MUMBAI, India, June 24 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202617060455 A) filed by Nokia Technologies Oy on May 12, 2026, for Methods And Apparatuses For Authentication For Store And Forward User Equipment Registration.

Inventors include Orkopoulos, Stawros; Nair, Divya G; Mavureddi Dhanasekaran, Ranganathan; Khare, Saurabh Number; and Peinado Gomez, German.

The application for the patent was published on June 12, 2026, under issue no. 24/2026.

Abstract: Techniques for authenticating a user equipment to a network are provided. For example, a method performed by a non-terrestrial node in a network, comprises: receiving, from a user equipment, a registration request to authenticate to the network; responsive to a link between the non-terrestrial node and a terrestrial node of the network to forward the registration request not being available: storing the registration request, and assigning binding information associated with the non-terrestrial node to the user equipment; and transmitting, to the user equipment, a message comprising the binding information to be used by the user equipment.

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