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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 29, 2020
Filed:
May. 09, 2017
Sony Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Yuxin Wei, Basingstoke, GB;
Brian Alexander Martin, Basingstoke, GB;
Hideji Wakabayashi, Basingstoke, GB;
Shinichiro Tsuda, Basingstoke, GB;
Chrysovalantis Kosta, Basingstoke, GB;
SONY CORPORATION, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A communications device acting as a relay device including a controller configured in combination with a transmitter and a receiver to receive from a remote communications device a first random access preamble message, the first random access preamble message comprising an identifier of the remote communications device, to transmit, in response to the first random access preamble message, a random access response message to the remote communications device, the random access response message comprising an indication of communications resources allocated to the remote communications device, to receive, from the remote communications device and using the communications resources indicated in the random access response message, a scheduled transmission comprising a connection request message and a first contention resolution identifier, and to transmit to the remote communications device a second contention resolution identifier.