Patent ID: 11894912
Assignee: OQ TECHNOLOGY S.á.R.L.
Field: Telecommunications (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H  G  Y | IPC H

Claim 10:
11. A terminal device for a non-terrestrial cellular data communication network, the terminal device comprising:
a data transmission unit,
a data reception unit,
a memory element for storing flight trajectory data of one or more airborne or spaceborne base stations of said network and for storing location data of the terminal device, and
a processing unit, wherein the processing unit is configured to:
determine at least one time slot during which a wireless communication channel between said terminal device and at least one of said one or more airborne or spaceborne base stations is estimated to be available, based on said flight trajectory data and on said terminal location data, and
schedule a data reception or transmission between said terminal device and said one or more airborne or spaceborne base stations during the determined time slot,
wherein the processing unit is further configured to estimate the terminal location data based on detected properties of at least three signals received at the terminal device from at least three different positions taken by the one or more airborne or spaceborne base stations.