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

Claim 7:
8. A first User Equipment (UE), comprising:
a control circuit;
a processor installed in the control circuit; and
a memory installed in the control circuit and operatively coupled to the processor;
wherein the processor is configured to execute a program code stored in the memory to:
establish a unicast link with a second UE, wherein a first Layer-2 Identity (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;
generate 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;
start a timer corresponding to the procedure for updating Layer-2 IDs responsive to generating the first Link Identifier Update Request message;
transmit the first Link Identifier Update Request message to the second UE; and
stop the timer if a second Link Identifier Update Request message is received from the second UE when the timer is running.