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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Apr. 18, 2023

Filed:

Sep. 01, 2017
Applicant:

Qualcomm Incorporated, San Diego, CA (US);

Inventors:

Kundan Kumar Lucky, Bangalore, IN;

Gene Marsh, Encinitas, CA (US);

Fatih Ulupinar, San Diego, CA (US);

Dan Vassilovski, Del Mar, CA (US);

Rohit Kapoor, Bangalore, IN;

Rajeev Kumar, Bangalore, IN;

Faris Rassam, El Cajon, CA (US);

Assignee:

QUALCOMM Incorporated, San Diego, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04B 7/185 (2006.01); H04W 48/16 (2009.01); H04B 7/204 (2006.01); H04W 36/00 (2009.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04B 7/18541 (2013.01); H04B 7/185 (2013.01); H04B 7/204 (2013.01); H04B 7/2041 (2013.01); H04W 36/0061 (2013.01); H04W 48/16 (2013.01);
Abstract

The disclosure relates in some aspects to enabling a user terminal (UT) to obtain information about nearby cells and any beams generated by nearby cells. For example, a network can send a neighbor cell list to UTs, where the list identifies the cells in that neighborhood and provides information about any beams generated by those cells. Thus, a UT can learn the neighboring beams/cells that the UT can reselect to if the current beam/cell becomes weak. In some aspects, the UE can learn the attitude (e.g., pitch, roll, yaw, or any combination thereof) profile of neighboring satellites as well as the pointing angles and the ON-OFF schedules of their beams. In some aspects, the UT can learn a start angle and a span for a satellite and use this information to identify a satellite the UT can reselect to if the current beam/cell becomes weak.


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