains to a communication network node having circuitry configured to: request a home mobility service provider to allow a roaming mobility service for a passenger which is located in a mobility service area of a roaming mobility service provider.

Communication network node, user equipment, communication network, method

A method of operating a communications device to provide a ranging-based service which uses a proximity between the communications device and at least one other communications device is provided. The method comprises transmitting a discovery signal to the at least one other communications device; receiving a response signal from the at least one other communications device determining an estimate of an angle-of-arrival of the response signal to the communications device and an estimate of a distance between the communications device and the at least one other communications device from the response signal; using the estimate of the angle-of-arrival of the response signal to the communications device and the estimate of the distance between the communications device and the at least one other communications device to initiate the ranging-based service between the communications device and the at least one other communications device.

Communications devices and methods

A method for reaching consensus on published data for a publisher-subscriber network, the publisher-subscriber network including a broker circuitry configured to provide a broker, a publisher device that is registered as a publisher for a data category at the broker, and a plurality of subscriber devices, wherein each of the plurality of subscriber devices is registered as a subscriber for the data category at the broker, wherein the publisher-subscriber network is configured to provide a blockchain, wherein the method includes: performing, by the publisher-subscriber network, a consensus reaching process on the published data for storing the published data in the blockchain.

Method and publisher-subscriber network

A communications device is provided. The communications device comprises transceiver circuitry configured to transmit signals to and/or to receive signals from a first cell of a wireless communications network, and controller circuitry. The controller circuitry is 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 the wireless communications network is an on-demand network and/or a temporary network.

Communications devices, infrastructure equipment and methods

A network entity for a mobile telecommunications system, including circuitry configured to perform transmission rate control of data transmissions according to a transmission control protocol, wherein the transmission rate control is performed based on an output of a machine learning algorithm including a prediction of a congestion of the data transmissions.

Network entity and user equipment for transmission rate control

A method of transmitting data by a transmitter to a receiver in a wireless communications network. The method comprises receiving data for transmission to the receiver via a communications channel, dividing the data into portions for transmission, receiving, for each of the portions of data, an indication of channel information from the receiver for use by the transmitter in determining values for one or more communications parameters with which the portion of data should be transmitted, determining the values for the one or more communications parameters based on the received channel information, dynamically generating, for each of the portions of data, a waveform representative of the portion of data, and transmitting each of the portions of data, using the generated waveform representations and in accordance with the values of the one or more communications parameters, to the receiver.

The present technique provides a first terminal device for exchanging signals with a wireless telecommunications network and a plurality of second terminal devices, the first terminal device configured to exchange signals with each of the plurality of second terminal devices, when the first terminal device provides a local cell for providing wireless connectivity for the plurality of second terminal devices, and to exchange signals with one or more infrastructure equipment of the wireless telecommunications network, and receive, from each of the plurality of second terminal devices served by the first terminal device when providing the local cell, suitability information indicative of the suitability of each of one or more other terminal devices or infrastructure equipment of the wireless telecommunications network to exchange signals with that second terminal device to provide for that second terminal devices another local cell.

Wireless telecommunications system, terminal device, infrastructure equipment, integrated circuitry and methods

A method for transmitting data by a communications device in a cell of a wireless communications network, the method comprising receiving an indication of a plurality of configured grants, each of the configured grants allocating a sequence of communications resources for the transmission of the data in the cell by the communications device, receiving an indication of a mapping between each of a plurality of logical channels and one or more of the plurality of configured grants, and transmitting a first portion of the data associated with a first logical channel of the plurality of logical channels using communications resources allocated by one of the plurality of configured grants, in accordance with the mapping.

Communications device, infrastructure equipment and methods

A communications device acting as a relay device receives a request for system information from another communications device via a sidelink interface between the communications device and the other communications device. The communications device acts as a relay device for the other communications device as a remote device, via which relay device the remote device can transmit data to or receive data from a radio network infrastructure equipment of a wireless communications network. The infrastructure equipment may be a first infrastructure equipment which forms a first cell of the wireless communications network via which the relay device can transmit the data to or receive the data from the wireless communications network.

The present disclosure provides a communication network node for providing data to a distributed ledger, wherein the node has circuitry configured to:

Privacy-preserving mobility as a service supported by blockchain

A method of communicating data in a telecommunications system comprising a base station and a plurality of terminals operable to communicate data to and from the base station. The system is configured to transmit downlink signals using downlink resources in a frequency band and in a first time period and the method comprises, upon identification of uplink data to be transmitted by a first terminal of the plurality of terminals, dynamically selecting a set of resources for transmitting the uplink data, wherein selecting the set of resources comprises selecting a subset of the frequency band and a subset of the time period of the downlink resources, the selected set of resources being based on the subset of the frequency band and the subset of the time period.

Wireless telecommunications apparatuses and methods for transmitting uplink data using a selected set of resources

A mobile telecommunications system method for transmitting on demand system information to a user equipment includes requesting system information, based on a specific radio resource control connection state, and to transmit system information to the user equipment, based on the system information request.

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Hideji Wakabayashi