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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 19, 2026
Filed:
Sep. 20, 2021
Nokia Technologies Oy, Espoo, FI;
Lianghai Ji, Aalborg, DK;
Vinh Van Phan, Oulu, FI;
Ling Yu, Kauniainen, FI;
Rudraksh Shrivastava, Erligheim, DE;
Faranaz Sabouri-Sichani, Aalborg, DK;
NOKIA TECHNOLOGIES OY, Espoo, FI;
Abstract
Inter-alia, a method is disclosed comprising: determining a suitability to serve as a relay device for a relayed communication between a first device and a second device via one or more relay devices to be selected among one or more relay device candidates; transmitting a message as part of a relay discovery procedure, and with the apparatus acting as one of the one or more relay device candidates; and performing at least one of a transmit power adjustment and/or a radio resource selection for transmitting the message based, at least in part, on the determined suitability.