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US 12,750,743 B2Granted
Orbital position information delivery
AssigneeApple Inc.
InventorsAlexander Sirotkin, Pavan Nuggehalli, Sarma V. Vangala
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Abstract
The present application relates to devices and components including apparatus, systems, and methods to provide positional information for one or more NTN devices to a UE to be utilized for one or more UE operations.
Claims19
One or more non-transitory computer-readable media having instructions stored thereon, wherein the instructions, when executed, cause processing circuitry to:
- identify orbital position information for a non-terrestrial network (NTN) device that is to provide radio access network (RAN) service, the orbital position information received in an information element of a radio resource control (RRC) message, the orbital position information restricted to an almanac portion for the NTN device, wherein the almanac portion received in the information element comprises a semi-major axis parameter, an eccentricity parameter, an argument of perigee parameter, an inclination angle parameter, a mean anomaly parameter, and a longitude parameter for the NTN device;
- identify frequency information, received with the orbital position information in the RRC message, for at least one cell of the NTN device;
- identify, based at least in part on the frequency information, at least one frequency to perform measurements of at least one network element;
- and
- utilize positional information for the NTN device and results of the measurements of the at least one network element for cell selection, conditional handover, or measurement acquisition by a user equipment (UE), the positional information for the NTN device being based on the orbital position information.
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An apparatus comprising:
- processing circuitry to:
- identify orbital position information for a non-terrestrial network (NTN) device received in an information element in a radio resource control (RRC) message from a base station, the orbital position information restricted to an almanac portion comprising a semi-major axis parameter, an eccentricity parameter, an argument of perigee parameter, an inclination angle parameter, a mean anomaly parameter, and a longitude parameter for the NTN device;
- and
- utilize positional information for a user equipment (UE) operation, the positional information based on the orbital position information and for the NTN device
- identify frequency information, received with the orbital position information in the RRC message, for at least one cell of the NTN device;
- identify, based at least in part on the frequency information, at least one frequency to perform measurements of at least one network element;
- and
- interface circuitry coupled with the processing circuitry, the interface circuitry to receive the orbital position information.
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A method comprising:
- identifying orbital position information for a non-terrestrial network (NTN) device, the orbital position information received in an information element in a radio resource control (RRC) message, wherein the orbital position information is restricted to an almanac portion comprising a semi-major axis parameter, an eccentricity parameter, an argument of perigee parameter, an inclination angle parameter, a mean anomaly parameter, and a longitude parameter for the NTN device;
- identifying frequency information, received with the orbital position information in the RRC message, for at least one cell of the NTN device;
- identifying, based at least in part on the frequency information, at least one frequency to perform measurements of at least one network element;
- and
- utilizing positional information for the NTN device and results of the measurements of the at least one network element for cell selection, conditional handover, or measurement acquisition, the positional information based on the orbital position information.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.