MUMBAI, India, Nov. 2 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202617098238 A) filed by Apple Inc. on August 13, 2026, for Enhanced Discontinuous Reception Operation For Reduced Capability User Equipment In Non- Terrestrial Networks.
Inventors include Cui, Jie; Xu, Fangli; Tang, Yang; Li, Qiming; Raghavan, Manasa; Zhang, Dawei; He, Hong; Ye, Chunxuan; and Sun, Haitong.
The application for the patent was published on October 30, 2026, under issue no. 44/2026.
Abstract: A baseband processor, UE, and network device are described. The UE can perform receiving, from a non-terrestrial network (NTN) device serving the UE, control signaling that indicates a duration of a validity timer for first ephemeris information of the NTN device, the UE being a reduced capability UE; entering a sleep duration of an extended discontinuous reception cycle configured for the reduced capability UE, the sleep duration being a time duration between consecutive paging time windows of the extended discontinuous reception cycle; waking up, based at least in part on the duration of the validity timer, during the sleep duration to obtain second ephemeris information for the NTN device; receiving, from the NTN device, a control message that includes the second ephemeris information of the NTN device based at least in part on waking up during the sleep duration.
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