Intellectual Property India Publishes Patent Application for 'Systems, Methods, And Devices For Ue Aggregation Via Relay' Filed by Apple Inc.

MUMBAI, India, Aug. 29 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202517075852 A) filed by Apple Inc., Cupertino, U.S.A., on Aug. 8, for 'systems, methods, and devices for ue aggregation via relay.'

Inventor(s) include Chen, Yuqin; Wu, Zhibin; Palle Venkata, Naveen Kumar R; Cheng, Peng; Rossbach, Ralf; Sirotkin, Alexander; Xu, Fangli; Kuo, Ping-Heng; and Hu, Haijing.

The application for the patent was published on Aug. 29, under issue no. 35/2025.

According to the abstract released by the Intellectual Property India: "The techniques described herein may include a remote user equipment (UE), a relay UE, and a base station. The remote UE and relay UE may be located within a coverage area of the base station. The remote UE may establish an aggregated or multi-path connection with base station. The aggregated or multi-path connection may include a direct 3rd generation partnership program (3GPP) connection with the base station and an indirect connection via the relay UE. The indirect path or connection may include a non-3GPP connection (e.g., a non-sidelink (SL) connection) between the remote UE and the relay UE, and a 3GPP relay connection between the relay UE and the base station. Additional examples, features and other techniques are also described herein."

The patent application was internationally filed on Feb. 16, 2023, under International application No.PCT/CN2023/076499.

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