Patent ID: 11889445
Assignee: SONY GROUP CORPORATION
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 12:
13. A method of operating an infrastructure equipment forming part of a fifth generation New Radio (5G NR) wireless communications network, the method comprising:
receiving feedback information from each of a plurality of communications devices on configured resources according to Multimedia Broadcast and Multicast Services (MBMS) from the infrastructure equipment:
determining a delay time for each of the plurality of communications devices, the delay time being a one-way time taken for the each of the communications devices to receive signals transmitted by the infrastructure equipment of the 5G NR wireless communication network, and the delay time for each of the communications devices is determined in accordance with the feedback information received from the communications devices,
setting a playback time dependent on a longest of the delay times among the plurality of communications devices, the playback time being a time at which one or more of the communications devices should transmit a signal, and
transmitting signals to each of the communications devices, the signals comprising an indication of the playback time for the communication devices to transmit at least one downlink packet from the infrastructure equipment at a same time.