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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:
Mar. 29, 2016

Filed:

Feb. 05, 2013
Applicant:

Telefonaktiebolaget L M Ericsson (Publ), Stockholm, SE;

Inventors:

Seyed Hossein Seyedmehdi, Toronto, CA;

Gary D. Boudreau, Kanata, CA;

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 12/26 (2006.01); H04W 72/08 (2009.01); H04B 7/02 (2006.01); H04W 88/04 (2009.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 72/082 (2013.01); H04B 7/026 (2013.01); H04W 72/08 (2013.01); H04W 72/085 (2013.01); H04W 88/04 (2013.01);
Abstract

Mechanisms for determining a cluster set of mobile devices are disclosed. A controller node identifies a primary mobile device that has a scheduled transmission for the controller node at a first time. The controller node identifies, from a plurality of mobile devices, a set of eligible assistant (EA) mobile devices. Each EA mobile device in the set is directed to determine a corresponding mobile device-to-mobile device (MD-MD) channel indicator that identifies a quality of a channel between the each EA mobile device and the primary mobile device. The controller node receives from at least one EA mobile device in the set the corresponding MD-MD channel indicator. The controller node then determines a cluster set that includes the primary mobile device and the at least one EA mobile device.


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