MUMBAI, India, June 30 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202617057260 A) filed by Thales Dis France Sas; and Thales on May 05, 2026, for Method For Vsat Restricted Access.
Inventors include Panaitopol, Dorin; El Jaafari, Mohamed; Fine, Jean-Yves; and Ronteix-Jacquet, Flavien.
The application for the patent was published on June 26, 2026, under issue no. 26/2026.
Abstract: The present invention relates to a method to manage transmission of a very small aperture terminal (VSAT UE) adapted to determine its geographical location and being in connection in new radio frequencies with a satellite access node (SAN) covering a Non-Terrestrial Network cell, where other Terrestrial Network user devices (TN UE) are active in new radio frequencies and/or where local regulations apply. Said method comprises exchanges of messages as predefined in (5G) NR RRC Connection Setup protocol, one of the predefined messages of the protocol sent from the VSAT UE to the SAN has a new field comprising at least a VSAT geographical location as determined by the VSAT UE and the SAN is configured to evaluate the interferences' situations and local regulations in the Non-Terrestrial Network cell in relation with the received VSAT UE location and to determine a transmission status to be applied to the VSAT UE accordingly. The subsequent predefined message as sent from the SAN to the VSAT UE has a new field comprising a VSAT transmission configuration command and the VSAT UE applies the transmission configuration command as received in the subsequent message.
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