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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 14, 2024
Filed:
Dec. 14, 2018
Sony Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Sony Mobile Communications Inc., Tokyo, JP;
Hideji Wakabayashi, Basingstoke, GB;
Anders Berggren, Basingstoke, GB;
Yuxin Wei, Basingstoke, GB;
Vivek Sharma, Basingstoke, GB;
Shinichiro Tsuda, Basingstoke, GB;
SONY CORPORATION, Tokyo, JP;
SONY MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS INC., Tokyo, JP;
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.