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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 27, 2020
Filed:
Apr. 27, 2017
Sony Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Brian Alexander Martin, Basingstoke, GB;
Chrysovalantis Kosta, Basingstoke, GB;
SONY CORPORATION, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A communications device acting as a relay device configured to communicate with an infrastructure equipment of a mobile communications network and a receiving communications device operating with the mobile communications network. The communications device acting as the relay device comprises receives signals representing protocol data units formed from one or more service data units via a first wireless access interface from the infrastructure equipment according to a first automatic repeat request protocol for transmission to the receiving communications device, transmits signals representing the received protocol data units via a second wireless access interface to the receiving communications device according to a second automatic repeat request protocol, and stores, in a buffer, the protocol data units received from the infrastructure equipment according to the first automatic repeat request protocol.