Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Method and apparatus for device-to-device communication
-
Application No.: US14440607Application Date: 2012-11-06
-
Publication No.: US09763274B2Publication Date: 2017-09-12
- Inventor: Haitao Li , Zexian Li , Yixue Lei , Yang Liu , Kodo Shu
- Applicant: Nokia Technologies Oy
- Applicant Address: FI Espoo
- Assignee: Nokia Technologies Oy
- Current Assignee: Nokia Technologies Oy
- Current Assignee Address: FI Espoo
- Agency: Seppo Laine Oy
- International Application: PCT/CN2012/084143 WO 20121106
- International Announcement: WO2014/071555 WO 20140515
- Main IPC: H04W76/02
- IPC: H04W76/02 ; H04W40/24 ; H04W76/04 ; H04W8/00 ; H04W72/04 ; H04W84/04 ; H04W88/02

Abstract:
In accordance with an example embodiment of the present invention, there is provided an apparatus, comprising at least one processing core configured to determine an opportunity for device-to-device, D2D, communication, and at least one transmitter configured to cause transmitting of a D2D communication request, wherein the D2D communication request at least one of comprises a radio resource control signaling message and comprises an indication of a type of D2D communication that is requested. The indicated type may comprise D2D communication with no fallback to cellular connectivity, wherein such a D2D communication can be established without involving a core network, CN.
Public/Granted literature
- US20150289307A1 Method and apparatus for device-to-device communication Public/Granted day:2015-10-08
Information query