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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Oct. 02, 2018

Filed:

Apr. 30, 2014
Applicant:

Telefonaktiebolaget L M Ericsson (Publ), Stockholm, SE;

Inventors:

Gabor Fodor, Hasselby, SE;

Chrysostomos Koutsimanis, Solna, SE;

Govardhan Madhugiri, Vällingby, SE;

Per Skillermark, Årsta, SE;

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 72/04 (2009.01); H04L 5/00 (2006.01); H04W 24/10 (2009.01); H04W 76/14 (2018.01); H04W 72/02 (2009.01); H04W 72/08 (2009.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 5/0048 (2013.01); H04L 5/0007 (2013.01); H04W 24/10 (2013.01); H04W 72/02 (2013.01); H04W 76/14 (2018.02); H04W 72/085 (2013.01);
Abstract

A method performed by a first User Equipment, UE, for enabling Device-to-Device, D2D, communication with a second UE in a radio communications network is provided. The first UE is configured to perform the D2D communication on downlink cellular resources in the radio communications network. The first UE measures received signal strengths of Reference Signals, RS, on downlink cellular resources from one or more network nodes in the radio communications network. The first UE then determines a first subset of downlink cellular resources for which the measured received signal strength of RS is above or equal to a threshold value. Also, the network node transmits information indicating the determined first subset of downlink cellular resources to a network node serving the first UE in the radio communications network in order to enable the D2D communication.


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