Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Probe request for relay discovery within single user, multiple user, multiple access, and/or MIMO wireless communications
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Application No.: US13958784Application Date: 2013-08-05
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Publication No.: US09131428B2Publication Date: 2015-09-08
- Inventor: Chiu Ngok Eric Wong , Matthew James Fischer
- Applicant: BROADCOM CORPORATION
- Applicant Address: US CA Irvine
- Assignee: Broadcom Corporation
- Current Assignee: Broadcom Corporation
- Current Assignee Address: US CA Irvine
- Agency: Garlick & Markison
- Agent Shayne X. Short
- Main IPC: H04Q11/00
- IPC: H04Q11/00 ; H04W40/04 ; H04W40/24 ; H04W40/12

Abstract:
A relay wireless communication device is discovered using probe request. A source device that intends to transmit one or more frames to a destination device transmits the probe request to request a probe response from one or more potential relay devices. A relay device transmits a probe response to the source device when the relay device may operate to forward the one or more frames from the source device to the destination device. The relay device employs one or more considerations to determine its eligibility to serve as relay for the source and destination devices. The source device selects one of the potential relay devices based on their provided probe responses. The source device may select an optimal relay device based upon two or more received probe responses.
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