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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 15, 2026
Filed:
Mar. 03, 2023
Sony Group Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Hideji Wakabayashi, Basingstoke, GB;
Yassin Aden Awad, Basingstoke, GB;
Vivek Sharma, Basingstoke, GB;
Yuxin Wei, Basingstoke, GB;
Sony Group Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A method of operating a communications device for transmitting signals to and/or receiving signals from infrastructure equipment of a wireless communications network is provided. The method comprises receiving, from the infrastructure equipment on a first carrier for the communications device, an indication of uplink resources for transmitting a plurality of directional uplink beams to the infrastructure equipment on an second carrier for the communications device. The second carrier is an uplink-only carrier. The method comprises transmitting the plurality of directional uplink beams to the infrastructure equipment on the second carrier in accordance with the uplink resources indicated by the infrastructure equipment. The method comprises receiving, from the infrastructure equipment on the first carrier, an indication of a result of measurements performed on the plurality of directional uplink beams transmitted on the second carrier.