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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 04, 2025
Filed:
Oct. 11, 2019
Applicant:
Telefonaktiebolaget Lm Ericsson (Publ), Stockholm, SE;
Inventors:
Assignee:
TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON (PUBL), Stockholm, SE;
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 8/18 (2009.01); H04W 4/08 (2009.01); H04W 12/06 (2021.01); H04W 12/76 (2021.01); H04W 60/00 (2009.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 8/186 (2013.01); H04W 4/08 (2013.01); H04W 12/76 (2021.01); H04W 60/00 (2013.01); H04W 12/06 (2013.01);
Abstract
The present disclosure relates to telecommunications. In one of its aspects, the disclosure concerns a method in a coordinator User Equipment (UE) for registering a group of UEs to a wireless communications system. The coordinator UE represents the group of UEs. The method comprises transmitting, to a Radio Access Network (RAN) node, a message comprising a group IDentity (ID) to initiate an authentication and security procedure to register the group of UEs to the wireless communications system. The group ID identifies the group of UEs.