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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 17, 2019
Filed:
Jul. 14, 2014
Applicant:
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, Ltd., Hsinchu, TW;
Inventors:
Yung-Lan Tseng, Taiwan, CN;
Ching-Yao Huang, Taiwan, CN;
Assignee:
TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING COMPANY, LTD., Hsinchu, TW;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 36/04 (2009.01); H04W 84/00 (2009.01); H04W 84/04 (2009.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 36/04 (2013.01); H04W 84/00 (2013.01); H04W 84/045 (2013.01);
Abstract
This disclosure generally relates to facilitation of a small cell device to detect direct link opportunities to establish a direct link mode connection to a user equipment based upon monitoring uplink communications from the user equipment to a macro base station, and cooperating with the macro base station to establish a direct link with the user equipment.