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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:
May. 14, 2024

Filed:

Dec. 14, 2018
Applicants:

Sony Corporation, Tokyo, JP;

Sony Mobile Communications Inc., Tokyo, JP;

Inventors:

Hideji Wakabayashi, Basingstoke, GB;

Anders Berggren, Basingstoke, GB;

Yuxin Wei, Basingstoke, GB;

Vivek Sharma, Basingstoke, GB;

Shinichiro Tsuda, Basingstoke, GB;

Assignees:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 48/16 (2009.01); H04W 4/021 (2018.01); H04W 4/024 (2018.01); H04W 48/18 (2009.01); H04W 76/16 (2018.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 48/16 (2013.01); H04W 4/021 (2013.01); H04W 4/024 (2018.02); H04W 48/18 (2013.01); H04W 76/16 (2018.02);
Abstract

A communications device for use in a wireless communications system comprising an infrastructure equipment, a location server, a contents server and the communications device is provided. The communications device comprises transceiver circuitry and controller circuitry. The transceiver circuitry and controller circuitry are configured in combination to receive assistance information comprising a communication trigger from the location server via the infrastructure equipment, to estimate a current geographical location of the communications device, and to select, dependent on the current geographical location of the communications device and/or on the communication trigger, one of a plurality of wireless communications technologies to be used by the communications device for communication.


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