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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:
Sep. 10, 2024

Filed:

May. 21, 2019
Applicant:

Telefonaktiebolaget Lm Ericsson (Publ), Stockholm, SE;

Inventors:

Min Wang, Luleå, SE;

Jan Christoffersson, Luleå, SE;

Mårten Ericson, Luleå, SE;

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 4/08 (2009.01); H04W 72/23 (2023.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 4/08 (2013.01); H04W 72/23 (2023.01);
Abstract

A method for enabling group transmission in a telecommunication network including a group having plurality of devices capable of Device to Device, D2D, communication and a base station. The group has a group coordinator device and the plurality of devices may directly communicate with one another over a D2D side-links. The group coordinator device communicates with the base station over a cellular link. The method includes receiving, by the group coordinator, data from a device of the group utilizing a D2D grant for performing D2D communications within the group. The D2D grant has a D2D time resource indicating a D2D time resource in which the D2D communications are allowed, transmitting, by the group coordinator, the received data to the base station at an uplink, time resource. The uplink time resource is determined by adding a fixed, predetermined, time offset to D2D time resource in the grant.


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