Sony patents phone handover method that considers sustainability
Sony describes a way for mobile devices to switch between cell towers more efficiently. The phone sends data to the network and receives specific settings based on a 'sustainability profile' before completing the switch to a new tower.
In the filing’s own words
Embodiments provide methods and apparatus for operating communication devices within wireless networks. The method involves transmitting and receiving signals with a first infrastructure equipment and, upon meeting certain conditions, initiating a handover to a second infrastructure equipment. This involves sending a measurement report to the network, receiving radio resource control parameters from the first infrastructure equipment, and implementing these parameters based on a sustainability profile. Finally, the communication device signals the handover's completion to the second infrastructure equipment.
What exactly they claim (claim 1)
1. A method of operating a communications device configured to transmit signals to and/or receive signals from a wireless communications network via a wireless access interface provided by the wireless communications network, the wireless communications network comprising at least a first and a second infrastructure equipment, the method comprising transmitting signals to and/or receiving signals from the first infrastructure equipment, responsive to a condition being satisfied, triggering a handover procedure from the first infrastructure equipment to the second infrastructure equipment by transmitting a measurement report to the wireless communications network, receiving, from the first infrastructure equipment, an indication of radio resource control parameters to be implemented by the communications device for communication with the second infrastructure equipment, wherein the radio resource control parameters to be implemented are related to a sustainability profile, and transmitting, to the second infrastructure equipment, an indication of the completion of the handover procedure.
Facts
- Company
- Sony (Sony Group Corporation)
- Official title
- METHODS AND COMMUNICATIONS DEVICES
- Publication number
- US20260304261A1
- Application number
- 18880564
- Filed
- Jun 27, 2023
- Published
- Oct 1, 2026
- Inventors
- 5
- Claims
- 21
Classified under
H04W 36/08 Electricity & electronicsH04B 17/328 Electricity & electronicsH04B 17/346 Electricity & electronicsH04W 36/0058 Electricity & electronicsH04W 76/20 Electricity & electronicsMore from Sony in Networks & wireless
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Summaries are simplified from the filing’s own abstract and first claim. A patent filing is not a product announcement.
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