Patent ID: 11923958
Assignee: AT&T INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY I, L.P.
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 13:
14. A system comprising:
a processor associated with a primary cell site; and
a memory coupled to the processor, the memory having stored thereon executable instructions that when executed by the processor cause the processor to perform operations comprising:
receiving a list of one or more potential secondary cell sites from an unmanned aerial vehicle on a flight path, and timing advances associated with the one or more potential secondary cell sites;
determining a number of component carriers within each of the one or more potential secondary cell sites;
selecting one or more secondary cell sites from the list of one or more potential secondary cell sites based at least in part on locations of the one or more potential secondary cell sites relative to the flight path of the unmanned aerial vehicle; and
transmitting carrier aggregation instructions to the one or more secondary cell sites to provide a component carrier to the unmanned aerial vehicle, wherein the carrier aggregation instructions are based at least in part on the timing advances associated with the one or more secondary cell sites.