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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 08, 2026
Filed:
Dec. 22, 2020
Qualcomm Incorporated, San Diego, CA (US);
Karthika Paladugu, San Diego, CA (US);
Hong Cheng, Basking Ridge, NJ (US);
Haris Zisimopoulos, London, GB;
Stefano Faccin, San Ysidro, CA (US);
Gavin Bernard Horn, La Jolla, CA (US);
QUALCOMM Incorporated, San Diego, CA (US);
Abstract
Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques for interworking function selection by a remote user equipment (UE) for UE-to-network sidelink relay access. A method that may be performed by a remote user equipment (UE) includes receiving a plurality of interworking function configurations, for accessing a network via a sidelink relay UE, and a plurality of relay service codes. The remote UE determines a service to use for communications in the network. The remote UE selects one of the plurality of interworking function configurations based on the relay service code for the determined service.