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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Mar. 16, 2021

Filed:

Apr. 20, 2018
Applicant:

Lg Electronics Inc., Seoul, KR;

Inventors:

Ki-Dong Lee, Seoul, KR;

Sang Gook Kim, Seoul, KR;

Assignee:

LG ELECTRONICS INC., Seoul, KR;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 40/22 (2009.01); H04W 40/10 (2009.01); H04W 8/00 (2009.01); H04W 88/04 (2009.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 40/10 (2013.01); H04W 8/005 (2013.01); H04W 40/22 (2013.01); H04W 88/04 (2013.01);
Abstract

The present invention is directed to a method and an apparatus for use in a wireless communication system. Specifically, the present invention is directed to a method comprising: transmitting, to a plurality of Relay UEs, a first signal including an amount of data to send; receiving, from the plurality of Relay UEs, a plurality of second signals, each second signal including (a score of a respective Relay UE, a number N of Remote UEs attempting to access to the respective Relay UE) pair; and selecting one of the plurality of Relay UEs based on the received (score, N) pairs, wherein the score of respective Rely UE is determined based on at least (i) the amount of data to send, and (ii) a power availability in the respective Rely UE, and an apparatus therefore.


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