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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 14, 2026
Filed:
Aug. 25, 2023
T-mobile Innovations Llc, Overland Park, KS (US);
Ryan P. Dreiling, Shawnee, KS (US);
T-Mobile Innovations LLC, Overland Park, KS (US);
Abstract
The technology disclosed herein relates to enhancing satellite coverage and improving user device experiences. For example, the technology discussed herein can include establishing a radio resource control (RRC) connection between a satellite and a user device (e.g., an active or idle RRC connection). Based on the RRC connection, the satellite can generate a message (e.g., an RRC connection release message) that includes a time to live parameter within a spare field of the message. Based on the satellite transmitting the time to live parameter to the user device, the user device can initiate one or more user device actions. For example, the user device can initiate a timer corresponding to scanning for a frequency band.