MUMBAI, India, July 5 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202311087201 A) filed by Nokia Technologies Oy, Espoo, Finland, on Dec. 20, 2023, for 'method, apparatus and computer program.'

Inventor(s) include Hietalahti, Hannu Petri; Landais, Bruno; Gkellas, Georgios; Morsy, Karim; Thiebaut, Laurent; and Baliarsingh, Saubhagya.

The application for the patent was published on July 4, under issue no. 27/2025.

According to the abstract released by the Intellectual Property India: "A non-terrestrial core network entity is provided. The non-terrestrial core network entity comprises: receiving data from a user equipment, wherein the data comprises Control Plane (CP) data or Non-Internet Protocol Delivery (NIDD) data; buffering the data during a time period in which the non-terrestrial core network entity is not connected to a terrestrial core network entity; when the non-terrestrial core network entity is connected to the terrestrial network entity, sending the data to the terrestrial core network entity."

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