US 11,121,764 B2 · Network access management

Abstract

Within a satellite communications system, a base station communicates with standard compliant user equipment (UE) via a satellite having a field of view. The base station has a processor that instructs the satellite to generate a wide beam signal covering a plurality of cells in the field of view, and detects an access request from a user equipment within the plurality of cells over the wide beam signal. The base station, comprising a processing device such as an eNodeB, then generates one or more network broadcast/access signals that is uplink to a satellite and broadcasted via one or more nominal beams generated by the satellite, covering all the inactive cells, one of the plurality of cells having the access request.

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Dependent claims

A satellite communications system comprising:

a base station communicating with standard compliant user equipment (UE) via a satellite having a field of view, said base station comprising a processing device via the satellite generating a network broadcasting signal over a wide beam signal covering a plurality of cells in the field of view, detecting an access request from a user equipment within the plurality of cells over the wide beam signal;
and
generating, in response to detecting an access request from a user equipment within the wide beam signal, a network broadcasting signal over one or more nominal beam signals each covering one of the plurality of cells, and determining, via the one or more nominal beam signals, which one of the plurality of cells has the detected access request.

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Network access management

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Network access management

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Abstract

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