MUMBAI, India, June 26 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202647071948 A) filed by Google LLC on June 10, 2026, for Managing A User Equipment'S Access And Network Selection To A Non-Terrestrial Network.

Inventors include Park, Sang Min; Wu, Chih-Hsiang; and Huang-Fu, Chien-Chun.

The application for the patent was published on June 19, 2026, under issue no. 25/2026.

Abstract: User equipment (UE) may save power and communication resources when applying various techniques selectively considering whether to access a public land mobile network (PLMN) via non-terrestrial network (NTN). The UE (102) receives (706) from a first PLMN, in response to sending (702) an access-request message, an access-reject message ...