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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 05, 2018
Filed:
Sep. 24, 2014
Applicant:
Alcatel-lucent Usa Inc., Murray Hill, NJ (US);
Inventors:
Ranjan Sharma, New Albany, OH (US);
Yigang Cai, Naperville, IL (US);
Assignee:
Alcatel Lucent, Boulogne-Billancourt, FR;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 88/04 (2009.01); H04W 4/24 (2018.01); H04W 76/02 (2009.01); H04M 15/00 (2006.01); H04L 12/14 (2006.01); H04W 8/00 (2009.01); H04W 84/12 (2009.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 4/24 (2013.01); H04L 12/1403 (2013.01); H04M 15/65 (2013.01); H04M 15/93 (2013.01); H04W 76/023 (2013.01); H04W 8/005 (2013.01); H04W 84/12 (2013.01); H04W 88/04 (2013.01);
Abstract
Systems and methods for providing charging information for a device-to-device (D2D) communication. One embodiment is User Equipment (UE) that collects charging information for a D2D communication with one or more other UEs, to determine that the UE is out-of-coverage of a mobile network, to select a relay entity capable of relaying the charging information from the UE to the mobile network, and to transmit the charging information to the relay entity. The relay entity may then relay the charging information to the mobile network to initiate charging for the D2D communication.