Patent ID: 11956707
Assignee: SONY GROUP CORPORATION
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H  Y | IPC H

Claim 0:
1. Circuitry for an infrastructure equipment forming part of a mobile communications network, the circuitry being configured to:
receive an indication, from each of one or more in-coverage communications devices in a same coverage area, of a measured signal strength of one or more signals transmitted by an out-of-coverage communications device and received by the in-coverage communications devices,
based upon the received indication of the measured signal strength received from each of the one or more in-coverage communications devices, select one of the in-coverage communications devices to act as a relay node for the out-of-coverage communications device in accordance with predetermined conditions, and
replace the in-coverage communications device selected to act as the relay node with one of the other in-coverage communications devices in the same coverage area in response to the received signal strength of the signals transmitted by the out-of-coverage communications device and received by the other in-coverage communications device exceeding the received signal strength of the signals received by the in-coverage communications device selected to act as the relay node, wherein a newly selected relay will use the same resources and ID as the relay node that was replaced.