Patent ID: 11930418
Assignee: SONY GROUP CORPORATION
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 17:
18. Circuitry for a communications device for acting as a relay node for one or more terminal devices in a wireless telecommunications network, the wireless telecommunications network comprising a base station and a non-terrestrial network part, the circuitry comprising:
controller circuitry and transceiver circuitry configured to operate together to:
establish a radio resource control (RRC) connection between the communications device acting as the relay node and the one or more terminal devices;
establish a first connection in a cell or a spot beam with the base station via the non-terrestrial network part;
determine a first location of the communications device at a first time;
determine at least one of a second location of the communications device at a second time, and a speed and a direction of a motion of the communications device;
transmit an indication of the first location to the non-terrestrial network part;
transmit the at least one of the second location and the speed and the direction of the motion to the non-terrestrial network part;
receive another indication to perform a handover to another cell or another spot beam; and
establish a second connection in the other cell or the other spot beam in response to receiving the other indication while maintaining the RRC connection with the one or more terminal devices.