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

Claim 18:
19. The circuitry of claim 16, wherein the circuitry is configured to
receive, from infrastructure equipment, an indication that one of the other in-coverage communications devices has been selected to be the active relay node in place of the communications device;
in response to the received indication that one of the other in-coverage communications devices is to act as the active relay node for the out-of-coverage communications device, to stop transmitting the signals representing the data received from the out-of-coverage communications device, and
receive the signals representing the data transmitted by the out-of-coverage communications device to the selected other in-coverage communications device,
measure the signal strength of the received signals, and
transmit the indication of the received signal strength to the infrastructure equipment, so that the infrastructure can select the communications device as the active relay node subject to the predetermined conditions.