Patent ID: 11864249
Assignee: ASUSTEK COMPUTER INC.
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 0:
1. A method for a first User Equipment (UE) to update Layer-2 Identities (IDs), comprising:
establishing a unicast link with a second UE, wherein a first Layer-2 ID of the first UE and a second Layer-2 ID of the second UE are used for at least one of data transmission or reception on the unicast link;
generating a first Link Identifier Update Request message, comprising a new first Layer-2 ID of the first UE, of a procedure for updating Layer-2 IDs for the unicast link;
starting a timer corresponding to the procedure for updating Layer-2 IDs responsive to generating the first Link Identifier Update Request message;
transmitting the first Link Identifier Update Request message to the second UE; and
stopping the timer if a second Link Identifier Update Request message is received from the second UE when the timer is running.