US 11,937,144 B2
Cooperative user equipment switching
Aleksandar Damnjanovic, Del Mar, CA (US); Andrei Dragos Radulescu, San Diego, CA (US); Mostafa Khoshnevisan, San Diego, CA (US); Yan Zhou, San Diego, CA (US); Tao Luo, San Diego, CA (US); Xiaoxia Zhang, San Diego, CA (US); Jelena Damnjanovic, Del Mar, CA (US); Rajat Prakash, San Diego, CA (US); and Juan Montojo, San Diego, CA (US)
Assigned to QUALCOMM Incorporated, San Diego, CA (US)
Filed by QUALCOMM Incorporated, San Diego, CA (US)
Filed on Jul. 8, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/370,563.
Prior Publication US 2023/0008727 A1, Jan. 12, 2023
Int. Cl. H04W 36/30 (2009.01); H04B 7/06 (2006.01); H04W 88/04 (2009.01)
CPC H04W 36/30 (2013.01) [H04B 7/0695 (2013.01); H04W 88/04 (2013.01)] 30 Claims
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13. A method for wireless communication at a first cooperative user equipment (UE), comprising:
receiving, from a target UE that forms a virtual UE with the first cooperative UE, an indication that a second cooperative UE has been selected to replace the first cooperative UE within the virtual UE, the first cooperative UE being served by a first base station;
receiving, from the target UE, a first measurement of a quality of signals associated with the first cooperative UE and the first base station, a second measurement of a quality of signals associated with the second cooperative UE and a second base station, or both;
transmitting, to the first base station, a message comprising at least one of the first measurement or the second measurement;
receiving, from the first base station, an indication that a handover procedure to the second base station has been initiated for the target UE based at least in part on the message; and
transmitting, to the target UE, the indication of the handover procedure.