US 2023/0142933 A1 · DATA PLANE LAYER COMMUNICATION FOR USER EQUIPMENT GROUPS

Abstract

User equipment in close proximity may transfer data and control information. For example, the user equipment may exchange data or data sets between each other. Each user equipment can receive and transmit data using radio access technologies. A group of user equipments may include active user equipment and passive user equipment. Active user equipment connects with one or more base stations and transfers data on a wireless communication network via the base station. The active user equipment may communicate with other active user equipment and passive user equipment. Passive user equipment may not connect to any base station and/or the wireless communication network and may communicate with other passive user equipment and active user equipment (e.g., via a sidelink, peer-to-peer, or device-to-device channel).

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Dependent claims

A method, comprising:

receiving, at a first base station, data from a server based on a request associated with a group of user equipments;
determining, at the first base station, that a second base station is disconnected from the server;
transmitting, from the first base station, a first set of the data to a first user equipment communicatively coupled to the first base station, the group of user equipments comprising the first user equipment;
and
transmitting, from the first base station, a second set of the data to the second base station communicatively coupled to the first user equipment, the second base station being configured to transmit the second set to the first user equipment.

2 more elements

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application

17/880,617Filed 3 Aug 2022

Priority

11 Nov 2021

Published

11 May 2023

Term ends

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Classification24 codes

H04W 4/08
Selective distribution of broadcast services, e.g. multimedia broadcast multicast service [MBMS]; Services to user groups; One-way selective…:…
H04L 5/0048
Arrangements for allocating sub-channels of the transmission path: allocation of pilot signals, i.e. of signals known to the receiver
H04L 5/0051
Allocation of pilot signals, i.e. of signals known to the receiver: of dedicated pilots, i.e. pilots destined for a single user or terminal
H04L 67/567
Provisioning of proxy services: integrating service provisioning from a plurality of service providers

Data plane layer communication for user equipment groups

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Data plane layer communication for user equipment groups

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