US 8,897,696 B2 · Method and apparatus of using a relay station to assist processing of requests from user ends

Abstract

A method uses a relay station to assist processing of requests from user ends. The relay station acquires and monitors channel resource information received from a base station. Upon receiving a request from the UEs via the channel resource, the relay station sends the request received to the base station if it detects no response from the base station to the request. An apparatus uses a relay station to assist processing of requests from UEs. A channel resource acquisition unit acquires channel resource information from the base station. A user monitoring unit monitors the channel resource acquired by the channel resource acquisition unit and for receiving requests sent from the UEs. A base station monitoring unit monitors response from the base station to the requests upon receiving the requests sent from the UEs. A transmitting unit sends the request to the base station when no response from the base station to the request is detected.

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Dependent claims

A method comprising:

acquiring, by a relay station, channel resource information from a base station;
monitoring, by the relay station, the channel resource at the relay station;
receiving, by the relay station, via the channel resource a request sent from one of the user ends;
monitoring, by the relay station, a response from the base station to the request once the request is received from the user end;
and
sending, by the relay station, the request to the base station in response to the relay station not detecting a response from the base station to the request within a preset time.

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An apparatus comprising:

a channel resource acquisition unit for acquiring channel resource information from a base station;
a user monitoring unit for monitoring the channel resource information and for receiving via the channel resource a request sent from one of the user ends;
a base station monitoring unit for monitoring a response from the base station to the request once the request is received from the user end;
and
a transmitting unit for sending the request to the base station when no response from the base station to the request is detected within a preset time.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Method and apparatus of using a relay station to assist processing of requests from user ends

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Method and apparatus of using a relay station to assist processing of requests from user ends

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