US Patent Issued to VIVO MOBILE COMMUNICATION on Aug. 5 for "Relay connection establishment method and device" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,382,521, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to VIVO MOBILE COMMUNICATION Co. LTD. (Guangdong, China).

"Relay connection establishment method and device" was invented by Wen Wang (Guangdong, China) and Zhenhua Xie (Guangdong, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Relay connection establishment method and device are disclosed. The method includes: sending, by source UE, a first direct communication request message to next-hop relay UE of the source UE, where the first direct communication request message is used to request to establish, in a process of establishing a relay connection from the source UE to target UE, a first direct communication ...