US Patent Issued to InterDigital Patent Holdings on Dec. 2 for "Service continuity associated with WTRU to WTRU relays" (Canadian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,490,335, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to InterDigital Patent Holdings Inc. (Wilmington, Del.).

"Service continuity associated with WTRU to WTRU relays" was invented by Martino M. Freda (Laval, Canada), Jaya Rao (Montreal), Tuong Duc Hoang (Montreal), Tao Deng (Roslyn, N.Y.) and Moon-il Lee (Melville, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Method and WTRU enabled for service continuity using WTRU-to-WTRU relays. A relay path may be modeled as an SLRB, RLC leg of an SLRB, and/or a MAC logical channel. The WTRU adds a path for a destination based on configured/usable relays. The WTRU may associate an end-to-end L2 destination ID with one or m...