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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 11, 2026
Filed:
Aug. 24, 2023
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Idan Bar-Sade, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Ajay Panchal, San Diego, CA (US);
Baohua Zheng, San Diego, CA (US);
Prashant H Vashi, San Jose, CA (US);
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Abstract
A communications system may include user equipment (UE) devices, non-geostationary orbit satellites, and gateways. The satellites may provide communications services to the UE devices. A given satellite may have a set of signal beams. The satellite may transmit bursts of repeated system synchronization blocks (SSBs), repeated first system information blocks, and repeated second system information blocks over each of its beams with different respective SSB periods separated in time by SSB offsets. The SSB periods may be relatively long to minimize power consumption on the satellite. Repeating the blocks may ensure that UE devices receive the blocks even if intervening objects are present between the UE devices and the satellite. The UE devices may use the blocks to synchronize with the network for registering with the network and for performing subsequent communications operations such as mobile-terminated (MT) services, mobile-originated (MO) services, and handover.