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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 02, 2025
Filed:
Dec. 19, 2022
Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc., Basking Ridge, NJ (US);
John F. Macias, Antelope, CA (US);
Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc., Basking Ridge, NJ (US);
Abstract
A device described herein, such as a User Equipment ('UE'), may connect to a base station of a wireless network, receive telemetry information associated with a plurality of Non-Terrestrial Network (“NTN”) nodes, identify a particular handover condition, select, based on identifying the particular handover condition, a particular NTN node of the plurality of NTN nodes, initiate a handover procedure from the first base station of the wireless network to the selected particular NTN node, and connect to the particular NTN node based on the handover procedure. The NTN nodes may be implemented by satellites that orbit the Earth.