Patent ID: 11895548
Assignee: APPLE INC.
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 8:
9. A base station, comprising:
a communication interface; and
a processor configured to perform operations, the operations comprising:
transmitting configuration information to a remote user equipment (UE);
receiving information corresponding to a serving link associated with the remote UE;
determining that the serving link associated with the remote UE is to be switched from a Uu link to a relay link;
transmitting a radio resource control (RRC) reconfiguration message to the remote UE on the Uu link indicating that the serving link associated with the remote UE is to be switched from the Uu link to the relay link;
transmitting a message to a relay UE, wherein the message is configured to trigger the relay UE to establish the relay link with the remote UE;
receiving a RRC reconfiguration complete message from the remote UE via the relay link; and
receiving a message from the relay UE, wherein the message indicates that the relay UE has detected that the relay link to the remote UE is broken.