Data communication network to provide hop count data for user equipment selection of a wireless relay
AssigneeSprint Communications Company L.P.
InventorsJasinder Pal Singh, Deveshkumar Narendrapratap Rai, Naresh Madineni, Rajil Malhotra
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Abstract
A wireless relay attaches to a wireless base station and broadcasts a wireless hop count. Another wireless relay receives the wireless hop count and attaches to the wireless relay. The other wireless relay increments the wireless hop count and broadcasts the incremented wireless hop count. The wireless relays receive attachment requests from User Equipment (UEs) responsive to their wireless hop counts. The wireless relays exchange user data with the UEs after the attachments.
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A method of operating a wireless relay chain, the method comprising:
- a first wireless relay wirelessly attaching to a wireless base station and wirelessly broadcasting a first wireless hop count;
- a second wireless relay wirelessly receiving the first wireless hop count and wirelessly attaching to the first wireless relay;
- the second wireless relay incrementing the first wireless hop count to a second wireless hop count and wirelessly broadcasting the second wireless hop count;
- the first wireless relay wirelessly receiving first attachment requests from first User Equipment (UEs) responsive to the first wireless hop count and wirelessly exchanging first user data with the first UEs;
- the first wireless relay wirelessly broadcasting a voice calling service identifier wherein the first UEs transfer the first UE attachment requests responsive to the first wireless relay wirelessly broadcasting the voice calling service identifier and the first wireless hop count;
- the second wireless relay wirelessly receiving second UE attachment requests from second UEs responsive to the second wireless hop count and wirelessly exchanging second user data with second UEs;
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- the second wireless relay wirelessly broadcasting the voice calling service identifier wherein the second UEs transfer the second UE attachment requests responsive to the second wireless relay wirelessly broadcasting the voice calling service identifier and the second wireless hop count.
A wireless relay chain comprising:
- a first wireless relay configured to wirelessly attach to a wireless base station and wirelessly broadcast a first wireless hop count;
- a second wireless relay configured to wirelessly receive the first wireless hop count and wirelessly attach to the first wireless relay;
- the second wireless relay configured to increment the first wireless hop count to a second wireless hop count and wirelessly broadcast the second wireless hop count;
- the first wireless relay configured to wirelessly receive first attachment requests from first User Equipment (UEs) responsive to the first wireless hop count and wirelessly exchange first user data with the first UEs;
- the first wireless relay configured to wirelessly broadcast a voice calling service identifier wherein the first UEs transfer the first UE attachment requests responsive to the first wireless relay wirelessly broadcasting the voice calling service identifier and the first wireless hop count;
- the second wireless relay configured to wirelessly receive second UE attachment requests from second UEs responsive to the second wireless hop count and wirelessly exchange second user data with second UEs;
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- the second wireless relay configured to wirelessly broadcast the voice calling service identifier wherein the second UEs transfer the second UE attachment requests responsive to the second wireless relay wirelessly broadcasting the voice calling service identifier and the second wireless hop count.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.