MUMBAI, India, Aug. 22 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202517070193 A) filed by Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., Gyeonggi, Republic of Korea, on July 23, for 'apparatus and method for cell mismatch handling in idle/inactive state operation of network controlled repeater in next generation communication system.'
Inventor(s) include Hwang, June; and Agiwal, Anil.
The application for the patent was published on Aug. 22, under issue no. 34/2025.
According to the abstract released by the Intellectual Property India: "The disclosure relates to fifth generation (5G) or sixth generation (6G) communication systems capable of supporting higher data rates, and discloses a method and apparatus that enable the mobile termination (MT) of a network controlled repeater (NCR) to perform repeater control in an idle/inactive situation. The method includes performing, by a forward (Fwd) of the NCR node (NCR-Fwd), signal forwarding between a terminal and a base station based on first control information received from the base station, receiving, by a mobile termination (MT) of the NCR node (NCR-MT) from the base station, a radio resource control (RRC) release message, performing, by the NCR-MT, cell reselection in an RRC inactive state based on the RRC release message including information on a suspend configuration, and indicating, by the NCR-MT, to the NCR-Fwd, to cease the signal forwarding, in case that the NCR-MT reselects a cell other than a last serving cell of the base station."
The patent application was internationally filed on Feb. 06, 2024, under International application No.PCT/KR2024/001722.
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