Anticipated loss of satellite coverage
AssigneeT-Mobile Innovations LLC
InventorRyan P. DREILING
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Abstract
The technology disclosed herein relates to enhancing satellite coverage and improving user device experiences. For example, the technology discussed herein can include establishing a radio resource control (RRC) connection between a satellite and a user device (e.g., an active or idle RRC connection). Based on the RRC connection, the satellite can generate a message (e.g., an RRC connection release message) that includes a time to live parameter within a spare field of the message. Based on the satellite transmitting the time to live parameter to the user device, the user device can initiate one or more user device actions. For example, the user device can initiate a timer corresponding to scanning for a frequency band.
Claims20
A method performed by a user device, comprising:
- receiving, from a satellite, a radio resource control (RRC) message that includes a time to live parameter indicating a remaining duration of time that the satellite will provide service to the user device at a current location and frequency band;
- and
- in response to receiving the time to live parameter, performing one or more actions.
A user device comprising:
- one or more processors;
- and
- memory storing instructions that, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the user device to:
- receive, from a satellite, a radio resource control (RRC) message including a time to live parameter indicating a remaining duration of time that the satellite will provide service to the user device at a current location and frequency band;
- in response to receiving the time to live parameter, perform one or more actions.
A method performed by a satellite, comprising:
- transmitting, to a user device, a radio resource control (RRC) message that includes a time to live parameter indicating a remaining duration of time that the satellite will provide service to the user device at a current location.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.