US 11,956,670 B2
Differentiation between traffic in L2 relay
Yuqin Chen, Beijing (CN); Dawei Zhang, Saratoga, CA (US); Fangli Xu, Beijing (CN); Haijing Hu, Los Gatos, CA (US); Longda Xing, San Jose, CA (US); Murtaza A. Shikari, Mountain View, CA (US); Sethuraman Gurumoorthy, San Ramon, CA (US); Sree Ram Kodali, San Jose, CA (US); Srinivasan Nimmala, San Jose, CA (US); and Srirang A Lovlekar, Fremont, CA (US)
Assigned to Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US)
Appl. No. 17/593,335
Filed by Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US)
PCT Filed Oct. 22, 2020, PCT No. PCT/CN2020/122823
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Sep. 15, 2021,
PCT Pub. No. WO2022/082597, PCT Pub. Date Apr. 28, 2022.
Prior Publication US 2022/0312262 A1, Sep. 29, 2022
Int. Cl. H04W 28/06 (2009.01); H04W 40/22 (2009.01); H04W 76/14 (2018.01); H04W 88/04 (2009.01); H04W 92/18 (2009.01)
CPC H04W 28/06 (2013.01) [H04W 40/22 (2013.01); H04W 76/14 (2018.02); H04W 88/04 (2013.01); H04W 92/18 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
20. A processor of a user equipment (UE) configured to perform operations comprising:
establishing a first unicast link with the further UE for non-routed traffic between the UE and the further UE;
establishing a second unicast link with the further UE for routed traffic to a base station of a network;
encoding traffic for transmission from the UE the further UE, wherein the traffic is one of non-routed traffic and routed traffic and wherein the traffic comprises a payload and a medium access control (MAC) subheader, and
transmitting the traffic to the further UE.