US 11,758,445 B2
Configuration for acquisition of relay cells
Hong Cheng, Bridgewater, NJ (US); Haris Zisimopoulos, London (GB); Lenaig Genevieve Chaponniere, La Jolla, CA (US); Karl Georg Hampel, Hoboken, NJ (US); Sebastian Speicher, Wallisellen (CH); and Alberto Rico Alvarino, San Diego, CA (US)
Assigned to QUALCOMM Incorporated, San Diego, CA (US)
Filed by QUALCOMM Incorporated, San Diego, CA (US)
Filed on Sep. 14, 2020, as Appl. No. 17/20,773.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/900,947, filed on Sep. 16, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2021/0084547 A1, Mar. 18, 2021
Int. Cl. H04W 36/00 (2009.01); H04W 36/08 (2009.01); H04B 7/155 (2006.01); H04W 60/00 (2009.01); H04W 4/40 (2018.01); H04W 36/32 (2009.01)
CPC H04W 36/0061 (2013.01) [H04B 7/155 (2013.01); H04W 4/40 (2018.02); H04W 36/08 (2013.01); H04W 36/32 (2013.01); H04W 60/00 (2013.01)] 21 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method of wireless communication comprising:
receiving path information from a plurality of relays;
compiling a relay cell list for an area of interest based on the received path information from the plurality of relays, the relay cell list indicating selectable relays in the area of interest; and
providing the relay cell list to a user equipment (UE),
wherein the area of interest is identified as a portion of a wireless communications network,
wherein the providing the relay cell list to the UE comprises at least one of:
providing the relay cell list to the UE, when the UE registers with the wireless communications network in the area of interest;
providing the relay cell list to the UE, when the UE enters the area of interest due to a mobility event; or
providing the relay cell list to the UE via a control plane provisioning function that is a policy control function (PCF) or network exposure function (NEF).