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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.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 30, 2019
Filed:
Jul. 29, 2014
Applicant:
Sony Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Inventors:
Assignee:
Sony Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 72/04 (2009.01); H04W 8/00 (2009.01); H04W 76/14 (2018.01); H04W 76/36 (2018.01); H04W 76/38 (2018.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 72/04 (2013.01); H04W 8/005 (2013.01); H04W 72/042 (2013.01); H04W 76/14 (2018.02); H04W 76/36 (2018.02); H04W 76/38 (2018.02);
Abstract
To allocate resources for a device-to-device discovery and/or communication to a user equipment, the user equipment receives information on allocated resources while the user equipment is connected to a mobile communication network. The user equipment continues a usage of the allocated resources for a device-to-device discovery and/or a device-to-device communication when the user equipment is in an idle mode.