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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 20, 2025
Filed:
Mar. 30, 2022
Rakuten Mobile, Inc., Tokyo, JP;
Sandeep Mani Tripathi, Tokyo, JP;
RAKUTEN MOBILE, INC., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A method is provided. The method includes receiving, by a new radio (NR) base station (gNB) from a user equipment (UE), an access request on an initial beam of a plurality of beams transmitted by the gNB, the initial beam being determined by the UE as an optimal access request beam, transmitting, by the gNB to the UE, a response to the access request on the initial beam, receiving, by the gNB from the UE, an indication of a first optimal beam to use for data transmission from the gNB to the UE, switching, by the gNB, data transmission from the initial beam to the first optimal beam based on the first optimal beam being different from the initial beam.