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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 06, 2025
Filed:
Feb. 19, 2021
Sony Group Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Samuel Asangbeng Atungsiri, Basingstoke, GB;
Vivek Sharma, Basingstoke, GB;
SONY GROUP CORPORATION, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A method for operating an infrastructure equipment forming part of a non-terrestrial network, NTN, of a wireless communications network is provided. The method comprises transmitting a plurality of spot beams, each of the spot beams providing a wireless access interface for transmitting signals to and/or receiving signals from communications devices within a coverage region formed by the each of the spot beams, determining, for one or more of the spot beams, that the coverage region formed by the one or more of the spot beams is at least partially located within a geographical region in which NTN services are not permitted, and changing a utilisation state of each of the one or more of the spot beams from a first utilisation state to a second utilisation state.