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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 23, 2025
Filed:
Jun. 18, 2025
Asus Technology Licensing Inc., Taipei, TW;
ASUS Technology Licensing Inc., Taipei, TW;
Abstract
Methods, systems, and apparatuses are provided for target end User Equipment (UE) supporting candidate UE-to-UE (U2U) relay discovery in a wireless communication system, wherein a method for a target end UE comprises establishing a connection with a relay UE for supporting U2U relay communication between a source end UE and the target end UE via the relay UE, receiving a link modification request message indicating a list of candidate relay UEs from the relay UE for performing negotiated relay reselection, determining to transmit a discovery solicitation message to a candidate relay UE among the list of candidate relay UEs, wherein the discovery solicitation message indicates the discovery solicitation message being used for candidate U2U relay discovery by at least setting an application layer Identification (ID) indicated in the discovery solicitation message to a specific value, receiving, from the candidate relay UE, a discovery response message for candidate U2U relay discovery, and transmitting a link modification accept message, indicating the candidate relay UE, to the relay UE.