Patent ID: 11903085
Assignee: TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON (PUBL)
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 9:
10. A method of operation of a second mobile management entity in a cellular communications network, the method comprising:
when said second mobile management entity is serving a second User Equipment, UE, that is being used as a relay by a first UE or that may be used as the relay by the first UE, receiving a first request from a first mobile management entity serving the first UE to one of forward a paging message to the first UE or find the second UE;
determining that the second UE is in a connected mode; and
if the received first request is a request to forward the paging message to the first UE, sending to the second UE a second request to forward the paging message to the first UE, in response to determining that the second UE is in the connected mode.