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Date of Patent:
Apr. 01, 2025

Filed:

Jul. 24, 2020
Applicant:

Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);

Inventors:

Zhibin Wu, Los Altos, CA (US);

Adesh Kumar, San Jose, CA (US);

Dawei Zhang, Saratoga, CA (US);

Fangli Xu, Beijing, CN;

Haijing Hu, Los Gatos, CA (US);

Naveen Kumar R. Palle Venkata, San Diego, CA (US);

Sethuraman Gurumoorthy, San Ramon, CA (US);

Srirang A. Lovlekar, Fremont, CA (US);

Sudeep Manithara Vamanan, Nuremberg, DE;

Yuqin Chen, Beijing, CN;

Assignee:

Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 8/00 (2009.01); H04W 16/28 (2009.01); H04W 24/08 (2009.01); H04W 24/10 (2009.01); H04W 88/04 (2009.01); H04W 92/18 (2009.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 8/005 (2013.01); H04W 16/28 (2013.01); H04W 24/08 (2013.01); H04W 24/10 (2013.01); H04W 88/04 (2013.01); H04W 92/18 (2013.01);
Abstract

A first user equipment (UE) is capable of serving as a relay for a second UE using a sidelink connection. The first UE determines that a predetermined condition is satisfied, the predetermined condition associated with the first UE operating as a relay for a second UE, transmits a discovery message and monitors for a signal from the second UE in response to the discovery message.


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