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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Apr. 28, 2015

Filed:

Oct. 19, 2012
Applicant:

Qualcomm Incorporated, San Diego, CA (US);

Inventors:

Saurabh R. Tavildar, Jersey City, NJ (US);

Eduardo S. Esteves, San Diego, CA (US);

Junyi Li, Chester, NJ (US);

Assignee:

QUALCOMM Incorporated, San Diego, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 72/04 (2009.01); H04B 7/14 (2006.01); H04B 7/155 (2006.01); H04B 7/26 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04B 7/15542 (2013.01); H04B 7/2606 (2013.01);
Abstract

A method, an apparatus, and a computer program product for wireless communication are provided. The apparatus receives downlink data from a base station via a downlink resource, sends the downlink data to a user equipment (UE) via an uplink resource, receives uplink data from the UE via the uplink resource, and sends the uplink data to the base station via the uplink resource. The apparatus also determines at least one of an observed downlink signal-to-interference-plus-noise ratio (SINR) or an observed uplink interference. The apparatus then broadcasts a relay availability based on the determination that the at least one of the downlink SINR observed is greater than a first threshold or the uplink interference at the relay is less than a second threshold.


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