DETERMINING WHETHER A DRONE-COUPLED USER EQUIPMENT IS ENGAGED IN A FLYING STATE
First Claim
1. A method of operating a network component of a terrestrial wireless communication subscriber network, comprising:
- determining whether a drone-coupled user equipment (UE) is engaged in a flying state based upon one or more wireless signals transmitted by the drone-coupled UE.
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Abstract
In an embodiment, a network component (e.g., eNB) of a terrestrial wireless communication subscriber network determines whether a drone-coupled user equipment (UE) is engaged in a flying state based upon one or more wireless signals transmitted by the drone-coupled UE. The determination can occur in a variety of ways, such as based on a message from the drone-coupled UE itself (e.g., an express flying-state notification from the drone-coupled UE, a request particular to a flying state, a measurement reporting message, an identifier used by the drone-coupled UE, uplink signal strength measurement(s) or uplink AoA measurements, whether any intervening base station(s) were skipped over in conjunction with a handoff of the drone-coupled UE, etc.).
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30 Claims
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1. A method of operating a network component of a terrestrial wireless communication subscriber network, comprising:
determining whether a drone-coupled user equipment (UE) is engaged in a flying state based upon one or more wireless signals transmitted by the drone-coupled UE. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28)
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29. A network component of a terrestrial wireless communication subscriber network, comprising:
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a memory; and at least one processor coupled to the memory and at least one communications interface and configured to; determine whether a drone-coupled user equipment (UE) is engaged in a flying state based upon one or more wireless signals transmitted by the drone-coupled UE.
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30. A non-transitory computer-readable medium containing instructions stored thereon, which, when executed by a network component of a terrestrial wireless communication subscriber network, cause the network component to perform operations, the instructions comprising:
at least one instruction to cause the network component to determine whether a drone-coupled user equipment (UE) is engaged in a flying state based upon one or more wireless signals transmitted by the drone-coupled UE.
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