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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:
Jul. 27, 2021

Filed:

Mar. 22, 2018
Applicant:

Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);

Inventors:

Jing Zhu, Portland, OR (US);

Nageen Himayat, Fremont, CA (US);

Clara Q. Li, Beaverton, OR (US);

Sasha Sirotkin, Hod Hasharon, IL;

Candy Yiu, Portland, OR (US);

Ehsan Aryafar, Santa Clara, CA (US);

Assignee:

Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04B 7/155 (2006.01); H04W 16/26 (2009.01); H04W 84/04 (2009.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04B 7/15542 (2013.01); H04W 16/26 (2013.01); H04W 84/047 (2013.01);
Abstract

Briefly, in accordance with one or more embodiments, an apparatus of a user equipment (UE) comprises one or more baseband processors to generate a first set of one or more radio resource control (RRC) messages to create a packet data convergence protocol (PDCP) and RRC entity at a donor Fifth Generation evolved NodeB (DgNB), and to generate a second set of one or more RRC messages to create a radio link control (RLC) entity at a serving relay node (RN) to couple with the DgNB in a multi-hop relay network, and a memory to store the first set of one or more RRC messages or the second set of one or more RRC messages.


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