US Patent Issued to MediaTek Singapore on Sept. 2 for "Methods and apparatus of path switch based service continuity for ue-to- network relay" (Chinese, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,408,215, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to MediaTek Singapore Pte. Ltd (Singapore).

"Methods and apparatus of path switch based service continuity for ue-to- network relay" was invented by Xuelong Wang (Beijing) and Nathan Edward Tenny (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Apparatus and methods are provided for path switch with service continuity for the UE from the indirect relay link to direct cell link or vice versa. In one novel aspect, the UE is configured with measurement report configuration, which includes triggering event for sending the measurement report. The network sends path switch command to the UE to initiate ...