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Patent No.:

US 10588078 B1

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Date of Patent:
Mar. 10, 2020

Filed:

Feb. 04, 2019
Applicant:

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

Inventors:

Mats Folke, Vällingby, SE;

Johnny Karout, Göteborg, SE;

Xinghua Song, Beijing, CN;

Stefano Sorrentino, Solna, SE;

Pontus Wallentin, Linköping, SE;

Stefan Wänstedt, Luleå, SE;

Ali Zaidi, Norrköping, SE;

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 72/00 (2009.01); H04W 48/20 (2009.01); H04W 76/14 (2018.01); H04W 40/12 (2009.01); H04W 40/22 (2009.01); H04W 88/04 (2009.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 48/20 (2013.01); H04W 40/125 (2013.01); H04W 40/22 (2013.01); H04W 76/14 (2018.02); H04W 88/04 (2013.01);
Abstract

Systems and methods relating to a remote wireless device for a cellular communications network are disclosed. In some embodiments, the remote wireless device is a wireless device that desires to establish a relay connection with a relay wireless device that has relay functionality. The remote wireless device includes a transceiver, a processor, and memory storing instructions executable by the processor whereby the relay wireless device is operable to rank a plurality of candidate relay wireless devices and to report a subset of the plurality of candidate relay wireless devices based on the ranking of the plurality of candidate relay wireless devices to a network node of the cellular communications network via the transceiver.


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