MUMBAI, India, Sept. 22 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202617072642 A) filed by Interdigital Patent Holdings, Inc. on June 11, 2026, for Methods, Architectures, Apparatuses And Systems For Wtru-To-Network Relay Discovery And Selection In Multi-Hop Connection.

Inventors include Abbas, Taimoor; Son, Jung Je; Perras, Michelle Number; Ferdi, Samir; and Ahmad, Saad.

The application for the patent was published on September 18, 2026, under issue no. 38/2026.

Abstract: Procedures, methods, architectures, apparatuses, systems, devices, and computer program products comprising a first device to device relay wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU), wherein the first device to device relay WTRU is configured for a multi-hop communication between a remote WTRU and a device to network relay WTRU, the first device to device relay WTRU being configured for receiving, from any of: (1) the device to network relay WTRU, (2) a second device to device relay WTRU, and (3) the remote WTRU, a first relay discovery message; determining a cumulative propagation delay associated with the multi-hop communication; and broadcasting, based on the first relay discovery message, a second relay discovery message comprising information indicating the cumulative propagation delay.

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