Switching an operation mode based on the speed of user equipment
AssigneesSony Europe Limited, Sony Corporation
InventorsRenaud DIFRANCESCO, Nigel Stuart MOORE
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Abstract
User equipment comprising communication circuitry configured to communicate data with infrastructure equipment and controller circuitry configured to: operate in a first mode using a first communication protocol and operate in a second mode using a second communication protocol, wherein the first communication protocol has a higher bandwidth than the second communication protocol; and switch operation from the second mode to the first mode when the user equipment is at or below a threshold speed.
Claims21
User equipment comprising communication circuitry configured to communicate data with infrastructure equipment and controller circuitry configured to:
- operate in a first mode using a first communication protocol and operate in a second mode using a second communication protocol, wherein the first communication protocol has a higher bandwidth than the second communication protocol;
- and
- switch operation from the second mode to the first mode when the user equipment is at or below a threshold speed, wherein the communication circuitry is configured to receive a first type of data in the first mode and a second type of data in the second mode, whereby the second type of data includes content data comprising firmware updates and/or real-time content.
(canceled)
Infrastructure equipment comprising:
- communication circuitry configured to communicate data with user equipment;
- interface circuitry configured to receive information defining the status of an indicator in a network of signalling indicators, wherein the communication circuitry is further configured to initiate a connection with the user equipment depending on the received information defining the status of the indicator, the status anticipating that the user equipment is travelling at or below a threshold speed, wherein the communication circuitry is configured to transmit a first type of data in the first mode and a second type of data in the second mode, whereby the second type of data includes content data comprising firmware updates and/or real-time content.
11-19. (canceled)
A method of controlling user equipment, the user equipment comprising communication circuitry configured to communicate data with infrastructure equipment and controller circuitry, the method comprising:
- operating in a first mode using a first communication protocol and operate in a second mode using a second communication protocol, wherein the first communication protocol has a higher bandwidth than the second communication protocol;
- switching operation from the second mode to the first mode when the user equipment is at or below a threshold speed;
- and
- receiving a first type of data in the first mode and a second type of data in the second mode, wherein the second type of data includes content data comprising firmware updates and/or real-time content.
21-35. (canceled)
User equipment comprising communication circuitry configured to communicate content data with first infrastructure equipment and second infrastructure equipment and controller circuitry configured to:
- determine the amount of content data required to reproduce in real-time when moving between communicating with the first infrastructure equipment and the second infrastructure equipment;
- and
- download the amount of content data from the first infrastructure equipment.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.