Patent ID: 11889412
Assignee: TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON (PUBL)
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 18:
19. A nautical beacon radio data communication equipment arranged for operating as a User Equipment, UE, for accessing Wide Area Network, WAN, radio access resources provided by WAN radio data communication equipment operating as a radio base station, RBS, applied on a nautical vessel, the nautical beacon radio data communication equipment comprising a transceiver device, a processing device, and an interface for communicating with an operating position detection device, the nautical beacon radio data communication equipment configured for:
receiving, by the transceiver device, from WAN radio data communication equipment applied on a nautical vessel, an indication of availability of WAN radio access resources;
receiving, by the processing device, from the operating position detection device, that the transceiver device is in an operating position for establishing a radio communication link;
establishing, by the transceiver device, a radio data communication link with the WAN radio data communication equipment applied on the nautical vessel based on the WAN radio access resources;
keeping, for a predetermined first period of time, by the radio data communication equipment applied on the nautical beacon, a list of identifications of WAN radio data communication equipment applied on nautical vessels available for radio data communication;
disconnecting, by the radio data communication equipment applied on the nautical beacon, a radio data communication link with the WAN radio data communication equipment applied on the nautical vessel, after a predetermined second period of time; and
establishing, by the radio data communication equipment applied on the nautical beacon, on a Round Robin basis according to the list of identifications, a respective radio data communication link with the WAN radio data communication equipment applied on at least one further nautical vessel.