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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 02, 2025
Filed:
Jan. 14, 2021
Sony Group Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Olof Zander, Sodra Sandby, SE;
Fredrik Rusek, Eslov, SE;
Erik Bengtsson, Eslov, SE;
Kun Zhao, Malmo, SE;
Jose Flordelis, Lund, SE;
Sony Group Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A method of operating a wireless communication device () configured to connect to a communications network () includes: monitoring for multiple downlink reference signals () transmitted by at least one access node of the communications network () using multiple downlink transmit beams (-), each one of the multiple downlink reference signals () being associated with a respective at least one of multiple random-access occasions (-); and accessing at least two random-access occasions () of the multiple random-access occasions (-), the at least two random-access occasions () being associated with at least two downlink reference signals () selected from the multiple downlink reference signals () based on said monitoring and establishing a multibeam operation between the wireless communication device () and the communications network (), wherein the multi-beam operation is established based on at least two downlink transmit beams () used for transmitting the selected at least two downlink reference signals ().