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Date of Patent:
Apr. 19, 2016

Filed:

Aug. 07, 2014
Applicant:

Institute for Information Industry, Taipei, TW;

Inventors:

Shu-Tsz Liu, Taipei, TW;

Tsung-Yu Tsai, Tainan, TW;

Hsuan-Li Lin, Taipei, TW;

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 4/00 (2009.01); H04W 8/00 (2009.01); H04W 80/00 (2009.01); H04W 4/20 (2009.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 4/005 (2013.01); H04W 8/005 (2013.01); H04W 4/20 (2013.01); H04W 80/00 (2013.01);
Abstract

A user equipment and a device-to-device communication selection method thereof are provided. The user equipment is configured to receive device-to-device communication information and discover device-to-device communication nodes. The user equipment is further configured to determine at least one selection procedure from a plurality of selection procedures according to the device-to-device communication information and select at least one first device-to-device communication target from the discovered device-to-device communication node(s) according to the determined selection procedure(s). The device-to-device communication selection method is for use in the user equipment to execute the aforesaid operations.


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