Sony Semiconductor Solutions Corporation

Sony Corporation

Sony Group Corporation

Altair Semiconductor Ltd.

Sony Semiconductor Israel Ltd.

Lavi Semel

Yigal Bitran

Martin Warwick Beale

Shin Horng Wong

Hovav Elzas

Dima Feldman

A communication device includes a long-rage transceiver, a short-range transceiver and a processor. The long-range transceiver is configured to communicate wirelessly with a Base Station (BS) of a cellular network. The short-range transceiver is configured to communicate wirelessly with one or more peer communication devices over a short-range network. The processor is configured to communicate with the peer communication devices via the short-range transceiver and with the BS via the long-range transceiver, so as to share resources between the communication device and the peer communication devices or the cellular network, for providing a communication service.

Collaboration among wireless devices operating over both long-range and short-range networks

A method of operating a terminal in a wireless telecommunications system comprising the terminal and a network node, wherein the method comprises: determining there is data to be transmitted from the terminal to the network node using a series of repeat transmissions; establishing an initial arrangement of transmission resources to be used for transmitting respective ones of the repeat transmissions from the terminal to the network node; starting to transmit the series of repeat transmissions to the network node using transmission resources according to the initial arrangement; establishing before the transmission of the series of repeat transmissions to the network node is complete that a modified arrangement of transmission resources should be used for transmitting at least some of the remaining repeat transmissions; and starting to transmit the at least some remaining repeat transmissions to the network node using transmission resources in accordance with the modified arrangement.

Telecommunications apparatus and methods

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Hod Hasharon, Israel

Lavi Semel