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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 20, 2019
Filed:
Apr. 03, 2018
Applicant:
Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Inventor:
Kerstin Johnsson, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Assignee:
Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 8/00 (2009.01); H04W 76/14 (2018.01); H04W 12/06 (2009.01); H04W 84/18 (2009.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 8/005 (2013.01); H04W 12/06 (2013.01); H04W 76/14 (2018.02); H04W 84/18 (2013.01);
Abstract
A first user equipment (UE) operable to perform wireless wide area network (WWAN) operator-assisted device-to-device (D2D) communications with a second UE is disclosed. The first UE can process D2D discovery and wireless local area network (WLAN) configuration information received from a WWAN when the first UE and the second UE are within a WLAN direct communications range. The first UE can initiate operator-assisted WLAN direct communications with the second UE within the WLAN direct communications range using the D2D discovery and WLAN configuration information received from the WWAN.