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Google patents rules for managing satellite network access

This filing describes a method for managing how devices connect to satellite networks. It uses specific policy rules to determine when a device is allowed to access a particular part of the network through a satellite node.

Why it mattersIt helps organize traffic for future satellite-based internet services by setting clear conditions for device access.

In the filing’s own words

This disclosure provides systems, methods, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer-readable media, for network slicing of non-terrestrial traffic in a wireless communication system. A User Equipment (UE) receives a non-terrestrial network (NTN) slicing policy rule, the NTN slicing policy rule including one or more NTN-based conditions for the UE to access a network slice through an associated NTN node. The NTN node receives, from the UE, a request to access the network slice through the NTN node and transfers, to the UE, an acceptance of the request to access the network slice through the NTN node.

What exactly they claim (claim 1)

1. A method, by a user equipment (UE), for accessing a non-terrestrial network (NTN) node, the method comprising: obtaining, by the UE, one or more NTN slicing policy rules associated with the NTN node, including at least one NTN slicing policy rule defining one or more NTN-based conditions for UE access to a network slice through the NTN node and preventing the UE access when the one or more NTN-based conditions are not met; and accessing the network slice through the NTN node in accordance with the at least one NTN slicing policy rule when the one or more NTN-based conditions are met.

Facts

Company
Google (Google LLC)
Official title
NETWORK SLICING POLICY RULES FOR A NON-TERRESTRIAL NETWORK
Publication number
US20260269929A1
Application number
19491314
Filed
Jun 21, 2024
Published
Sep 10, 2026
Inventors
3
Claims
22

Classified under

H04B 7/18513 Electricity & electronicsH04B 7/18567 Electricity & electronics
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