Invention Application
- Patent Title: Methods of Enabling Base Station Functionality in a User Equipment
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Application No.: US16748499Application Date: 2020-01-21
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Publication No.: US20200163147A1Publication Date: 2020-05-21
- Inventor: Rajesh Kumar Mishra , Kaitki Agarwal , Steven Paul Papa , Sridhar Donepudi
- Applicant: Parallel Wireless, Inc.
- Main IPC: H04W76/23
- IPC: H04W76/23 ; H04L12/26 ; H04B17/309 ; H04W36/00 ; H04W36/30

Abstract:
In this invention, we disclose methods for enabling ad hoc cellular base station functionality within a user equipment when the connection quality between a base station and the user equipment is limited or nonexistent. These methods include measuring a connection quality between a user equipment and its serving base station. If the connection quality is below a threshold, the user equipment can enable its internal ad hoc cellular base station functionality. This is done by running a software within the user equipment that (a) checks the connection quality periodically, and (b) enables ad hoc cellular base station functionality of the connection threshold dips below a certain value. In one embodiment, that threshold could be the same threshold value that a user equipment would use if it were making a decision to handoff to another base station based on poor connection quality.
Public/Granted literature
- US11265954B2 Methods of enabling base station functionality in a user equipment Public/Granted day:2022-03-01
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