Patent ID: 11871368
Assignee: SONY MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS INC.
Field: Telecommunications (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 0:
1. A method of operating a communications device to transmit data to or to receive data from a wireless communications network, the method comprising
detecting a plurality of beams of radio signals each being transmitted periodically according to a time divided structure of a wireless access interface provided by the wireless communications network in at least one of different spatial directions and at different times,
selecting a first of the plurality of beams of radio signals for detecting a first version of a synchronisation signal transmitted with the first beam of radio signals,
selecting a second of the plurality of beams of radio signals for detecting a second version of the synchronisation signal transmitted with the second beam of radio signals,
synchronising with the time divided structure of the wireless access interface from at least one of the first version of the synchronisation signal and the second version of the synchronisation signal, and
selecting one of the first beam or the second beam from which to receive data transmitted via the wireless access interface or to transmit data via the wireless access interface on a first uplink beam paired with the first beam or a second uplink beam paired with the second beam.