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Samsung patents phone feature to auto-fetch missed satellite messages

Samsung has filed a patent for a method that allows electronic devices to automatically recover messages missed while connected to a satellite network. When the device detects that its satellite connection has dropped and then re-established, it sends a signal to the satellite to request any data that was not delivered during the outage.

Why it mattersThis improves the reliability of satellite-based communication services by ensuring users do not permanently lose notifications or data during brief connection interruptions.

In the filing’s own words

An electronic device is provided. The electronic device comprises communication circuitry; at least one processor including processing circuitry; and memory storing instructions that, when executed by the at least one processor individually or collectively, cause the electronic device to: after a satellite for a non-terrestrial network (NTN) service is connected, identify that the NTN service is lost, after the NTN service is identified as lost, identify that the NTN service is recovered, based on identification that the NTN service is recovered, automatically transmit, to the satellite, via the communication circuitry, a signal for causing transmission of one or more messages which failed to be transmitted to the electronic device during a time period between a first time point at which the NTN service is lost and a second time point at which the NTN service is recovered, and receive, from the satellite, via the communication circuitry, the one or more messages.

What exactly they claim (claim 1)

1. An electronic device comprising: communication circuitry; at least one processor including processing circuitry; and memory storing instructions that, when executed by the at least one processor individually or collectively, cause the electronic device to: after a satellite for a non-terrestrial network (NTN) service is connected, identify that the NTN service is lost, after the NTN service is identified as lost, identify that the NTN service is recovered, based on identification that the NTN service is recovered, automatically transmit, to the satellite, via the communication circuitry, a signal for causing transmission of one or more messages which failed to be transmitted to the electronic device during a time period between a first time point at which the NTN service is lost and a second time point at which the NTN service is recovered, and receive, from the satellite, via the communication circuitry, the one or more messages.

Facts

Company
Samsung (SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.)
Official title
ELECTRONIC DEVICE FOR RECEIVING MESSAGE USING NON-TERRESTRIAL NETWORK COMMUNICATION, AND OPERATING METHOD AND STORAGE MEDIUM THEREOF
Publication number
US20260270657A1
Application number
19447453
Filed
Jan 13, 2026
Published
Sep 10, 2026
Inventors
3
Claims
20

Classified under

H04W 4/14 Electricity & electronicsH04W 84/06 Electricity & electronics
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