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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 24, 2026
Filed:
Jan. 07, 2022
Sony Group Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Martin Warwick Beale, Basingstoke, GB;
Shin Horng Wong, Basingstoke, GB;
Samuel Asangbeng Atungsiri, Basingstoke, GB;
SONY GROUP CORPORATION, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
There is provided a method of operating a terminal in a mobile telecommunications system comprising a Non-Terrestrial Network 'NTN', the network comprising a base station and the terminal, the terminal being configured to communicate with the base station via an air interface provided by infrastructure equipment of the NTN. The method comprises receiving a downlink transmission from the base station; in response to the downlink transmission, transmitting an uplink transmission to the base station; based on the uplink transmission and on a round trip time, determining whether the terminal will enter a reduced power mode during a time period, wherein the round trip time is a time for a signal to travel back and forth between the terminal and the base station and wherein, in the reduced power mode the terminal is configured to reduce a power consumption of at least a receiver of the terminal for communicating via the air interface.