US 11,792,726 B2
Network slice configuration for device to device communication
Ahmed M Soliman, Munich (DE); Krisztian Kiss, Cupertino, CA (US); Yu-Ting Yu, Cupertino, CA (US); and Sudeep Manithara Vamanan, Nuremberg (DE)
Assigned to Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US)
Filed by Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US)
Filed on Jul. 2, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/366,105.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/185,156, filed on May 6, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2022/0377654 A1, Nov. 24, 2022
Int. Cl. H04W 48/18 (2009.01); H04W 28/08 (2023.01)
CPC H04W 48/18 (2013.01) [H04W 28/0875 (2020.05)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A baseband processor for a user equipment (UE) acting as a relay UE, configured to cause the UE to:
receive a UE route selection policy (URSP) from a network, wherein the URSP includes respective URSP rules for routing UE traffic through respective network slices to the network, wherein each URSP rule indicates whether an associated network slice is designated for remote UE traffic, relay UE traffic, or both remote UE traffic and relay UE traffic;
establish a device to device (D2D) connection with a remote UE to relay remote UE traffic from the remote UE to a base station;
assign the remote UE traffic to a first network slice designated, by a URSP rule associated with the first network slice, for remote UE traffic or both remote UE traffic and relay UE traffic; and
assign relay UE traffic of the UE to a second network slice designated, by a URSP rule associated with the second network slice, for relay UE traffic or both remote UE traffic and relay UE traffic.