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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 19, 2018
Filed:
Mar. 20, 2015
Applicant:
Innovative Sonic Corporation, Taipei, TW;
Inventor:
Yu-Hsuan Guo, Taipei, TW;
Assignee:
INNOVATIVE SONIC CORPORATION, Taipei, TW;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 12/26 (2006.01); H04W 72/12 (2009.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 72/1284 (2013.01); H04W 76/23 (2018.02); H04W 76/14 (2018.02);
Abstract
Methods and apparatuses for improving device to device (D2D) communication are disclosed herein. One method includes a user equipment (UE) triggering a buffer status report (BSR) upon configuration or setup of radio resource allocation mode 1 for D2D communication while the UE has data available for transmission for D2D communication. The method further includes the UE transmitting a Medium Access Control (MAC) Control Element corresponding to the BSR.