US Patent Issued to QUALCOMM on Nov. 4 for "Systems and methods for supporting tracking areas for satellite wireless access" (British, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,463,717, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Systems and methods for supporting tracking areas for satellite wireless access" was invented by Stephen William Edge (Escondido, Calif.), Luis Fernando Brisson Lopes (Swindon, Great Britain) and Haris Zisimopoulos (London).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are described for supporting satellite wireless access for a user equipment (UE) using fixed tracking areas (TAs). TA identities (TAIs) are broadcast in a satellite radio cell by a base station indicating which TAs are covered by the radio cell. A UE can access a radio cell if at least one broadcast TAI is no...