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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 19, 2024
Filed:
May. 09, 2023
Sony Group Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Yuxin Wei, Basingstoke, GB;
Samuel Asangbeng Atungsiri, Basingstoke, GB;
Hideji Wakabayashi, Basingstoke, GB;
Vivek Sharma, Basingstoke, GB;
SONY GROUP CORPORATION, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A method for operating an infrastructure equipment forming part of a wireless communications network is provided. The infrastructure equipment is a non-terrestrial network part of the wireless communications network configured to transmit one or more spot beams to provide a wireless access interface for transmitting signals to and receiving signals representing data from a communications device within a coverage region of a cell or one of the spot beams, the spot beam forming a cell. The method comprises broadcasting system information for receipt by the communications device, the system information including information relating to at least one of a cell or a spot beam of a neighbouring infrastructure equipment and a second spot beam of the infrastructure equipment, wherein the system information is broadcast in accordance with at least one predetermined condition.