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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 20, 2026
Filed:
May. 21, 2024
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 comprising transmitting signals to one or more communications devices within a radio coverage area provided by infrastructure equipment, the infrastructure equipment forming either part of a non-terrestrial network of a wireless communications network and wherein the radio coverage area forms a spot beam of the non-terrestrial network, or part of a terrestrial network and wherein the radio coverage area is a cell of a terrestrial network, wherein the transmitting the signals includes transmitting signalling information indicating that one or more neighbouring coverage areas to the radio coverage area provided by the infrastructure equipment are either formed by a spot beam of a non-terrestrial network, a spot beam of the non-terrestrial network of which the infrastructure equipment forms part, a cell of a terrestrial network or a cell of the terrestrial network of which the infrastructure equipment forms part.